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Preview: Sycamore – ThirdBear Press to Collect the Short Comics Work of K. Briggs, Coming to Kickstarter Soon

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 3, 2024

Just last week at Broken Frontier we took a look at the most recent issue of ThirdBear Press’s anthology series Boxes. From this September the micropublisher will be expanding their…

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Gosh! Comics Hosts Our ’10 Years of the Broken Frontier Six to Watch’ Party – Looking Back on a Fabulous Night of Small Press Comics Celebration in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! Creating as many profile-raising opportunities as I can for our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists has become one of the most…

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Zarjaz Returns – The ‘2000 AD’-Inspired Fanzine Anthology is Back with Volume 3

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 2, 2024

News of the revival of the fan-created, 2000 AD-inspired, small press anthology Zarjaz this week. Full details of this new era for the comic below. This September sees the relaunch of…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, September 5th for a Kids Comics Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 2, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, September 5th. This time we’re using some great kids…

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Boxes #2 – ThirdBear Press’s Impressive Second Anthology Features Work from Kamila Krol and Manon Wright

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! What I continue to find so inspiring about ThirdBear Press’s Boxes is the way in which it blends the finest qualities of…

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Colossive Cartographies #58 – Tal Brosh Contemplates the Poignancy of ‘Loose Ends’ in this Affecting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Earlier this week we took a look at another of the recent releases from the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies range of fold-out…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for September 2024 – Adrift on a Painted Sea, Lord of the Flies, Final Cut, Ocultos and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 30, 2024

Welcome to our BF Staff Picks for September! Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Three UK-Based Graphic Novel Campaigns Currently Live on Kickstarter Plus One, Including Tillie Walden’s ‘Spinning’

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • August 29, 2024

We’re sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests we receive here at BF each week once again to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and…

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The Stranger #1 – Philipson, Patricks and Baker Subvert the Secret Identity Staple of Super-Heroics with an Intriguing Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! When it launched on Kickstarter earlier this year The Stranger – written by 2024 Broken Frontier Six to Watch creator Tom Philipson…

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Erased – Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol Take on Hollywood’s Historical Revisionism with a Fictional Account of an Actor of Colour

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 28, 2024

One of the most troubling notions to emerge from a reading of Loo Hui Phang’s powerful new graphic novel Erased: An Actor of Colour’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood,…

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“I Do Think that Art Elevates Life” – Zoè Delautre Corral Speaks About the Responsibilities of Autobiographical Comics and Her Love of Ink and Graphite

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the third of our interviews with this year’s Broken frontier Six to Watch creators we chat with French-Spanish, UK-based artist Zoè…

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Crowdfund Your Comic! – Tripwire’s New Book is Live Now on Kickstarter

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 28, 2024

Something a little self-referential on the crowdfunding front today with details on the latest Kickstarter from our chums and colleagues at Tripwire. Full details on their Crowdfund Your Comic! book…

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Hotelitor – Josh Hicks Introduces Us to the Luxury Class Defense and Hospitality Unit in this Cleverly Plotted Sci-Fi Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! My first exposure to Josh Hicks’s Hotelitor was as a diagrammatic cutaway print at the Brighton Illustration Fair some years ago. It…

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Colours Side A – A Poetic, Eccentric Dual Narrative from Nev Bamshew

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 27, 2024

Colours Side A, a self-published project from creator Nev Bamshew, is not your typical indie comic. I realised this when I received not only my copy of the book, but…

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Preview: Scream!: 40 Years of Terror – Rebellion Announce a New Special for the Classic Horror Title Featuring Alex Paknadel, Torunn Grønbekk, Anna Readman and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Yes we really will take every opportunity through 2024 to give a plug to any of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists…

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Jackeline’s Jacket – The Unlimited Imagination of Alba Ceide Prevails in this Wildly Energetic Science Fantasy Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Last year when I reviewed the WIP Comics anthology Change at Broken Frontier I remarked on how Alba Ceide’s story Jackeline’s Jacket…

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Colossive Cartographies #57 – Beatty Hallas Provides Strategies to Cope When We Are ‘In a Rage’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2024

As regular readers will be aware the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series gives creators from a vast range of disciplines an opportunity to present their practice to both established and…

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Rachael Smith’s Adorable ‘Nap Comix’ Reaches 200 Episodes

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 26, 2024

Something to celebrate today as Rachael Smith’s Nap Comix webcomic reaches a landmark number of strips! A press release and some samples for those unfamiliar with the series below. Rachael Smith’s…

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