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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, January 2nd for a New Year Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 23, 2024

Announcing this a little earlier than usual but with BF taking a holiday break we want to make sure you have the necessary notice… Your favourite online comics social is…

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Detached Vol. 1-4 – Angela Oddling’s Series Offers a Uniquely Apt Perspective on Mental Health Struggles

  • by Lydia Turner
  • December 20, 2024

Detached by Angela Oddling, is an ongoing comic series which began in 2018, and first published in 2022, in which Oddling explores her mental health journey, and subsequent diagnosis with…

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The Boston Comic Arts Foundation Announces Denis Kitchen as the First Winner of the Underground Visionary Award

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 19, 2024

Here’s a neat piece of comics community news as we come to the endpoint of Broken Frontier’s 2024 coverage. Denis Kitchen has been announced as the first winner of the…

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‘Arcana Royale’ Coming from Cullen Bunn, A.C. Zamudio and Dark Horse Comics in 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 18, 2024

Details on Arcana Royale, coming from Dark Horse next year, below. A new four-issue supernatural thriller! Dark Horse Comics presents Arcana Royale, a new four-issue comic series from Cullen Bunn and A.C….

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The British Invasion! – Hervé Bourhis Documents the Long Cultural Shadow Cast By the United Kingdom

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • December 17, 2024

It sometimes feels as if this began with The Beatles and then simply forgot to stop. By ‘this,’ one refers to the cultural force that was once an Empire. It…

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Colossive Cartographies #60 – A Brief But Poignant Character Study of the Troubled Life of ‘Julie’ from Liver & Lights

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 16, 2024

As we like to remind you every time we look at one of Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines some are most definitely comics while others fit into…

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Preview: The Confessional – More from Silver Sprocket in 2025 with Paige Hender’s Supernatural Graphic Novel

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 13, 2024

Looking forward to 2025 with Silver Sprocket again with this peek at Paige Hender’s The Confessional… A newly turned vampire struggles with salvation in a graphic novel perfect for fans…

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‘Sláine: The Definitive Edition’ Coming from Rebellion in 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 12, 2024

Here’s some welcome news before the holidays. Sláine is the latest 2000 AD character to get a Definitive Edition series. Details below. Following the huge success of Nemesis The Warlock:…

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Dark Horse to Bring J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Slice-of-Life Masterpiece ‘Brooklyn Dreams’ Back to Print in 2025

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 11, 2024

Well, this is very welcome news. J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Brooklyn Dreams is one of my all-time favourite comics works. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece of its genre….

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Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 10, 2024

In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…

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Preview: Hourglass – Barbara Mazzi’s Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Will Be Published By Silver Sprocket in March 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2024

Another advance peek at 2025 work from Silver Sprocket with this preview of Barbara Mazzi’s Hourglass. Will the bond between two young women be the sand that breaks the gears…

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Strangehaven: Epilogue – Gary Spencer Millidge’s Long-Running Series to Come to an End in a Patreon-Supported Finale

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2024

Debuting in 1995 it must surely be the longest-running comics series with self-published origins, and now Gary Spencer Millidge’s Strangehaven is coming to an end with an Epilogue final chapter….

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 12th for a Festive Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back for an end-of-the-year party! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 12th with a festive special…

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Graphic Brighton 2024 – Graphic Architecture is the Theme for this Year’s Two Days of Free Comics-Related Talks and Panels on December 13th-14th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 6, 2024

A heads up for this year’s Graphic Brighton festival which, as ever, has a great line-up of presentations, talks and academic panels, all taking place at the University of Brighton City…

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Caption: Rebirth Announces First Panel for 2025 – Join Us for the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Panel on August 16th Hosted by BF’s Andy Oliver

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 5, 2024

In the circumstances it would be spectcularly remiss of us not to alert you to the latest press release from Caption, the small press-focussed comics show returning to Oxford next…

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Blinded #1 – A Tour-de-Force Showcase for the Letterer’s Craft in Rob Jones and Joe S. Farrar’s Experimental Story of Coming to Terms with Losing Your Sight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2024

Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 2024 – War on Gaza, Belly Full of Heart, Lebanon is Burning, Through the Boughs and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 3, 2024

Last month we figured that with our marathon Thought Bubble Month coverage we had probably spotlighted enough debut books in November to make a Staff Picks post redundant. But we’re…

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Cartoonists Rights Announce Pledge Drive to Continue Their Support of Socio-Political Cartoonists

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 3, 2024

Cartoonists Rights, the “first global human rights organisation to focus on the need for protection of the socio-political cartoonist to carry out their work without fear of recrimination” have announced…

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