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PeePee PooPoo #1 – Caroline Cash Reflects on the Pandemic, Tattoos and Poop Doughnuts in Another Excellent Collection of Slice-of-Life Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2024

Four issues in and Caroline Cash’s PeePee PooPoo finally gets its #1 “first” issue and loses that titular hyphen too. The Broken Frontier Award-winning title from Silver Sprocket continues to…

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Welcome to the Maynard #1 – Check Out Fabio Moon’s Variant Cover and Preview Pages from James Robinson and J. Bone’s New Dark Horse Fantasy Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 24, 2024

Coming from Dark Horse Comics in November Welcome to the Maynard is a fantasy adventure comic with an intriguing premise and sees James Robinson collaborate with artist J. Bone. We have…

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“There is Such a Rich History of Queer Liberation in Comics” – Looking Back on PrideCAF 2024 and Chatting with the Team Behind Bristol’s Much Loved LGBTQIA Comics Festival

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 23, 2024

Since its inception in 2021, Pride Comic Art Festival, affectionately known as PrideCAF has come back each year, bigger and better than ever. Every year, the festival occurs at The…

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Vote for Broken Frontier for ‘Best Comics-Related Website/Publication’ in the Tripwire Awards 2024

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 23, 2024

Once again we’re delighted to say that Broken Frontier’s work in comics commentary and comics community has been recognised by the Tripwire Awards 2024. Voting is now open until midnight…

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When to Pick a Pomegranate – Yasmeen Abedifard’s Visceral Storytelling Will Stick with Readers for a Long Time to Come

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 20, 2024

Yasmeen Abedifard’s When to Pick a Pomegranate is a collection of thought-provoking vignettes from indie publisher Silver Sprocket. With a focus on reflection, interconnectedness, sensuality and the cyclical nature of…

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Moe’s in Love with a Manga Character – A Cautionary Tale for Obsessive Comics Fans in Olly Telling’s Debut Horror Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2024

We are all aware that there’s a certain aspect of fandom who can get… let’s say… overly invested in their favourite comics characters. In Moe’s in Love with a Manga…

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The Kid in the Cave – AJ O’Neill Reflects on Queerness, Childhood, Healing and Acceptance in this Minicomic Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2024

Comics are a particularly effective medium when it comes to taking an extended visual metaphor and running with it. AJ O’Neill’s The Kid in the Cave is a strong example…

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“Being an Ally Boils Down to Speaking Up When You See Wrongs” – C.K. Carpenter Talks About the Aims and Ethos of the Upcoming ‘unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology’

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • September 17, 2024

Coming to Kickstarter this week the unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology is “a 64-page comic anthology amplifying underrepresented voices in the disability and neurodivergent communities.” Exactly the kind of…

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You’re Just Lazy Vol. 1 – Bee Poole Takes a Multi-Directional Approach to Depicting the Realities of Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2024

From a Broken Frontier perspective Small Press Day is one of the most rewarding days of the year not simply because BF has an organisational role in it, and thus…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, September 19th for a LICAF Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 16, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, September 19th. This time we’re celebrating the upcoming Lakes…

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Lord of the Flies – A Stellar Adaptation of a Challenging Classic from Aimée de Jongh and Faber

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 13, 2024

Harsh, chaotic and honest. These are all words that come to mind when thinking of William Golding’s literary masterpiece Lord of the Flies. With heavy themes about morality at its…

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Thought Bubble Announce Their 2024 Programme Line-Up of Panels, Talks, Exhibitions and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 13, 2024

Just a couple of months until Thought Bubble 2024. Just a month until our Thought Bubble Month of coverage begins at BF. Today we have details of all the exciting…

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Bulgilhan Press to Publish Huahua Zhu’s ‘The King’s Warrior’ and Breeze Hu’s ‘A Night to Ride the Day’ this Month

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 13, 2024

Bulgilhan Press have put out some fine experimental indie comics in the last few years, and it’s great to see them back with news of two new titles coming this…

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Forces of Nature – Edward Steed Provides a Smart, Hilarious Collection of Gags About a World Gone Awry

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 12, 2024

Legendary cartoonist Adrian Tomine has a wry endorsement of Edward Steed at the back of this, the latter’s debut collection. “I met Steed years ago at a fancy New Yorker…

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Raw Sewage Science Fiction – For Those Wondering What Marc Bell is Trying to Say, It’s Great How His Drawn & Quarterly Book Comes No Closer to an Answer

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 11, 2024

One of the nicest things one can say about an artist is that their work is confounding. It may seem like a backhanded compliment, but it expresses a willingness to…

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Ahoy Comics to Publish New Supernatural Action-Adventure Series ‘Archaic’ by Melissa F. Olson, Sally Cantirino and Gab Contreras

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 11, 2024

New Ahoy Comics offering on the horizon! Full details of Archaic and cover reveals below. ARCHAIC is a Action-Adventure Series About a Sentient Island and its Mythological Inhabitants From AHOY…

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Ocultos – Dance Between Dreams and Reality in New Cosmic Mysteries from Laura Pérez and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 10, 2024

Earlier this year, I had the joy of reading and reviewing Laura Pérez’s first English-translated graphic novel, Totem. With an overlying feeling of uncanniness, and a focus on the spiritual…

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BUUZA!! Vol. 5 Campaign is Live on Kickstarter – Shazleen Khan’s QPOC Fantasy Series Comes with the Heartiest of Broken Frontier Recommendations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2024

It’s not as if Shazleen Khan needs BF’s help in getting the latest volume of the epic series BUUZA!! to its Kickstarter funding target. But this series, bringing the hugely…

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