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“Comics Are a Voice for the Voiceless” – Anna Readman Talks ‘Scream!’, ‘Fargo & McBane’, and Her Self-Published Work (Bonus Exclusive ‘Scream!’ Pages)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 10, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There are emerging artists I discover on my Broken Frontier travels who I know immediately have something extra special, next-level even, to…

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Rebellion Announce ‘The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock’ for 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 10, 2024

Jock aficionados, your time has come! The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock is coming next year. One of the most sought-after and admired artists in the industry today, Jock is…

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Pagans Against AI Fight Back Against AI “Art” with a New Spell-Casting Zine

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 10, 2024

We have been very clear about our stance on generative AI “art” here at Broken Frontier Towers. It’s a “one strike and you’re out” policy if you use it in…

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Nightmare Factory – John Kenn Mortensen’s Melodic Wordplay is Just as Nuanced as His Illustrations in this New Picture Book from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 9, 2024

A pale drummer boy mindlessly plays on as a candle drips wax over his head. A grimy man cocks his trumpet like a gun, the canister on his back ready…

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Final Cut – Charles Burns Gives Fabulous New Life to Old Preoccupations

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 8, 2024

Charles Burns offers his readers no clues. There is no subtitle hinting towards a plot, no description or biography, and nothing to give one an indication of what they are…

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Treasury of British Comics to Reprint the ’40 Years of Scream!’ Collection of the Cult 1980s Horror Weekly

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 7, 2024

Welcome news indeed from the direction of Rebellion today if you missed out on the 40 Years of Scream! collection of the cult ’80s horror comic earlier this year which…

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The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2024 – Looking Back on a Weekend of Shared Passion for the Form at LICAF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2024

It’s important, I think, to firstly put my visit to last weekend’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival into some kind of personal context because when you haven’t been to a…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 2024 – The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, Nightmare Factory, Jessica Farm and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 3, 2024

A few days later than normal but welcome to our BF Staff Picks for October! Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the…

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Mothballs – Sole Otero’s Vivid Family Saga Highlights the Impact of Generational Trauma

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 2, 2024

Translated by the fantastic Andrea Rosenberg (of Ocultos and Totem acclaim), Mothballs from Sole Otero and Fantagraphics is set in Buenos Aires in the year 2001. The gorgeous Argentinian landscape…

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The ShortBox Comics Fair 2024 is Open – Browse a Treasure Trove of Digital Comics Again this October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 1, 2024

You don’t need Broken Frontier to remind you that the ShortBox Comics Fair 2024 is now open for business but it would be remiss of us not to give it…

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Robot Archie and the Time Machine – The Cult British Comics Character Gets a Welcome Collection from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2024

One of the most recognisable of the 1960s line-up of IPC heroes – in part because of his memorable later appearances in Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s Zenith series –…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, October 3rd for an EC Comics Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 30, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, October 3rd. This time we are using the classic…

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Kommix – Charles Burns Asks Us to Consider 80 Comics Covers that Never Were in this Haunting Fantagraphics Release

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2024

There’s a certain irony in the way a collection of imaginary comics covers can evoke such evocative feelings of nostalgia considering that, obviously, they never existed in the first place….

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Memories: Ruins – Sam Hart Takes Us Back to Our Childhoods in this Tale of Family Holidays, Pirates and Angels

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2024

There’s something incredibly evocative about the way Sam Hart’s Memories: Ruins captures a universally recognisable period of our lives with its wistful reflection on childhood. A fusion of autobiography and…

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“I Have Always Been an Advocate for Diversity and Representation” – UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on Bringing Comics to Wider Readerships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 25, 2024

He’s the fifth UK Comics Laureate and also the first person of colour to fill that position, and creator Bobby Joseph is obviously relishing his time in that role! An…

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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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