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The Mirage – Owen Michael Johnson’s Crime Heist Pastiche Reveals Hidden Layers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

It’s been a while since we last had the opportunity to review a comic from the genre-hopping mind of Owen Michael Johnson (Beast Wagon, Reel Love). Over the years Johnson’s…

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“Norse Mythology… It’s Such a Wonderful and Incomplete Beast” – Martin Simpson on His Graphic Novel ‘NORD’ and His Love of Legend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“I Like Reopening Certain Parts of My Life that Were Challenging” – Clio Isadora on Autobio Comics and Her Avery Hill Graphic Novel ‘Sour Pickles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“I Feel Like ‘The Jellyfish’ is the Most Personal Book I’ve Ever Made” — An Interview with Boum on Her Pow Pow Press Graphic Medicine Story

  • by François Vigneault
  • May 1, 2024

The cartoonist Boum (AKA Samantha Leriche-Gionet) has been a key member of the vibrant Montreal comics scene for over a decade. Her slice-of-life webcomic Boumeries, which with great savvy she…

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What It Is – Lynda Barry’s Eisner Award-Winning Book is Now in Paperback, Still Impossible to Describe, But Incredibly Vital

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 30, 2024

What It Is is one of those books that either grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go, or seeps slowly into your consciousness and shifts how you look…

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Freedman and CROM’s ‘Birdking’ Volume 3 Coming from Dark Horse Later This Year

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 30, 2024

Lovers of fantasy comics will no doubt be delighted to hear that Daniel Freedman and CROM’s acclaimed series is back with Birdking Volume 3 this November. A Broken Frontier Award-nominated…

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Rebellion to Re-Imagine Romance Comic ‘Roxy’ in a New One-Shot Special – Contributors Include Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson, Sarah Gordon and Nadia Shammas

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 29, 2024

Last year’s A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance Comics from the Treasury of British Comics was not so much a critically acclaimed compilation as a critically adored…

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Black Josei Press to Go on Indefinite Hiatus in 2025 – Jamila Rowser’s Acclaimed Publishing Endeavour Begins Hiatus Tour 2024

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2024

Sad news last week from the direction of Jamila Rowser and the acclaimed Black Josei Press that the multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher will be going on indefinite hiatus from…

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Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back – FLuX Brings David Good’s Incredible Story to Colourful Life Via NBM

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 29, 2024

The artist FLuX describes his work as ‘Trompe Nouveau’, a style and technique that combines hyper-realistic oil painting with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau. It makes for a mildly disconcerting…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 2nd for a Golden Age Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 29, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, May 2nd. This time we will be basing themes…

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Comics Cultural Impact Collective 2 – Comics Stakeholders Strike Back on May 7th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2024

Just a reminder that the second meeting of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective is scheduled for the evening of May 7th, 2024. This is such an important initiative with a…

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Thought Bubble 2024 – First Guests Announced Including Jamila Rowser, Steven Appleby, Emma Rios and Khary Randolph

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 26, 2024

First guests for Thought Bubble 2024 announced! Check out the names in the announcement below. THOUGHT BUBBLE ANNOUNCE FIRST GUESTS FOR 2024 COMIC CONVENTION TINI HOWARD, JOCK, SWEENEY BOO, KHARY…

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“I Never Get Sick of Folk Tales and Mythology” – Isabel Greenberg Talks Arthurian Legends, the Brontës and Her Self-Publishing Roots

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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Portsmouth Comic Con 2024 to Hold Comics Talent Search

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 24, 2024

Opportunities for emerging artists to get their work seen by established figures in the comics scene are a rarity. That’s one of the reasons we hold our twice-yearly one-to-one Zoom…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish Mat Johnson and Steve Lieber’s Time-Travel OGN ‘Backflash’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 23, 2024

A time-travel story with an intriguing premise, ‘Backflash’ is coming from Dark Horse Comics/Berger Books later this year… RECLAIM THE PAST WITH “BACKFLASH” A NEW ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM BERGER…

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Rebellion’s ‘2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024’ Announced – Popular Characters Merge in a Mash-Up Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 23, 2024

Oh those naughty teases at Rebellion! Last week saw much speculation online as an image of a Mega-City Judge’s badge with the name of Strontium Dog Johnny Alpha was put…

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Meat4Burgers: Welcome to Burgertory – Beck Kubrick and Christof Bogacs Transport Us to the Universe’s Most Unsettling Fast Food Franchise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Although we covered the first two print issues of Christof Bogacs and Beck Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers series a while back at Broken Frontier…

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Hakim’s Odyssey Books 1-3 – Fabien Toulmé Brings the Story of a Syrian Refugee to the Comics Page with Sensitivity and Empathy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2024

We can never have two many comics testaments to the ongoing realities of the refugee crisis. Every time I cover one and add it to our dedicated Broken Frontier resource…

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