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Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as Genderqueer

  • by Will Betke-Brunswick
  • January 17, 2023

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and themes…

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Steve Foxe and Piotr Kowalski’s ‘All Eight Eyes’ Coming from Dark Horse Comics in April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 17, 2023

Another eerily entrancing horror series from Dark Horse Comics has been announced for April. Details of Steve Foxe and Piotr Kowalski’s All Eight Eyes below. EISNER-NOMINATED AUTHOR STEVE FOXE AND…

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Europe Comics Announce an End to All Consumer-Facing Activities – Digital Publishing Will Continue Via Online Retailers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2023

Sad news in the last week from the team at Europe Comics who have announced the shuttering of their online publicity presence. From the Europe Comics website: “As of January…

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Celebrating 2022 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2023

A little later than usual – and I must admit I nearly stepped back from this annual tradition this year – but we have been running these ‘Ten UK Small…

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How to Help Out Broken Frontier Award-Winning Publisher Silver Sprocket as They Deal with Major Flood Damage at Their San Francisco Store!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2023

Silver Sprocket, our 2022 Broken Frontier Award winners in the Best Publisher category, did not have the best start to the New Year. They began 2023 with a storm-flooded basement…

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Cover Reveal: Saving Sunshine – Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan’s Eagerly Anticipated Tale of Muslim American Siblings to Be Published by First Second this September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2023

Published by First Second this September ‘Saving Sunshine’, the graphic novel written by Saadia Faruqi and illustrated by Shazleen Khan, is one of our most anticipated new releases of 2023!…

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“I Am My Favourite Subject” –  Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 12, 2023

It’s always difficult to predict what Paul B. Rainey will decide to work upon next. His history in comics is so varied and intriguing that it sometimes feels as if…

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Birdcage Bottom Books Announce Spring 2023 Publishing Schedule – Includes Books from Fred Noland, Desmond Reed and Lance Ward

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 11, 2023

Birdcage Bottom Books have announced their Spring 2023 line-up. Full details in the press release below. COMING IN APRIL! Keep an eye out for our crowdfunding campaign… STEADY ROLLIN’: Preacher’s…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, January 12th with a New Year Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back as we celebrate the first D and D of 2023! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday,…

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All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson – 50 Years On, NYRC’s Collection Proves that Charles Johnson’s Work is Just as Relevant Now as Ever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2023

We are in something of a renaissance period when it comes to archival collections of socially relevant work like Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End from New…

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Laneha House #6 – Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez Cover Mental Health Awareness, Black Lives Matter, and Meta Comic Strips in Their Latest Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2023

In this post-2020 era time can sometimes take on a deceptive quality. That seems to be very much the case sometimes when I check on our coverage of some of…

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Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy’s OGN ‘Hogbook and Lazer Eyes’ to Be Published by Fantagraphics in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 6, 2023

Hot on the heels of their double Broken Frontier Awards win this week we have the first press release of the year from publisher Fantagraphics. Details of Hogbook and Lazer…

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Not Quite Almost 10 Years: A Breakup Zine – Edie Woolf’s Minicomic is a Cathartic Tale of Endings and New Beginnings

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2023

Autobiographical work in comics can come from a number of places. On one hand it can be about informing and educating on situations, conditions or experiences. On the other the…

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Preview: Ashes – Álvaro Ortiz’s Surreal Road Trip Debuts from Top Shelf in February

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 5, 2023

A new year means new releases to plug. Below we have a first look at Álvaro Ortiz’s Ashes from Top Shelf Productions, hitting stores on February 7th. Polly, Moho, and…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2022: Announcing the Winners – Comics in All Their Shapes and Forms Make Up this Year’s Awardees, and Avery Hill Publishing and C. Spike Trotman Enter the BF Hall of Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2023

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 19th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. As another difficult year passes us by…

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Wash Day Diaries – Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith Provide Us with a Joyous Celebration of Black Sisterhood

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2023

When looking back at our previous coverage of Wash Day, the minicomic that acted as precursor for Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries, I was somewhat surprised to…

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The Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair Returns on February 11th, 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 3, 2023

A new year is always an appropriate time to remind our audience that we’re always happy to spread the word on events that cater to the small press community, especially…

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Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier Team! We’ll Be Back Again on January 3rd, 2023

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 23, 2022

A final post of 2022 to wish you all a very Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier team. What’s that you say? Doesn’t BF normally publish reviews and articles between…

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