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Silver Sprocket to Open Minicomic Submissions through August 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 20, 2023

It’s becoming rarer and rarer to see publishers opening up submissions from artists so great news today that 2022 Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award winners Silver Sprocket are doing just…

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Our Colors – Gengoroh Tagame’s Beautifully Crafted Tale of the Intergenerational Friendship Between Two Gay Men

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Last year’s Pride celebrations at Broken Frontier saw a long overdue spotlight from us on Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband, so it seems appropriate to be giving…

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Preview: Takio: The Complete Collection – Coming from Dark Horse Comics in 2024, a New Jinxworld Collection from Bendis and Oeming

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 20, 2023

An extensive preview today of the Bendis and Oeming Jinxworld graphic novel Takio: The Complete Collection. Enjoy! BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, CO-CREATOR OF MILES MORALES, AND MICHAEL AVON OEMING’S “TAKIO: THE…

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Inside Look: My Monster Ex-Girlfriends – Cat Laird Gives Us the Lowdown on Their Mythology-Based Sapphic Romance Comics

  • by Cat Laird
  • June 19, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 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…

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Preview: Azimuth – New Series by Dan Abnett and Tazio Bettin Begins in ‘2000 AD’ this Week

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 19, 2023

There’s a new thrill coming to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic this week, Check out this preview of Azimuth below… Journey to AZIMUTH with Dan Abnett & Tazio Bettin – new…

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‘She is my Daughter: All of Her is Me’ – Ella Baron’s Capsule Exhibition at the Cartoon Museum Spotlights the South Sudan Humanitarian Crisis

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 19, 2023

Just opened this past weekend ‘She is my Daughter: All of Her is Me’ is a new exhibition in the Cartoon Museum‘s In-Focus display space, focussing on the humanitarian crisis…

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Boys Run the Riot Vols. 1-4 – Keito Gaku’s Critically Acclaimed Manga Story of Fashion, Friendship and the Trans Experience Does Not Disappoint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Combining Japanese street fashion with a trans coming-of-age story, Boys Run the Riot is a manga slice-of-life story fully deserving of the level of acclaim it has…

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Basil and Oregano – Magic, Cookery and Love Are at the Forefront of Melissa Capriglione’s LGBTQ+ YA Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! One of the important aims of our Pride Month celebrations here at Broken Frontier this June was to emphasise the incredible diversity of approaches to LGBTQ+ comics…

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The Cartoon Museum and SelfMadeHero Announce the Return of the First Graphic Novel Competition for 2023

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2023

I have my own connections to the First Graphic Novel Competition (formerly run by publisher Myriad) given that I was a judge back in 2014. In fact such is my…

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Grandad’s Pride – Harry Woodgate’s Delightful All-Ages Tale is a Joyous Celebration of LGBTQ+ Lives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! A follow-up to the equally delightful Grandad’s Camper, Harry Woodgate’s Grandad’s Pride is an obvious candidate for coverage as part of our Pride Month celebrations at Broken…

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Be Kind, My Neighbor – Yugo Limbo’s Idiosyncratic Trans Love Story is Ambitious and Eerily Alluring

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! In Yugo Limbo’s Be Kind, My Neighbor we have a trans-centric comics narrative with a very different approach than much of the trans and non-binary comics we…

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“There Are So Many Ways to Tell a Story in Comics” – Nicole Goux on ‘Pet Peeves’, Her First Solo Longer-Form Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

Nicole Goux has become something of a semi-regular presence here at Broken Frontier over the last four years. Goux’s collaborations with Dave Baker in Fuck Off Squad, Everyone is Tulip…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 15th for a Pride Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 15th with a Pride Special. Not…

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A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White’s Influential Novel of 1950s Gay Awakening Comes to Comics from Top Shelf Productions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…

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CoCo Comic Con Returns to Lancaster on June 24th, 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 12, 2023

After making its debut last summer CoCo Comic Con is back for a second day of UK indie comics goodness this year. On June 24th attendees can once again enjoy…

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New Indie Anthology ‘Boxes’ from ThirdBear Press Launches on Kickstarter and Includes Work from Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists Beck Kubrick and Sammy Ward

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2023

I have been saying for a few years now that the comparative dearth of new UK small press anthologies is not healthy for the scene so it’s always pleasing to…

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Ahoy Comics to Collect Their Satirical Breakfast-Based Horror Parodies in ‘Cereal’ with Three New Chapters By Mark Russell and Peter Snejberg

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 9, 2023

One of the highlights of Ahoy Comics’ various humorous Edgar Allan Poe anthologies was the various breakfast cereal horror parodies that ran in those pages. As a Brit not every pop…

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My Life in Transition – Julia Kaye’s Account of Trans Lived Experience Continues in this Second Collection of Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! My Life in Transition is the second collection of Julia Kaye’s Super Late Bloomer series detailing her trans journey. We reviewed the first volume here last year…

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