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Thought Bubble and Travelling Man to Provide 2023 Micro-Bursaries for Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour, and Trans & NB Creators

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 31, 2023

So here’s some very welcome news in these grim times. Thought Bubble, in partnership with the Travelling Man chain of comics shops, will be providing three sets of micro-bursaries again…

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Pet Peeves – Nicole Goux’s Tale of a Demon Dog is an Evocative Allegory of Aimlessness, Self-Sabotage and the Creative Struggle

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2023

Over the last four years at Broken Frontier we have covered the collaborative work of the Nicole Goux-Dave Baker team on a number of projects, including Fuck Off Squad, Everyone…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 1st for a Crowdfunding Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 29, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 1st with a Crowdfunding Special. Not only do our…

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New Mick McMahon ‘2000 AD’ Apex Edition Coming from Rebellion this November Featuring Art from Dredd, Slaine and the ABC Warriors

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 26, 2023

So this will no doubt delight 2000 AD fans. Rebellion are to publish a second Mick McMahon Apex Edition in November. Check out the art below! A master artist at…

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Dark Horse to Publish ‘The Major’ in English for the First Time as Part of the Mœbius Library

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 26, 2023

More from the Mœbius Library later this year as The Major is published in English for the first time. DARK HORSE BOOKS PRESENTS: “MŒBIUS LIBRARY: THE MAJOR” Mœbius takes Major Grubert…

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Second Wave of Guests for Thought Bubble 2023 Announced Including Jason Aaron, Deb JJ Lee and Explodikid

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 25, 2023

Time for another batch of Thought Bubble 2023 guests to be announced! This time it includes such names as Juni Ba, Rachael Smith, Lucy Sullivan and Explodikid. Full details below….

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Yetis, Mongolian Deathworms and the Loch Ness Monster Set to Star in Ahoy Comics’ New Anthology Series ‘Project: Cryptid’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 25, 2023

Announced via a press release that could only have come from Ahoy Comics, Project: Cryptid is a new anthology series featuring an all-star line-up. Check out some BF faves in…

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Tillie Walden is Vermont’s New Cartoonist Laureate

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 24, 2023

Can it really be over 8 years since we were the first site to preview Tillie Walden’s debut graphic novel The End of Summer? We are all aware of the…

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Before They Lay You Down – Georgia Holland’s Western One-Shot is Packed with Recognisable and Universal Themes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2023

Georgia Holland’s Before They Lay You Down is ostensibly a short story in the Western comics tradition. In reality, though, Holland’s minicomic is far more universal in its themes, exploring…

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Z2 Comics to Pay Tribute to a Jazz Legend in ‘Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound’ this September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2023

On the back of six Eisner nominations Z2 Comics have announced a new title in their music comics line-up. Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound will be published…

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Viscera Cera – Claude T.C.’s Escapist Space Romp Pokes Fond Fun at Genre Comics Conventions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2023

One of the less appealing aspects of “mainstream”/super-hero comics in the last decade and a half has been a propensity for confusing mocking the conventions of the form with self-referential…

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The Caliburn Prize Offers a £2,500 Grant to an Unpublished UK-Based Comics Creator – Deadline Now Extended Until June 7th, 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 22, 2023

While we only heard about this via social media today, the Caliburn Prize is an initiative that will no doubt be of great interest to the many aspiring creators on…

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20 km/h – Chinese Artist Woshibai Uses the Deceptively Simple to Create Something Profound in His Debut for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 19, 2023

The easiest way to describe a kōan — a Japanese reading of the Chinese gong’an — is to compare it to our version of a riddle, although Zen Buddhists probably…

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‘Killer Queens 2’ is Coming from Dark Horse Comics in August as the LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi Series Gets a Second Outing

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 18, 2023

Today Dark Horse Comics announced Killer Queens 2: Kings, Not Wings, a follow-up to last year’s sci-fi miniseries. When we reviewed the trade paperback collection of that run here at Broken…

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Next Time Around – Life Re-Evaluated by Billy Mavreas in this ‘Conundrum 25’ Graphic Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2023

Another of Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ celebratory series of graphic shorts, Billy Mavreas’s Next Time Around sits somewhere on the border between graphic medicine and graphic poetry. We’ve…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 18th for a Quindrie Press Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 18th with a special Quindrie Press night pushing their…

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Trans Archie Comics Character Danni Malloy Teams Up with Jinx Holliday in the Upcoming ‘Chilling Adventures Presents… Strange Science’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 16, 2023

We all know that trans representation in comics is more important now than ever. So great news today from the direction of Archie Comics whose upcoming Archie Horror one-shot Chilling…

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Preview: Cartoonshow – Derek M. Ballard’s “Satirical Reflection of Contemporary American Life” is Coming from Oni Press this August

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 16, 2023

Today at BF, courtesy of Oni Press, we have a preview of Derek M. Ballard’s graphic novel Cartoonshow which will be debuting this August. We’re rather taken with editor Zack Soto’s…

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