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It May Never Happen… – Dark & Golden Books Introduce the Unsettling World of Kevin Woodcock to a Contemporary Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2023

Back in the in the early 1990s, and riding the coat-tails of the success of the UK adult humour comic Viz, a slew of largely forgettable imitators suddenly burst onto…

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The UK Indie Comics Scene Loses the Great Chris Reynolds, Creator of ‘Mauretania Comics’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2023

Over the weekend the sad news that Chris Reynolds, one those great mainstays of UK indie comics who helped build the foundations of the scene as we know it today,…

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Vault Comics and Gatecrashers Announce Second Annual Pride Auction in Aid of Trans Lifeline

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 2023

We’re always more than happy here at Broken Frontier to promote awesome initiatives like Vault Comics and Gatecrashers’ second annual Pride Auction. This year it’s in aid of Trans Lifeline….

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The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff – Hoff’s Satirical Plea for a More Equitable World is as Urgent Now as It Was in 1935

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2023

While cartoonist Syd Hoff (1912-2002) is best known for his celebrated children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur, and syndicated newspaper strips like Tuffy and Laugh It Off, there’s a strand…

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Trigger Shot – With a Timely Release for Infertility Awareness Week Tal Brosh’s New Comic is a Tour-de-Force of Abstract Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2023

Abstract comics are a rich source of material for those interested in the possibilities and nuances of the form’s language. Trigger Shot by Tal Brosh (one of our 2022 Broken…

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“We Chose to Adapt These Stories Because of Their Enduring Relevance” – Scarlett and Sophie Rickard on Bringing Socially Conscious Edwardian Novels to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2023

After their acclaimed adaptations of two powerful Edwardian novels (Robert Tressell’s renowned socialist masterpiece The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Constance Maud’s lesser known but still vitally important contemporary account of…

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Sage Coffey’s Debut Graphic Novel ‘Wine Ghost Goes to Hell’ Now Funding Via Iron Circus

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2023

From the Sweaty Palms graphic medicine anthologies to involvement with projects like Be Gay, Do Comics Sage Coffey has already demonstrated their ability to facilitate and collaborate. This month, though,…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 4th with Guest Artist Tal Brosh

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 4th with guest artist Tal Brosh, of our 2020…

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Over-Inkers #1 – New UK Small Press Anthology Series Tackles Mental Health Issues with a First Issue Theme of ‘Strength’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2023

Focussed on mental health awareness, the new UK small press comics anthology Over-Inkers debuted recently with a first issue theme of “strength”. Full disclosure first. Over-Inkers is edited by Broken…

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“I Am Comfortable with My Lack of Faith” – Miriam Katin on the Paperback Edition of ‘We Are on Our Own’, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 28, 2023

It has been a little over 15 years since Hungarian-born American artist Miriam Katin’s award-winning memoir We Are on Our Own (the story of Katin and her mother’s escape from…

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The Man in the McIntosh Suit – Rina Ayuyang Brings Empathy to a Lesser Known Aspect of Immigration in America, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 27, 2023

To check out artist Rina Ayuyang’s Instagram is to find oneself awash in art and colour, offering insights into what inspires her. These colour-pencilled hues inform The Man in the…

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Green Thumbs – Nature Clashes with Domesticity in Alice Urbino’s Eerie New Horror Comic Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2023

It’s been a little while since we had the opportunity to review an Alice Urbino comic here at BF but we can today as one of our original 2015 Broken…

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Fantagraphics to Reprint Marvel’s 1950s Atlas Comics Beginning this Autumn

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 26, 2023

Good news today for those still mourning the loss of Marvel’s Atlas Masterworks from around a decade-plus years ago. Fantagraphics have today announced they will be publishing editions of these…

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Silver Sprocket’s Publishing Schedule for the Second Half of 2023 Revealed – Including Work from Cam Marshall, Kimberly Wang and Mariah-Rose Marie

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2023

Silver Sprocket, Broken Frontier’s Best Publisher Award winners for 2022, have announced their publishing schedule for this autumn. Check out the list below for undoubtedly some of the very best…

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“Adding a Layer of ‘Weird’ also Helps to Decipher Reality” – Aisha Franz Takes a Cold, Hard Look at the Absurdity of Our Times With ‘Work-Life Balance’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 25, 2023

There are moments of recognition on almost every page of German artist Aisha Franz’s latest book; moments that make one nod, then sigh in frustration at the manner in which…

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Ahoy Comics to Publish Paul Cornell and Marika Cresta’s ‘CON & ON’ in July – A New Series Satirising the Comics Industry and Its Conventions

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2023

With this many pull quotes as testaments to its worth you really can’t argue that Paul Cornell and Marika Cresta’s upcoming CON & ON from Ahoy Comics is going to…

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Fire Flowers – Xiaoyi Hu’s Riso Comic Follows a Young Blind Woman’s Walk Around Her Neighbourhood and Treats Us to a Journey of Parallel Perceptions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2023

We talk a lot about the tactile possibilities of self-publishing here at Broken Frontier but Xiaoyi Hu’s comic Fire Flowers adds extra emphasis on that quality (as can be seen…

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Rain – Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot Revisit the Catastrophic Floods of 2015 and Underline that an Ethical Ecological Approach Should Not Be a Prisoner of Privilege and Influence

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…

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