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Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror – Last Gasp’s Anthology Provides a Fittingly Bleak Collection of Environmental Terror Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Published as a 50th anniversary celebration of Last Gasp, Slow Death Zero takes the name of the underground publisher’s influential alt comics anthology, affixes an additional “numbering”…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish Deluxe Art Book ‘Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean’ in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 20, 2023

Well this looks rather gorgeous. Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean is coming from Dark Horse in November just in time for your Christmas lists… LEGENDARY ARTIST DAVE MCKEAN’S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE…

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The Effluent Society – Norman Thelwell’s 1971 Collection is a Sad Reminder of How Little Our Attitudes to the Environment Have Changed in 50 Years

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! The idea that concern about the destructive effects of humanity’s interaction with the environment is a relatively recent one is, of course, entirely fallacious in its supposition….

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Quindrie Press’s New Graphic Novel Line-Up to Debut in a Kickstarter Campaign this May

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 19, 2023

Quindrie Press, the Edinburgh-based micropublisher founded by Eve Greenwood, have just announced a new set of books for 2023 to be launched on Kickstarter in May. A couple of years…

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Junk Rabbit #1 – Jimmie Robinson Takes Us to a Dystopian Future of Trash Mountains and Domed Cities

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier our Earth Day-themed review coverage has looked at comics and the environment from the perspectives of graphic journalism, biography, anthologies, satire and…

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Karl Stock’s ‘Comic Book Punks’, a Group Biography of British Creators Who Reinvented the Medium, Coming from Rebellion in 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 19, 2023

Rebellion’s expansion into books covering of British comics-related history is set to continue this year with Comic Book Punks by Karl Stock. More in the press release below. Rebellion to…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 20th with Guest Artist Manon Wright

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 19, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 20th with guest artist Manon Wright, of our 2022…

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š! #44 – kuš! comics Go ‘Back to Nature’ as Artists from Five Continents Look at Our Relationship with the Environment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! As regular Broken Frontier readers will know we have been slowly building up a number of socially relevant resource lists of comics material on the site. In…

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Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear – Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung Bring the Subject of Conservation to a Younger Readership

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! While graphic journalism, graphic biography and comics social commentary on environmental issues is both valuable and vital in communicating and dissecting the realities involved another approach is…

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Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…

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World War 3 Illustrated #52: Frontlines of Repair – From Environmental Disaster and the Pandemic to Community Building and Social Activism, the Acclaimed Left-Wing Comics Anthology Explores Our Approach to Our Broken World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…

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The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World – Our ‘Earth Day Week’ Begins at BF with this Groundbreaking Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Where does one even begin with attempting to review such a colossal group effort as Dorling Kindersley’s The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save…

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The Berg – Character-Driven Narrative is at the Centre of this Highly Atmospheric Horror One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2023

Collaborative comics where the entire creative team are perfectly and harmoniously in synch are probably far rarer than we could care to admit. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, horror comic The…

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Exclusive Preview: House of Slay Season 2, ‘Nephrite Horrors’ – Take a Sneak Peek at the New Story from Fashion Designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim’s Inclusive and Socially Relevant Webcomic Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2023

We have an exclusive House of Slay preview today at Broken Frontier from ‘Nephrite Horrors’, the upcoming final story in the second season of the webcomic. House of Slay represents…

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Colossive Cartographies #33-42 – Another Experimental Selection of Colossive Press’s Acclaimed Turkish Map Fold Zine Series Explored

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2023

To borrow from Stan Lee every Colossive Cartographies review is somebody’s first so if you’re unaware of the format of what has become micropublisher Colossive Press’s signature series keep reading….

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Single – Jiří Franta’s Existential Graphic Novel is a Story of Burgeoning Self-Reflexivity

  • by Jon Aye
  • April 11, 2023

The first time we meet the unnamed main character of Jiří Franta’s Single he is a distant speck, a potentially overlooked feature of the scene, alone and stranded on top…

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Forest Hills Bootleg Society – Baker and Goux’s Coming-of-Age Story is Poignant, Honest and Filled with Emotional Vulnerability

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2023

To describe Forest Hills Bootleg Society merely as a coming-of-age story seems woefully inadequate given the number of thematic strands that run through its pages. As a revealing afterword notes,…

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Black Phoenix Omnibus – Rich Tommaso Finds the Perfect Vessel for His Rhizomatic Creativity

  • by Tom Baker
  • April 7, 2023

Rich Tommaso has a reasonable claim on the title of “Hardest Working Man In Comics.” That was true even before this, his current venture. Black Phoenix is a serialised anthology published…

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