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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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New Heritage Comics Digital Releases Include Early Grant Morrison Work from ‘Starblazer’ and the ‘Sci-Fi Files’ from ‘Commando’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 22, 2022

News today of more forays into the vaults by D.C. Thomson’s Heritage Comics imprint. This month with a space opera flavour. News of Starblazer Presents and The Sci-Fi Files below……

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Coming Home #1 – A Moving Exploration of Military Veterans’ Struggles

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 21, 2022

Like all popular forms, comic books have long been used for propaganda purposes. From Commando War Stories in Pictures to Marvel’s moronic Northrop Grumman collab, they inevitably reflect militaristic orthodoxy. The West…

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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2022 – Socially Conscious Work Goes Hand-in-Hand with Pure Comics Escapism in a Nominations List Reflecting the World Around Us in 2022

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 20, 2022

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 19th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 22nd for a Festive Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 19, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back for an end-of-the-year party! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 22nd with a festive special….

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Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard Bring ‘Rogue Trooper’ Back to ‘2000 AD’ in 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 16, 2022

With a continuity so convoluted that it matched DC’s Hawkman for complexity (for more on that see our article some years ago here) 2000 AD‘s Rogue Trooper strip eventually found…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Russia 2018: A World Cup Journal – Sputnikat Press Offers a Gimlet-Eyed, Picaresque Journey through Compromised Footballand

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 15, 2022

You have to put up with a lot as a football fan. In that sense, they actually have a surprising amount in common with their natural nemesis: the comic book…

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So Buttons #12 – Jonathan Baylis Hosts Another Top Line-Up of Indie Comics Artists in His Latest Autobio Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 14, 2022

Jonathan Baylis’s long-running collaborative project So Buttons hit its twelfth issue this Autumn with another collection of his autobio whimsy being brought to life by a roll call of diversely…

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Space Trash Vol. 1 – Jenn Woodall Blends High School Rivalries with Science Fiction in a Character-Led Opener

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 13, 2022

Framing the recognisable in the fantastic has always been a clever narrative tool for underlining the universality of certain human experiences. In the first volume of Space Trash, published by…

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Laneha House Announce the Winners of the Inaugural Kinnard Awards Celebrating Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2022

Announced over the weekend the awardees of the inaugural Kinnard Awards – set up to acknowledge deserving names working to the benefit of the comics community – were announced by…

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