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Laughter Lab: What’s So Funny? – New Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum Looks to Uncover the Science Behind Funniness

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 16, 2021

Details about a very different kind of exhibition running between November and June today from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum. The full press release for ‘Laughter Lab’ below… Laughter…

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The 12th Annual East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest to Run as Hybrid Event in 2021 on Dec 11-12

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 15, 2021

We always like to give a boost to indie and grassroots publishing events at Broken Frontier. Details below on this year’s East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest. Don’t forget…

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Reckless: Destroy All Monsters – A Solid, Melancholic Instalment of Brubaker and the Phillips’ Stellar Series

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 15, 2021

In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. But within the world of Reckless, quite a…

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Sarararara: Homecoming – Hicks! Gives Us a Distinctly ‘Carry on Archie’ Vibe as the 1950s Teen Parody Series Comes to a Close

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The third instalment in the series, Sarararara: Homecoming returns to Hicks!’s darkly comedic 1950s high school world where Archie Comics-style goofiness is warped into something altogether more…

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Wolvendaughter – Ver’s Fantasy One-Shot on the Cycle of Death and Rebirth from Quindrie Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! Ver’s Wolvendaughter was one of the original batch of releases from Quindrie Press, the Scottish micropublisher who burst onto the indie comics scene this year with…

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When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria – A Richly Peopled and Heartfelt Compilation of Positive Stories of Trans Identity

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria is the first comic anthology from Edinburgh-based indie comics publisher Quindrie Press. It Kickstarted in September, making substantially more than…

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Where to Find Our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists at Thought Bubble 2021!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! With Thought Bubble looming there are, of course, scores of fantastically talented exhibitors to investigate in Harrogate this coming weekend, and many comics debuting there you…

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Reppion and Penman’s Arthurian Adaptation is a Narrative Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! From Sherlock Holmes to M.R. James to Alice in Wonderland, John Reppion (alongside Leah Moore) has a proven track record in adapting classic literature to comics. Debuting…

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Endswell #3 – Peter Morey’s Family Epic Takes Another Unexpected Sidestep in ‘Swanny’, the Strongest Episode Yet

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Returning to his autobiographical comic Endswell, Peter Morey takes another unexpected sidestep in a series which continues to surprise with its multiple perspectives on intergenerational family life…

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Really Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Entertains Us with Another Collection of Unsettling Monologues from “a Choir of Desperate Voices”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The fourth in Douglas Noble’s Horrible Folk series, the Thought Bubble-debuting Really Horrible Folk is another collection of brief but unsettling monologues from “a choir of desperate…

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FML Comics #5 -Natasha Natarajan Immerses Us in the Immediacy of the Moment in Another Collection of Candid Autobio Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier our Jenny Robins interviewed artist Natasha Natarajan about her autobiographical comics collection FML Comics, the first four issues compiled into one…

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Three Comics – Peony Gent’s Latest Collection of Graphic Poetry is the Perfect Introduction to Her Boundary-Pushing Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…

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One for the Road – Sean Azzopardi Returns to Autobio Comics with a Wistful Yet Forward-Looking Piece on Moving On

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Over the last couple of years Sean Azzopardi has stepped back a little from regular autobiographical work to take his practice in other directions. Although arguably best…

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Graphic Mundi Announces Graphic Novel List for Spring and Summer 2022

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 8, 2021

Graphic Mundi have revealed their publishing schedule for the first part of next year. Check out the full details and cover reveals in the press release below. Graphic Mundi Announces New Titles…

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Boomerang Part 2 – Rebecca K. Jones Takes Us Back to the Recession of 2009 in the Second Part of Her Pensive Coming-of-Age Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When we last saw Claire, the protagonist of Rebecca K. Jones’s Boomerang, she was facing an uncertain future in the days of the global financial crisis of…

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Naglalamay – Mereida’s “Exploration of Filipino Funeral Rites and Superstitions” is our Thought Bubble ‘Comic of the Festival’ for 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Mereida Fajardo’s Naglalamay was originally very briefly covered here at Broken Frontier as part of our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Month event when, in minicomic format,…

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Cindy and Biscuit: Year One – Dan White’s Much Loved Monster-Hunting Duo Make a Most Welcome Return

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! With just a few days to go, one of the great unexpected treats of this year’s Thought Bubble debut books list was my discovery last week that…

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Black Dragon #1 – Nick Gonzo Combines Themes of Corporate Greed, an Exploration of Lives Lived for Audience Appreciation and a Cracking Central Premise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 5, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Nick Gonzo’s Black Dragon #1 is not an easy book to define. Yes, it’s science fiction. That’s the simple but ultimately unsatisfying categorisation. But it’s also a…

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