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Pleasure Beach #1 – Josh Pettinger’s Dark Tale of Returning to Your Childhood Home Has a Bleakly Alluring Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2025

Josh Pettinger describes the first issue of his Pleasure Beach series simply as “a PTSD fever dream about going home.” That though, and the apparent subtitle of ‘Hot Summer Megadepression’,…

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two – Emil Ferris Combines Coming-of-Age Story, Murder Mystery and Sequential Experimentation in this Much Anticipated Follow-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2025

When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…

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Laneha House #14 – The Latest Anthology of Experimental Strips from Laneha House Publishers Breena Nuñez and Lawrence Lindell 

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 27, 2025

Married Bay Area cartoonists Breena Nuñez and Lawrence Lindell recently released the latest installment of their two-person anthology Laneha House, which also happens to be the name of their publishing…

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Preview: Vanishing Point #1 – A New Sci-Fi Anthology Series is Coming from Mad Cave Studios and Mark Russell

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 26, 2025

The genre fiction anthology comic seems to be having something of a renaissance right now. Details on Mad Cave’s Vanishing Point below. Mad Cave Studios Brings a Six-Issue Sci-Fi Anthology Series Exploring…

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Span – Mike Armstrong’s Fantasy Story of Woodland Spirits Speaks of Familiar and Universal Truths

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2025

Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…

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“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: The Coda – An Ignominious End to Frazer Brown’s Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Charity Anthology as Kickstarter Finally Intervenes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2025

Kickstarter have finally intervened in the long-running saga of the unfulfilled Tales from the Quarantine “charity” comics anthology by suspending its editor and supposed publisher Frazer Brown’s account with the…

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Sagas of the Shield Maiden Book Four – Laura Helsby, Alice Leclert and Rachel Tubb Join Asa Wheatley in the Fourth Outing for the Viking Western Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2025

Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…

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My Taxidermy Angel – Rein Lee’s Tale of Queerness, Religious Trauma, Identity and Self-Acceptance is Incredibly Assured Early Work from a Newer Voice on the Indie Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2025

When I am asked what I look for when selecting artists for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch’ initiative the answers I could give would be multitudinous. But…

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New Series ‘Toxie Team-Up’ is Coming from Ahoy Comics and Will Include a Toxic Avenger/Jesus Christ Crossover

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2025

Well we can honestly say we never saw this one coming. News below about Ahoy Comics‘ new Toxie Team-Up series which includes a guest appearance by Jesus Christ… The Toxic…

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Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum – A Modernist Treat from Flying Eye with a Twist for Sherlock and Poirot Fans Alike!

  • by Lydia Turner
  • February 24, 2025

Barely having polishing off his morning pancakes, retired dog-detective Stanley is hoping for some much-needed peace and quiet, when he receives an intriguing offer he can’t refuse – not even…

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10 Years Ago this Week the First Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Line-Up Made Its Debut!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2025

We don’t post at the weekends so this is a day late but back on February 23rd, 2015 the very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ line-up…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, February 27th for a BF Six to Watch 2025 Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 24, 2025

Your favourite online comics social is back! But in a new location. With recent events on Twitter/X/Xitter seeing a mass exodus of comics folk from the platform we have made…

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Fizzle #4 and #5 – Catching Up With Whit Taylor’s Slice-of-Life Classic from Radiator Comics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 21, 2025

Andy Oliver reviewed Fizzle #1-3 on this site in the halcyon pre-pandemic days. Today we revisit the long-running Whit Taylor series with its latest issue being published earlier this year…

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Battle Action Force Treasury Edition Vol. 1 – The ’80s Cult Favourite Makes a Return Courtesy of Total Toy Books and the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2025

The licensing complexities and how behind-the-scenes wranglings continued to affect the Action Force feature in weekly UK comic Battle Action Force make for as interesting a read as the strips…

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New Exhibition ‘Cats in Cartoons’ Opens at London’s Cartoon Museum this April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 20, 2025

Details incoming from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum about their upcoming exhibition. Cats in Cartoons opens on April 5th. Cats in Cartoons at The Cartoon Museum 5 April – September 2025 From Garfield…

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Dark & Golden Books to Publish Comics from Indie Legend Carol Swain as Part of Their ‘2x’ Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2025

Many years ago when I chaired my very first in-person panel event I was lucky enough to have UK indie legend Carol Swain (Invasion of the Mind sappers, Foodboy, Gast)…

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mini kuš! #129: Fire Rabbit – A Darkness Lurks Within the Childlike Innocence of Yuma Wang’s Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2025

The rather enticing thing about kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is that their method of delivery – a batch of four releases every few months – means that in one…

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Preview: A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships – Mariah-Rose Marie is the Creator Behind the Next Offering in the Acclaimed Oni Press Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2025

Another preview post today as we have pages from Oni Press’s A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships by Mariah-Rose Marie to share with you. The latest in their…

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