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The Girl from the Sea – Molly Knox Ostertag’s YA Queer Romance is a Character-Led Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! As we move ever onwards into this year’s Pride Month it’s important to remember that, while graphic memoirs and graphic biographies exploring the prejudice and challenges faced…

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Archie & Friends: Summer Lovin’ #1 – New Pansexual Character Eliza Han Debuts as the Riverdale Gang Take a Trip to the Funfair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Arguably no publisher has done as much as Arche Comics in the last several years in terms of both taking decades-old iconic characters in radical new directions…

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The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights – Archie Bongiovanni and A. Andrews Take Younger Readers Back to a Pivotal Point in History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Part of First Second’s History Comics series spotlighting pivotal points in history for younger readers, The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights is an obviously…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 9th with Guest Artist Norm Konyu

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 7, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 9th as Norm Konyu joins us as guest artist….

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Lure – Lane Milburn Explores Climate Change, Privilege and the Commodification of Art in His Socially Relevant Sci-Fi Story from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2022

It hardly needs saying that science fiction has always been a powerful medium for allegorical explorations of contemporary socio-political issues. Lane Milburn’s graphic novel Lure, from Fantagraphics, is an excellent…

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’-Watch for June 2022 – Catching Up with the Latest Work from Creators in Our BF Mentoring Initiative Including Alxndra Cook, Norm Konyu, Shanti Rai, Ellice Weaver and Sabba Khan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2022

With 8 years of creators featured in our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ initiative it seems long overdue that we start giving some regular reports on…

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Vault Comics to Make Free Queer Comics Available as Part of Their ‘Unbanned’ Pride Month Initiative

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 6, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! With Pride Month well and truly with us now US publisher Vault Comics have announced an initiative for free queer comics that we can really get behind…

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“Two of the Great Things in Life are Music and Comics” – Cartoonist David Ziggy Greene Talks Small Press Day, Graphic Reportage and His New Venture Jam Bookshop

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2022

There are lots of reasons why now is a most opportune moment to be chatting with cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. The former long-time Private Eye artist was the founder of…

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New Dark Horse Series ‘The Roadie’ from Tim Seeley and Fran Galan Debuts in September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 2, 2022

New series alert! The Roadie debuts from Dark Horse this September. Details in the press release below. HELL MEETS HEAVY METAL IN ‘THE ROADIE’ A new horror series combining the…

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The Closet #1 – Revisit Your Childhood Fears in this Unsettling New Image Horror Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2022

Of all the standards of horror fiction those that touch on our childhood fears have a particular resonance. They represent a time in our lives when the wider world was…

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Scoop Scuttle and His Pals – Fantagraphics Takes the High Energy Slapstick of Basil Wolverton’s “Crackpot Comics” to New Audiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2022

As so much previously uncollected, or otherwise near impossible to find, vintage material has become available in print compilations over the last decade or so, it hasn’t always been the…

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Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins Shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Awards 2022 for ‘Biscuits (assorted)’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2022

Congratulations today to our very own Jenny Robins who has been shortlisted in the V&A Illustration Awards 2022 for her Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition-winning book Biscuits (assorted), published by…

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Serious: Through the Fog – The Mayamada Universe Reacts to the Pandemic with an Uplifting Story about Community, Support and Collaboration

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2022

It would be remiss of me to describe “British manga” specialists mayamada as simply a micropublisher. Besides establishing an inter-related comics universe of their own through successful crowdfunding, their wider…

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Sabba Khan Wins the Prestigious Jhalak Prize for Her Graphic Memoir ‘The Roles We Play’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2022

As reported by The Guardian today, Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Sabba Khan (Class of 2017 and, once again, we did tell you!) has been announced as the winner…

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New Archie Horror Material Coming in August with ‘Jinx’s Grim Fairy Tales’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 27, 2022

Of all the Archie Comics sidesteps into new incarnations of their classic characters over the last decade it’s undoubtedly the Archie Horror imprint that has most caught readers’ imaginations. News…

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Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator – New Graphic Memoir by Sofia Warren Coming from Top Shelf in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 27, 2022

Described by no less a cartooning legend than Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau as a “beautifully-rendered account of a rookie’s initiation into state politics: an exhilarating baptism of fire, and a…

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Big Brother – A New David Bowie-Inspired Comic Strip from Tony Wolf and SirGryphon Explores How the Republican Party Enabled Donald Trump

  • by Tony Wolf
  • May 26, 2022

In 1974, David Bowie created 3 songs inspired by Orwell’s novel 1984, as a proposal towards crafting an entire musical theater piece based on the iconic dystopian book. Orwell’s widow…

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Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to Publication

  • by Norm Konyu
  • May 25, 2022

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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