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Chad in Amsterdam #1-5 – Chad Bilyeu’s “Misadventures of an Atypical American Living in Amsterdam” Have a Perceptive Pekar-esque Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2021

I feel I’ve used the term Pekar-esque a little too freely at Broken Frontier of late. But in the case of Chad Bilyeu’s Chad in Amsterdam it seems particularly appropriate…

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Small Press Day Returns on Saturday August 14th, 2021 – Includes the Popular Broken Frontier One-Tweet Reviews on Twitter!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2021

Small Press Day returns for 2021 on Saturday, August 14th. The Small Press Day team have elected to run this as an online event again this year but we have…

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“I Want to Use the Medium to Tell Stories that Could Only Exist as Comics” – Mereida Fajardo Talks Abstract Comics, Experimental Practice and the Importance of Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2021

Back when we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ I spoke about today’s interviewee Mereida Fajardo in the following terms: “I always gravitate towards creators…

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Preview: The Short While – Jeremy Sorese’s “Profoundly Moving Queer Sci-Fi Graphic Novel” Debuts this November from Archaia

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 22, 2021

Check out a preview of Jeremy Sorese’s upcoming graphic novel coming via Archaia later this year… Love & Loneliness in Jeremy Sorese’s THE SHORT WHILE       Discover a Profoundly…

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“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2021

Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…

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In. – Will McPhail’s Debut Graphic Novel Seems Almost Tailor-Made for the World We Currently Inhabit

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 20, 2021

There is a simple but effective trick that Will McPhail deploys whenever Nick Moss, the 20-something protagonist of his debut graphic novel, In., opens up to the world around him….

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“You Need to Make an Effort to Stand Out” – Robert Wells on 30 Years in the UK Indie Scene and His New Project ‘Love Her Madly’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 19, 2021

Robert Wells is currently celebrating a whopping three decades as part of the UK indie comics scene in which time he has self-published work, collaborated with fellow small press mainstays…

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The Roles We Play – Sabba Khan’s Exploration of Identity and Self as a Second-Generation Muslim Migrant is One of the Key Releases of 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2021

To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…

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The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel’s Book about Physicality Proves to Be Almost Entirely Cerebral

  • by Jenny Robins
  • July 15, 2021

The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…

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Vicious Creatures – Sarah Gordon’s Own Brand of Graphic Melancholy Creates Something Unique Out of the Recognisable Standards of the Horror Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2021

Over the last few years artist Sarah Gordon had been producing a series of delightfully disturbing short horror comics with such a prolific zeal that I could barely remember from…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, July 15th with Guest Creators Tom Woodman, Rupert Smissen, Charlotte Cassidy and Kat Cass

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 13, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, July 15th with guest creators Tom Woodman, Rupert Smissen,…

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One Line – Ray Fawkes Presents an Ambitious Human Tapestry Unique to the Medium of Comics

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • July 13, 2021

Many things happen in Ray Fawkes’ ambitious, experimental montage comic One Line – roughly 7 generations are presented 18 times over – but the core is conveyed by the silent,…

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Future – Woodman and Smissen’s Twisting Time-Travel Tale is a Beautiful Celebration of Love and the Devotion it Inspires

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2021

It would be very easy when talking about Tom Woodman and Rupert Smissen’s graphic novel Future to prioritise describing it in terms of its complex and inventive science fiction elements….

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Vinyl #1 – The Premiere Issue of Wagner & Hillyard’s Series Ticks All the Boxes for a Promising Double-Platinum Hit from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • July 13, 2021

Vinyl #1 starts off with lots of blood and gore and ends with the promise of more to come in 12-Gauge Comics’ new original story about a serial killer with…

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#ArtMubarak – The Art Hashtag Celebrating Creatives from the Muslim Community Returns on July 18th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

We were delighted to see today on Twitter that #ArtMubarak, the hashtag-led social media event aiming  to celebrate art from the Muslim community and uplift the voices of Muslim artists from…

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I’m a Wild Seed – Sharon Lee De La Cruz Reconstructs Her Identity as a Queer BIPOC in a Vibrant Debut from Street Noise Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…

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“Where is Evil?” – A Comics Essay by Tony Wolf

  • by Tony Wolf
  • July 12, 2021

I found myself beginning to write this short comics essay during the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests filled the headlines of the day. Very much inspired by…

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“Visual Metaphors and Analogies Allow Me to Make Sense of Things” – Mollie Ray on Creative Process, Graphic Medicine and Her Upcoming Graphic Novel ‘Giant’ from Faber & Faber

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2021

Mollie Ray was one of the many artists who submitted four pages of comics for our BF one-tweet reviews event on Twitter as part of last year’s Small Press Day celebrations….

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