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Inside Look: The Dancing Plague – Gareth Brookes on the Pyrographical and Embroidered Process Behind His SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel

  • by Gareth Brookes
  • July 8, 2021

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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Liquid Realm – A Rich Vein of Misanthropic Humour Runs through Samuel Hickson’s Alt Comics Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2021

There’s something almost retro about Samuel Hickson’s Liquid Realm, a darkly comedic anthology collection of comics shorts created in lockdown during 2020 and one that has a definite underground sensibility….

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Families, Parenting and Saving Face – Weng Pixin on Her New Book, ‘Let’s Not Talk Anymore’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 7, 2021

Writing about family is possibly the easiest thing to do, and the hardest. For the artist Weng Pixin, it was an opportunity to try and understand her mother, and the…

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Smithers&Wing – Heather Palmer and Kirsty Hunter’s Queer Graphic Novel Gives the Detective Genre a Magical Touch

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 6, 2021

Smithers&Wing is a LGBT+ mystery fantasy story surrounding the disappearance of Catriona, a high school student whose absence is brought to our main protagonists Flora Smithers and August Wing by…

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“I Literally Just Create what I Feel Like” – Shane Melisse on Working in Multiple Genres and Participating in the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2021

Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…

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“I Have a Lot of Doubts in Real Life” – An Interview with Guy Delisle on His Latest Book, ‘Factory Summers’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 5, 2021

Guy Delisle sounds exactly the way one imagines he would. The thought popped into my mind seconds after his quiet voice echoed on the phone from the South of France,…

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Marmalade – Charlotte Cassidy and Kat Cass’s Tale of Love and Loss is a Confident and Assured Debut Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2021

Covering the self-publishing scene means that the majority of the comics one sees are the work of a singular vision. For whatever reason collaborative work (outside of anthologies and more…

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BHP to Publish Graphic Novel Series ‘Boat’ by David Lumsden, Mark Weallans and Marc Olivent in Digital Format

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 5, 2021

News from the ever eclectic BHP Comics today with the announcement they will be publishing graphic novel series Boat this year. Full details follow. Indie hit BOAT the graphic novel…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Om – Andy Barron’s Unforgiving Fantasy Realm Stories Collected with New Material by Huber Editions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Candles – Lyndon White’s Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy Graphic Novel from Cast Iron Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

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Rebecca and Lucie In the Case of the Missing Neighbor – Pascal Girard Gives Us Another Unexpected Slice of Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2021

There’s almost always an element of doubt that creeps into the mind of a reader looking through the work of Pascal Girard. It is a healthy kind of doubt; one…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, July 1st with Guest Artists Lyndon White, Ashling Larkin and Cat Laird

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 29, 2021

Happy 6th birthday to the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and…

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Wednesday – Tim Bird’s Latest Comics Short is a Love Letter to His Childhood Football Team

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2021

It’s hardly the most astute of observations to make that the major part of artist Tim Bird’s comics output has focused on the inter-relationship of place and memories, whether that…

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Rebellion Announce Plans for 2000 AD’s 45th Anniversary – Includes ‘The 2000 AD Encyclopedia’ and a First Reprinting of the DC ‘Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law’ Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 25, 2021

2000 AD celebrates its 45th birthday in early 2022 and to mark that occasion publishers Rebellion have some special projects coming to print next year. Full details in the press…

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Factory Summers – Guy Delisle Turns a Dispassionate Eye to His Own Past in His Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 24, 2021

Why is Guy Delisle turning his observant, careful, dispassionate eye upon himself? That was the first question that popped into my mind a few pages into Factory Summers. I thought…

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A Pocket Chiller: The Sands of Fear – Chris Reynolds Provides a Tongue-in-Cheek Photo Comic for Strip for Me’s Mystery Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2021

One of the neglected gems of the UK small press scene over the last several months has to be the A Pocket Chiller series from Douglas Noble’s Strip for Me…

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So Buttons #11 – Jonathan Baylis’s Amiably Raconteurial Autobio Includes Contributions from B. Mure, Phil Elliott and Maria & Peter Hoey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2021

To describe Jonathan Baylis’s autobio work as Pekar-esque only goes so far in communicating his approach to this area of comics practice. So Buttons #11 is a short anthology collection…

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