Celebrating Four Years of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw!
It seems hard to believe that it’s a whole four years ago to the very day that the first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw debuted at the…
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Preview: Lettuce Bee – Simon Moreton and Ali Bamford’s New Zine Anthology Features John Porcellino, Jayde Perkin, Peony Gent, Sabba Khan, Joff Winterhart and Many More!
Edited by Simon Moreton (Minor Leagues) and Ali Bamford, Lettuce Bee is a new zine-style anthology that brings together a whole host of international creators in what looks to be…
Celebrating ELCAF 2019 – Taking New Creators to New Audiences as Jayde Perkin’s ‘I’m Not Ready’ Debuts and David Biskup is this Year’s ELCAF x WeTransfer Award Winner
Taking new creators to new audiences. That was the title of this year’s Broken Frontier Panel at the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) but it could just as…
Local Angrej – Aleesha Nandhra’s Indian Journey of Discovery Explores Her Dual Cultural Heritage in a Touchingly Honest Account
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Aleesha Nandhra’s Local Angrej depicts the 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist’s experiences as she travelled alone in India for the first time. It’s…
“Using Pictures is Completely Universal and Transcends Language, Everyone Has the Opportunity to Connect” – Olivia Sualdea Talks Comics Craft and Her First Self-Publishing Adventures
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Another of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ to be exhibiting at this year’s ELCAF, Olivia Sualdea will also be debuting her first ever…
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“With 51 Contributors ‘Bystander’ is Crammed with Talent, Old, New, and Emerging” – The Kadak Collective’s Anthology Brings Together South Asian Women, Non-Binary and Queer Creators
Given that it’s the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) this weekend, where I first met artists from the Kadak Collective three years ago, it seems a most appropriate…
Kolf – Olivia Sualdea’s Debut Print Comic is a Magical Journey of Self-Discovery
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! When I selected artist Olivia Sualdea for this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme it was a decision made based entirely on her social…
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“I Never Thought I Would Ever Get the Opportunity to Travel and Work with Such Amazing, Inspiring, Talented Creatives” – Aleesha Nandhra on the ‘Creating Heroines’ Project, Autobio and Her New Comic ‘Local Angrej’
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! I first discovered Aleesha Nandhra’s powerful slice-of-life comics in the pages of much-missed anthology OFF LIFE back in 2016. Last year I looked at Aleesha’s haunting Thinking in…
ELCAF Fortnight 2019 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday May 29th for an ELCAF Extravaganza with Aleesha Nandhra, Holly St Clair and Olivia Sualdea
ELCAF is coming and we’ll be celebrating this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival in style at our next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! And, as…
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Blindenhund – The Eerie Worlds of Alice Urbino Revisited in a Minicomic Tale of the Strangest of Friendships
While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…
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“I Like the Control You Have, and the Lack of Exposition and Word Vomit Required to Tell a Story” – Emerging Talent Anna Readman Talks About the Unique Possibilities of Comics as a Form
With a surge of interest in her work on social media and a growing buzz about her online output it’s sometimes easy to forget that artist Anna Readman – one…
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“The Potential of the Medium is What Appeals to Me the Most” – Laurel Pettitt on Autobio Comics, Icelandic Travelogue and Finding Your Place in the Self-Publishing World
Since we announced our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ back in January we’ve published a number of reviews of their work here on the site. Part…
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Area 07 – The Future of British Comics Has Arrived and Her Name is Anna Readman
If you’re following her social media accounts then you will be well aware that the gradual reveals of new work-in-progress from our 2019 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ artist…
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Strangers in Everyland – Emerging Talent Anna Readman Brings the World of Cormac McCarthy’s Novel ‘Suttree’ to Brooding, Atmospheric Life
Over the course of the last few days on Twitter you may well have seen an explosion of interest in the comics of Anna Readman. Attention that only goes to…
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Celebrating 2018: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…
Broken Frontier Awards 2018: Announcing the Winners – Grassroots Self-Publishing and the “Big Two” Sit Side-by-Side on the Winners List and Corinne Pearlman is Our Second ‘Hall of Fame’ Inductee
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 15th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Something we’re very proud of at Broken Frontier…
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Morning Tide/Evening Light – Peony Gent’s Graphic Poetry Both Embraces and Subverts the Language of Comics and its Assumed Boundaries
A couple of years back, in an interview here at Broken Frontier, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman spoke about the potential of the form saying “There are still so many untapped…
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