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Preview: Minor Leagues #6 – Simon Moreton Introduces ‘Where?’, an Exploration of Life, Death, History, Landscape and Nature in the South Shropshire hills

  • by Simon Moreton
  • August 14, 2018

Today marks the release of Minor Leagues #6, my new zine of comics, writing and stuff. It’s a whopping great 112-page zine, printed and assembled at home, complete with fancy hand-folded…

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“There Are All of the Emotions” – Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins on Winning the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2018

“I actually can’t even believe it, and there are all of the emotions, but the best thing is I get to finish the book now.” The words of our very…

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A View from the Frontier – Small Press Day 2018 is Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2018

From Portsmouth to Dundee, from Dublin to to Newcastle, and taking in Brirmingham, Brighton, Glasgow, Leeds, London and so many other locations as well, Small Press Day is back this…

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Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Becomes the First Comics-Related Project in 15 Years to Make it to the Finals of the National Lottery Awards – Details on How to Vote Here! #NLAHoax

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2018

“In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…

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ELCAF Staff Picks Special – Xenos, Tropical Wildchilds, Summer Break, @POTUS, I’m Not Ready and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly ELCAF, and you know what that means: a fresh load of indie comics, zines and illustration-based publications! Normally every week our Staff Picks allow the BF…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“I Hope that if My Work Has Done Just One Thing, It Has Made Someone Feel Less Alone” – Jayde Perkin Talks about Exploring Loss and Grief on the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! One of our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Jayde Perkin’s comics explorations of loss and grief are among some of the most powerful and…

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Sutra: Songs from the World of OM – Andy Barron Returns to His Fantastically Eerie Alien Realm in a New Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! We took a trip to Andy Barron’s entrancing yet brutal world of OM earlier this year at Broken Frontier when we looked at Mantra, a collection of his…

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What a Life – Jayde Perkin Continues to Draw Powerful Emotional Reactions from Her Audience in Another Memorable Autobio Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There’s a welcome synchronicity to reviewing a Jayde Perkin comic for this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival given that my first coverage of her work at…

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Norths – An Appealing Circumpolar Family Adventure from Alison McCreesh and Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2018

A comics travelogue with a markedly different structure from the norm, Alison McCreesh’s Norths from Conundrum Press is both a window into the peculiar realities of living above the 60th…

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Myriad Editions Annnounce the Shortlist for the 2018 First Graphic Novel Competition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2018

The waiting is over and the seven shortlisted works-in-progress for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition have been announced and, once again, the list is a testament to the…

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Black Matter – Cat Sims Combines the Pop Cultural and the Psychogeographical in this Powerful Piece of Comics Social Commentary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2018

Comics as a medium is one that asks for an extra level of involvement from the reader; not just in terms of interpretation but also in how we interact with…

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Dry County #1 – Autobio Meets Hardboiled in Rich Tommaso’s New Image Comics Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 21, 2018

The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…

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Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Grappling Road – The Offbeat Cast of the GWA Return in Josh Hicks’s Much-Loved Small Press Sitcom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2018

Back in 2016, the first edition of Glorious Wrestling Alliance– a gloriously silly send-up of the wrestling ring with a sprawling cast of endearingly ludicrous characters – convinced me to include…

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“Nature and Travel Are Just Two Things that Make Me Feel Particularly Alive!” – Katriona Chapman on ‘Katzine’, Self-Publishing and Her New Graphic Memoir ‘Follow Me In’ from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONGOING SERIES WINNER! From her early, beautifully tactile forays into self-publishing with books like Brockley Foxtrot and Five, to her role in co-founding artzine Tiny…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday February 28th with Guest Artists Andy Barron, Liam Cobb and Will Tempest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2018

The second Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is imminent! And we have a top trio of guest creative talent next Wednesday February 28th when Andy Barron, Liam Cobb and…

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Mantra – Welcome to the Otherworldliness of Andy Barron’s OM, a Realm Where the Whimsical and the Brutal Walk Hand in Hand

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2018

The strange and fantastic world of OM – a realm with its own bizarre rules and evolutionary changes; a flowing, metamorphosing plane of oft unfathomable entities and their distinctly alien…

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Persephone – Shanti Rai’s Mythological Vignette is an Affecting Study of Fate’s Inescapable Clutches

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2018

The myth of Persephone and her abduction by Hades, the God of the Netherworld is an allegorical tale with a familiarity that extends far beyond the focused interests of the…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Sabba Khan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2018

Describing her work as examining “first world city life as a second generation Pakistani Muslim migrant” Sabba Khan is the last of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…

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