BF Awards 2013 – Best Limited Series: Trillium
After a shaky start to 2013, the year ends in triumph for Vertigo Comics as Jeff Lemire’s epic sci-fi romance Trillium takes the Broken Frontier Award for Best Limited Series. For…
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BF Awards 2013 – Best Artist (Mainstream): David Aja
David Aja is the industry’s modern Jim Steranko: an innovative artist who masterfully dissects storytelling like no other. His art is largely responsible for making Hawkeye the best Marvel comic…
Broken Frontier Awards 2013: The Winners, ‘Saga’ Snags Three
Broken Frontier proudly unveils the winners of its 10th annual Broken Frontier Awards. During the last weeks of 2013, the BF staff went through piles of comics and graphic novels…
Forbidden Planet International Blog: BF’s Managing Editor Andy Oliver’s Best of 2013
Throughout December the fine folk at the Forbidden Planet International blog ask the assembled masses of the comics world to look back on the previous twelve months and select their…
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday Season for you and yours from all of us at Broken Frontier. We’re tremendously thankful for your continued support; we’d be nowhere without you,…
Location, Location, Location: Simon Moreton
‘Psychogeographical’ is one of the more tiresome and abused cultural buzzwords being chucked around at the moment, but it’s probably not a million miles away from describing the recent work…
Broken Frontier Awards 2013: Vote Now!
Broken Frontier has unveiled the nominees for its tenth annual Broken Frontier Awards. Voting is now open and closes on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at midnight PT. The BF staff…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 18, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Portland Comics Heaven at Orbital Comics, London
I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Portland, Oregon, but from everything I’ve picked up about the place, it seems to be something like an American version of Brighton here…
The Multiple Men that are Jamie Madrox: An X-Factor Retrospective
In many ways, Peter David’s X-Factor series was more about Jamie Madrox than it was about anyone else on the team. The series came about following the critical success of…
Location, Location, Location: Oliver East
Striding out from his home in Manchester, the critically acclaimed artist Oliver East has blazed the trail for ‘landscape comics’ in the UK. As in most narrative media, the vast…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 11, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Change is a Good Thing
My local comic book shop moved recently. And it didn’t just move across town, it moved to a different city in a different state. But this is Chicagoland, and everyone…
Closing the Indie Comic Movie Gap
Much ink has been spilled in the past few years over the recent public interest in comic book movies. With Marvel Studios and Christopher Nolan’s Batman films leading the pack,…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 5, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 27, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Off the Grid: A Report on the Arvon Text + Image Course
What do you get when you bring together sixteen hopeful comic artists and two ‘professionals’ and force them to live together in a thousand year old cottage in Devon with…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 20, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
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