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Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.

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Preview: The Second Safest Mountain – Otava Heikkilä’s Graphic Novel Coming to Kickstarter in March Via Quindrie Press

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 22, 2024

Scottish publisher Quindrie Press’s out put is always worth watching out for! Coming to Kickstarter in March Otava Heikkilä’s The Second Safest Mountain gets a preview today at BF. You…

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CoCo Comic Con 2024 Exhibitor List Revealed – Includes Beck Kubrick, J Webster Sharp, Tom Philipson and Many More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 21, 2024

CoCo Comic Con is back on April 6th with an amazing line-up of UK indie creators, including Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists Beck Kubrick, J Webster Sharp and Tom…

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Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows to Bring Sword and Sorcery Satire ‘Babs’ to Ahoy Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 21, 2024

The ever reliable Ahoy Comics, aka “funny Vertigo”, have a new series announcement for us today. And it’s a big one! Details of the upcoming Babs by Garth Ennis and…

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Silver Sprocket to Publish Minicomics ‘Lucky Cap Scouts’ by O. Stevens and ‘Skin Deep’ by Flo Woolley in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 21, 2024

Back towards the end of 2023 radical publishers Silver Sprocket put out an open call for submissions for minicomics. An exciting initiative and a great opportunity for indie artists. The…

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Oni Press to Bring Back the EC Comics Line in Summer 2024 with New Comics ‘Epitaphs from the Abyss’ and ‘Cruel Universe’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

While it perhaps feels more accurate to say Oni Press are bringing back the ethos of the EC Comics line rather than the line itself (which was so rooted in…

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Ed Firth’s ‘Horny & High’ Comes to North America Via Northwest Press’s Crowdfunding Campaign

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the UK we are, of course, already aware of the growing profile of 2023 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Ed…

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Preview: The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic – Alan Moore and Steve Moore’s Celebration of Magic Coming from Top Shelf/Knockabout

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

Check out some preview pages from the highly anticipated The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic below… Legendary Magician/Author Alan Moore Joins Steve Moore and Five Artists to Present…

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Face to Face: Creative Portraits – A New Collection of Photographic Studies of Comics Greats Launches on Kickstarter from Joel Meadows and Tripwire

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

Just before Christmas we took a look at Tripwire Magazine’s Sherlock Holmes project in our interview with writer Joel Meadows here. Barely two months later and there’s a new book…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, February 22nd for a Small Press Comics Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, February…

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Chandra Free’s ‘The God Machine’ to Return Via GlobalComix

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 14, 2024

  With Chandra Free’s The God Machine returning with Vol. 2 via GlobalComix we have a reminder of Vol. 1 today at BF with some spotlight pages. More news of…

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Broken Frontier 2024 ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Tom Philipson Announced as Contributing Back-Up Stories to Image’s ‘Radiant Black’ Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 13, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! At the beginning of 2024 we announced that as this was our tenth year of our Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch‘…

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Preview: Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze – Mellow Brown, Tom Mandrake and Justin Prokowich’s “Psychedelic Space Odyssey” Coming from Titan in July

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 12, 2024

A chance to get a first look at some gorgeous art from Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze today at BF in the preview below! FIRST LOOK AT JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE GRAPHIC…

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Zinezilla is Back! – The Illustration and Zine Fair Returns to Bristol for Its Third Outing and the Debut of the ‘Zinezilla: Megalazine’ Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2024

We’re all about the event announcements today at Broken Frontier and next up it’s the return of Zinezilla, the event spearheaded by indie creator Mereida Fajardo. As an added bonus…

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The New Scriptorium and LICAF’s Open Call for a Comic Artist and a Two-Week Residency in Arbroath

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2024

In partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the New Scriptorium – an an artist-designed and built structure sited inside the historical grounds of Arbroath Abbey – is looking…

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Thought Bubble 2024 Dates Announced! – Convention to Return to Harrogate November 16th-17th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 7, 2024

The dates for Thought Bubble 2024 have been announced and with them comes our determination that after five years of pandemic-related absence BF will also make a defiant return to…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, February 8th for a Valentine’s Day Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 5, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, February…

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“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…” – A Final Call-Out for Contributions to Our ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Series on the Notoriously Unfulfilled Kickstarter Campaign

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2024

It’s one of the most notorious as yet unfulfilled crowdfunding campaigns in comics history and yet the saga of Tales from the Quarantine drags on and on. Conceived by organiser…

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How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting on February 11th with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2024

After the success of last year’s sessions, Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver (that’s me!) will again be offering a small number of one-to-one Zoom meet-ups with artists nearer the beginning…

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