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

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 20th with Guest Artist Manon Wright

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 19, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 20th with guest artist Manon Wright, of our 2022…

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Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…

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Exclusive Preview: House of Slay Season 2, ‘Nephrite Horrors’ – Take a Sneak Peek at the New Story from Fashion Designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim’s Inclusive and Socially Relevant Webcomic Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2023

We have an exclusive House of Slay preview today at Broken Frontier from ‘Nephrite Horrors’, the upcoming final story in the second season of the webcomic. House of Slay represents…

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Freedman and CROM’s Fantasy Adventure ‘Birdking’ Returns with a Second Dark Horse Volume in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 6, 2023

When we reviewed the first volume of Birdking here at Broken Frontier last year we described it as the beginning of “an epic fantasy journey.” Great news this week that…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 6th for a SelfMadeHero Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 5, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 6th with a special evening spotlighting UK publisher SelfMadeHero….

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The Cartoon Museum Announces the Second Annual ‘Alison Brown Young Comics Maestro Award’ in Memory of a Much Missed Part of our London Comics Community

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 3, 2023

Can it really be two years since we lost Alison Brown? For many years the first welcoming face you would see at London’s Cartoon Museum, Alison was also an embedded…

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First Guests for Thought Bubble 2023 Announced Including Jeff Lemire, ND Stevenson, Molly Knox Ostertag and Zoe Thorogood

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 29, 2023

When festival promotion includes images of one of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators like Shane Melisse (below) it gets extra priority on the posting list. The first guests…

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All About the Ink! – A New Exhibition of Contemporary Cartooning at London’s Bookery Gallerie Featuring Mark Stafford, Shaky Kane, Sarah Gordon, Jenny Robins and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 27, 2023

Featuring a veritable who’s who of Broken Frontier-featured artists (including our own Jenny Robins!) All About the Ink! is a new exhibition of “contemporary cartoonists and comics art” at the…

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Save the Date! – Small Press Day Returns for 2023 on August 5th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 24, 2023

A quick note for your comics-related diaries! Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s annual celebration of the self-publishing comic scene – will be returning this year on Saturday,…

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LGBTQ+ Horror Series ‘The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos’ Comes to Print Via Dark Horse in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 24, 2023

Another Dark Horse announcement to go into the weekend with and the news that The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, previously available only on Substack, is coming to print….

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Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis – Dark Horse and Berger Books’ Upcoming Graphic Novel Based on a Suppressed Opera by Two Concentration Camp Prisoners

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 23, 2023

It’s a sad reality that some artistic endeavours are as relevant today as they were when they were created decades ago, however much we’d prefer that not to be the…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 23rd with Guest Artist Ed Firth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 23rd with guest artist Ed Firth, of our 2023…

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Matthias Lehmann’s Acclaimed Historical LGBTQ+ Graphic Novel ‘Parallel’ to Be Released by Oni Press in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 21, 2023

Pride Month is not that far off now (and yes we will be following up with some themed coverage in June!) so here’s news of a new release from Oni…

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The Cartoon Museum Takes an Environmental Stance with New Exhibition ‘Norman Thelwell Saves the Planet’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 20, 2023

With Earth Day not that far away London’s Cartoon Museum has the climate crisis in mind with its new Norman Thelwell exhibition. Full details in the press release below. Norman…

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Special Half Price Tickets Offer for Broken Frontier Readers for the Lucie Arnoux and Lucy Sullivan Comica Festival Event on Thursday March 23rd

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2023

With the Comica Festival 20th anniversary celebrations continuing apace this month we have a very special opportunity for Broken Frontier readers! This Thursday March 23rd sees another of the Comica…

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From Queer Coats-of-Arms to Feminist Commemorative Platters – Zine-Maker, Comics Creator and Small Press Activist Rachael House is Artist-in-Residence at the Feminist Library

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2023

Rachael House, one of our favourite voices on the DIY culture and zine scene, is the current Artist-in-Residence at the Feminist Library in London. The library was set up in…

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‘Cartoonists Against Racism: The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry’ Coming from Dark Horse and Yoe Books Later this Year

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 10, 2023

One final upcoming book announcement to go into the weekend with and details of Cartoonists Against Racism. What looks to be a vitally important release in November from Dark Horse…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Juni Ba’s ‘The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber’ in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 10, 2023

Sometimes in comics coverage there are those interesting projects that come up and then seem to get lost somewhere along the way. Five years ago at Broken Frontier we covered…

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