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

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Broken Frontier Awards 2020: Announcing the Winners – A Huge Year for Zoe Thorogood, Shazleen Khan and Avery Hill Publishing, and Gosh! Comics Are this Year’s Hall of Fame Entrants!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2021

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 17th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Last year in our BF Awards write-up…

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The Winners of the Young Cartoonist of the Year 2020 Announced by the Cartoon Museum and the British Cartoonists’ Association

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 31, 2020

Let’s say farewell to 2020 on a positive note with this announcement of the winners of the UK’s Young Cartoonist of the Year… THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION…

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Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier Team!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 24, 2020

We’ll be taking a few days off at Broken Frontier Towers from today to enjoy a festive break! But before we go we want to wish our extended BF family…

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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2020 – In this Strangest of Years We Celebrate an Amazing Twelve Months of Emerging Talent!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 23, 2020

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 17th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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Comic Art Europe Brings Together Four European Organisations to Promote the Power of Comics and Graphic Novels

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 22, 2020

With the ominous spectre of Brexit looming ever closer here’s a reminder of something comics-related designed to foster links within the European comics community. The UK’s Lakes International Comic Art…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Wed, December 23rd for a Special Festive Edition!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 21, 2020

Seeing the year out with a bang, our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Wednesday December 23rd with a festive special! (Note the one-off…

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Liminal 11 Announce Spring 2021 Line-Up Including Books from Emma Burleigh, Fumio Obata, Sean Michael Wilson and John Cei Douglas

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 18, 2020

“Mind, body, spirit” publisher Liminal 11 have announced their Spring 2021 books and there’s a whole host of talent who will be familiar to Broken Frontier readers in the mix….

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Dark Horse Announce ‘Everyone is Tulip’, a New Graphic Novel from Nicole Goux, Dave Baker and Ellie Hall Coming in June 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 16, 2020

We were huge fans of Nicole Goux and Dave Baker’s F*ck Off Squad from Silver Sprocket (catch our review here at Broken Frontier for evidence of that) given the way it…

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Preview: Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir – Katja Klengel’s Topical and Socially Relevant Graphic Novel to Be Published by BOOM! Studios’ Archaia Imprint in 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 16, 2020

Debuting in the early Spring Katja Klengel’s upcoming graphic novel will be published as part of BOOM! Studios’ Archaia much acclaimed Archaia imprint. We have a whopping 12-page preview of…

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Martin Eden’s ‘Zeros’, Set in a World Where Everyone Has a Super-Power, to Return in 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 16, 2020

Martin Eden has been a part of the UK indie comics community for as long as we can remember! His Spandex series was one of the few small press super-hero…

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Galvanising Comics – Watch this Myriad Editions Online Panel Featuring Gareth Brookes, Corinne Pearlman, Woodrow Phoenix, Jenny Robins and More Here at Broken Frontier

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 10, 2020

Chaired by Aneurin Wright and featuring a whole host of comics folk from editors to artists through to the odd commentator on the form, the recently recorded online ‘Galvanising Comics’…

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Rebellion Announce 2021 ‘Treasury of British Comics’ Collections – Includes More ‘Misty’, ‘Trigan Empire’ and the ‘Who Shot Roy Race?’ Storyline from ‘Roy of the Rovers’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2020

As we draw to the end of this strangest of all years something to look forward to in 2021 with the announcement of the line-up for next year’s Treasury of…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 10th for a Street Noise Books Special with Danny Noble, Woodrow Phoenix and Bishakh Som!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 8, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday December 10th with a Street Noise Books Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Preview: The Last Witch #1 – BOOM! Studios Announces New Dark Fantasy Series from Conor McCreery and V.V. Glass

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 2, 2020

More early 2021 previews are coming in at BF right now including today BOOM!’s The Last Witch by Conor McCreery, V.V. Glass (a past guest artist at the Gosh! Comics…

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In Memoriam: Marleen Starksfield Lowe – 1979-2020

  • by Owen Michael Johnson
  • December 1, 2020

The comics medium has lost a rare talent with the passing of Marleen Starksfield Lowe on the evening of 7th November 2020, after a long battle with Leukemia which she…

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Preview: Happy Hour #2 – Milligan and Montenat Return to a World Where Unhappiness is Illegal Via Ahoy Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 27, 2020

Hitting stores next week from Ahoy Comics, Peter Milligan and Michael Montenat’s Happy Hour (with colouring from Felipe Sobreiro and lettering by Rob Steen). Set in a world where unhappiness…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 26th for an Avery Hill Publishing Special Featuring Owen D. Pomery, Abs Bailey and Claire Scully

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 24, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday November 26th with an Avery Hill Publishing Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Listen to Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins and Andy Oliver Talking Graphic Novels on Radio Reverb’s Brighton Book Club

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 23, 2020

Broadcast over the weekend and now available as a podcast, the graphic novels special of Radio Reverb’s Brighton Book Club featured our own Jenny Robins talking about her new graphic…

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