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Shortlist for the 2020 LDComics Awards Announced – Winner to Be Announced at the LDComics Festival on March 29th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2020

The shortlist for this year’s LDC Awards (formerly known under the Laydeez do Comics banner) has been announced. The names of the selected artists for this women-only prize for graphic-novels-in-progress,…

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Preview: Post-Apocalypto – Tenacious D Come to Comics as Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s Comedy Rock Duo Team Up with Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

Coming this September, Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s comedy rock duo Tenacious D come to comics via Fantagraphics with the graphic novel Post-Apocalypto. We have a preview courtesy of Fantagraphics…

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Cardiff Comics Carnival Returns on March 29th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

After the winter break it’s time to be thinking again about the annual comics calendar of events. We have a notable Spring one to announce today with the return of…

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Laurel & Hardy Meet the Three Stooges – A Classic Comedy Team-Up Coming from American Mythology this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

Monthly comics in that traditional US format can often feel inaccessible with their long story arcs designed for trade collections and a lack of easy entry, self-contained individual issues. American…

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Helen Lederer’s ‘Comedy Women in Print’ Prize Opens Up Graphic Novel Category to Self-Published and Micropublished Creators!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2020

It’s been an exciting few months in terms of recognition for our favourite art form with a number of major awards – including the Arts Foundation Future Awards and the…

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Staff Picks for February 5, 2020 – Glass Town, The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time, EC Archives: Psychoanalysis and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 2020

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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#HourlyComicDay2020 – Read the Collected Comic Strips of 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Olivia Sualdea in One Place Here!

  • by Olivia Sualdea
  • February 3, 2020

Saturday was February 1st which also meant it was #HourlyComicDay2020. Cartoonists the world over provided a short comic strip for every hour they were awake and posted it online to…

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Longlist for the 2020 LDComics Awards Announced – Check Out the Nominated Artists Here Today at Broken Frontier

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2020

The longlist for this year’s LDC Awards (formerly known under the Laydeez do Comics banner) has been announced. The names of the selected artists for this women-only prize for graphic-novels-in-progress,…

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Silver Sprocket Announce Spring 2020 Publishing Schedule – Includes Books from Liz Suburbia, Archie Bongiovanni, Janelle Hessig, Hyena Hell and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 29, 2020

In the last couple of years San Francisco-based small press publisher Silver Sprocket have emerged as one of the most vibrant, experimental and distinctive outfits in indie comics publishing. We…

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Staff Picks for January 29, 2020 – The Wolf of Baghdad, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack, Year of the Rabbit and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 29, 2020

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…

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Video: Watch Nic Mac’s Film on Her Mental Health Awareness Zine ‘ØMIT’ – Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Talks About the Behind-the-Scenes Genesis of the Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2020

Reading about the genesis of creative projects in the words of their creators always brings an extra level of insight into the themes and creative decisions behind their work. To…

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“Go Forth with Glee!” – Sequential Art in the Spotlight at the Arts Foundation Future Awards as Esther McManus Wins in the Comics Category

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2020

Comics, graphic novels, sequential art… whatever you call the medium we all love it cannot be denied that the growing respect and recognition for it in the wider arts world…

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Preview: Hundred Wolves #1 – New Vault Comics Historical Fantasy Series by Myke Cole and Tony Akins Debuts in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2020

Vault Comics – publishers of the Broken Frontier Award-winning series These Savage Shores by Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vittorio Astone and Aditya Bidikar – revisit the historical fantasy genre this…

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Rogue Planet – New Oni Press Sci-Fi Horror Series from Cullen Bunn and Andy MacDonald Debuts in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2020

We always like to give a shout-out here at BF to projects by creators who have been associated with Broken Frontier in the past. Writer Cullen Bunn was not only…

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Staff Picks for January 22, 2020 – Billy’s Boots, Folklords, X-Statix and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 22, 2020

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…

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Koyama Press Provides – New Community Initiative from the Canadian Publisher Promises a Year of “Monthly Giving”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2020

Three years ago at Broken Frontier, Koyama Press founder Annie Koyama was the first inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame, a category in our annual BF Awards designed…

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Preview: Heavy Metal #298 – Venerable Comics Anthology Magazine Goes Back to its Sci-Fi Roots and Journeys to the “Furthest Reaches” in March

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

We have an extensive preview of Heavy Metal #298 today at BF (the magazine that, of course, published work by our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Miranda Smart…

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UK Publisher SelfMadeHero’s Spring 2020 Line-Up Announced – Includes Graphic Medicine, Biography and Fiction Amongst Translated European Comics Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

More details of publishing plans for 2020 have reached us today. This time it’s the Spring slate of books from UK publisher SelfMadeHero. The full press release is below. SelfMadeHero…

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