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Comedy Women in Print Prize Announces Longlists for Its 2020 Awards Including the ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ Category

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2020

The Comedy Women in Print Prize has announced its longlists today, including the artists and projects in the new ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ category (in association with LDComics) which also covers…

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Comics Laureate Hannah Berry Announces UK Comics Creator Survey to Gather Information on the Comics Landscape in 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2020

We’ve been aware for a while that current British Comics Laureate Hannah Berry was working on a UK Comics Creator Survey as an information-seeking exercise to continue to support and…

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Preview: Shadow Service #1 – Black Magic Meets Black Ops in Vault Comics’ Summer Debuting Series from Cavan Scott and Corin M. Howell

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2020

News of another summer debut from Vault Comics today (after the announcement of Giga earlier this week). We have a preview of Shadow Service #1 by Cavan Scott and Corin…

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Preview: The Flood That Did Come – Catch a Video Trailer and Preview Pages from Patrick Wray’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2020

Coming this August in the UK and September in the US, The Flood That Did Come is the debut graphic novel of Patrick Wray. Another cool find by the Avery…

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Preview: Giga #1 – Vault Comics Debuts New Sci-Fi Series, Co-Created by Alex Paknadel and John Lê, this Summer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2020

While we’re all missing our serial comics fix at the moment here’s an advance look at a new series from Vault Comics, announced today as debuting this summer. The full…

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ELCAF Goes Digital! – The East London Comics and Arts Festival to Be Held Online in 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2020

With current events forcing postponements or cancellations of festivals and conventions ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) have announced that this year’s event will be moving online. Regular…

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Preview: Little Josephine – New Graphic Medicine from Humanoids Explores Living with Alzheimer’s

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

We’re always interested at Broken Frontier in the ways that graphic medicine communicates and conveys personal experience. This week a new Humanoids graphic memoir by Valérie Villieu and Raphaël Sarfati…

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Preview: All-New ‘Baltimore’ Short Story – Mignola, Golden and Stenbeck 8-Pager Debuts in Dark Horse’s Second ‘Baltimore’ Omnibus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

While monthly comics from the US serial comics publishers are currently on hold a number of trades and collected editions are still on the publishing schedule. This week sees the…

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*Major Spoiler Warning* – 2000 AD Promises a Shock Revelation in Today’s Issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2020

*MAJOR SPOILER WARNING* – 2000 AD have a twist in the tale in today’s Prog so we’re not going to say too much in this introductory blurb and instead let…

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Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Online Drink and Draw, March 26, 2020 – Sample Last Night’s Fun with Our D&D Art Gallery Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2020

Last night’s edition of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was a frantic but hugely rewarding affair as we moved the fun online for the first time…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Goes Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 26th for our First Digital Edition with Guests Gareth Brookes, Jenny Robins and Will Humberstone!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2020

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this week, retooled and re-imagined as an online extravaganza! We’ll be kicking off tomorrow, Thursday March 26, at 7.30pm…

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Preview: Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Debut Graphic Novel Coming in 2021 from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

When something is spoken of as a story that “could only be told through comics” it’s always going to pique our interest here at BF. That’s how Fantagraphics publisher Gary…

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Preview: Victory Point – Owen D. Pomery’s Second Graphic Novel of 2020 Debuts this Summer from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

Hot on the heels of his recent bleak thriller British Ice from Top Shelf Productions, creator Owen D. Pomery follows up this summer with his second graphic novel Victory Point…

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An Open Letter to Comic Readers – How You Can Help Support Your Local Comics Shops During the Current Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2020

With recent events already having a notable impact on comics retail, our friends and collaborative partners at London’s Gosh! Comics have sent us this open letter to comics readers about…

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The Worlds of 2000 AD Return to Audio as Rebellion Announce New Audiobook Partnership with Penguin Random House

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2020

It’s not the first time that the worlds of 2000 AD have come to audio with Dirk Maggs producing a Judge Dredd series for BBC Radio in the 1990s and…

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Staff Picks for March 18, 2020 – The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, X-Ray Robot, Starship Down and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 17, 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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Staff Picks for March 11, 2020 – Decorum, Thoreau and Me, All My Friends Are Ghosts, Machine Gun Wizards and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 10, 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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Preview: Sláine: The Horned God – Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s 2000 AD Classic Returns in a New Collectors’ Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2020

Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s classic 2000 AD strip Sláine: The Horned God returns in a special Collectors’ Edition this May. We have a preview below to intrigue the uninitiated and evoke…

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