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Ghost Comics Festival Returns to Glasgow on October 26th – Open Call for Exhibitor Applications Announced

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2019

Last year saw a new comics event debut in Glasgow when João Sobral (O Panda Gordo), Jules Scheele (Queer: A Graphic History) and Jessica Taylor co-founded and launched Ghost Comics…

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Preview: Things to Do Instead of Killing Yourself – Tara Booth and Jon-Michael Frank’s New Book from Floating World Comics Draws on Their Own Experiences of Depression and Anxiety

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2019

Comics have a particular connective power when it comes to depicting and exploring issues of mental health. So much so that we’ve dedicated a whole list of sequential art resources…

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Full List of Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Exhibitors Now Revealed – Check Out Who Will Be Tabling in East London this September 8th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2019

If you’ve been following UK small press comics Twitter/Instagram over the last few weeks you will have seen the daily reveals of artists, publishers and comics institutions tabling at this…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: The Seas – New Small Press Publisher Body Parts Debut Their First Anthology Including Work by Gareth A Hopkins, Miranda Smart and Simon Russell

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Staff Picks for July 31, 2019 – Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist’s Journey, Death’s Head, Manor Black and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 30, 2019

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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SelfMadeHero Announce Autumn 2019 Releases – Including New Graphic Biographies on Isadora Duncan and Mozart, and the Conclusion of Rob Davis’s Surreal Trilogy with ‘The Book of Forks’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2019

We’ve reviewed six SelfMadeHero graphic novels this year at Broken Frontier which is rather synchronous as the acclaimed publisher of graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and OGNs have just…

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Garden Party – New Exhibition of Illustrator Lizzy Stewart’s Work at the Garden Museum in London from August 6th-September 30th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2019

Bringing together a collection of painted work by illustrator Lizzy Stewart ‘Garden Party’ is new exhibition at London’s Garden Museum that promises to explore the “joy, madness and solitude of…

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Staff Picks for July 24, 2019 – Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, History of the Marvel Universe, Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights, Sweeny Toddler and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 23, 2019

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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Catch the Work of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Olivia Sullivan at the World Illustration Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, Running Until July 28th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

Our many generations of Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ never cease to amaze us with their diverse approaches to the form and their ongoing achievements. So we…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday July 25th with a Bog Eyed Books Spectacular Featuring Gary Northfield and Tor Freeman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

We’re well into the summer and a new era of our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw begins this week Gosh’s Clare Wood takes over from Nora Goldberg…

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Staff Picks for July 17, 2019 – They Called Us Enemy, Bags (Or a Story Thereof), Build Your Own Theme Park, Love and Rockets and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 17, 2019

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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The Small Press Day 2019 Scrapbook – Looking Back on the Biggest and Best SPD to Date!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2019

With 31 registered events over 33 venues, Small Press Day 2019 was our biggest and best annual celebration of all things self and micropublished in comics to date! A huge…

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Read the Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics Small Press Day Dream-Themed Collaborative Comic Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2019

Over the course of Small Press Day we’ll be uploading pages from the special dream-themed collborative comic being put together by Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics from the amazing line-up…

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Small Press Day 2019 is this Saturday July 13th – Stores and Event Organisers on What You Can Expect from the Fourth Annual Celebration of Self and Micropublished Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2019

After months of build-up, Small Press Day is back this Saturday July 13th in venues across the UK and Ireland as shops, activists and organisers come together to celebrate all…

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Staff Picks for July 10, 2019 – Second Coming, Alay-Oop, X-Statix, Reaver and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 10, 2019

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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Staff Picks for July 3, 2019 – Skip, kuš! comics, Sea of Stars, The Walking Dead, Silver Surfer: Parable and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 3, 2019

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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Staff Picks for June 26, 2019 – Lettuce Bee, Marble Cake, Tammy & Jinty Special 2019, Marilyn Manor and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 26, 2019

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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Celebrating Four Years of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2019

It seems hard to believe that it’s a whole four years ago to the very day that the first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw debuted at the…

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