ELCAF Fortnight 2019 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…
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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Buuza!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa – Rising Star Shazleen Khan’s Acclaimed Webcomic Comes to Print
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…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday May 29th for an ELCAF Extravaganza with Aleesha Nandhra, Holly St Clair and Olivia Sualdea
ELCAF is coming and we’ll be celebrating this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival in style at our next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! And, as…
Preview: Lorna – New Benji Nate Work Hits Stores from Silver Sprocket
New and out now from Silver Sprocket, those ever reliable purveyors of indie excellence, Lorna is the latest comics offering from Benji Nate whose Catboy got such a glowing review…
Staff Picks for May 22, 2019 – The Book of Sarah, Road of Bones, Drawing Blood Spilled Ink and More!
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,…
Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Speaks About the Power of Graphic Novels to Change Lives – ‘The Many Not the Few’ Launches at the House of Commons
In my capacity representing Broken Frontier I’ve attended many book launches over the years in venues including shops, museums, bars, galleries and at festivals. But last night was something of…
“I’ve Been Attending TCAF Since 2011… Coz I Bloody Love It” – Graphic Novelist Joe Decie Looks Back on the 2019 Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to present a very distinctive report from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival by graphic novelist Joe Decie. Joe is a stalwart of UK self-publishing…
Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including 2dcloud Spring 2019, Finding Home, The Life and Times of Butch Dykes and Griff Gristle: The Endless Voyage
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…
Staff Picks for May 15, 2019 – Gender Queer, Bitter Root, The Horror of Collier County and More!
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…
Koyama Press Announces Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Season! – New Books from GG, Connor Willumsen, Michael DeForge, Keiler Roberts, Patrick Kyle and Ben Passmore
One of the most vitally important indie publishers in comics have announced their Fall 2019/Winter 2020 line-up and it’s an awe-inspiring collection of projects and creators. Koyama Press‘s next batch…
Five Reasons Why TCAF 2019 Was a Great Way to Spend Last Weekend in Toronto
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has been held since 2003. That piece of information came to us not from Wikipedia, but from legendary artist Seth, who had stopped by…
US Publishers Lion Forge and Oni Press Announce Merger
In breaking news today – and indicative perhaps of the ever changing landscape of US comics publishing – the merger of Oni Press and Lion Forge has just been announced….
Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Debuts at London Fields Arches this September
With a number of respected London small press and indie fairs like CECAF, SLCZF and Safari Festival either on hiatus for the moment or having drawn to a close over…
Staff Picks for May 8, 2019 – Eve Stranger, Blackbird, Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds and More!
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…
Radiator Comics to Publish Whit Taylor’s Minicomic Series ‘Fizzle’
We have news today at BF from Radiator Comics who have announced they’ll be publishing Whit Taylor‘s Fizzle minicomics beginning with editions of the first two issues at CAKE in…
Staff Picks for May 1, 2019 – Beasts of Burden, oh no, 2000 AD Villains Takeover Special, Gogor and More!
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…
New UK Government and Parliament Petition Asks for Comics to Be Given the Same Arts Funding as Opera
Initiated by comics creator Sean Michael Wilson (writer of the upcoming The Many Not the Few from New Internationalist, illustrated by Robert Brown) a new petition on the UK Government…
Bystander – Kadak Collective Announce New Anthology of Work by South Asian Women, Non-Binary and Queer Creators
I first met some of the creators who make up the Kadak Collective three years ago at the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF). Their work was so exciting…
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