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Preview: Soiled Fantasies – Catch a Sneak Peek of Clio Isadora’s ELCAF-Debuting Minicomic Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Our final piece for ELCAF FORTNIGHT for 2018 is a preview of Clio Isadora’s debut minicomic Soiled Fantasies – a 12 page black and red risograph comic about…

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ELCAF Staff Picks Special – Xenos, Tropical Wildchilds, Summer Break, @POTUS, I’m Not Ready and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly ELCAF, and you know what that means: a fresh load of indie comics, zines and illustration-based publications! Normally every week our Staff Picks allow the BF…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Holds an ELCAF Special this Thursday June 21st with Guest Artists Xiao Mei, Laurel Pettitt and Jens K Styve

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Our sixth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week and it’s a very special edition to celebrate the East London Comics and Arts Festival!…

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North Star Fading – The Plight of Eritrean Refugees Highlighted in a PositiveNegatives Infinite Zoom Comic with Art by Karrie Fransman and Voiceover by Lula Mebrahtu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2018

PositiveNegatives is an award-winning non-profit who “produce literary comics, animations and podcasts about contemporary social and human rights issues” and “combine ethnographic research with illustration and photography, adapting personal testimonies…

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Staff Picks for June 13, 2018 – Cloud Hotel, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, By Night and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 12, 2018

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 events or digital…

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A View from the Frontier – ELCAF Fortnight 2018 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Nearly six years ago at Broken Frontier I wrote very briefly about the buzz surrounding a brand new comics show on the UK indie circuit saying of it that…

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Preview: Low Road West #1 – Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Flaviano’s Tale of Survival in a War-Torn U.S. Published by BOOM! Studios in September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 8, 2018

Things have been a little quieter this week at Broken Frontier as the team gears up for our bumper ELCAF Fortnight over the next two weeks. But as we go…

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Outside the Frontier – A Wave Blue World’s ‘All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World’ Launches on Kickstarter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2018

With so many members of the Broken Frontier crew also established comics creators in their own right it seems only fitting that we initiated a semi-regular strand of blog posts…

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Staff Picks for June 6, 2018 – Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Apollo, DeadEndia and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 5, 2018

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 events or digital…

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A View from the Frontier – Don’t Miss the Crouch End Comic Arts Festival this Saturday June 9th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2018

It’s time for one of our semi-regular pushes for our wider comics-related activities here at Broken Frontier and a channce for a final promotion of one of the friendliest shows…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Pirate Fun, Runners, Hot Lunch and Being True: LGBTQ Comics Anthology

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 1, 2018

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 May 30, 2018 – Where We Live, Metroland, A Western World, Pinky & Pepper Forever, Gumballs and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 29, 2018

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 events or digital…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday May 31st with Guest Artists David Jesus Vignolli, Gareth Brookes and Andrew Rae

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2018

Our fifth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week! And, as you have come to expect by now, we have a fabulous line-up of guest artists with us…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales, LÖK ZINE, Fanatical and Small Hours

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2018

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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Myriad Editions Annnounce the Shortlist for the 2018 First Graphic Novel Competition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2018

The waiting is over and the seven shortlisted works-in-progress for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition have been announced and, once again, the list is a testament to the…

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Staff Picks for May 23, 2018 – The Winner, Lumberjanes, Black Hammer and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 22, 2018

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 events or digital…

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Preview: Konungar: War of Crowns #1 – New Fantasy Miniseries Debuts from Titan’s Statix Press Imprint in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 21, 2018

Debuting next month as part of Statix Press, the Titan Comics imprint that seeks to showcase top comics work from Europe and around the globe, Konungar: War of Crowns is described…

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Myriad Editions to Publish Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Journalism Depicting the Plight of Syrian Refugees in ‘Escaping Wars and Waves’ in July

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2018

If you were in London at the end of last year you may well have taken the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Olivier Kugler’s graphic reportage at Rich Mix…

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