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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including The Little Girl Who Gave Zero F**ks, Made You Look, Barking and Heroines

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 22, 2017

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

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Staff Picks for December 20, 2017 – X-Men: Grand Design, Black Hammer, Comic Book History of Comics and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 19, 2017

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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Staff Picks for December 13, 2017 – Angels and Magpies: A Love and Rockets Book, The Wicked + The Divine Christmas Annual, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 12, 2017

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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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2017 – Celebrating Another Year of Indie, Alt and Small Press Coverage at BF!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 11, 2017

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 14th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our staff have selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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The BF Bulletin Board – The ‘Kirby Consciousness’ Exhibition at Orbital, Olivier Kugler at Rich Mix, Catford Comic & Zine Fair and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 8, 2017

It’s been a while since we ran one of our ‘BF Bulletin Board’ pieces but with so much comics-related fun happening in London this weekend it seems almost criminal not…

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Staff Picks for December 6, 2017 – Paradiso, Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville, Sleepless and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 5, 2017

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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Dave McKean’s Surreal Short Films Come to Dark Horse – Blu-ray and Book Set Released in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2017

“Dave McKean remains the master alchemist of comics imagery.” That was how Broken Frontier’s Tom Murphy described the acclaimed artist’s work when reviewing McKean’s Pictures that Tick and it’s a perfect…

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A View from the Frontier – Looking Forward to the Broken Frontier Awards 2017 Later this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2017

Behind the scenes at Broken Frontier over the last few weeks we’ve been beavering away on the nominations shortlists for this year’s Broken Frontier Awards. This past weekend saw myself…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Swan Song – A New Music-Based Anthology from the Canadian Cloudscape Comics Society

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2017

Time for another of our intermittent Crowdfunding Corner blogs and this one has something of a link to Broken Frontier history as it contains work from our former Operations Editor…

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Staff Picks for November 29, 2017 – Faceache: The First 100 Scrunges, The Green Hand and Other Stories, Zegas, Minor Leagues and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 29, 2017

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 events or digital storefront,…

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A View from the Frontier – Looking Back on a Year of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw with Artists Including Ariela Kristantina, Katie Skelly and Jamie Coe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 27, 2017

Last Tuesday November 21st marked our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2017 and what a positive and invigorating year of comics community it’s been in…

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Patreon Push: Gareth Brookes – Help ‘The Black Project’ Creator Bring New Self-Published Comics to Life in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2017

Pushing individual Patreon accounts here at BF is something that we rarely do simply because there are so many talented folk out there and time is limited. But we’re going…

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David Hine and Shaky Kane in Conversation with Sharks’ Steve Parsons at Troubador on November 29th as Part of ‘Trebuchet Talks’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2017

As the year begins to come to a close so do too the London comics events slowly begin to wind down but there are a few last hurrahs for 2017…

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Staff Picks for November 22, 2017 – Giant Days 2017 Holiday Special, Winnebago Graveyard, Forlorn Funnies and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 22, 2017

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 events or digital storefront,…

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Laydeez do Comics Announces First UK Women’s Prize for Unpublished Graphic Novel Work-in-Progress

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2017

Hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition comes news of a new women-only prize for unpublished graphic novel works-in-progress, courtesy of our…

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A View from the Frontier – Join the Broken Frontier Team: We’re Looking for New Contributors!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2017

The end of the year means we start thinking about two of the pivotal points of our annual calendar here at Broken Frontier – the Broken Frontier Awards and our…

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Caption 2017 – UK’s Longest-Running Small Press Festival Returns after a Two-Year Hiatus this December

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 17, 2017

Alex Fitch of Panel Borders has been in touch to let BF know that Caption – the UK’s longest-running small press festival which originally took place between 1992 and 2013…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Tuesday November 21st with Guest Artists Shane Melisse, Matthew Pettit and Lucia Soto

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 16, 2017

It’s time for our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year on Tuesday November 21st as we’re joined for the final festivities of the year by Shane Melisse,…

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