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Preview: Pie in the Sky – Sarah Graley Serves Up ‘Pizza Witch’ Deluxe Edition

  • by Paul Mirek
  • February 27, 2017

Many readers got their first introduction to Sarah Graley’s work in last year’s unsummarizable Rick and Morty spin-off, Lil’ Poopy Superstar. However, the Birmingham-based cartoonist has long been a fan-favorite…

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Join Us at the First Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2017 on Tuesday February 28th with Guest Artists Rachael Ball, Matthew Dooley and Sarah Gordon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2017

After a winter break the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw hosts its first event of 2017 this coming Tuesday February 28th with another talented trio of  comics creative forces…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: Ally Russell – “I Love the Democracy of Independent and Small Press Comics Publishing”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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Covers Album: Paul B. Rainey – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Andy Dog, Jaime Hernandez and Jack Kirby & Joe Sinnott

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 22, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

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Staff Picks for February 22, 2017 – 2000 AD 40th Anniversary Special, The Belfry, The Old Guard and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 21, 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 or digital storefront, the…

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Draw the Line – 100 Artists Including Dave McKean, Karrie Fransman, Roger Langridge, Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Unite to Change the World with Positive Political Action

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2017

One of the great pleasures of being involved in comics commentary is that you can be aware of exciting projects going on in the background long before they’re announced to…

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A View from the Frontier – The Sisyphean Task of the Small Press Coverage Queue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2017

Sometimes the most frustrating circumstances can be borne out of something that is actually incredibly positive… A few years ago here at Broken Frontier we published a piece titled ‘How *Do* I…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: Conori Bell-Bhuiyan – “I Think There is Something So Unique about Sequential Art …It’s a Language that is Nearly Universal”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 16, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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Covers Album: Tyler Chin-Tanner – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Stan Sakai, Joe Kubert and Trevor Von Eeden & Lynn Varley

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • February 15, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

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Staff Picks for February 15, 2017 – Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie, Angel Catbird, Lovers in the Garden, The Wild Storm and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 14, 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 or digital storefront, the…

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A View from the Frontier – Celebrating 2000 AD at the Forty Years of Thrill-Power Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 13, 2017

This past Saturday saw a bumper celebration of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic as punters representing four decades worth of reading – from those who were there at the very beginning…

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A Life in the Day of Rachael Smith – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2017

Last week saw the annual return of the #hourlycomicday hashtag to Twitter as comics artists spent the day capturing the events of their respective February 1sts in comic strips portraying each hour…

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The International Girl Gang Hit Angoulême! – Wallis Eates, Megan Byrd and Hannah K. Chapman on the 2017 Festival Experience

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 9, 2017

As public relations crises go, the publicity surrounding the 2016 Angoulême Festival‘s failure to include a single woman creator on its prestigious Grand Prix award shortlist was something of a benchmark moment. One…

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Covers Album: Ally Russell – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Richard Corben, Jaime Hernandez and Paul Chadwick

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • February 8, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

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Staff Picks for February 8, 2017 – Black History in Its Own Words, Pretending is Lying, Moby Dick, Kingpin and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 7, 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 or digital storefront, the…

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A View from the Frontier – Some Words of Appreciation for Our Broken Frontier Collective of Committed Comics Commentators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2017

The last seven days since the announcement of the changing of the guard at Broken Frontier have, in turn, been exciting, frantic, intense and utterly terrifying! But I’d like to…

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Namesake’ by Steve Orlando and Jakub Rebelka

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 3, 2017

Otherworldy, action-packed, and almost painfully vivid, Steve Orlando and Jakub Rebelka’s Namesake is one of the can’t-miss series of the past year. Next week, the fourth and final issue of…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: Paul Mirek – “I Believe the Language of Comics Has Few Direct Parallels”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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