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Welcome to our Broken Frontier Six to Watch 2023 announcement! But before we look forward let’s quickly look back. In 2022 the UK small press world slowly began to emerge…
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Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…
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The autobiographical works of Sean Azzopardi recently found a new “home” under the banner imprint of Life’s a Party. One of the UK’s greatest, yet still criminally underappreciated, proponents of…
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A little later than usual – and I must admit I nearly stepped back from this annual tradition this year – but we have been running these ‘Ten UK Small…
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In this post-2020 era time can sometimes take on a deceptive quality. That seems to be very much the case sometimes when I check on our coverage of some of…
Autobiographical work in comics can come from a number of places. On one hand it can be about informing and educating on situations, conditions or experiences. On the other the…
Jonathan Baylis’s long-running collaborative project So Buttons hit its twelfth issue this Autumn with another collection of his autobio whimsy being brought to life by a roll call of diversely…
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We have never been too hung up on rigid definitions of what comics are and are not when it comes to our coverage choices here at Broken Frontier. Whether you…
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What I have always appreciated about Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit comics is the way in which the artist has constantly shifted his presentational (and as a result his narrative)…
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Sometimes the buzz around a new creator or title means events move too fast for even Broken Frontier to keep up. Such is the case with Becca Kubrick’s Dead Girls:…
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At the beginning of this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed Ant Story, a collection of brutally funny short strips by the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and…
Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Multimedia comics allow us an opportunity to think about how we interpret and interact with the form, giving us extra levels on which to appreciate narrative and…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! We all like an intriguing premise that immediately grabs us before we even begin reading a comic. Christof Bogacs and Becca Kubrick’s Meat 4 Burgers certainly accommodates…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Cliché-ridden as it may sound you can always expect the unexpected when it comes to the WIP Comics group’s annual anthology. WIP is a regular meet-up of…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes you only need the smallest sampling of material to know an artist has both that extra special understanding of the mechanics of comics and also that…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! For Thought Bubble last year Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan introduced us to the cast of Purple Hate Balloon. In that memorable one-shot they took us to…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Last year for Thought Bubble Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley, those two much respected gentlemen of the UK indie comics scene, collaborated on a split format, reversible…
“I Always Think that Humor is the Best Way to Get Any Message Across” – Eric Nguyen on Subverting a Narrative Trope in ‘White Savior’ from Dark HorseJanuary 17, 2023
Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as GenderqueerJanuary 17, 2023
“I Am My Favourite Subject” – Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+QJanuary 12, 2023
Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!November 4, 2022
“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics PracticeNovember 4, 2022
