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The medium of comics, as any aficionado is aware, constantly plays with our perceptions of time. It asks us to make inferences about time’s passage between pages and scenes, to…
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Riffing on the “Exquisite Corpse” storytelling set-up Idiot Corpse is an anthology exercise in narrative experimentation from Aled Lies, Dylan Wyn Owen and Shehzad Ahmad (with a striking cover by…
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There wasn’t much to celebrate in 2020 but one thing we could take some joy in was that, despite everything, there was still plenty of amazing self-published comics work to…
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A personal reflection on my journey through pregnancy and pregnancy loss. Following the urge to acknowledge the existence of our lost babies – too precious to deny or forget. Talking…
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It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year replete with diary-style comics documenting the strangest nine months of our lives. In time, of course, they will be an…
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Fondly sending up a certain decades-old bastion of fantasy magazine publishing (the clue is in the anagrammatical title) Robert Wells and Phil Elliott’s Malty Heave makes a welcome end-of-year return…
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I have expressed sentiments like this before on many occasions at Broken Frontier but I never tire of repeating them. One of the greatest joys of our championing emerging creative…
Spinning out of his autobiographical Dunce series (described as “an alternative universe, where Calvin has grown up and moved to Norway”) Norwegian cartoonist Jens K Styve’s comic Dunce: Brego follows…
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I would argue that Lord Hurk and, in turn Fancy Butcher Press the small press imprint he runs with Kevin Ward, have been criminally overlooked on the UK small press…
Given how many comics creators are on the team at Broken Frontier we have an unwritten rule on the site. While we may cover their work in terms of features…
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At the East London Comics and Arts Festival in 2019 David Biskup’s There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up won the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award. The prize gives…
In Meredith’s bleak world the ultimate sanction is to find oneself IND-XED – a societal classification that negates someone’s very existence. The subject becomes a non-person, their identity cancelled and…
If you associate Peter Morey’s name with the hard-hitting and earnest autobio comics like Endswell or with his psychogeographical zines then his new comic Animal Spirits will come as something…
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Given how beautifully rendered her pencilled pages are it’s easy to overlook one of the subtler aspects of Katriona Chapman’s storytelling. It’s something that is undoubtedly one of her greatest…
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Following up on last year’s collection of Geesin goodies, Journey to the Surface of the Earth #2 is another compilation of vastly different comics strips and styles. Its mix of…
I’d been meaning to contact you for a long time. I tell everyone and anyone. Compelled to justify that drift – a thing that happens often and endlessly, to almost…
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A tragicomic tale of relationships, interpersonal connections, and loneliness, Joe Stone’s new comic Neurotic Fiction is an expert blend of explicit gags, snappy dialogue and very human fragility. It follows…
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Even pre-pandemic, one element of the UK small press scene that had been dwindling noticeably with each passing year was the open submissions anthology. It’s something I’ve mentioned with regret…
“I Want There to Be Many More Stories About and by These Kinds of Storytellers” – Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi Talk About Khidr Comix Lab, a New Micropublisher Providing a Platform for Black, Brown and Muslim CreatorsDecember 14, 2020
“It’s Ultimately About Courage and Hope and Love and Friendship” – Jenny Robins Talks About the Characters and Themes of Her Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition-Winning ‘Biscuits (assorted)’, Published TodayNovember 12, 2020
Retroflect: The Living Mummy – Supernatural Thrillers with an Oft Overlooked Star of Marvel’s 1970s Horror BoomOctober 30, 2020
Inside Look: Good Comics Kickstarter Books – Natasha Natarajan, Niki Bañados, Emre Altındağ and RAMZEE Provide Exclusive Insights into Their Creative ProcessesOctober 28, 2020
“My Publishing Ethos is Very Much Creator Led” – Lizzie Kaye Exclusively Reveals What We Can Expect from Her New Venture Cast Iron Books Coming into 2021October 16, 2020
