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Crossing Borders: Travels in Japan – Morag Kewell Takes Us on a Tour of the Sights in Another Enthusiastic Travel Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2022

Way back in 2011 when I first started focussing primarily on the UK small press comics scene at Broken Frontier self-published diary comics were very much the genre of the…

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’-Watch for August 2022 – Catching Up with the Latest Work from Creators in Our BF Mentoring Initiative Including Jem Milton, Danny Noble, Aleesha Nandhra and Norm Konyu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2022

With 8 years of creators featured in our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ initiative this feature is our semi-regular round-up of what our very talented #BF6toWatch…

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Stray – Molly Mendoza’s Slice-of-Life Tale Uses Every Aspect of the Medium to Its Fullest Communicative Capacity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2022

The most notable aspect of Molly Mendoza’s comics for me is the way they unlock the full potential of the form; absolute graphic storytelling that isn’t simply a combination of…

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“Being Compared to Harvey Pekar is an Honor” – Chad Bilyeu Talks ‘Chad in Amsterdam’, Working with Juliette De Wit, and His New Comic ‘The Re-Up’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 25, 2022

Chad Bilyeu has been diligently producing his Chad in Amsterdam comics – collections of narrative vignettes of his experiences as an American living in Amsterdam – since 2018. Working in…

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Sick Chip – Ria Grix Introduces Us to the Adventures of the Anomalous Viola Holm

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2022

Comics that defy easy categorisation are, unsurprisingly, among my very favourite forms of sequential art. Case in point: I don’t know where to begin in that regard when trying to…

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Ashes – Gareth Brookes Asks Us to Wallow in a Mire of Nihilism in Another Essential Experimental Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2022

One of the most fascinating aspects of comics as a medium is the way in which that very special form of interaction between reader and page can lend itself to…

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Temple – Jack T. Cole’s Fantasy Tale of Discovery and Rebirth from Shortbox

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2022

I have spoken a lot at Broken Frontier recently about the particular skills needed to communicate a wordless narrative in comics. What I probably haven’t discussed in quite so much…

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‘Marghera Blues’ and ‘Forehead Blues’ – Alba Ceide’s ‘Earth Blues Series’ Touches on Themes of Environmentalism, Social Inequality and the Pandemic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! One of our 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists, Alba Ceide has been working behind the scenes for some time now on a world-building, shared universe project…

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Eke It Out Then Swallow It Whole – More Haunting and Fragile Graphic Poetry from Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Peony Gent’s Eke It Out Then Swallow It Whole exemplifies for me a vital quality of her work; an ability to so intimately connect with the reader and…

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The Pigeon Diaries: A Pigeon About Town – Hannah Lee Miller Gives Us an Avian Perspective on Urban Living

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Something I have most certainly missed in the two-plus years since I was last able to attend a comics fair is picking up work that is less about…

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“For a Collaborative Project it Was a Lonely Process!” – Aled Lies, Dylan Wyn Owen and Shehzad Ahmad on Experimenting with Comics Narrative in ‘Idiot Corpse’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Forged in the fires of comics community, the Idiot Corpse crew’s first experimental anthology was a fine exercise in exploring the intricacies of the collaborative comics process. I…

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Other Truths 01 and 02 – Aled Lies Builds on the Creator-Reader Relationship in Two New Minicomics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Bringing previously unseen and uncollected work to light Aled Lies’ two minicomics Other Truths 01 and 02 both have intriguing backstory to them. The first issue features a…

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“There Were Quite a Lot of Intense Reactions, They Pierced My Heart” – Rachael House Talks Reader Feedback, Pandemic Comics, and Feminist and Queer Politics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Continuing our week of coverage of the South London Comic & Zine Fair today at BF we chat with exhibitor Rachael House whose Resistance Sustenance Protection – a…

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Hammer Girl #1 – Will Humberstone Plays with the Structure of the Page in His New Fantasy Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! One of the joys of a carefully curated comics festival is the diversity of work that will be on offer. Sunday’s South London Comic & Zine Fair, the…

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Scavengers, Curse of Ymir – Sammy Ward Presents a Fantasy Masterclass in Wordless Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! A couple of months back at Broken Frontier I took a long at the first Scavengers minicomic from 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Sammy Ward. A…

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Limpet Love – Ocean Romance as Allegory in Mereida’s Beautifully Illustrated Concertina Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! When picking up a new comic by Mereida (aka 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mereida Fajardo) always be prepared for something unexpectedly inventive. In fact, paradoxically,…

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Ghost Stories I Remember – Ghosts and Memories Intersect in Patrick Wray’s New Graphic Narrative from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! If you’re of a certain age you will no doubt remember having at least a passing fascination with hauntings as a child in the ‘70s/’80s. Whether it was…

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“A Few Pints in a Beer Garden and Plans to Resurrect SLCZF Began to Brew” – Organisers Hannah Lee Miller, Rebecca K. Jones and Peter Morey on the Return of the South London Comic & Zine Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! After a break of four years the hugely popular South London Comic and Zine Fair (SLCZF) is back on Sunday July 10th at Stanley Arts, and this time…

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