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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Over the last couple of years Sean Azzopardi has stepped back a little from regular autobiographical work to take his practice in other directions. Although arguably best…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When we last saw Claire, the protagonist of Rebecca K. Jones’s Boomerang, she was facing an uncertain future in the days of the global financial crisis of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Mereida Fajardo’s Naglalamay was originally very briefly covered here at Broken Frontier as part of our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Month event when, in minicomic format,…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! With just a few days to go, one of the great unexpected treats of this year’s Thought Bubble debut books list was my discovery last week that…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Nick Gonzo’s Black Dragon #1 is not an easy book to define. Yes, it’s science fiction. That’s the simple but ultimately unsatisfying categorisation. But it’s also a…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! One of the most important traditions of Thought Bubble in recent years has been the annual unveiling of Fraser Geesin’s latest exploratory foray into the forbidding narrative…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When Dan and Carol move into their new family home by Loch Ness with their young son Jack what should have been an idyllic new start for…
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Ten years ago today at Broken Frontier when we launched a new feature called ‘Small Pressganged‘ – a column dedicated to “unearthing the gems of the small press” – we…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! There’s a distinct Stanley and His Monster vibe to Beck Kubrick’s debut print comic Coby, Alone. That’s a reference to a 1960s DC humour comic that will…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The Wilds is one of those collaborative exercises that leave you wishing you could have been there in the planning stages to listen in on the discussions…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Adopting a flip book format with a fun physical flourish, Matthew (Flake) Dooley and Joe (Stutter) Stone’s Split is (contradictorily) a collaborative effort that isn’t a collaboration….
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Over the summer when Broken Frontier contributed to Small Press Day with our “One-Tweet Reviews” event on Twitter there were a number of comics and creators new to me to…
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A perfect small press acquisition for the spooky season, Davidt Dunlop’s neatly timed self-published short Poor Little Ghosts asks two lead-in questions about the supernatural: “Why should the rich have…
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With Halloween imminent what better way to celebrate the spooky season than with some fearsome, fight-filled horror comics from the UK small press scene. All of these comics are either…
This isn’t the first time I have said this and it certainly won’t be the last, but over the years that I have been writing for Broken Frontier I have…
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A couple of years ago at Broken Frontier I described Molly Mendoza’s graphic novel Skip as both a “truly magnificent visual spectacle” and “a deeply human story”. That reality-jumping book…
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We have all been there at some point. Restless nights, the frustration of not being able to drop off to sleep, the consequent anxiety that only exacerbates our insomnia. But…
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“Two demons practice the forbidden art of dress-up” is given premise of Geov’s Mercury’s Closet, another comic from the October-running Shortbox Fair which highlights the breadth and diversity of approaches…
“Hanging Out with a Young Witch and Her Rat Friend Was Indeed Quite the Tonic” – Benjamin Dickson and Rachael Smith Talk ‘The Queen’s Favorite Witch’January 21, 2022
Welcoming Steve Walsh into the Broken Frontier Hall of Fame and Celebrating His Incredible Work in Building Comics Community in the UK in the Last DecadeJanuary 14, 2022
Inside Look: I Am a Leader of My House – PositiveNegatives’ New Webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim Tells the Stories of Two Rohingya Women in Their Fight for EqualityDecember 21, 2021
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – The History of a Comics Community Success StoryDecember 6, 2021
“Comics is Where I Live” – Taki Soma on Her Powerful Graphic Memoir ‘Sleeping While Standing’ and the Avery Hill KickstarterDecember 3, 2021
