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Peach Fuzz #1 – Anna Readman Takes Us on an Enticing Journey Into Melancholia in this Absolutely Essential Thought Bubble 2022 Purchase

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! When I chose Anna Readman to be one of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ artists in  2019 it was based solely on a few short pieces on…

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All Ghosts: A Slice of the Afterlife – Sammy Ward Takes Us on a Haunted Tour of Life After Death in this Spooky Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes we don’t need the sequential part of sequential art to find whole narrratives bound up in a single image. Sammy Ward’s All Ghosts: A Slice of…

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Alfcat – Rebecca K. Jones Introduces Us to a New Feline Member of the Family in this Charming Autobio Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! “In September 2020 I had an affair with next door’s cat”… That’s an opening sentence in one of the strips in Rebecca K. Jones’s Alfcat that is…

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Dream Diaries – Shazleen Khan Ruminates on Loss and Empty Spaces in this Shortbox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 26, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning artist Shazleen Khan has become something of a semi-regular fixture here at BF over the last few years given the success and…

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PUDICA33 – Chelsea Akpan Takes Us on an Alien Quest in Another Shortbox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 14, 2022

Creating truly alien visual environments in comics does not necessarily require elaborate extremes of intricately designed and pseudo-realistic extraterrestrial landscapes, flora and fauna. In PUDICA33, another digital offering from this…

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The StarBrigade In: A Quest to Help a Friend – Yetunde Ekuntuyi’s Delightful All-Ages Story with a Worthy Message, Available Via the ShortBox Comics Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2022

Back in 2021 Yetunde Ekuntuyi was another artist we featured in a creator round-up on the site after she participated in our Broken Frontier Small Press Day one-tweet review event…

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A Pocket Chiller: “Jeff” – Dan Cox and Fraser Geesin Invite a Ravenous House Guest to Stay in Another Taut One-Shot Horror Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 6, 2022

While I totally understand creators focussing solely on their own individual creative expression I do sometimes dream of what collaborative endeavours from different UK small pressers might look like. “Jeff”,…

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Pilcuyo: Altiplano Vol. 3 – The Grand Arc Finale to Gustaffo Vargas’s South American Cyberpunk Story Does Not Disappoint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2022

The long-awaited grand finale of creator Gustaffo Vargas’s Peruvian cyberpunk series Altiplano is here, and it’s a denouement that does not disappoint. Pilcuyo is the third chapter in the Altiplano…

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Pigboy Chapter One – A Bleakly Appealing Opening Instalment as Tom Blackford Displays an Atypical Approach to Genre Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2022

In my most read piece ever at Broken Frontier on getting coverage for self-published work I spoke a little about my reluctance to cover small press super-hero work here on…

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Meteors – Kry Garcia’s Quietly Observed Coming-of-Age Story is Defined as Much by What Isn’t Said or Shown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2022

Kry Garcia’s Meteors is a curious comic. I certainly do not mean that in a pejorative way however, but rather to describe a short story that is idiosyncratic, unexpected and…

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“I’m Hoping Readers Will Take Their Time with the Art as They Decipher the Story for Themselves” – Sammy Ward on Wordless Comics and Her Love of the Fantasy and Horror Genres

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2022

One of our 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, artist Sammy Ward has been building an impressive back catalogue of work in the fantasy, horror and supernatural…

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A Pocket Chiller: The Creeping Shadow – Chris Reynolds Introduces Us to Eccentric Railway Detective Augustus Sunderland in a Supernatural Murder Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 22, 2022

Douglas Noble continues to curate his Strip for Me imprint’s A Pocket Chiller line with an incisive eye for the weird, the experimental and the sometimes enticingly obscure. It’s become…

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“The Lack of Appropriate Response from Governments to Tackle the Climate Crisis Triggered My Thoughts” – Alba Ceide on Her Ecologically-Focussed ‘Earth Blues’ Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 8, 2022

In the first of our series of interviews with Broken Frontier’s 2022 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists I chat today with Spanish artist Alba Ceide, whose ‘Earth Blues’ series of ecologically-focussed…

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Hocus Pocus #5: Levitation – The Finale to Worth and Collver’s Paranormal Investigation Series Proves Its Eisner-Nominated Credentials

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2022

One of the great delights of this year’s Eisner nominations was the inclusion of small press comic Hocus Pocus on the ballot. An investigative series focussing on the history and…

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Puke Banter – A Classic Animated Fave Gets a Vomit-Splattered Makeover Courtesy of James the Stanton and Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 31, 2022

There’s something undeniably appealing about pop cultural parodies when their targets are not the obvious easy objects of biting ridicule but, rather, the cooler and more assured characters of our…

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Salamanca Blues Part 1: Sand – Alba Ceide’s Latest Ecological Drama Marks Her First Longer-Form Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2022

With a timely relevance Alba Ceide’s Salamanca Blues Part 1 was recently launched on IndieGoGo, bringing her first longer-form work one step closer to a print edition. Part of Ceide’s…

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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2022

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2022

While the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day adopted a hybrid approach for 2022 one online aspect we didn’t want to jettison was the popular one-tweet reviews on Twitter. Using…

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Small Press Day 2022 -The Seventh UK and Ireland SPD Brings People Together In-Person and Online in Its First Hybrid Incarnation

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 17, 2022

Small Press Day 2022 has come and gone but, as is custom at BF, we like to post a small online scrapbook of some of the events on the day…

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