Bullpen Boot-Camp #7: Ted Shearer – “Burn Your Boats”
Lessons from classic comic creators for making it as an indie! It’s time for another Bullpen Boot-Camp column by UK small presser Nick Prolix! Nick is the creator behind The Sheep and…
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Sarararara: All-American Girl – Olivia Hicks Ensures Archie-Style Alien Hijinks Abound in this 1950s Comics Parody
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sarararara: All-American Girl, the webcomic creation of Olivia Hicks, makes its print debut at Thought Bubble this weekend. The strip is an intriguing oddity in terms…
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“I Think There’s Always Going to Be a Negotiation Between Sharing and Oversharing when You Make Autobiographical Work” – Eleanor Crewes On Her Critically Acclaimed ‘The Times I Knew I Was Gay’
Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…
Zoot! Vol. 2 #2 – Roger Langridge’s Latest Cracking Collection of Short Strips Ranges from Slapstick Comedy and Thoughtful Autobio to the Terrible Verse of William McGonagall
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! To describe Roger Langridge as a true comics great is hardly hyperbole; in fact if anything it’s more a case of being unduly economical with the…
Glorious Wrestling Apocalypse – Tough Times Ahead for the GWA as Josh Hicks’s Colourful Comedy-Drama Cast Return for a Third Outing
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With effectively the third issue of his Glorious Wrestling Alliance series, 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Josh Hicks returns to the ring at Thought…
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Hitsville UK #6-7 – It’s the End of a Small Press Era as Riordan and Cox’s Eccentric Musical Romp Draws to a Close
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Thought Bubble just wouldn’t be Thought Bubble without the annual entry in John Riordan and Dan Cox’s music industry send-up Hitsville UK. And yet that’s the…
Sticky Ribs #1 – Dan White’s New Horror Anthology Provides an Enticingly Warped Double Bill of Twisted Tales
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sometimes deadlines exist to be broken. In the run-up to this year’s Thought Bubble we set cut-off dates for review requests but left the door open…
Work – The London Comics ‘Work in Progress’ Group Tackle the Highs and Lows of the World of Employment in an Impressive Anthology Debut
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The value of supportive comics community is vitally important to us here at Broken Frontier sitting, as it does, at the very heart of our mission…
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Retrograde Orbit – Kristyna Baczynski Explores Themes of Identity, Family, Belonging and Home in Her Unforgettable Debut Graphic Novel
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! At its heart the very best science fiction isn’t about alien civilisations, space exploration or future tech, it’s work that on a very personal level speaks…
Endswell #1 – It’s Impossible Not to Feel Invested in the Very Human Drama of Peter Morey’s Family Saga
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! A fictionalised retelling based on real events, Peter Morey’s Endswell is a slice-of-life saga touching on very real concerns about the exploitation of the elderly. Morey may…
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L1MA – A Stunningly Illustrated Peruvian Sci-Fi Saga with an Urban Edge from Gustaffo Vargas
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The most effective science fiction frames itself in terms of reference that we can, on some level, relate to. That may be through parallels to our…
Stutter – Joe Stone’s Autobiographical Account of Living with a Speech Impediment is Our Thought Bubble Debut Comic of the Festival
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! There is nothing we are more passionate about here at Broken Frontier than being able to point to practice that that makes use of those properties…
Hallo Spaceboy – Beth Barnett’s Bowie-Inspired Graphic Memoir is a Must-Buy at SPX this Weekend
Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…
Telepathy Practice – Enter the Enticingly Weird World of Joe Decie in Another Collection of Bizarre Slice-of-Life Shorts
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! One of the great joys of Joe Decie’s comics is that they have always sat in their own unique, hard-to-define niche. Where would you place them…
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Follow Me In – Katriona Chapman’s Mexican Graphic Travelogue is a Beautiful, Devastating and Hauntingly Fragile Triumph
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! No doubt Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In from Avery Hill Publishing will be broadly classified as a graphic travelogue, part of that burgeoning strand of graphic…
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The Little Bookshop Between – Luke Finch’s Charming but Dark Tale of the Joy of Literature and the Horrors of Corporate Greed
We’ve given significant coverage this summer to the projects of Baguette Trousers – the small creative collective who are made up of artists Chloe Elise Dennis, Sinae Carrotate Park and…
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Permanent Press – Luke Healy’s Meta Essay on Awards Recognition Explores the Communicative Power of the Form Via Avery Hill Publishing
There’s a slight sense of caution when approaching Luke Healy’s Permanent Press for review. Healy’s second graphic novel, published this year by Avery Hill Publishing, ostensibly explores a central theme…
This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival – Rachel O’Regan’s Snails in Hell Story is Disturbing, Intense and Strangely Cute
While there is a narrative in Rachel O’Regan’s This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival it’s actually the least interesting aspect of this intriguingly bizarre, almost visual stream-of-consciousness offering….
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