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Designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics.

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Sticky Ribs #1 – Dan White’s New Horror Anthology Provides an Enticingly Warped Double Bill of Twisted Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2018

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…

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Work – The London Comics ‘Work in Progress’ Group Tackle the Highs and Lows of the World of Employment in an Impressive Anthology Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

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…

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Endswell #1 – It’s Impossible Not to Feel Invested in the Very Human Drama of Peter Morey’s Family Saga

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2018

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

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…

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Stutter – Joe Stone’s Autobiographical Account of Living with a Speech Impediment is Our Thought Bubble Debut Comic of the Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

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…

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Hallo Spaceboy – Beth Barnett’s Bowie-Inspired Graphic Memoir is a Must-Buy at SPX this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

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…

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Telepathy Practice – Enter the Enticingly Weird World of Joe Decie in Another Collection of Bizarre Slice-of-Life Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 3, 2018

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2018

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…

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This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival – Rachel O’Regan’s Snails in Hell Story is Disturbing, Intense and Strangely Cute

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2018

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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1in4 Zines – Lucy Sullivan’s Intensely Powerful Exploration of Mental Health Issues is a Truly Visceral Reading Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 22, 2018

Earlier this year I spoke to artist Lucy Sullivan here at Broken Frontier about her work-in-progress graphic novel Barking, an allegorical examination of loss and depression (currently crowdfunding through Unbound Books)….

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Crimewatch Milky Way – Paul Hatcher Introduces Us to the Galaxy’s Greatest Criminals in this Graphic Narrative Card Set

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 21, 2018

Fans of the cult BBC TV comedy programme Big Train, first broadcast in 1998 and 2002, will no doubt recall that show’s most memorable running gag sketch, the animated World…

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World Builder – The Creative Process Examined in Ed Cheverton’s Offbeat Cosmic Caper

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 16, 2018

Ed Cheverton’s ability to combine parable with cosmic level concepts makes for a memorable short comic experience in the pages of World Builder. The force behind Jazz Dad Books has…

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Wash Day – Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Comics “Tribute to the Beauty and Endurance of Black Women and Their Hair”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2018

Back in April, Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day was one of the comics projects we showcased in our regular Crowdfunding Corner feature. Described by writer Rowser as a…

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Teacher’s Pet – Hong Kong School Life in the 1960s Recreated in Jason Li’s Slice-of-Life Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 14, 2018

One of the most solid pieces of advice I can give to aspiring graphic novelists who have taken the decision to jump straight into long-form comics is to build up…

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Greenhouse – Debbie Fong’s Subtle Yet Uncompromising Account of Mental Health, Solitude and Botany

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2018

As the rise of graphic medicine has underlined over the last few years, sequential art is a uniquely empathetic medium for expressing the experience of living with mental health issues….

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