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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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2dcloud’s Winter Collection on Kickstarter Now – Back Work by Austin English, Andrew Burkholder, Sarah Ferrick and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2016

Ground-breaking and boundary-pushing comics that explore, embrace and exploit every last vestige of the unique possibilities of this wonderful form are what we exist for here at Broken Frontier. The…

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Save Our Souls #1 – Graphic Reportage Sits Side-by-Side with Written Journalism in David Ziggy Greene’s Promising New Anthology Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2016

Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…

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WASP 2016 Begins Monday February 22nd – Sarah Turner and Francesca Dare Discuss this Year’s Webcomic Artist Swap Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2016

The fourth annual Webcomic Artist Swap Project (WASP) takes place next week Monday February 22nd and continuing until the 28th. An always fun piece of collaborative conjuring the event sees…

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Profiling Sean Azzopardi – From ‘Dark Matters’ to ‘Tracks’, a Look at the Work of One of the Great Stalwarts of the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2016

Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the…

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Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – Danny Noble’s Cover for Our First ‘Six to Watch’ Showcase Revealed!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2016

We’re delighted today at BF to give you a first look at Danny Noble’s striking cover for our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook which features the work of the…

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What’s Your Sign, Girl? – Marnie Galloway, Kevin Budnik, Rick Worley and Cara Bean Star in Robert Kirby’s Astrological Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 16, 2016

Edited by indie comics stalwart Robert Kirby, What’s Your Sign, Girl? gives twelve cartoonists the opportunity to examine their relationships with their sun signs in a selection of short stories that…

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Small Press Day 2016 – A Celebration of Self-Publishing, DIY Culture and Grassroots Comics Announced for July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2016

If you’re an observer of the UK small press scene you will no doubt have noticed the flurry of social media discussions a few weeks back about the possibility of a…

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘Off Life’ with Daniel Humphry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2016

Formed in 2012, free street press comics anthology Off Life looked to connect comics with an audience of readers unfamiliar with the potential of the form, and to also give…

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A Life in the Day of Tillie Walden – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

A second helping from yesterday’s #hourlycomicday Twitter hashtag fun and games at Broken Frontier today as we compile all of creator-of-the-moment Tillie Walden’s strips. If you missed our earlier collection of Danny Noble’s Hourly…

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A Life in the Day of Danny Noble – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

Yesterday the hashtag #hourlycomicday made its annual trending appearance on Twitter as comics practitioners from all aspects of the medium recorded their exploits and adventures with a comic strip for…

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I Love this Part – Tillie Walden’s Second Major Project is a Comic of Rare, Raw and Precious Beauty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2016

If there was one name that came up again and again at the end of 2015 on the traditional annual ‘Best of’ lists and end-of-year reviews it was that of Tillie…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announces First Releases of 2016 – Includes Books by Tillie Walden, Rachael Smith, Matthew Swan and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2016

What an astonishing year of achievement 2015 was for Avery Hill Publishing. British Comic Awards nominations for EdieOP’s Maleficium and Rachael Smith’s The Rabbit alongside that much deserved BCA win…

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Tales of the Old West – Dom McKenzie is Quick on the Draw in this Comedy Period Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2016

Taking a largely mythical Wild West as its inspiration, Dom McKenzie’s Tales of the Old West is a short collection of rapid fire shorts that fondly pull apart some of…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #6 – Two Generations of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ Creators Converge in the Latest DRC Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2016

There are points when you can’t help but repeat yourself when you cover the same comics projects multiple times in a year. But sometimes those same recycled sentiments simply cannot be…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Peow! Studio with Patrick Crotty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2016

Swedish micropublisher Peow! Studio has been steadily building a name for itself over the last few years with its catalogue of riso-printed minicomics and anthologies. Comprising a showrunning team of…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2016 – Spotlighting the Work of Rebecca Bagley, Kim Clements, Brigid Deacon, Emily Rose Lambert, Jey Levang and Ellice Weaver

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2016

While we’re celebrating the announcement of the first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook (featuring the work of our ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’) it’s also time…

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Announcing the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – Championing our 2015 ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch’ in Print!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2016

Last night at London’s Gosh! Comics a very special announcement was made to the sell-out audience at the Broken Frontier special edition of the monthly Laydeez do Comics meeting. We’re…

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Celebrating 2015: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2016

We’re a little later than usual this year with my annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up; a yearly feature celebrating the diversity and rude health of the…

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