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Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Want There to Be Many More Stories About and by These Kinds of Storytellers” – Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi Talk About Khidr Comix Lab, a New Micropublisher Providing a Platform for Black, Brown and Muslim Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 14, 2020

Launching today, Khidr Comix Lab is a new micropublishing venture seeking to provide a platform for Black, Brown and Muslim storytellers. Having had an advance look at some of the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Crossover #2 – This Image Series Remains Intriguing But, So Far, Lacks Depth

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 11, 2020

Last month, the hotly anticipated Image series Crossover landed, causing minor ripples throughout the comics community. Some found it filled with sparkling potential to address the nature of comics and…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Home Sick Pilots #1 – Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard Present a Finely Paced Tale of Horror and High School Band Rivalry

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 10, 2020

Paper Girls meets The Shining along the darker alleyways of Nineties nostalgia in Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard’s Home Sick Pilots from Image Comics. Turning over the cover to Dan…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Rebellion Announce 2021 ‘Treasury of British Comics’ Collections – Includes More ‘Misty’, ‘Trigan Empire’ and the ‘Who Shot Roy Race?’ Storyline from ‘Roy of the Rovers’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2020

As we draw to the end of this strangest of all years something to look forward to in 2021 with the announcement of the line-up for next year’s Treasury of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Genius Animals? – Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa’s Web-Based Collaboration Feels Both Fresh and Classic

  • by Jenny Robins
  • December 7, 2020

Genius Animals? is a lot of fun on a lot of levels. From US TV writer Vali Chandrasekaran (Modern Family, 30 Rock, My name is Earl) and France-based illustrator Jun-Pierre…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Planet Paradise – Jesse Lonergan Propels Readers on a Journey Across Multiple Panels, Pages and Planets

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 4, 2020

Wielding a signature storytelling style all his own, Jesse Lonergan propels readers on a journey across multiple panels, pages, and planets in Planet Paradise from Image Comics. Without a doubt,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Holly – Steven Ingram’s Composed Depiction of Island Life Shows Us a Young Woman at a Crossroads

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 3, 2020

Scottish artist Steven Ingram has been building up a substantial comics presence in recent years, including Left, a graphic novel about a cult survivor facing up to the past, and…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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In Memoriam: Marleen Starksfield Lowe – 1979-2020

  • by Owen Michael Johnson
  • December 1, 2020

The comics medium has lost a rare talent with the passing of Marleen Starksfield Lowe on the evening of 7th November 2020, after a long battle with Leukemia which she…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Dog and the Cat – Dominique Duong’s Queer Asian Romance Effortlessly Blends Mythology and Slice-of-Life Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2020

I have expressed sentiments like this before on many occasions at Broken Frontier but I never tire of repeating them. One of the greatest joys of our championing emerging creative…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Preview: Happy Hour #2 – Milligan and Montenat Return to a World Where Unhappiness is Illegal Via Ahoy Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 27, 2020

Hitting stores next week from Ahoy Comics, Peter Milligan and Michael Montenat’s Happy Hour (with colouring from Felipe Sobreiro and lettering by Rob Steen). Set in a world where unhappiness…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Inspiration: A Comics School Anthology – New Community Comics Project Showcases the Work of Emerging Creative Voices in a Digital Short Story Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2020

Community-based projects will always be at the heart of what we do at Broken Frontier and Inspiration, the first of three digital anthologies from the Comics School project certainly fits…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Affordable Amazement #2 – The European Comics Anthology Returns with More Outlandish Offerings from Lord Hurk, Paul Ashley Brown, Tobias Tak and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2020

I would argue that Lord Hurk and, in turn Fancy Butcher Press the small press imprint he runs with Kevin Ward, have been criminally overlooked on the UK small press…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir – Bishakh Som’s Exploration of Identity is a Remarkably Layered Graphic Memoir with More than a Hint of the Meta to Its Pages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2020

Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Curious Case of Leonardo’s Bicycle – Brick Builds a Dense and Entertaining Investigation of an Apparent Artistic Hoax 

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 19, 2020

“Is it about a bicycle?” he asked.  As a lover of tall tales, the first thing that bounced into my noddle when I picked up The Curious Case of Leonardo’s…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Blue in Green – A Spectacular Riff on a Familiar Tune from Ram V, Anand RK and Company

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 18, 2020

Erik Dieter always felt on the outside of things. He could never get close to his mother Alana, and when he returns home for her funeral in Blue in Green,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Paul at Home – Michel Rabagliati Creates the Perfect Parable for Our Time

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 17, 2020

On the surface of it, this book has nothing to do with the virus that has changed life as we know it. A tale about a middle-aged cartoonist coming to…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up – David Biskup Presents “a True Story About Chronic Illness, Disability and Love” in this Exemplary Use of Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 16, 2020

At the East London Comics and Arts Festival in 2019 David Biskup’s There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up won the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award. The prize gives…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Resident Alien: Your Ride’s Here #1 – Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse Pose the Ultimate Question: Will Harry Vanderspeigle Finally Be Going Home?

  • by John Trigonis
  • November 13, 2020

Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse return to Patience with Resident Alien: Your Ride’s Here from Dark Horse Comics, which poses the ultimate question: will Harry Vanderspeigle finally be going home?…

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