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Crowdfunding Corner: Candles – Lyndon White’s Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy Graphic Novel from Cast Iron Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Wednesday – Tim Bird’s Latest Comics Short is a Love Letter to His Childhood Football Team

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2021

It’s hardly the most astute of observations to make that the major part of artist Tim Bird’s comics output has focused on the inter-relationship of place and memories, whether that…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Rebellion Announce Plans for 2000 AD’s 45th Anniversary – Includes ‘The 2000 AD Encyclopedia’ and a First Reprinting of the DC ‘Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law’ Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 25, 2021

2000 AD celebrates its 45th birthday in early 2022 and to mark that occasion publishers Rebellion have some special projects coming to print next year. Full details in the press…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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A Pocket Chiller: The Sands of Fear – Chris Reynolds Provides a Tongue-in-Cheek Photo Comic for Strip for Me’s Mystery Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2021

One of the neglected gems of the UK small press scene over the last several months has to be the A Pocket Chiller series from Douglas Noble’s Strip for Me…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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So Buttons #11 – Jonathan Baylis’s Amiably Raconteurial Autobio Includes Contributions from B. Mure, Phil Elliott and Maria & Peter Hoey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2021

To describe Jonathan Baylis’s autobio work as Pekar-esque only goes so far in communicating his approach to this area of comics practice. So Buttons #11 is a short anthology collection…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“We Don’t Believe You Can Really Put a Price on the Joy that Art Brings People” – Ashling Larkin and Cat Laird on the New CHIP Collective Anthology ‘Working In: The Arts’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2021

Currently funding on Kickstarter, Working In: The Arts is the latest anthology offering from the CHIP Collective. This collection of comics looks to highlight “the HUGE variety of potential career…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Resistance Sustenance Protection – Rachael House’s Essential Collection of Pandemic Comics is in Turns Scathing, Compassionate, Empathetic and Funny

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2021

I have said it before here at Broken Frontier and I shall say it again today. I do not believe we can overestimate how invaluable a social document pandemic comics…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Colour is All About Contrast (or Lack of It)” – An Interview with Brecht Evens on His Latest Work from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 18, 2021

Brecht Evens must have had a more productive time under a state of lockdown than most of us, which is why we were lucky enough to be able to review…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book – Pulp and Past Memories Make This Brubaker and the Phillips Book One of Their Best Yet

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 15, 2021

The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Delicacy – James Albon Takes His Characters on a Dark Fungi-Fuelled Journey of Gastronomic Ambition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2021

There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“The Central Conflict in Any Artist’s Life is Inherently Compromise” – Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Talk About ‘Everyone Is Tulip’ from Dark Horse Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2021

Out this month from creators Nicole Goux and Dave Baker, with colours by Ellie Hall, Everyone Is Tulip is set to be one of the year’s most thought-provoking graphic novels….

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Poignant Graphic Novel Debut on Queer Love, Family and the Detriment of Expectations, from Fantagraphics

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • June 10, 2021

Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Covers Album: Joe Decie – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Simone Lia & Billy Kiosoglou, Noah Van Sciver & Keeli McCarthy, and Maurice Sendak

  • by Joe Decie
  • June 9, 2021

In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Dog Biscuits – Alex Graham’s COVID Comic is an Engrossing and Ambitious Look at Modern Society

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 8, 2021

As Rosie (the Rabbit) puts it part-way through Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits, “there are certain aspects of being alive that are impossible to control.” This is true of her hormonal…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Crash Site – Nathan Cowdry’s Graphic Novel Tickles Your Ribs and Also Strikes Them a Few Times with a Hot Poker

  • by Nicholas Burman
  • June 7, 2021

The artist said it himself and it’s set to be a cliché in relation to his work, but it’s true that Nathan Cowdry’s Crash Site is not for everybody. Not…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens Transfers a Beguiling Dream to Paper Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2021

To open a new book like The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens is the equivalent of breaking out a bottle of fine wine: It marks a special occasion, warrants…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful – The Evil that Some Men Do is Laid Out in Stunning Simplicity By Darryl Cunningham

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 3, 2021

There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…

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