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Section: Eyecatcher

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That One October – Olivia Sualdea Elicits a Wide Range of Emotional Responses from Her Audience in this Impressive Collection of Slice-of-Life Vignettes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 6, 2019

Olivia Sualdea has always shown an acute understanding of how to utilise potent visual metaphor to convey emotional state through the delicate control of panel-to-panel flow in her pages. That…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“The Art You Spend Hours and Hours Labouring Over is Always the One that Bombs!” – Instagram Cartoonist ZeppelinMoon Talks Sloths, Manatees and Building that All-Important Social Media Audience

  • by Jenny Robins
  • December 5, 2019

ZeppelinMoon is part of a growing movement of irreverent Instagram cartoonists racking up serious numbers with content that is by turns relatable and ridiculous or often both. Our Jenny Robins…

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Hisashi – An Unsettlingly Vivid Bio-Horror Thriller from Stathis Tsemberlidis and Decadence

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2019

In a Stathis Tsemberlidis comic, narrative is almost secondary to the pure immersive visual experience the reader finds themselves engulfed by. Hisashi, his latest offering under the Decadence banner, is…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for December 4, 2019 – Choke Gasp!: The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics, Wildest Dream, Thor: The Worthy and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 3, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Are You Listening? – Tillie Walden Takes Us on a Journey Where the Relationship Between Perception and Reality is Cloaked in Powerfully Resonant Metaphor

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 2, 2019

Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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2000 AD Announces the Return of Its All-Ages ‘Regened’ Special Issues in 2020 Featuring Work by David Baillie, Rob Davis, Leah Moore, John Reppion and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2019

For a site that rarely puts up press releases we’ve put up an inordinate amount of Rebellion ones over the last few weeks. But with the 2000 AD publisher announcing…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Simon & Louise – Max de Radiguès Explores Teenage Love and Summer Separation in a Beautifully Understated Slice-of-Life Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2019

One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Olympia #1 – A Notably Different Meta Take on the World of Super-Heroes with a Very Human Heart

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 27, 2019

Olympia’s extra-sized opener marks the first chapter of a series that was conceived by comics writer Curt Pires and his father Tony during the latter’s cancer treatment. It’s a book…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 27, 2019 – The House, Witchfinder: Reign of Darkness, John Constantine: Hellblazer, Second Coming and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 26, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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My Husband is a Cultist – Mei Lian Hoe’s Supernatural Webcomic Comes to Print with Its Offbeat Romcom Approach

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2019

Collecting the first chapters of Mei Lian Hoe’s webcomic series in print, My Husband is a Cultist is an offbeat romantic comedy that combines the amiable antics of its often…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Preview: Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas #1 – Grant Morrison and Dan Mora Reunite for a BOOM! Studios Festive Tradition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2019

While Christmas may still seem a long way off, the pre-holidays solicits are full of festive themed comics. BOOM! Studios have announced the latest entry in their own annual Yuletide…

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For Real #1 – Graphic Medicine and Graphic Biography Merge in James Romberger’s Multi-Layered Exploration of Pivotal Moments in the Life of Jack Kirby

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2019

James Romberger’s For Real is a narrative of layers. Not just in the overlapping timeframes of its main comics story ‘The Oven’ but also in the supplementary essay that follows…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Folklords #1 – Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and Company’s Fantasy Series with a Twist Immediately Hooks Its Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2019

The immediate thing the reader takes away from the first issue of Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and company’s Folklords is what a sublimely perfect issue it is in terms of…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 20, 2019 – Olympia, Little Bird, The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 19, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Family Tree #1 – Family Drama Meets Body Horror in Lemire, Hester and Company’s Atmospheric New Image Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2019

From its opening pages, moodily lit by Ryan Cody’s muted and yet quietly oppressive colours, there’s an immediate sense of the foreboding about Family Tree, the new ongoing Image series…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Making Comics – Lynda Barry and Drawn & Quarterly Bring a Magnificent Lecture on Art to Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 14, 2019

I decided to hand over Lynda Barry’s book, Making Comics, to a 9-year-old. I did this because it made sense to test the former’s long-held hypothesis that we can all…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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ABC of Typography – If You Thought Typography Was Boring, David Rault and His Roster of 11 Comic Artists Will Make You Eat Your Words

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 13, 2019

If you thought typography was boring, David Rault and his roster of 11 comic artists will make you eat your words – each chapter a delightfully different visual course in…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for November 13, 2019 – Billionaires, Our Encounters with Evil, The Dollhouse Family, La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 12, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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