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Staff Picks for April 10, 2019 – When I Arrived at the Castle, The Ballad of Yaya, Fairlady and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 9, 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…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Understanding – The Weird and the Routine Are Juxtaposed in Becca Tobin’s Enticing Retrofit Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2019

Becca Tobin’s work has been a long-time favourite here at Broken Frontier for many reasons, not least of which for its spellbinding colour. We spoke of their issue of Youth…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Isle of Elsi, Every Day: An Anti-Gun Violence Comics Anthology, Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles and Shirtlifter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 5, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“The Potential of the Medium is What Appeals to Me the Most” – Laurel Pettitt on Autobio Comics, Icelandic Travelogue and Finding Your Place in the Self-Publishing World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2019

Since we announced our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ back in January we’ve published a number of reviews of their work here on the site. Part…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Read the First Chapter of Laydeez do Comics Prize Winner Niki Bañados’ ‘Shivers in London’ Here Today at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2019

If you’ve been following our social media feeds over the last few days you will be aware that Broken Frontier were at the Laydeez do Comics Festival over the past…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 3, 2019 – Gamayun Tales: Tyna of the Lake, Bronze Age Boogie, Ye and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 2, 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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Gamayun Tales Vol. 3: Tyna of the Lake – Another Entrancing and Magical Read for Younger and Older Audiences Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2019

Since the last time we reviewed the Gamayun Tales books from Nobrow Press, creator Alexander Utkin has gone on to be nominated in our Broken Frontier Awards in the category…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Star Bright – Alice Clarke and Rob Zwetsloot’s All-Ages Coming-of-Age Story Combines Fantasy and Humanity

  • by Holly Raidl
  • March 29, 2019

Star Bright, the graphic novel by Alice Clarke and Rob Zwetsloot, tells a story of friendship versus isolation and captures the anxieties that surround being a shy child. Obviously stylistically…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Slang Pictorial #4 – Nick Prolix Returns to the Swinging Sixties in the Latest Instalment of His Retro Comedy-Drama ‘The Sheep and the Wolves’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 28, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Reel Love – Owen Michael Johnson’s Love Letter to the Big Screen is a Truly Triumphant Breakout Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2019

When approaching today’s review of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love – the second graphic novel to be published by crowdfunding publisher Unbound after Grafity’s Wall – I found myself in…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 27, 2019 – Rad Erwank/Conspiracy Dog, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Femme Magnifique and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Invisible Kingdom #1 – Wilson and Ward’s New Sci-Fi Saga is Visually Mesmerising and Ambitious in Scale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2019

The first issue of Dark Horse’s new sci-fi saga Invisible Kingdom brings us into the separate but interlinked worlds of two very different women; existences set to converge into one…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Grafity’s Wall – Mumbai Comes to Vibrant Life in Ram V, Anand Radhakrishnan and Company’s Immersive Coming of Age Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2019

There’s a lot in the next few hundred words that may seem hyperbolic. But indulge me for a few paragraphs because when I talk about Grafity’s Wall – the first…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Blossoms in Autumn – Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Graphic Novel is a Raw, Honest, Poignant and Quite Beautiful Meditation on Love and Ageing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2019

What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Escape from Syria – Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche and Mike Freiheit Explore the Refugee Crisis for a Younger Readership

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2019

Earlier this week we looked at the Syrian refugee crisis from a graphic reportage angle when we reviewed Olivier Kugler’s Escaping Wars and Waves – a book of illustrated interviews…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 20, 2019 – Blossoms in Autumn, Invisible Kingdom, Fran of the Floods and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 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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Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Reportage Brings Powerful Personal Stories to the Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2019

I first came across the graphic reportage of Olivier Kugler a few years back in the pages of small press “graphic newspaper” Modern Times. Since then Kugler’s evocative portrayal of the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Birdcage Bottom Books, Blop: Martian Explorer, Dunce and Future

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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