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Section: Eyecatcher

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ØMIT – Nic Mac Uses Dreamlike Visual Metaphor to Explore Living with Depression and Anxiety in this Tactile, Fold-Out Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2019

The empathetic nature of comics as a communicative tool has seen an explosion of material in the area of graphic medicine over the last few years. Sequential art explorations of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Wildcat: Turbo Jones – An Enjoyable Romp through One of the Less Remembered Corners of the IPC Universe Via the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Tony Ingram
  • January 24, 2019

Of all the many IPC titles Rebellion recently acquired the rights to, Wildcat would seem on the face of it to be one of the least likely to qualify for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Tale of the Beast – Tadao Tsuge’s Hardboiled Proletarian Crime Noir Returns to Print Courtesy of Black Hook Press

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • January 23, 2019

On a dark and stormy night in late December, a hooded stranger pulls into one of Tokyo’s struggling dive bars. He convinces its ageing female custodian to give him a…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 23, 2019 – Reel Love, Proxima Centauri, Minor Leagues and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 22, 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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Swim – Barbawk Invites Us to Face Our Own Fears in a Beautiful Piece of Anthropomorphic Slice-of-Life Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2019

Last Autumn when I reviewed the latest Comic Book Slumber Party anthology Escape from Bitch Mountain, published by Avery Hill Publishing, there were a couple of artists in that collaborative…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2019 – Spotlighting the Work of Aleesha Nandhra, Anna Readman, Barbawk, Joe Stone, Laurel Pettitt and Olivia Sualdea

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2019

It’s that time of year again when we showcase the work of six up-and-coming artists as part of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ initiative – half a…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 16, 2019 – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest, Black Badge, The Sea and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 15, 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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Small Press Day 2019 Announced for July 13th – The UK and Ireland’s Celebration of Comics Self-Publishing Returns to Shops for its Fourth Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2019

The UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day returns this year on Saturday July 13th for its fourth annual celebration of comics self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture. The brainchild of cartoonist…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Wings – Victoria Anderson and Wallis Eates Present the True Stories of Prisoners in Prose, Illustration and Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 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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I Feel Machine – Shaun Tan and Tillie Walden Are Among the Contributors to this Unsettling SelfMadeHero Anthology Exploring the Darker Side of Our Relationship with Technology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2019

Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Chlorine Gardens – Another Collection of Incisive Short Strips from Keiler Roberts, One of the Finest Slice-of-Life Practitioners in Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2019

Keiler Roberts doesn’t dress her autobiographical comics up in the trappings of knowingly contrived storytelling structure. Their relatability lies in their unrepentant honesty and naturalistic composition; in her frankness and…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 9, 2019 – Gunning for Hits, Wildcat: Turbo Jones, Criminal and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 8, 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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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 1 -The Treasury of British Comics Takes Us Back to a Horror Comics Cult Classic from the Pages of ‘Scream!’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2019

The Thirteenth Floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short-lived early ’80s British horror comics weekly Scream!. Written by the popular…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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My Father Was a Fisherman – Dáire Lawlor’s Haunting Folklore-Inspired Drama is an Impressive Long-Form Work from an Emerging Talent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 7, 2019

In My Father Was a Fisherman Dáire Lawlor presents a multi-faceted tale that can read on a number of different levels. On the surface it’s a claustrophobic and tense thriller playing with…

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Celebrating 2018: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2019

Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Ken Reid’s Creepy Creations – The Treasury of British Comics Collects Reid’s Gloriously Grotesque Creature Features from the Pages of ‘Shiver and Shake’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2019

The Chip Chomping Tater Terror of Tring! The Fanatical Fungus Grower of Frogpool! The Boggle-Eyed Butty-Biter of Sandwich! The Barmy Wellington Boot Bee Monster from Barnsley! The Vampire Banana! And…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Broken Frontier Awards 2018: Announcing the Winners – Grassroots Self-Publishing and the “Big Two” Sit Side-by-Side on the Winners List and Corinne Pearlman is Our Second ‘Hall of Fame’ Inductee

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2019

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 15th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Something we’re very proud of at Broken Frontier…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Wolf – Rachael Ball Examines the Realities of Childhood Bereavement through the Dual Lenses of the Everyday and the Outlandishly Imaginative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2019

Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…

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