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Section: Eyecatcher

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Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Generous Bosom #3 – Conor Stechschulte Takes Us Further Down the Rabbit Hole in His Deepening Mystery

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 13, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Lengthy gaps between issues is one of the problems with serial storytelling in comics. However, in his mysterious drama Generous Bosom, Conor Stechschulte has created a sense of…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for June 13, 2018 – Cloud Hotel, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, By Night and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 12, 2018

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 events or digital…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Sutra: Songs from the World of OM – Andy Barron Returns to His Fantastically Eerie Alien Realm in a New Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! We took a trip to Andy Barron’s entrancing yet brutal world of OM earlier this year at Broken Frontier when we looked at Mantra, a collection of his…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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A View from the Frontier – ELCAF Fortnight 2018 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Nearly six years ago at Broken Frontier I wrote very briefly about the buzz surrounding a brand new comics show on the UK indie circuit saying of it that…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Preview: Low Road West #1 – Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Flaviano’s Tale of Survival in a War-Torn U.S. Published by BOOM! Studios in September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 8, 2018

Things have been a little quieter this week at Broken Frontier as the team gears up for our bumper ELCAF Fortnight over the next two weeks. But as we go…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Persephone – Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky Re-Imagines the Greek Myth in a Gorgeous New Graphic Novel from BOOM! Studios/Archaia

  • by Holly Raidl
  • June 7, 2018

Based on the Greek myth, creator Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky utilises the out of this world aspects of the original and reforms them into a self-contained story with a glorious, more contemporary setting….

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Outside the Frontier – A Wave Blue World’s ‘All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World’ Launches on Kickstarter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2018

With so many members of the Broken Frontier crew also established comics creators in their own right it seems only fitting that we initiated a semi-regular strand of blog posts…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for June 6, 2018 – Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Apollo, DeadEndia and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 5, 2018

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 events or digital…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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A View from the Frontier – Don’t Miss the Crouch End Comic Arts Festival this Saturday June 9th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2018

It’s time for one of our semi-regular pushes for our wider comics-related activities here at Broken Frontier and a channce for a final promotion of one of the friendliest shows…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Pirate Fun, Runners, Hot Lunch and Being True: LGBTQ Comics Anthology

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 1, 2018

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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Norths – An Appealing Circumpolar Family Adventure from Alison McCreesh and Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2018

A comics travelogue with a markedly different structure from the norm, Alison McCreesh’s Norths from Conundrum Press is both a window into the peculiar realities of living above the 60th…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sabrina – Nick Drnaso’s Critically Acclaimed Graphic Novel is Rooted in the Unique Anxieties of Today

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • May 30, 2018

There’s something timelessly enduring about an unsolved mystery. The struggle to comprehend the unknowable, and speculation over certain ‘truths’ we will likely never uncover, has long captured the popular imagination….

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 30, 2018 – Where We Live, Metroland, A Western World, Pinky & Pepper Forever, Gumballs and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 29, 2018

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 events or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Girl in the Himalayas – David Jesus Vignolli’s Magical Tale of Home and Community Appeals to All Ages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2018

What immediately strikes the reader about David Jesus Vignolli’s debut graphic novel A Girl in the Himalayas is the sheer craft of the creator’s visual storytelling. Published by BOOM! Studios…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales, LÖK ZINE, Fanatical and Small Hours

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2018

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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Sssssss – The Alt Comics Talents of Ben Williams Re-Emerge in a New Minicomic Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2018

With the East London Comics and Arts Festival rapidly approaching it seems most appropriate to be revisiting a younger presence on the UK small press scene today. I first discovered the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Cleaner: Man of Destiny #4 – Fraser Geesin’s Irreverent Tale of Employment Misadventures Ends on an Appropriately Touching Note

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 23, 2018

I was very taken by Fraser Geesin’s The Cleaner: Man of Destiny when I reviewed the first three issues a couple of years back at Broken Frontier. Geesin’s irreverent, relentlessly self-deprecating…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 23, 2018 – The Winner, Lumberjanes, Black Hammer and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 22, 2018

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 events or digital…

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