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Section: Eyecatcher

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Black Matter – Cat Sims Combines the Pop Cultural and the Psychogeographical in this Powerful Piece of Comics Social Commentary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2018

Comics as a medium is one that asks for an extra level of involvement from the reader; not just in terms of interpretation but also in how we interact with…

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Unfinished… 3 Poems by Tom Neely – Silver Sprocket Presents an Intensely Personal and Profoundly Affecting Piece of Experimental Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2018

Comics that push the boundaries of the form, interrogate the potentialities of its unique language and manipulate its singular narrative possibilities define the type of material that we exist to champion here…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“It’s Going to Be My Best Book Yet” – Rachael Smith Talks about Crowdfunding Contemporary Fantasy ‘Isabella & Blodwen’ Via Unbound Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2018

The prolific Rachael Smith is not an artist to rest on her laurels. After last year’s massively lauded Wired Up Wrong – her collection of autobiographical strips on living with…

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“CECAF, Cartoonists, Comics and Beer… It Will Be Amazing” – Sean Azzopardi Looks Forward to the 2018 Crouch End Comic Arts Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2018

Sean Azzopardi has long been not just a vital fixture of the London small press scene but also one of its most important activists. Having self-published something in the region…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 16, 2018 – Charley’s War, Flavor, The Wicked + The Divine, Infidel and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 15, 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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Comics Resources for Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – From Rachael Smith to Keiler Roberts, Robert Wells to Lucy Sullivan and Beyond

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2018

Mental Health Awareness Week has come around again and, just as we did last year, we want to take a very quick moment to showcase just some of the powerful explorations of…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“We Each Have Some Personalized Version of Who Superman is and What He Represents” – Comics Scholar A. David Lewis on 80 Years of the Cultural and Social Relevance of the Man of Steel

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 11, 2018

Catapulted away from his dying home planet. Hailed as the savior of his new world. Bearer of a red cape everyone instantly recognizes. And forever fighting for ‘Truth, Justic and…

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Spotlighting the South Asian Women Artists of the Kadak Collective (Part 3) – Exploring the Genesis and Ethos of the Collective and What the Future Holds for Kadak

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2018

Throughout this week at Broken Frontier we have been chatting with and exploring the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective. Over the last two days we’ve…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Spotlighting the South Asian Women Artists of the Kadak Collective (Part 2) – Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Aarthi Parthasarathy, Janine Shroff, Pavithra Dikshit and Garima Gupta

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2018

Ths week at Broken Frontier we began a three-part look at the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective; a group that ELCAF-goers may…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 9, 2018 – Afterwords, Barrier, My Boyfriend is a Bear, Beasts of Burden and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 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 – Important Information for Small Press Day 2018! A Vital Guide to what the SPD Team Needs from You Before the Big Day

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2018

Small Press Day is just two months away on July 7th and the Small Press Day team of founder David Ziggy Greene, the Alternative Press’s Amneet Johal and myself (Andy…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The New World: Comics from Mauretania – A Welcome Return to the Compelling and Mysterious World of Chris Reynolds

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 4, 2018

As recently as the not-actually-that-long-ago pre-internet days, comics were a perilously ephemeral form – especially in the short-run circles of the small press. With no way to keep a comic…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Ideal Copy – A Rip-Roaring, Rib-Tickling Romp from Ben Sears and Koyama Press

  • by Tom Baker
  • May 3, 2018

The first Double + story, starring the begoggled Plus Man and his robot buddy Hank, appeared on the Study Group Comics blog in 2014. In the four short years since…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: No Straight Lines – Back this Documentary Account of Four Decades of Queer Comics!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2018

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

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 2, 2018 – Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams, The New World: Comics from Mauretania, The Communist Manifesto, Daygloayhole and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 1, 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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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Draw the Line, Wash Day, Isabella and Blodwen and The Edge Off

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 27, 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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The Prisoner #1 – Milligan and Lorimer’s Slick Opener Paves the Way for a Return to The Village

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 27, 2018

When the vibrant new Channel 4 screened The Prisoner back in 1983, in its first full UK run since its original broadcast 25 years earlier, it lit up my adolescent…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 25, 2018 – Permanent Press, The Pervert, The Beef, The Prisoner and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2018

It’s 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 storefront,…

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