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Section: Eyecatcher

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Fish Flake – Seekan Hui Takes Us to an Eerie Underwater World in a Whimsical Minicomic Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2018

With a new book coming from Avery Hill Publishing later this year Bristol-based artist Seekan Hui’s comics will no doubt be finding whole new audiences in 2018. As part of the…

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Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Grappling Road – The Offbeat Cast of the GWA Return in Josh Hicks’s Much-Loved Small Press Sitcom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2018

Back in 2016, the first edition of Glorious Wrestling Alliance– a gloriously silly send-up of the wrestling ring with a sprawling cast of endearingly ludicrous characters – convinced me to include…

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“Nature and Travel Are Just Two Things that Make Me Feel Particularly Alive!” – Katriona Chapman on ‘Katzine’, Self-Publishing and Her New Graphic Memoir ‘Follow Me In’ from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONGOING SERIES WINNER! From her early, beautifully tactile forays into self-publishing with books like Brockley Foxtrot and Five, to her role in co-founding artzine Tiny…

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Celebrating World Book Day UK 2018 – 10 Entry Point Graphic Novels for Non-Comic Readers that Showcase the Unique Language of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2018

It’s World Book Day in the UK today (for the rest of the world it’s late April!). Last year we asked comics folk for their graphic novel recommendations and we always grasp WBD…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain) – Robert Wells Puts the ‘Graphic’ in ‘Graphic Medicine’ in His Bleakly Funny Comics Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2018

It seems appropriate today, given that it’s the deadline day for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, to be giving some time to a book that was shortlisted for…

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Staff Picks for February 28, 2018 – The Beef, Pizzeria Kamikaze, The Wilds, Juniper Jupiter and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 27, 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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Threads: From the Refugee Crisis – Powerful Graphic Journalism from Kate Evans Shines an Uncompromising Spotlight on a Humanitarian Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST GRAPHIC NON-FICTION WINNER! We talk a lot about the many unique ways in which comics – and particularly autobiographical comics – forge an intimate connection…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Bingo Love – True Love Overcomes Oppression and Suppression in Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge’s LGBT+ Graphic Novel from Image Comics

  • by Holly Raidl
  • February 22, 2018

With eye-catching art by Jenn St-Onge and a heartfelt story by Tee Franklin, Bingo Love presents the tale of a lifetime of suppression and oppression. Through St-Onge’s bouncy art style, the reader is brought…

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Mantra – Welcome to the Otherworldliness of Andy Barron’s OM, a Realm Where the Whimsical and the Brutal Walk Hand in Hand

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2018

The strange and fantastic world of OM – a realm with its own bizarre rules and evolutionary changes; a flowing, metamorphosing plane of oft unfathomable entities and their distinctly alien…

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Staff Picks for February 21, 2018 – Punks Not Dead, Mata Hari, Dust-Ship Glory, The Beatles Story and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 20, 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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‘Poverty of the Heart’ and ‘Rushing from A to A’ – Mike Medaglia’s Explorations of Mindfulness and Well-Being Feel as Much Vocation as Artistic Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2018

Mindfulness and well-being have become the comics stock-in-trade for artist Mike Medaglia. A creator whose work brings a considered spirituality to the form, we’ve been covering his output here at…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Baker Street Four Vol. 1 – Action-Packed Victorian Adventures Provide a Thrilling Twist on the Sherlock Holmes Canon

  • by Holly Raidl
  • February 16, 2018

Sherlock Holmes is a classics literary institution; one which The Baker Street Four takes and re-imagines through the eyes of the children involved in Holmes’ cases. The portrayal of Victorian London…

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G Bear and Jammo: The Coolest Thing Ever – The Gentle Comedy of Jaime Huxtable’s All-Ages Comic is an Absolute Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2018

Jaime Huxtable’s versatile cartooning skills are always a pleasure to behold, and an equal pleasure to talk about. So it came as something of a surprise to me to realise…

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“After 10 Years We Want to Try to Find Ways to Surprise Us as Well as the Readers” – Looking Back on a Decade of Latvia’s Eisner-Nominated kuš! Comics with David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 14, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONGOING SERIES NOMINEE! Latvian-based micropublishers kuš! comics celebrated a decade of publishing in 2017 – a year that also saw their alternative comics fare nominated for…

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Staff Picks for February 14, 2018 – Bingo Love, Total Jazz, kuš! comics, Kick-Ass and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 13, 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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Thomas Leaves – Ben Williams Redefines the Way We Interact with the Comics Page with His Bold Abstract Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2018

Ben Williams is a young British creator who I first had the pleasure of meeting last year when I reviewed his portfolio at the East London Comics and Arts Festival’s…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including We Shall Fight Until We Win, Prima Ballerina Meltdown, Comic Turns and Corpus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 9, 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…

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Persephone – Shanti Rai’s Mythological Vignette is an Affecting Study of Fate’s Inescapable Clutches

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2018

The myth of Persephone and her abduction by Hades, the God of the Netherworld is an allegorical tale with a familiarity that extends far beyond the focused interests of the…

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