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Section: Eyecatcher

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“2017 Was Our Experimental Album” – Avery Hill Publishing Talk About an Award-Winning Year, Their Acclaimed Line-Up of Creative Talent and What We Can Look Forward to in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER!  There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for February 7, 2018 – Inside Moebius, Twisted Romance, Please Destroy the Internet!!!, Incognegro: Renaissance and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 6, 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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Dokudami Tenement – Takashi Fukutani’s Cult Gekiga Manga Brought to a Western Audience for the First Time by Black Hook Press

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • February 5, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC MATERIAL NOMINEE! Misunderstood in his short lifetime, mangaka Takashi Fukutani strove to give voice to the downtrodden through his art, drawing candid…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Birdcage Bottom Books, A Dark Forest, Nosferatu and The Golden Thread Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 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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Lazaretto #5 – Jey Levang’s Visuals Bring a Terrifying Edge to the Finale of Clay McLeod Chapman’s Body Horror Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST LETTERER WINNER AND BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE!  When it was announced last year that 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Jey Levang had been picked…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Day 2018 is Coming! – The Annual UK and Ireland Celebration of Comics Self-Publishing Returns for Its Third Year on Saturday July 7th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2018

It’s back! Small Press Day 2018 will be held this year on Saturday July 7th as the comics community comes together once again to celebrate self and micropublishing across the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Sabba Khan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2018

Describing her work as examining “first world city life as a second generation Pakistani Muslim migrant” Sabba Khan is the last of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 31, 2018 – Hungry Ghosts, The Weird World of Lagoola Gardner, Lazaretto, Godshaper and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 30, 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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Abbott #1 – Ahmed and Kivelä’s Gritty, Witty and Tenacious Combination of Hard-Nosed Crime with a Supernatural Twist

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • January 29, 2018

Gritty, witty, and tenacious, Abbott #1 deftly combines hard-nosed crime with a supernatural twist. This debut from the creative team of writer Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä challenges the investigative…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris’s Tour de Force Debut Sweeps the Board as Book of the Year

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 26, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL WINNER! Every year the comics critics’ “best of” lists start to congregate like wiry hairs in the internet plughole, and every year…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Only the End of the World Again – A Hardcover Reprint of a Story Old and Dark and Twisty Turny; a Joy to Read from Gaiman, Russell and Nixey

  • by Jenny Robins
  • January 25, 2018

Only the End of the World Again began life as a short story commissioned for Steven Jones’ compilation of fiction inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: Shadows Over Innsmouth in 1994. It…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Hope It’ll Open up the Conversation around Mental Health and Help to Diminish the Stigma” – Lucy Sullivan Talks about Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Barking’ and the Power of Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2018

Over the last year or so, we’ve been following a number of crowdfunding campaigns here at Broken Frontier for the Unbound Books line of graphic novels – beginning with an…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 24, 2018 – Mine!, Now, The Lie and How We Told It, Abbott and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 24, 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,…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Ben Passmore’s ‘Your Black Friend’ is Now an Animated Short Film from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT WINNER!  In a 2017 Broken Frontier Awards category full of incredibly strong work, Ben Passmore‘s Your Black Friend emerged as the overwhelming favourite among voters in our…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Metropo, Ada’s Adventures in Science, Sliced Quarterly and The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 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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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Shade the Changing Girl’ by Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone

  • by Jenny Robins
  • January 18, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER, BEST ARTIST AND BEST ONGOING SERIES NOMINEES! ‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Realised at Once that this Was Something Special” – Legendary Artist John Stokes Talks About Classic British Comic Strip ‘Marney the Fox’, Working with Rebellion and His 50-Plus Years in Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC MATERIAL WINNER!  Having gained the rights to a host of Brit weekly comics of yesteryear, 2017 saw 2000 AD publisher Rebellion release a…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 17, 2018 – The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head, Shadows on the Grave, Strangers in Paradise, Super Powers and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 16, 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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