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“I Just Love a Sense of Place, I Really Can’t Let it Go” – Tillie Walden Talks Psychogeography, Queer Comics, and The Walking Dead’s ‘Clementine’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Some years ago I was chatting with Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller and, as often happens in our conversations, we turned to promising new artists we…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Everywhere All Over the World People Are in More and More Fragile Positions” – Dr. Sarah Wishart Talks About EachOther’s ‘Get Out of Detention: A Comic for Immigrant Detainees’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 26, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! When I officially took over the top spot at Broken Frontier in 2017 one of my key aims was to push BF in the direction of…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Comics Give the Reader Control and Agency that is Not Possible in Other Media” – Woodrow Phoenix on the Unique Language of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 25, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Championing the medium, exploring its full potential, and analysing its unique storytelling tools are all part and parcel of the Broken Frontier ethos. There’s no one…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Broken Frontier at 20! – Introducing Two Weeks of Birthday Coverage as We Celebrate Two Decades of Exploring the Comics Universe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Hold the birthday wishes until Friday when we will officially hit our big anniversary milestone but this week sees the beginning of our celebration of two…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Exclusive Preview: Dead Mall #3 – A Sneak Peek at the Third Issue Cover of Adam Cesare and David Stoll’s Dark Horse Horror Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 21, 2022

Among all the US serial comics publishers Dark Horse have one of the finest lines when it comes to supernatural and horror comics. From the Hellboy universe and Harrow County,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Inversion – Lily and Generoso Fierro Push the Boundaries of Narrative and Form

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 20, 2022

We reviewed Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s intriguing debut Vessel earlier this year, and the thing that stood out almost immediately was their refusal to conform. That singularity of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Condo Lady – Elisabeth Belliveau Recounts “Two Quiet Years of Full Stress” in this Pandemic Comics Offering from Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 18, 2022

Part of Conundrum Press’s anniversary ‘Conundrum 25’ series of pocket-sized comics offerings, Elisabeth Belliveau’s Condo Lady is yet another reminder of just how effective graphic narrative has been at communicating…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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PUDICA33 – Chelsea Akpan Takes Us on an Alien Quest in Another Shortbox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 14, 2022

Creating truly alien visual environments in comics does not necessarily require elaborate extremes of intricately designed and pseudo-realistic extraterrestrial landscapes, flora and fauna. In PUDICA33, another digital offering from this…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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The StarBrigade In: A Quest to Help a Friend – Yetunde Ekuntuyi’s Delightful All-Ages Story with a Worthy Message, Available Via the ShortBox Comics Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2022

Back in 2021 Yetunde Ekuntuyi was another artist we featured in a creator round-up on the site after she participated in our Broken Frontier Small Press Day one-tweet review event…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Man Who Walked Through Walls – Obom Adapts Marcel Aymé’s Urban Fantasy in this Witty ‘Conundrum 25’ Release

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 12, 2022

With a remit to bring together “past, present, and future” works for their 25th anniversary, Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ series is described as “a landmark series of gemlike volumes, presenting…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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­­­Cicatrix – A Symbolic Statement from Elle Shivers about Guilt and Privilege, Published by Silver Sprocket

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • October 11, 2022

Cicatrix by Elle Shivers is full of cramped panels that reflect the ruminating mind of our protagonist, who has discovered a lump on their neck. This growth is artistically represented…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“She Felt that the Work Should Speak for Itself” – Phil Elverum on the Late Geneviève Castrée’s Complete Works, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 10, 2022

When Canadian cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée passed away in 2016 at age 35, she left behind heartbroken friends who had long recognised her genius, as well as an audience…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Preview: Planet Divoc-91 – The Allegorical, Multimedia, Pandemic Comics Project Comes to Print with Work from Hannah Berry, Rachael Smith, Karrie Fransman, Anand RK and Many More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 7, 2022

Comics responses to the Covid pandemic have been many and varied in their approaches to the crisis, as can be seen in our list of pandemic comics resources here. Today…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Pilcuyo: Altiplano Vol. 3 – The Grand Arc Finale to Gustaffo Vargas’s South American Cyberpunk Story Does Not Disappoint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2022

The long-awaited grand finale of creator Gustaffo Vargas’s Peruvian cyberpunk series Altiplano is here, and it’s a denouement that does not disappoint. Pilcuyo is the third chapter in the Altiplano…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Pigboy Chapter One – A Bleakly Appealing Opening Instalment as Tom Blackford Displays an Atypical Approach to Genre Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2022

In my most read piece ever at Broken Frontier on getting coverage for self-published work I spoke a little about my reluctance to cover small press super-hero work here on…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Meteors – Kry Garcia’s Quietly Observed Coming-of-Age Story is Defined as Much by What Isn’t Said or Shown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2022

Kry Garcia’s Meteors is a curious comic. I certainly do not mean that in a pejorative way however, but rather to describe a short story that is idiosyncratic, unexpected and…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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45 Years of 2000 AD – New Visions of Established Faves in Rebellion’s Anniversary Art Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2022

Forty-five may seem a somewhat arbitrary number for a major publishing anniversary celebration. But when it spawns spin-offs like the 45 Years of 2000 AD Anniversary Art Book most of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sister Clawdetta: Murder at the Monastery – Tor Freeman’s Medieval Mystery for All Ages is a Fun, Anthropomorphic Romp from Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 29, 2022

It’s Tudor times and at Father Eglantine’s monastery the eighth librarian to be employed has been discovered murdered; a fate already suffered by his seven predecessors. Only one woman can…

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