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Staff Picks for August 23, 2017 – The Dark Horse Book of Horror, The Dying and the Dead, The Hard Place and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 22, 2017

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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Radioactive Future Mutant – Irradiated Pints All Round in Matt Boyce’s Post-Apocalyptic Slacker Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 22, 2017

A few months back we reported on ‘It’s Going to Be Okay‘, an exhibition of the work of cartoonist Matt Boyce at Beer Rebellion in London’s Gypsy Hill (above) at…

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Tempo Lush Treats – A Welcome Trip Down Memory Lane in this Collection of Rare Richy K. Chandler Material

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2017

I’ve said this before in this column but Richy K. Chandler is one of the great facilitators of the UK small press scene – a creator who, through his various…

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Burnt Roti’s ‘The Beauty of Being British Asian’ Exhibition – New Comics Work on Show by Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ Artist Sabba Khan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2017

Last night saw the opening of Burnt Roti magazine’s ‘The Beauty of Being British Asian’ at the Old Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane – an exhibition that includes new…

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Staff Picks for August 16, 2017 – Mage: The Hero Denied, Cloudia & Rex, Silver Surfer and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 16, 2017

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,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Love and Rockets Vol.4 #3 – History is Hard to Shake in the Latest Issue of Los Bros Hernandez’s Epic Series

  • by Tom Baker
  • August 15, 2017

For all their differences in subject matter, illustrative style and setting, Los Bros Hernandez have one thing in common with their ongoing Love and Rockets epics: the history weighing down…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Backstagers – There’s Never a Dull Moment in the First Trade Paperback Collection of the Boom! Series

  • by EdieOP
  • August 14, 2017

They say to never judge a book by its cover but I am a shallow, aesthetic-obsessed illustrator so that is a big deciding factor in how I choose my comics,…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including the 2dcloud Summer 2017 Collection, Drawing Blood, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love and Reel Love

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2017

Every fortnight-(ish) 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 and…

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Staff Picks Safari Festival Special – Shaky Kane’s Good News Bible, Corridors, Berserker, Clubhouse and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…

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Performance – Gender and Performativity Explored in One Beat Zines’ Vital Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…

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Sound of Snow Falling – Maggie Umber Explores the Natural World in this Gorgeous Study of the Great Horned Owl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…

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Entity Reunion – The Unique Comics Vision of Alexander Tucker Embodied in this Safari Festival Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Impenetrable yet eerily familiar, indefinable yet focused, unique in delivery but soaked in the standards of pop culture, metaphysical and still fundamentally human…  Alexander Tucker’s work is…

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Staff Picks for August 9, 2017 – Mister Miracle, Tank Girl: World War Tank Girl, My Pretty Vampire, Redlands and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 8, 2017

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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The Fields Beyond Episode 1 – Matthew Pettit Introduces Us to the Nightmarish Environs of the Electric Gentleman’s Club

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…

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Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Minimalist Drama Takes the Reader on a Spontaneous and Evocative Journey of Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Half the Fun is Finding New Illustrators and Seeing What They’ve Brought” – Artist Luke Stuart on His Comics Practice and the Safari Festival Experience

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I first came across Luke Stuart’s work when tabling next to him at last year’s Safari Festival, whereupon I was struck by his black and neon poster…

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Staff Picks for August 2, 2017 – The End of the F***ing World, God Country, Education and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 1, 2017

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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Slasher #1-2 – The Strangely Alluring Bleakness of Charles Forsman’s Psychological Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! If there is such a thing as a group of headlining artists at Safari Festival 2017 then Charles Forsman is most certainly among those who qualify for…

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