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Section: Eyecatcher

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Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Little Mermaid – A Happily Ever After Story? Metaphrog Adapt the Hans Christian Andersen Classic

  • by EdieOP
  • April 17, 2017

You’ve not fully experienced the story of the Little Mermaid until you’ve read the Metaphrog version. Welcome to the magical underwater kingdom of the Little Mermaid, in a stunning adaptation…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“A Good Stick Has Many Possibilities” – Glamping Chat with the Decie Family on Joe Decie’s ‘Collecting Sticks’ from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2017

Glamorous camping? Can there really be such a thing? Joe Decie’s new book Collecting Sticks from Jonathan Cape recounts the Decie family’s “glamping” holiday – camping from the “comfort” of…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Time And Relative Dimensions In Strips – Looking Back on Over 50 Years of ‘Doctor Who’ in Comics

  • by Tony Ingram
  • April 12, 2017

With the tenth series of the relaunched Doctor Who debuting this Saturday on the BBC, Broken Frontier’s Tony Ingram looks back today on over 50 years of the good Doctor’s…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 12, 2017 – Collecting Sticks, Helena Crash, Babybel Wax Bodysuit, Godshaper and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 11, 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 or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Collecting Sticks – Go Glamping with the Decies in this Autobio/Fantasy Hybrid from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2017

Collecting Sticks is the perfect showcase offering for the singular talents of this most distinctive practitioners of autobio comics. I will confess to never having heard the term “glamping” before…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Elbows & Breath #1 – Ben Sharpe Provides a Quietly Despairing Visual Soliloquy on the Daily Commute to Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2017

A seat for him and a seat for his bag. People watching films on their tablets at full volume with no headphones on. The person sitting opposite who never once…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Katzine: The Factory Issue – Katriona Chapman’s Beautiful Reminder of How Diversity in the Workplace Enriches Us All

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 5, 2017

Katzine: The Factory Issue marks something of a departure for Katriona Chapman’s popular semi-regular autobio collection of comics, articles and illustrations. For the first time in the publication’s 7-issue history…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 5, 2017 – 50, Black Cloud, Kim Reaper, Kill Shakespeare, Pantheon and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 4, 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 or digital storefront, the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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‘Medieval Comics’ Exhibition at Orbital – Karrie Fransman’s Collaboration with King’s College London Results in a Fascinating Series of Historical Literary Re-Creations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2017

The gallery space in London’s Eisner Award-winning Orbital Comics has hosted a number of must-see exhibitions over the last few years. Some of them have been topical and covered more recognisable,…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Dirty Rotten Comics #9 – Slice-of-Life, Horror, Comedy, Visual Poetry and More in Another Top Edition of the Throwaway Press Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2017

We all know by now that if you want an all-encompassing sampler of the breadth and diversity of the ever vibrant small press publishing scene in the UK (and beyond!)…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Day 2017 Announced for Saturday July 8th – Celebrate Comics and Self-Publishing at Shops and Events Across the UK and Ireland!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2017

It’s back! After a hugely successful first day in 2016, Small Press Day returns on Saturday July 8th. The SPD team of Amneet Johal of the Alternative Press, David Ziggy…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 29, 2017 – Afar, Hillbilly, Lobster Johnson: The Pirate’s Ghost and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 28, 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 or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I’m Switching the Mute Button on Self-Doubt” – Jessica Martin on Crowdfunding Her Graphic Memoir ‘Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2017

Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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87,000 Steps: Five Days in Amsterdam – Kristyna Baczynski’s Warm and Welcoming Travelogue Proves to Be a Diary Comics Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2017

Diary comics, in all their varying forms, have often seemed to me to be an unfairly maligned subset of the autobio genre of comics so readily associated with the small…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Cosmos & Other Stories – Rozi Hathaway Explores Loneliness and Isolation in a Fragile and Beautiful Collection from Good Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2017

It’s been nearly three years since I first came across Rozi Hathaway’s work in the pages of Ravi Thornton’s multi-artist graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues and immediately marked her out…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for March 22, 2017 – Cosmos & Other Stories, Underwinter, The Interview, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 21, 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 or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Staring from the Hill – Norbert Rybarczyk’s Delightfully Bizarre Celebration of Friendship Pulses with Energy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2017

A delightfully bizarre celebration of friendship and the bonds of music. Engagingly chaotic and pulsing with energy. Sometimes it seems like Centrala are one of the best kept secrets on…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Flirting with Death – Rudra Purkayastha, Lyndon White and Paulina Vassileva Examine the Meaning of Life

  • by Matthew Box
  • March 17, 2017

In their self-published book Flirting with Death, writer Rudra Purkayastha and artists Lyndon White and Paulina Vassileva bring readers six thought-provoking and gorgeously-illustrated stories that teach us about Life. Just…

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