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Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Hocus Pocus #5: Levitation – The Finale to Worth and Collver’s Paranormal Investigation Series Proves Its Eisner-Nominated Credentials

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2022

One of the great delights of this year’s Eisner nominations was the inclusion of small press comic Hocus Pocus on the ballot. An investigative series focussing on the history and…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Georgia O’Keeffe – Maria Herreros’ Graphic Biography Gets to the Wild, Brave Heart of this Legendary Painter

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 31, 2022

The newest edition to SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Georgia O’Keeffe is a graphic biography written and illustrated by Maria Herreros and translated from the Spanish edition from Astiberri Ediciones. The…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Death Threat – Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee Tackle the Subject of Transphobic Abuse with “a Compelling Act of Resistance”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2022

One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2022

“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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2000 AD Prog 2296 – Long May the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s All-Ages Regened Initiative Continue!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2022

It’s indicative of the current levels of entitled toxicity in certain demographics of UK fandom that although apparently consisting of some of the highest selling issues of the year 2000…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Salamanca Blues Part 1: Sand – Alba Ceide’s Latest Ecological Drama Marks Her First Longer-Form Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2022

With a timely relevance Alba Ceide’s Salamanca Blues Part 1 was recently launched on IndieGoGo, bringing her first longer-form work one step closer to a print edition. Part of Ceide’s…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Features · Small Pressganged

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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2022

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2022

While the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day adopted a hybrid approach for 2022 one online aspect we didn’t want to jettison was the popular one-tweet reviews on Twitter. Using…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Comics Are Just Unbelievably Elastic” – Emily McGovern Talks ‘Twelve Percent Dread’ from Dark Horse, Social Commentary, and Interweaving Plot Threads

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2022

This summer, Dark Horse Comics released Emily McGovern’s Twelve Percent Dread, a graphic novel that combines explorations of complex social issues with the everyday lives of its ensemble cast. The…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Exclusive Preview: Minor Threats #4 – Your First Look at Scott Hepburn’s Cover for the Fourth Issue of Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum’s Dark Horse Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 18, 2022

Another exclusive reveal treat courtesy of Dark Horse Comics today at Broken Frontier with this sneak peek at artist Scott Hepburn’s cover for December’s  Minor Threats #4. The series, written…

Blog · Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Day 2022 -The Seventh UK and Ireland SPD Brings People Together In-Person and Online in Its First Hybrid Incarnation

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 17, 2022

Small Press Day 2022 has come and gone but, as is custom at BF, we like to post a small online scrapbook of some of the events on the day…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Crossing Borders: Travels in Japan – Morag Kewell Takes Us on a Tour of the Sights in Another Enthusiastic Travel Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2022

Way back in 2011 when I first started focussing primarily on the UK small press comics scene at Broken Frontier self-published diary comics were very much the genre of the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Birds of Maine – Michael DeForge Takes a Successful Leap from Instagram to Paper, Thanks to D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 12, 2022

The handle ‘@birdsofmainecomic’ on Instagram has over 450 posts and a little over 7,400 followers. Each panel gets hundreds of likes, and Michael DeForge’s bio for the comic promises a…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab – Priya Huq’s Coming-of-Age Story Tackles Themes of Identity, Islamophobia and Family

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2022

Priya Huq’s debut graphic novel, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab, is a fine example of how the comics form so effectively brings us into the lived experiences…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Animal Stories – Peter and Maria Hoey Immerse Us Once Again in the Limitless Possibilities of Sequential Art as a Visual Language

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2022

If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…

Blog · Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’-Watch for August 2022 – Catching Up with the Latest Work from Creators in Our BF Mentoring Initiative Including Jem Milton, Danny Noble, Aleesha Nandhra and Norm Konyu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2022

With 8 years of creators featured in our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ initiative this feature is our semi-regular round-up of what our very talented #BF6toWatch…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Beano #4146 – Footballer and Guest Editor Marcus Rashford Visits Beanotown in an Issue that Emphasises the Comic’s Inclusive and Socially Relevant Credentials

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2022

In comics you know you’re doing good work if you’re an object of both right-wing tabloid newspaper scorn and the ire of a certain demographic of angry middle-aged white men…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Talk to My Back – Yamada Murasaki Offers Subversive Slices of Women’s Domestic Lives, Via D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2022

In 2017, Martine van Elk, professor of English at California State University, published a comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It documented responses by women to…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories – Rumi Hara Shares Visions of a Strange and Sublime World, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 3, 2022

Storytellers use the world they inhabit to shape the stories they choose to tell. When looked at from this perspective, there is nothing particularly weird about Rumi Hara’s stories, despite…

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