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Section: Eyecatcher

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Fires Above Hyperion

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Fires Above Hyperion – Patrick Atangan Explores Twenty Years of Dating in the City of Angels in a Darkly Comic Graphic Memoir

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • October 7, 2015

The Eisner-nominated creator of Invincible Days turns a fearless, often ironic eye, on his own dating life – a twenty-year odyssey delving into his difficulties finding love as a gay…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for October 7, 2015 – The Story of My Tits, Rabbit Thoughts, Survivors’ Club, Paper Girls, Oyster War, Bitch Planet and Doctor Strange

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 6, 2015

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…

The New Deal

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The New Deal – Jonathan Case Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple in His Depression-Era Heist Tale

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • October 5, 2015

Light-hearted but infused with an insistent social conscience, Jonathan Case’s stunning journey behind the scenes of the fabled Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1936 New York City reveals a sordid underbelly…

Lone Sloane by Philippe Druillet

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Philippe Druillet’s Classic ‘The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane’ Will Blow Your Mind as the Cosmic Game is Afoot

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 2, 2015

The genius of Philippe Druillet finally penetrates the English-language market courtesy of UK publisher Titan comics. Druillet makes comics torn from the heart of the universe. Created in 1966 by…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Rabbit Thoughts – Kim Clements’ Remarkable First Solo Comic Has a Poignant Fragility and a Haunting Beauty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 1, 2015

CELEBRATING BCZF! “Everything happy seems to happen without me…” Such simple, plaintive, but heartrending words positively abound in Rabbit Thoughts, the debut solo print comic from rising star Kim Clements. In…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for September 30, 2015 – Becoming Unbecoming, From Under Mountains, Long Red Hair, 2000 AD and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 29, 2015

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…

The New Deal p.16

Eyecatcher · Features

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Jonathan Case Tells Us about Bringing Style, Substance, and Humor to His Latest Creator-Owned Graphic Novel, ‘The New Deal’

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • September 28, 2015

Jonathan Case has made a name for himself in recent years as one of the more versatile creators working in comics. Although known for critically-acclaimed creator-owned work in Dear Creature and…

Terror Assaulter: OMWOT by Benjamin Marra (Fantagraphics Books)

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T. – Benjamin Marra Blasts Out a Hilariously OTT Take on the American Action Hero

  • by Tom Murphy
  • September 25, 2015

Benjamin Marra makes some stinging satirical points in Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T. – if you can wipe the tears of laughter from your eyes for long enough to find them. Benjamin…

Le Voyage des pères by David Ratte

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Le Voyage des Pères – David Ratte Turns the Pilgrimage of the Fathers of the Apostles into a Hilarious Buddy Road Movie

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 25, 2015

The idea is so simple that I just slapped my face in recognition of its genius once I read David Ratte’s Le Voyage des pères (The Pilgrimage of the Fathers)…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Experiment – Irish Collective Stray Lines Debut an Impressive Anthology with Work from Debbie Jenkinson, Katherine Foyle, Alan Dunne and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2015

CELEBRATING BCZF! Experiment is the first collection of comics by Stray Lines who describe themselves as “a collective of Irish and Irish based illustrators and comics artists dedicated to incubating…

Infinitum

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Infinitum – GMB Chomichuk’s Collage of Paradoxes Transcends the Bottleneck of Time-Travel Comics with Fearless Originality

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • September 23, 2015

Using his signature multimedia approach to sublime effect, Winnipeg creator GMB Chomichuk puts his distinctive, insightful stamp on one of science fiction’s most overwrought conventions, with craft and style. A…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for September 23, 2015 – Ruins, The New Deal, Lose, Dressing, Lovelace and Babbage, Exit Generation and Schmuck

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 22, 2015

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…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Bristol Comic and Zine Fair with Simon Moreton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 21, 2015

CELEBRATING BCZF! The Autumn months in the UK are synonymous with festival season for comics enthusiasts with LICAF, Thought Bubble and the Comica Festival programming all being regular calendar fixtures at…

The Assault by Milan Hulsing

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Milan Hulsing Talks About His OGN ‘De Aanslag’ (‘The Assault’): “I Tried to Add an Expressionistic Layer That Represents the Dark Side of the Story”

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 18, 2015

Milan Hulsing is Holland’s best kept creative secret. He is an industrial and innovative creator who approaches each project from a unique perspective. His last graphic novel was an adaptation…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Fütchi Perf – The Kids are Alright in Kevin Czap’s Immersive Comics ‘Concept Album’. Aren’t They?

  • by Tom Murphy
  • September 17, 2015

In Fütchi Perf, Kevin Czap takes us on a thought-provoking trip to harmonious near-future Cleveland, where cultural consensus has created what looks like a progressive paradise. Whenever I try to explain to my…

Exit Generation by Sam Read & Caio Oliviera (ComixTribe)

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Exit Generation #1 – Sam Read and Caio Oliveira’s Punk Sci-Fi Drama Rockets from the Streets to the Stars

  • by Paul Mirek
  • September 16, 2015

Sci-fi fans are used to visions of the future that are less than ideal. Sam Read and Caio Oliveira’s Exit Generation pivots the other way, imagining a future that’s truly a…

Tet #1 (Paul Allor and Paul Tucker; IDW)

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Tet #1 – Paul Allor and Paul Tucker’s Hard-Boiled Period Thriller Immerses the Reader in One of Modern History’s Most Divisive Conflicts

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • September 14, 2015

  For years, the horrors of the Vietnam War were broadcast into the homes of Americans, giving them a shocking glimpse into the horrors of modern warfare and causing an…

Camping Paraiso by Légendre & Rouffa

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Marc Légendre & Marcel Rouffa Present a Stylish and Psychedelic Seventies Thriller in ‘Camping Paraiso’

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 11, 2015

Leading a life of self-imposed exile on the abandoned campsite Camping Paraiso, in the icy northern wastes of Canada, Dylan’s life is shaken up when he receives an unexpected visitor in the…

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