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Section: Features

Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.

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“The Emotions All Hit Me After I Released ‘Daddy'” – Beatrice Mossman on Tactile Presentation in Comics, Allegorical Narrative, and the Sensitivity of Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2023

Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…

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“I Always Think that Humor is the Best Way to Get Any Message Across” – Eric Nguyen on Subverting a Narrative Trope in ‘White Savior’ from Dark Horse

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2023

Out this week from Dark Horse Comics, Eric Nguyen and Scott Burman’s White Savior takes a deeply problematic cinematic standard and puts a new and very distinct spin on it….

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Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as Genderqueer

  • by Will Betke-Brunswick
  • January 17, 2023

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and themes…

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Celebrating 2022 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2023

A little later than usual – and I must admit I nearly stepped back from this annual tradition this year – but we have been running these ‘Ten UK Small…

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“I Am My Favourite Subject” –  Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 12, 2023

It’s always difficult to predict what Paul B. Rainey will decide to work upon next. His history in comics is so varied and intriguing that it sometimes feels as if…

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Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! To mark Broken Frontier’s 20th anniversary we invited the comics community to give a shout-out to a creator or project they first discovered through BF. In…

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“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Back in the day Sean Azzopardi was the very first person I got to know when my comics coverage shifted dramatically from the US genre comics…

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“It Exists to Perpetually Publish Cool Comics” – Zach Clemente on the Ethos and Philosophy of Bulgilhan Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Micropublishers who bring exciting new talents to a broader readership and appreciate just how diverse approaches to the comics page have a parallel mission to ours…

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Inside Look: Salamanca Blues – Alba Ceide Gives Us an Intimate Insight into Her Creative Process on ‘Salamanca Blues’

  • by Alba Ceide
  • November 4, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! As part of our 20th birthday celebrations we’ve been running a number of creator pieces from our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists past and present…

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“We Make Art Because We Must. We Make Art to Push Back. We Make Art to Question Authority” – Tony Wolf Introduces His ‘Tales From The Wolf’ Anthology Collecting 15 Years of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 3, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! One of the undeniable pleasures of an operation like BF is seeing artists that we have either directly championed or who are associated with the site…

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Inside Look: The Dog and the Cat – Dominique Duong Gives Us a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Her Ignatz-Nominated Queer Asian Romance

  • by Dominique Duong
  • November 3, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! We continue our series of ‘Inside Look’ creator commentaries today at BF celebrating both our ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and our 20th anniversary. Today’s subject is…

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“The Best Titles Begin with an Inspired Editor at the Helm” – The Legendary Shelly Bond Talks Vertigo, Black Crown and Off Register Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 3, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! As we approach the end of our 20th anniversary celebrations at BF we have a very special interview to take us into the last couple of…

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Inside Look: Neurotic Fiction #1 – Joe Stone Talks About the Creative Process Behind His Darkly Comedic Anthology

  • by Joe Stone
  • November 2, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In another of our creator commentary ‘Inside Looks’ to celebrate Broken Frontier’s 20th anniversary Joe Stone guides us through the pages of his comic Neurotic Fiction #1….

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“It’s a Hobby that Got Out of Control” – To Mark Avery Hill’s 10th Anniversary Co-Publisher Ricky Miller Looks Back on 10 Landmark AHP Releases

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 2, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! It’s an amazing thing to be there at the beginning of an ongoing comics journey that leads to ever more exciting destinations. We have been following…

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“Self-Publishing is Political in Nature Because Taking Control of the Means of Production is a Radical Act” – Simon Moreton Talks Autobio, Supporting Grassroots Creators, and Why Creating Art Should Be a Right Not a Privilege

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! The practice of Simon Moreton may have evolved into a more multi-media incarnation but his place in the UK comics community over the last decade has…

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“The Move Away from Hetero White Boys/Men is the Most Positive Aspect of Comics Since I Started Doing This” – Andy Brown Talks About the History and Ethos of Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Publishers with an eclectic catalogue of comics work always appeal to us here at BF, and publishers with a consistently excellent eclectic catalogue of comics work all…

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Inside Look: Zines, Secrets, and Loneliness – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on the Recent Autobiographical Zines and Comics of R. E. Burke

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • October 31, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Perhaps unsurprisingly many of our team at Broken Frontier are hugely talented artists in their own right. Over the last few years such luminaries of the…

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“They’re Like My Children” – An Interview with Sourya, Creator of ‘Talli: Daughter of the Moon’

  • by François Vigneault
  • October 31, 2022

Sourya is a French-Laotian manga artist who lives and works in Paris. The first volume of his ongoing fantasy series Talli: Daughter of the Moon arrived in stores on October…

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