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There is No Alternative – Ed Firth Provides a Number of Emotionally Charged Vignettes in this Queer Comics Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the vein of his NP zine (reviewed here at Broken Frontier a few months back) Ed Firth’s new queer comics short…

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Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard Recapture the Magic of Rogue’s ‘2000 AD’ Glory Days in a Twisting Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2024

It would be impossible to talk about Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard’s Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – the hardcover collection of the recent serialised 2000 AD story – without some…

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The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding – A Riveting Account of One of the First Female Philosophers from Barbara Stok and SelfMadeHero

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 4, 2024

Picture the scene: it’s Ancient Greece, in the fourth century BCE. Young Hipparchia has one aim in mind; to marry into a prominent family and become even richer. Little does…

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Boxes #2 – ThirdBear Press’s Impressive Second Anthology Features Work from Kamila Krol and Manon Wright

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! What I continue to find so inspiring about ThirdBear Press’s Boxes is the way in which it blends the finest qualities of…

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Colossive Cartographies #58 – Tal Brosh Contemplates the Poignancy of ‘Loose Ends’ in this Affecting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Earlier this week we took a look at another of the recent releases from the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies range of fold-out…

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The Stranger #1 – Philipson, Patricks and Baker Subvert the Secret Identity Staple of Super-Heroics with an Intriguing Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! When it launched on Kickstarter earlier this year The Stranger – written by 2024 Broken Frontier Six to Watch creator Tom Philipson…

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Erased – Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol Take on Hollywood’s Historical Revisionism with a Fictional Account of an Actor of Colour

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 28, 2024

One of the most troubling notions to emerge from a reading of Loo Hui Phang’s powerful new graphic novel Erased: An Actor of Colour’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood,…

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Hotelitor – Josh Hicks Introduces Us to the Luxury Class Defense and Hospitality Unit in this Cleverly Plotted Sci-Fi Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! My first exposure to Josh Hicks’s Hotelitor was as a diagrammatic cutaway print at the Brighton Illustration Fair some years ago. It…

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Colours Side A – A Poetic, Eccentric Dual Narrative from Nev Bamshew

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 27, 2024

Colours Side A, a self-published project from creator Nev Bamshew, is not your typical indie comic. I realised this when I received not only my copy of the book, but…

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Jackeline’s Jacket – The Unlimited Imagination of Alba Ceide Prevails in this Wildly Energetic Science Fantasy Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Last year when I reviewed the WIP Comics anthology Change at Broken Frontier I remarked on how Alba Ceide’s story Jackeline’s Jacket…

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Colossive Cartographies #57 – Beatty Hallas Provides Strategies to Cope When We Are ‘In a Rage’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2024

As regular readers will be aware the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series gives creators from a vast range of disciplines an opportunity to present their practice to both established and…

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Murdervale – The Hell of Daily Life Becomes Something Far More Literal in Vicente Cifuentes’ Horror Story from Dark Horse

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 20, 2024

“What if by trying to escape the hell of daily life, you’ve instead actually entered hell?”. The tagline on Dark Horse’s website to promote their newest supernatural horror compendium Murdervale…

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The Night Never Ends – Get Ready for the Spooky Season with New Horror Comedy from Steve Thueson and Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 19, 2024

“Why go to the movies when you can read a horror comic?!”. This absolute belter of a quote from Caroline Cash stands out against the black background of the cover…

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Star of Swan – Margot Ferrick Provides a Timely Reflection on Parasocial Connections

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2024

Margot Ferrick’s Star of Swan leans heavily into that unlikely truth in visual storytelling that anthropomorphised characters allow us important insights into the human condition by, ironically, the stripping of…

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My Mum is a Wolf – Shuning Ji Explores a Toxic Mother-Daughter Relationship in this Outstanding Piece of Visual Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2024

You may already recognise Shuning Ji’s name from the Catalyst comics anthology published by SelfMadeHero a couple of years back. That book was the result of their Graphic Anthology Programme…

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Hate Revisited! #1-2 – Buddy Bradley and Company’s Return is a Bleakly Funny Triumph from Peter Bagge and Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2024

When Fantagraphics teased us with the unexpected return of Peter Bagge’s Hate series back in February for many it will have undoubtedly been one of the comics announcements of the…

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Absolute Simultaneity – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Tap into the Anxiety of our Zeitgeist

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 7, 2024

There’s something comforting about artists choosing to publish what they want, without worrying about whether established publishers will put their weight behind it. Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s latest…

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Everything Sucks and Everything Sucks: All Cats Go to Hell! – A Hilarious Low Stakes Alt Comic from Michael Sweater and Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 6, 2024

I had no idea what to expect when I picked up the first two volumes of Everything Sucks from Michael Sweater and Silver Sprocket. Sure, the covers are pretty jazzy;…

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