ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Tara Booth’s haunting Nocturne combines themes of mental health, consent and sexuality in a vividly realised episode where the boundaries between dreamscape and reality become indistinguishable. Following a…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
Gina Wynbrandt’s collection of magical realist autobiographical comics Someone Please Have Sex with Me from 2dcloud is a unique take on the genre. While the protagonist of her stories is always…
The task of the memoirist is much like that of any documentarian; sorting through millions of moments to edit and frame them for the audience. Laura Lannes’ By Monday I’ll…
Horror, as we’re often told, is a safe space to explore the things that scare us. You sit in a cinema, read a book, play a videogame that gently guides…
For people who have trouble fitting in, the issue is sometimes very literal. Social anxiety arises from, or exacerbates, a feeling of being physically incapable of comfortably occupying a space,…
Every fortnight-(ish) we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The ever experimental Minneapolis micropublisher 2dcloud are on the exhibitor line-up at this year’s Safari Festival and we’re previewing some of the new books they’ll have on show…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s always exciting when international publishers with an ethos that you especially respect and admire make a rare festival visit to the UK. The inclusion of the ever…
Co-published by 2D Cloud and Uncivilized Books, Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories compiles nearly 400 pages of MariNaomi’s autobiographical comic strips, for the main part originally published online on…
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It’s been a while since I last covered the work of Noah Van Sciver in this column. On that occasion it was Deep in the Woods – also from the folk…
Perception is the key word when approaching Christopher Adams’s Strong Eye Contact, published by the always intriguing Minneapolis micropress outfit 2D Cloud. On a surface level it’s a collection of…
Anna Bongiovanni’s Out of Hollow Water, published by U.S. micropublisher 2D Cloud, contains three thematically intertwined short stories that fuse the otherworldly and the ethereal with the most oppressive elements…
The triumphant rise of both the micropublisher and the small press collective as viable models for distributing and nurturing new talent has been one of the most exciting developments in…
Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…
“Colour is All About Contrast (or Lack of It)” – An Interview with Brecht Evens on His Latest Work from Drawn & QuarterlyJune 18, 2021
“The Central Conflict in Any Artist’s Life is Inherently Compromise” – Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Talk About ‘Everyone Is Tulip’ from Dark Horse ComicsJune 11, 2021
“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+QMay 31, 2021
“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & QuarterlyMay 24, 2021
“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in LockdownMay 19, 2021
