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Afterwords – Gareth Brookes Revisits the Worlds of ‘The Black Project’ and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ in this Playfully Dystopian One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2018

When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…

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A Thousand Coloured Castles – Graphic Medicine Meets Twee Middle Class Suburbia in Gareth Brookes’s Darkly Comedic Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! This re-imagining of twee middle class suburbia, as seen through the fractured lens of a distinctively Brookesian eyeglass, is a visual triumph. There are things we have come…

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“It’s True that I Despise All Humanity but People as Individuals Are Always Beautiful to a Degree” – Gareth Brookes on Experimentation, the Zine Scene and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! The winner of the very first Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition for his debut book The Black Project, Gareth Brookes is an artist whose reach straddles both the…

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Staff Picks for April 26, 2017 – A Thousand Coloured Castles, Roughneck, An Exorcism, Aliens: Dead Orbit and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2017

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…

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