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What If… UK Small Press Creators Worked on DC Characters? – 12 Comics/Artist Match-Ups We’d All Like to See!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2022

A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…

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10 UK Small Press Horror Comics for Halloween – Including Work by Sarah Gordon, Douglas Noble, Sean Azzopardi, Sammy Ward and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 26, 2021

With Halloween imminent what better way to celebrate the spooky season than with some fearsome, fight-filled horror comics from the UK small press scene. All of these comics are either…

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Read the Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics Small Press Day Dream-Themed Collaborative Comic Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2019

Over the course of Small Press Day we’ll be uploading pages from the special dream-themed collborative comic being put together by Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics from the amazing line-up…

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Babyface – Alice Urbino’s Signature Line in Body Horror Poignantly Touches on Familiar Themes of Identity and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2019

Hot on the heels of her recent minicomic Blindenhund comes Babyface, another enticingly macabre graphic medicine/body horror hybrid comic from the distinctive vision of original Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press…

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Blindenhund – The Eerie Worlds of Alice Urbino Revisited in a Minicomic Tale of the Strangest of Friendships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2019

While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…

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The Inking Woman – 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain Celebrated in Myriad’s Essential Reference Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2018

Last year, London’s Cartoon Museum was home to ‘The Inking Woman‘ – undoubtedly one of its most acclaimed exhibitions to date – tracing the history of women cartoonists over the…

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Celebrating World Book Day UK 2017 – Top Graphic Novel Recommendations from Tillie Walden, Jock, Karrie Fransman, Donya Todd and Many More!

  • by EdieOP
  • March 2, 2017

World Book Day is celebrating its 20th year in the UK today. For two decades it has revered the wonder of stories and illustrations; a day where readers of all ages can…

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Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine – CBSP and Avery Hill Bring Us New Astral Adventures for Greasy and Friends

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2017

If Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine had been a 1970s Marvel comic it would have had the words “Because you demanded it!” slapped all across its cover. As…

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Greasy’s Guide to Nookie – Comic Book Slumber Party Return with an “Alternative Sex Education” Featuring Work from Lottie Pencheon, Eleni Kalorkoti, Lizzy Stewart and Jess Milton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2016

After their British Comic Awards nomination for Fairytales for Bad Bitches it seemed a given that the Comic Book Slumber Party collective would return to their signature character Greasy with…

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Broken Frontier Launch at London’s Gosh! Comics – BF Anthology and Small Press Yearbook Creators Get Their Moment in the Spotlight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2016

Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…

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BF Small Press Yearbook: Alice Urbino – “I Genuinely Love Every Person I Have Met through this”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2016

The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this week featuring…

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Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – Pre-Orders Now Open!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2016

100 pages. 18 creators. Boundless talent. Unless you boarded, bagged and packed yourself away in a longbox at the end of last year then you’ll be aware that the debut…

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Prince Charmless, Pachyderms and Embarrassing Illnesses – Revisiting the Second Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 5, 2016

It was all about the awards when it came to our fantastic foursome of celebrated guest artists at last night’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw… To start with,…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns on April 4th with Guests Robert M. Ball, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Alice Urbino and Danny Noble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 28, 2016

We’re back! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on April 4th, this time at The Royal George pub at 133 Charing Cross Road. Our second meet-up of 2016 is…

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Announcing the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – Championing our 2015 ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch’ in Print!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2016

Last night at London’s Gosh! Comics a very special announcement was made to the sell-out audience at the Broken Frontier special edition of the monthly Laydeez do Comics meeting. We’re…

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Exclusive Preview: Greasy’s Guide to Nookie – Get a Sneak Peek at BCA-Nominated Comic Book Slumber Party’s New Anthology Debuting at Thought Bubble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2015

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Comic Book Slumber Party are the self-styled “international girl gang of comic creators” whose Fairytales for Bad Bitches (reviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year)…

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Small Press Inside Look – Alice Urbino on Her Self-Published Series ‘Dimension’ and Her Graphic Medicine Comics Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 15, 2015

Alice Urbino‘s powerful use of visual metaphor in comics to explore mood and state of mind so captured my imagination when I reviewed her self-published series Dimension that she immediately…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Alice Urbino

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2015

Our ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’ coverage resumes today as I chat with Alice Urbino, an artist whose work in the graphic medicine strand of comics…

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