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Cannabis: An American History – Graphic Journalism at Its Most Piercing and Commanding from Box Brown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2019

Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…

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I Feel Machine – Shaun Tan and Tillie Walden Are Among the Contributors to this Unsettling SelfMadeHero Anthology Exploring the Darker Side of Our Relationship with Technology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2019

Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…

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Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman – Box Brown Explores the Life of the Legendary Entertainer

  • by Robin Enrico
  • June 11, 2018

Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown is a graphic novel that should work, but on many levels does not. Which is perplexing as, given…

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Staff Picks for February 14, 2018 – Bingo Love, Total Jazz, kuš! comics, Kick-Ass and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 13, 2018

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, comics events or digital…

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Looking Back at Emerald City Comicon 2017 – ECCC Takes Artists to New Heights with an Artist Alley on the Sixth Floor

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • March 9, 2017

After yet another year of rapid growth at Emerald City Comicon that led to some reorganization of the show floor, including moving Artist Alley all the way up to the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Safari Showcase: Retrofit Comics Brings Some of the World’s Best Alt-Cartooning to London

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 20, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Retrofit Comics, a boutique publisher established by prolific cartoonist Box Brown via a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011….

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 15, 2015 – Island, An Entity Observes All Things, Dörfler and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 14, 2015

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Off Life #11 – The Emerging Talents of Darren Cullen, Brigid Deacon, Alex Potts, Grace Wilson and More Get a Welcome Anthology Spotlight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2015

If there’s one thing I have wanted to see more of in the nevertheless always very worthy free anthology Off Life in its short life to date then it’s been a greater…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Screwjob #1 – Hidden Fortress Press’s Frenzied Foray into the Wild World of Wrestling Featuring Box Brown, Josh Bayer and Mickey Zacchilli

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2015

Screwjob – the recent anthology comic from Rhode Island micropublisher Hidden Fortress Press – adopts a distinctly frenetic, in-yer-face attitude in its celebration of both the extreme showmanship and the…

New Physics by Box Brown (Yeah Dude Comics)

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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New Physics – Box Brown’s Risographed Zine Punches Above Its Weight in Style and Satire

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 29, 2014

Prolific cartoonist and publisher Box Brown takes time off from his Retrofit Comics duties to produce this exquisitely designed little poke at cults and social media for Yeah Dude Comics. Box…

Andre the Giant by Box Brown (First Second)

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Andre the Giant – Box Brown’s Labour of Love Is a Fitting Tribute to a Man Who Cast a Big Shadow

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 6, 2014

Box Brown brings his distinctive graphic style to a well-researched and entertaining biography of wrestling colossus Andre the Giant. When ah were a lad, growing up in northern England in…

'Kayfabe Quarterly' in Number 1 (Box Brown; Retrofit Comics)

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Number 1- Box Brown’s Touching Tale of Wrestling and Life is Another Winner from Retrofit Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 14, 2014

A young wrestling fan learns the hard way that you should never meet your heroes, in Box Brown’s entertaining latest addition to the Retrofit Comics line. So who says that…

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Why You Should Be Reading: Retrofit Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 6, 2013

One of the things that’s pleased me most about comics this year has been the discovery of small press subscription services. While the Internet makes it easy(-ish) to keep tabs…

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