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Performance – Gender and Performativity Explored in One Beat Zines’ Vital Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…

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Thought Bubble 2016 – Where to Find Our ‘Six to Watch’ Creators and Where to Buy the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 2, 2016

Thought Bubble 2016 is nearly upon us and, with somewhere in the region of 440 tables across the three exhibitor areas, to say that punters will be spoilt for choice…

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Six Reasons Why You Should Back the ‘Performance’ Anthology by One Beat Zines

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2016

Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…

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Room – Brigid Deacon’s Existential Ruminations Underline Her Place as a Vital New Presence in UK Small Press Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 20, 2016

Depending on the reader’s preference Brigid Deacon’s Room could just as easily be classified as a zine as it is a minicomic. It comprises just three pages of comics and…

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Exclusive Preview: ‘Room’ and ‘read.me burn later’ – Two New Zines from Brigid Deacon Debut at BIF and DIY Cultures this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2016

It’s an intensely busy few days of comics events over the upcoming UK holiday weekend with at least five comics-related shows and fairs taking place across the country. Brigid Deacon, one…

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Satirical Strips and Alternate Realities – Revisiting the First Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2016

The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016 took place last night with a bumper batch of guests at our Save Our Souls special. Co-hosted by…

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Save Our Souls #1 – Graphic Reportage Sits Side-by-Side with Written Journalism in David Ziggy Greene’s Promising New Anthology Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2016

Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns on Feb 23rd with Guests Fumio Obata, Verity Glass, Sean Azzopardi, Brigid Deacon and Danny Noble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2016

It’s back! The Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on February 23rd at a new venue, upstairs in the famous Coach and Horses pub in Soho’s Greek Street. Last…

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘Off Life’ with Daniel Humphry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2016

Formed in 2012, free street press comics anthology Off Life looked to connect comics with an audience of readers unfamiliar with the potential of the form, and to also give…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2016 – Spotlighting the Work of Rebecca Bagley, Kim Clements, Brigid Deacon, Emily Rose Lambert, Jey Levang and Ellice Weaver

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2016

While we’re celebrating the announcement of the first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook (featuring the work of our ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’) it’s also time…

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Celebrating 2015: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2016

We’re a little later than usual this year with my annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up; a yearly feature celebrating the diversity and rude health of the…

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Identity – One Beat Zines Launch Their New Anthology at Thought Bubble Featuring 33 Women Creators Including Julia Scheele, Amneet Johal, Sabba Khan, Jess Milton, EdieOP and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2015

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Of all the relatively new players on the UK small press scene this year it’s probably Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s One Beat Zines who were…

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Zinewatch – A Round-Up of DIY Culture from Alys Jones, Alexandra Cook, Rozi Hathaway, Brigid Deacon and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2015

In the aligned worlds of self-publishing and DIY culture there’s a fertile cross-pollination between zine-making and comics creating. This column has never been shy about covering work that straddles both…

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Safari Showcase: EyeBall Comix Offer an Unashamedly Underground Antidote to ‘Waitrose Comics’

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 12, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Now I’m as keen as anyone to get comics to a wider readership, but while it’s great to see the form, ahem, representin’ in fancy bookshops…

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Bimba #2: Witchouse – Supernatural Anthology Offerings from Donya Todd, Emma Raby, Kristyna Baczynski, Brigid Deacon and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 30, 2015

Two years ago, Donya Todd established her A4-sized anthology Bimba as a platform for “kick-ass female artists”. From the outset the book had a sense of vibrant, defiant energy to…

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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…

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Coma Deep – The Mesmerisingly Oblique Storytelling of Brigid Deacon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2015

Brigid Deacon’s work has cropped up in a number of anthologies lately – from Eyeball Comix to the second issue of Donya Todd’s Bimba – and has immediately grabbed my…

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