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Candy, Andy & the Bearandas – Gerry Anderson, 1960s Photocomics and a Bizarre Cross-Species Blended Family Feature in this Forgotten Moment in British Comics History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2024

The 1960s weekly Candy comic may have been a bizarre footnote in the history of both British comics and Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 productions, but there’s something so…

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Some Thoughts on Toxic Fandom in British Comics – Or Why the UK Comics Industry is Right to Unshackle Itself from What Amounts to Comicsgate-Style Thinking

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2022

Given that Broken Frontier is a site with a self-proclaimed mission to promote the positive aspects of the UK comics world and its supportive indie community, what follows may seem…

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New UK Government and Parliament Petition Asks for Comics to Be Given the Same Arts Funding as Opera

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 26, 2019

Initiated by comics creator Sean Michael Wilson (writer of the upcoming The Many Not the Few from New Internationalist, illustrated by Robert Brown) a new petition on the UK Government…

Map of Days by Robert Hunter (Nobrow Press)

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Map of Days

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 19, 2013

Ambitious storytelling meets exquisite design in Robert Hunter’s lovely fable, marking another triumph for Nobrow Press. Emerging graphic novelist Robert Hunter and the design-led British publisher Nobrow got to know…

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The Avengers: Earth’s Most Stylish Heroes

  • by Tony Ingram
  • June 3, 2013

There are plenty of heroes and groups of heroes in fiction, but few as innovative, as unusual or with just so much pure class as the Avengers, created way back…

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