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Comica Festival 2024 Features Three Panel Events at the Century Club and Includes BF ‘Six to Watch’ Creators Shangomola Edunjobi and Shanti Rai

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Comica Festival makes a very welcome return for 2024 with three panel talks at the Century Club in London. We are, understandably,…

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Special Half Price Tickets Offer for Broken Frontier Readers for the Lucie Arnoux and Lucy Sullivan Comica Festival Event on Thursday March 23rd

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2023

With the Comica Festival 20th anniversary celebrations continuing apace this month we have a very special opportunity for Broken Frontier readers! This Thursday March 23rd sees another of the Comica…

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Rozi Hathaway Joins Comica Comiket Drawing Parade Line-Up – Watch Our Small Press Yearbook Creator in Action on Saturday

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2016

The indie comics fair Comica Comiket returns this Saturday 14th May as part of the final weekend celebrations for the House of Illustration’s Comix Creatrix exhibition with one of its great traditions…

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Broken Frontier Comes to Comiket as Comica Weekender Brings the House of Illustration’s Comix Creatrix Exhibition to a Close

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2016

The first Comiket independent comics fair since 2014 comes to the House of Illustration and London’s Central Saint Martins college on Saturday May 14th as part of an extensive Comica Weekender…

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Craig Thompson Interviewed by Paul Gravett at the British Library Tonight Monday March 21st – Tickets Still Available!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2016

A reminder that tonight at the British Library Paul Gravett – author/co-author of Broken Frontier Award-winning books Comics Art and Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK – will be in conversation with…

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S.M.A.S.H. – Free London Panel Event this Sat November 7th Includes Guests Karrie Fransman, Steven Appleby, Gareth Brookes, Paul Gravett, David Hine, Frazer Irving and BF’s Andy Oliver

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 2, 2015

This Saturday November 7th sees not one, not two, but three expert panels on the world of comics for this year’s S.M.A.S.H. event at the Barbican Library, part of Comica…

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Isabel Greenberg, Emily Carroll and Digital Comics – There’s Still Time to Book for the Final Comica Festival Autumn 2014 Events!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2014

As this year’s Autumn strand of Comica programming comes to a close, a reminder that there’s still time to make those final festival events! Tonight, Tuesday 18th November, sees Isabel…

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This Week at Comica Festival – Don’t Miss Two Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunities to Encounter the Genius of Tardi in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2014

The genius of French artist Tardi is celebrated this week at Comica Festival with two events. On Monday night (10 November), Pat Mills, writer of the classic Charley’s War, will…

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‘What Makes a Cult Comic?’ – Don’t Miss the Comica Festival Panel at Foyles on Friday 7th November with ILYA, Carol Swain, Rob Davis, Paul B. Rainey and Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2014

The next Comica Festival Conversation arrives tomorrow evening – Friday 7 November – at London’s Foyles bookstore when, in conjunction with Broken Frontier, four very distinctive graphic novelists will be discussing…

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S.M.A.S.H. at the Barbican Library on Saturday November 15th – Comica Festival and the London Graphic Novel Network Team Up for a Day of Free Comics Panels

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! If you’re going to be in the London area over the middle weekend of November and are already imagining that it’s going to be two drawn-out…

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Next Week at Comica Festival – Darryl Cunningham Talks ‘Supercrash’ with Danny Dorling, plus Swain, Davis, ILYA and Rainey Ask ‘What Makes a Cult Comic?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2014

Two cracking Comica Conversations take place next week as part of the ongoing series of Comica Festival programming for this Autumn – events that we have been supporting with a…

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This Weekend’s Comica Comiket Postponed Until Spring 2015 – A Full Statement from the Comica Festival Team Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2014

Over the weekend news broke that the Comica Festival Comiket – the twice yearly fair showcasing UK independent, micro and self-published comics due to be held at Central Saint Martins…

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Junko Mizuno at Comica Festival – The Queen of Creepy Manga Kicks Off a Packed 2014 Autumn Programme of Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 25, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Comica Festival kicked off this week with two events revolving around the dark fantasy worlds of Junko Mizuno, the Queen of Creepy Manga herself. On Monday…

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Thunder Brother: Soap Division #1-6 – Paul B. Rainey Asks “What if Your Favourite Soap Operas Were Real?”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 22, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! What if the fictional soap opera worlds that are beamed into our homes several times a week were anything but? What would happen if, instead, they…

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Comica@BrokenFrontier – Catch Up Daily with all Our Comica Festival 2014 Coverage Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2014

All our Comica Festival articles in one place here! Comica Festival’s autumn programming began on Monday 20th October, in London, with the opening of the Belle: The Art of Junko…

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“A Sense of Social Justice Does Motivate Much of My Work” – Darryl Cunningham Discusses ‘Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Over the last few years Darryl Cunningham has established himself as one of the most vital and important voices in British comics. As recognition of the…

Way Out Strips by Carol Swain (Tragedy Strikes Press)

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Lives on the Edge – 25 Years in the Rich and Textured World of Carol Swain

  • by Tom Murphy
  • October 17, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! I’m not sure many creators set out hoping to be a ‘cult’ success, but I guess there are worse places you could end up. British cartoonist…

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The Motherless Oven – A Graphic Novel from Rob Davis that Shines, Disturbs, Questions, and Rocks!

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • October 16, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Rob Davis offers a soul-searching black and white masterpiece of dysfunction and fulfillment. With credits such as “How I Built My Father,” “My Family and Other…

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