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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…
That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…
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On those occasions where I am diverted by dreamy deliberations on how I would spend an ever elusive major lottery win my thoughts are drawn not just to which talented…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! With just a few days to go, one of the great unexpected treats of this year’s Thought Bubble debut books list was my discovery last week that…
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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…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Dan White is a master storyteller on two main fronts. Let’s start with the first of those qualities and White’s marked ability to so empathetically portray the…
It’s nearly Halloween which means our penultimate Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is here! And, as ever, we have a line-up of the most utterly splendid guest…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sometimes deadlines exist to be broken. In the run-up to this year’s Thought Bubble we set cut-off dates for review requests but left the door open…
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Hot on the heels of this week’s Broken Frontier Awards announcements comes our sixth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’. Despite this edition…
FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Without even a shadow of a doubt, one of the true annual treats of the small press year is new Cindy and Biscuit material from artist Dan White…
It’s impossible to read Dan White’s Cindy & Biscuit and not fall in love with this painfully yet beautifully poignant story of a lonely but fierce little girl, her faithful canine…
Some things bear repeating even if they’ve been said many times before. Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit is the best all-ages comic series I have reviewed in five-plus years of…
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It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up until…
Last Saturday Broken Frontier was honoured to be part of the SMASH event hosted at the Barbican Library by CityRead London, the London Graphic Novel Network and Comica Festival. In a packed…
One angry little girl, her brave and resilient dog, and the constant threat of werewolves, ghosts and alien conquerors. Welcome to the world of Cindy and Biscuit. If you’re a…
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
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 ThinkingMarch 22, 2022
