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It’s been a little while since we reviewed the first chapter of Prismatik Man at Broken Frontier. The eagerly anticipated second issue of Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Decadence Comics series made its…
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In a Stathis Tsemberlidis comic, narrative is almost secondary to the pure immersive visual experience the reader finds themselves engulfed by. Hisashi, his latest offering under the Decadence banner, is…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s been a few months since we last reviewed a Decadence book (Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Binary Decay last Autumn) but those perennial ELCAF favourites will be exhibiting again this…
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Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we spoke in great depth about Decadence Comics here when our Tom Baker explored the work of Decadence artists Lando and Stathis Tsemberlidis. Tom spoke…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! A drawing of a person is not a person. It might be recognisable as a representation of a person, but the complex systems of tissue and bone and…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Stathis Tsemberlidis is one half of the Decadence Comics team alongside artist Lando (Gardens of Glass, Stones in Focus) – a micropublishing duo who have put out…
ELCAF WEEK! Although I covered the last issue of the Decadence anthology here at BF last summer it’s been a couple of years since I last took a look at…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For well over a decade Decadence Comics have been showcasing their own particular brand of socio-political sci-fi, with their eponymous anthology comic acting as the micropublisher’s flagship…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As all regular Broken Frontier readers will know by now, Safari Festival is coming this Saturday August 27th. But before the big day there are a number…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! This week’s BF Staff Picks is slightly different from our…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Safari is coming this weekend and festival organisers Breakdown Press have a bumper batch of new releases to celebrate. We’ll be previewing those titles this week at…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on August 23rd. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
Hepatic Portal collects seven short stories by Emix Regulus, a creator whose work you may be familiar with from anthologies like the free street press paper Off Life or acclaimed…
Published last year by Breakdown Press, Gardens of Glass – Lando’s retrospective collection of short story strips from the last few years of Decadence Comics – explores “ideas of human…
It’s almost 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, BF…
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