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    Dark & Golden Books Debut Three New Titles at Thought Bubble 2024 – Includes Work from Dave Gibbons, Kevin Woodcock and ‘A Little Book of Comic Shop Price Stickers’

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • November 4, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Dark & Golden Books breathe new life into comics ephemera, bringing the esoteric and the forgotten to new audiences. Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble’s wonderful publishing…

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    Shuk & Doode – Forgotten Comic Art from Simon Harrison Brought Back to Demonic Life by Dark & Golden

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 30, 2023

    Douglas Noble and Tom Oldham’s Dark & Golden publishing imprint is owed more attention than we have given it to date. Shining a light in the largely forgotten or obscure…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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    A Pocket Chiller: I Remain a Stranger – Douglas Noble & Robert Wells’ Horror Short is a Winning Combo of Form and Atmosphere

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 24, 2022

    One of the things I learnt a long time ago about Douglas Noble collaborations is that the reader should never make assumptions about the particular creative alchemy going on behind…

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    New Publishing Imprint Dark & Golden Books to Publish Forgotten Classics of British Comics, Starting with Kevin O’Neill’s ‘Mek Memoirs’

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • March 17, 2022

    Dark & Golden Books is a new imprint “dedicated to charting a less travelled course through the history of British comics, finding and celebrating mislaid and forgotten classics for the…

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    A Pocket Chiller: Ripple in the Dark – Mark Stafford Joins Douglas Noble in Another One-Shot Journey Into the Macabre

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 26, 2021

    “Pray that the stories, names, characters and incidents portrayed in this comic are untrue” says the knowing subversion of the traditional opening disclaimer in Strip for Me’s latest A Pocket…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Really Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Entertains Us with Another Collection of Unsettling Monologues from “a Choir of Desperate Voices”

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 10, 2021

    THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The fourth in Douglas Noble’s Horrible Folk series, the Thought Bubble-debuting Really Horrible Folk is another collection of brief but unsettling monologues from “a choir of desperate…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    10 UK Small Press Horror Comics for Halloween – Including Work by Sarah Gordon, Douglas Noble, Sean Azzopardi, Sammy Ward and More!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 26, 2021

    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…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    A Pocket Chiller: I Woke Up Like This – Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi Bring Us Experimental Horror Comics with a Retro Branding

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 29, 2021

    One can never second guess the exact details of the collaborative process between creators Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi. Behind the scenes they have worked in a number of fascinating…

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    Colossive Cartographies #1-14 – Colossive Press’s Experimental Zine Series Features Work from Olivia Sullivan, Peony Gent, Sean Azzopardi, Gareth A Hopkins, Douglas Noble and More

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 18, 2020

    Given how many comics creators are on the team at Broken Frontier we have an unwritten rule on the site. While we may cover their work in terms of features…

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    The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, October 29th for a Halloween Spectacular with Mark Stafford and Douglas Noble!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • October 28, 2020

    We’re back this Thursday October 29th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw for a Halloween Spooktacular! As usual we start at 7.30pm BST on…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Celebrating 2019 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 1, 2020

    We supplemented our annual Broken Frontier tradition of rounding up just ten UK small press comics representing the diversity of approach in self-published comics practice this year with an additional…

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    Thought Bubble 2019 Preview: Jazz Creepers #2 – The Broken Frontier Award-Winning Anthology Returns with Work from Douglas Noble, Gareth A Hopkins, Paul Jon Milne, Sarah Horrocks and Co

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 5, 2019

    THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The winner of last year’s Best New Series in our annual Broken Frontier Awards, anthology Jazz Creepers debuts its newest edition at Thought Bubble this weekend. The…

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    Other Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Does It Again with Sinister Subtlety and Canny Uncanniness in this Poetic Time Capsule of Tradition

    • by Jenny Robins
    • November 4, 2019

    THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “They see what they want to see, don’t they? The Devil in the long grass and old gods scratching behind the moon.” Other Horrible Folk dances through…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Class of 1922 – This Study of Tragedy and the Passage of Time is Prime Douglas Noble at His Disconcerting Best

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 2, 2019

    With a Douglas Noble comic what goes unsaid – or equally what is left to our imaginations – is often as important as what is articulated on the page. Noble’s…

    Eyecatcher · Reviews

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    Jazz Creepers #1 – Douglas Noble’s Anthology Unearths Horrors of the Past by Comics Talent of Tomorrow

    • by Tom Baker
    • October 18, 2018

    Any good M.R. James story — or more appropriately, what with this being a comics site and all, any good Hellboy short — will see an old, seemingly forgotten myth…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Sightings of Wallace Sendek – A Genuine UK Small Press Classic Returns in an Unnervingly Creepy New Expanded Edition from Noble and Azzopardi

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 10, 2018

    As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…

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    Staff Picks for March 14, 2018 – Sightings of Wallace Sendek, Dry County, Come into Me, Infidel and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • March 14, 2018

    It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Thought Bubble 2017 Preview: Here Come the Beautiful People – New Work from the Equally Prolific and Unsettling Douglas Noble

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 20, 2017

    The sometimes oblique, sometimes chilling and the always captivating worlds of Douglas Noble have been a long-time fixture in ‘Small Pressganged’. Indeed, our very first reviews column way back in…

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