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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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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The Dreadful Work – Douglas Noble Continues to Preach the Gospel of British Folk Horror

  • by Tom Baker
  • July 3, 2017

Political rhetoric as of late has been stuffed full of nationalistic sentiment hearkening back to a Britain which no longer exists: one of strength and stability, of Empire, of industrial…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #9 – Slice-of-Life, Horror, Comedy, Visual Poetry and More in Another Top Edition of the Throwaway Press Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2017

We all know by now that if you want an all-encompassing sampler of the breadth and diversity of the ever vibrant small press publishing scene in the UK (and beyond!)…

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Exclusive Preview: Dirty Rotten Comics #9 – Jey Levang’s Cover Revealed Plus Sneak Peeks at Work from Douglas Noble, Kevin Pickles, Olivia Waller, Natalie Bishop and Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2016

It’s payday and what better way to celebrate than by pre-ordering the ninth issue of the ever essential and popular small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics from Throwaway Press? For our…

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Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble’s Enticing Yet Sinister Commemoration of Macabre Rural Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2016

Back in the mists of time – in the very infancy of ‘Small Pressganged’ in fact – Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi’s eerie Built of Blood and Bricks was one…

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Thought Bubble Small Press Debut Picks Day 1 – Comics from Rozi Hathaway, Steven Tillotson, Anna Haifisch and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2016

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. Over the…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #7 – An Eclectic Array of Styles and Approaches from Jey Levang, Lucie Ebrey, Julian Hanshaw, Alex Potts, Douglas Noble and Co

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2016

While many UK small press anthologies theme themselves around specific subject matter or topical material Dirty Rotten Comics has a more philosophical focus to its contents. Each and every issue…

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Profiling Sean Azzopardi – From ‘Dark Matters’ to ‘Tracks’, a Look at the Work of One of the Great Stalwarts of the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2016

Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the…

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