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Celebrating 2024 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2025

First as part of our now retired  ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…

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Rainlight Cope Aesthetic: Temporal Eructation – Meta Narrative and Accompanying Abstraction from the Incomparable Gareth A Hopkins

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2024

I have long been an advocate for raising awareness of longer-form comics work-in-progress by releasing self-contained sections as self-published comics. The benefits are numerous but chiefly it alerts potential publishers…

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Blobby Horror – The Polka-Dotted Hellspawn of Crinkley Bottom Remembered in this Creepy Anthology from Frisson Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There have been a number of comics anthologies over the years that have focussed on fondly remembered pop cultural icons of yesteryear….

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Inside Look: Absolute Collider Press Get Interviewed by the Ghost from ‘Ghosts in Things’!

  • by Gareth A Hopkins
  • July 10, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors – Gareth A Hopkins’ Collection of Abstract Comics Transcends the Border Between the Experimental and the Visionary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2023

Repetition mode engaged. As I have said on numerous occasions previously at Broken Frontier (probably to the point of tedium), Gareth A Hopkins is one of a small group of…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Ghosts in Things – It’s a Hopkins Family Affair in this Witty Cartoon Collection of Unlikely Apparitions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2022

There’s something undeniably appealing about intergenerational creative projects. We’ve seen it before on the small press scene, perhaps most notably with the stalwart presence of father and son duo Henry…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, August 12th with Guest Artists Sharon Lee De La Cruz and Gareth A Hopkins

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 10, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, August 12th for another comics extravaganza with guest artists…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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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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Nothing – Gareth A Hopkins Uses His Abstract Method to Highlight the Power of Empathy

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 30, 2020

If you spend much time around the dark entries and shadowy corners that attract your average small-press aficionado, you’ll have heard the name of Gareth A Hopkins murmured often in…

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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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday November 28th with Guest Artists Gareth A. Hopkins, James Albon and Mei Lian Hoe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2019

It’s our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year on Thursday November 28th and we’re going out with a festive bang! We’re seeing out 2019…

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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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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The Bones of the Sea – Gareth A Hopkins’ Experimental Comic Provides Parallel Existential Meditations on Our Places in the World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The more I see of the work of Gareth A Hopkins the more convinced I become that his hypnotically compelling abstract graphic narratives are exploring the language…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday October 31st with Guest Creators Gareth A Hopkins, J. Edward Scott and Luke Stuart

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 23, 2019

We’ll be trick or treating next Thursday October 31st for this month’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw. Time for an Autumn spook-tacular as we welcome guest creators Gareth…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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A Hill to Cry Home – A Haunting Ghost Story Given an Abstract Eerie Quality by Gareth A Hopkins and Erik Blagsvedt

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Ostensibly, Gareth A Hopkins’ A Hill to Cry Home adapts prose and imagery around Erik Blagsvedt’s stream-of-consciousness poetry. But, such is the nature of Hopkins’ practice, adaptation seems…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: The Seas – New Small Press Publisher Body Parts Debut Their First Anthology Including Work by Gareth A Hopkins, Miranda Smart and Simon Russell

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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…

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“I Wanted the Book to Read Like the Sound of a Piano Falling Down Stairs” – Gareth A Hopkins on His Abstract Comics Practice and ‘Found Forest Floor’

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 11, 2017

“What is a comic?” is not that different a question from “what is art?”, although it may be debated less often and by different people. Don’t shoot me if I…

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