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Tagged: Gareth Brookes

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SelfMadeHero Announce 2021 Spring Line-Up – Includes Work from Gareth Brookes, Reinhard Kleist, Fermín Solís and Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Cat Sims

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 15, 2021

SelfMadeHero have announced their 2021 Spring line-up of books which includes I Feel Love, an anthology featuring work from our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Cat Sims (XENOS,…

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Threadbare – Embroidery, Eroticism and the Fetishisation of Technology Converge in the Latest Experimental Comic from the Pioneering Gareth Brookes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Two and a half years ago, Gareth Brookes contributed a story to the ‘BFFs’-themed issue of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ digest-sized š! anthology. It was one of the…

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Celebrating 2018: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2019

Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…

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New Exhibition of the Art of Gareth Brookes to Be Held at 155a Artists Space in November – Includes Work from ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ and His New Project ‘Threadbare’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2018

News of a new Gareth Brookes exhibition of embroideries, prints and drawings at London’s 155a Artists Space will no doubt be of huge interest to regular Broken Frontier readers given…

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A Guide to the South London Comic and Zine Fair Communal Table – Broken Frontier Are Here to Champion Your Work at SLCZF 2018!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2018

No sooner is this year’s ELCAF behind us than we’re looking at the next events on the UK indie comics calendar. The second South London Comic and Zine Fair opens…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday May 31st with Guest Artists David Jesus Vignolli, Gareth Brookes and Andrew Rae

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2018

Our fifth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week! And, as you have come to expect by now, we have a fabulous line-up of guest artists with us…

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Staff Picks for May 9, 2018 – Afterwords, Barrier, My Boyfriend is a Bear, Beasts of Burden and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 2018

It’s nearly 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…

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Afterwords – Gareth Brookes Revisits the Worlds of ‘The Black Project’ and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ in this Playfully Dystopian One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2018

When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…

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Patreon Push: Gareth Brookes – Help ‘The Black Project’ Creator Bring New Self-Published Comics to Life in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2017

Pushing individual Patreon accounts here at BF is something that we rarely do simply because there are so many talented folk out there and time is limited. But we’re going…

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Solo Exhibition of the Work of Graphic Novelist Gareth Brookes to Run at London’s WAR Gallery from August 4th-30th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2017

The name of Gareth Brookes is hardly an unfamiliar one here at Broken Frontier. From his brilliant first long-form work The Black Project – which won both the Myriad First Graphic Novel…

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Announcing the Exhibitor List for South London Comic and Zine Fair on July 15th – SLCZF Includes Gary Northfield, Cat Sims, Avery Hill, Broken Frontier and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2017

While it’s another excellent year for high-profile London comics festivals like ELCAF and Safari Festival, 2017 was looking to be a quieter one for more grassroots events, with both CECAF…

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Tiny Pencil: The Cosmic Issue – TP Goes Astral as Gareth Brookes, Alexis Deacon, Kim Clements and Jun Cen Contribute to a Graphite Sci-Fi Extravaganza

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! While the latest issue of graphite arts anthology Tiny Pencil was a long time in coming, this fifth edition – a sci-fi spectacular with many of the darker overtones…

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A Thousand Coloured Castles – Graphic Medicine Meets Twee Middle Class Suburbia in Gareth Brookes’s Darkly Comedic Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! This re-imagining of twee middle class suburbia, as seen through the fractured lens of a distinctively Brookesian eyeglass, is a visual triumph. There are things we have come…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“It’s True that I Despise All Humanity but People as Individuals Are Always Beautiful to a Degree” – Gareth Brookes on Experimentation, the Zine Scene and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! The winner of the very first Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition for his debut book The Black Project, Gareth Brookes is an artist whose reach straddles both the…

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Staff Picks for April 26, 2017 – A Thousand Coloured Castles, Roughneck, An Exorcism, Aliens: Dead Orbit and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2017

It’s nearly 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, the…

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Myriad Week Spotlights – ‘The Black Project’ by Gareth Brookes and ‘Naming Monsters’ by Hannah Eaton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! We’re championing the output of Myriad Editions this week at Broken Frontier with a series of reviews, interviews and features on the publisher’s recent and upcoming projects. This wouldn’t…

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kuš komiksi: š! #27 – Best Friends Forever? Gareth Brookes, Till Lukat, Līva Piterāne, Krystal DiFronzo and Co Give Their Answer in the Latest kuš Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2017

For the recently released ‘BFF’-themed edition of their digest-sized š! anthology the kuš! comics team opened up the book to submissions for the first time in a number of years….

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Comica Comiket at The Lightbox, Woking on Saturday October 8th – Exhibitors Include kuš! comics, Jessica Martin, Gary Northfield and Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2016

Forget NYCC 2016! Comica‘s long-running independent comics fair Comiket returns this Saturday at The Lightbox in Woking featuring a select line-up of UK indie comics talent. The venue is currently playing host…

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