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The Artist: The Circle of Life – Raw, Tender, Silly and Sweet, Anna Haifisch’s Surreal Satire on the Life of Emerging Artists Manages to be Joyful Despite Being Composed Mostly of Disasters

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 30, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! When Anna Haifisch received an email from Vice magazine in 2015 inviting her to do a weekly cartoon strip she said yes right away. Given a blank slate,…

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Forest – Daniel Clough’s Twisting ‘Future Shocks’-Style Sci-Fi Takes Us from the Lonely Void of Space to a Verdant Alien World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! On a long-term mission in space aboard the SS Kitsune, a lone explorer reflects on his years of solitude and a voyage where human contact seems almost like…

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Catastrophising – Matthew Dooley’s Droll and Laidback Wit is a Delight in Another Collection of Worldweary Reflections on Modern Living

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Many BF readers will remember that cartoonist Matthew Dooley’s work was a fixture in such well-regarded anthologies as Dirty Rotten Comics and Off Life before his 2016 Cape/Observer/Comica…

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“My Process of Creating Comics Comes from Either a Random Word I Wrote, or a Short Story I Had while Being Half Asleep” – Olivia Sullivan on Her Experimental and Abstract Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Olivia Sullivan was one of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘  and is an artist whose work many readers will first have discovered in…

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Endswell #2 – The Second Instalment of Peter Morey’s Generational Slice-of-Lifer Provides a Canine Perspective on Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Last year’s Thought Bubble saw the debut of the first instalment of Peter Morey’s Endswell; a self-published generational saga that combined family politics and social commentary and was…

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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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Hilda and the Mountain King – Luke Pearson’s World-Building Comes Full Circle in a Beautifully Poignant Pivotal Chapter in the Hilda Saga from Flying Eye Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Originally introduced way back in 2010 in Hildafolk, at the time part of Nobrow Press’s fledgling 17 x 23 series, the adventures of Luke Pearson’s plucky heroine Hilda…

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“I’ve Been Mentioning it to Literally Everyone I Meet, Whether They Know Who I Am or Not” – Joe Stone on Organising the Inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Beginning today at Broken Frontier we have two weeks of coverage of comics and creators you can catch at the inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair on Sunday…

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