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Fashionistas and Giraffes on Bikes – Looking Back at September’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 22, 2016

Cetacean-based punnery, the inviting sights of London Fashion Week and pedalling camelopards were just some of the themes of the latest Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on September 20th – A Multi-Artist Jam with Hannah Berry, ILYA, Joe Decie and Rebecca K. Jones

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2016

It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on September 20th. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…

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The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics – ILYA Curates a Compendium of Largely Self-Published Gems from Three Decades of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! While the remit of this column is to specifically focus on self and micropublished comics there are times when it’s wholly appropriate to bend the rules a…

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Thunder Brother: Soap Division #1-6 – Paul B. Rainey Asks “What if Your Favourite Soap Operas Were Real?”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 22, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! What if the fictional soap opera worlds that are beamed into our homes several times a week were anything but? What would happen if, instead, they…

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Comic Strip Perspectives on Europe – Reframe Exhibition Reaches Istanbul, February 17th to 28th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2014

Last November’s Comica Festival afforded me the opportunity to meet Turkish comics practitioners Murat Mıhçıoğlu and Cem Özüduru (below right) whose work was on display with creators from Turkey, the…

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Hatchlings – Manga Jiman Winners Come Together in the First Cross#atch Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2013

Cross#atch are a small collective of five manga creators from a variety of cultures who all share the experience of success in the UK Manga Jiman short story competition. Their…

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Room for Love

  • by Conori Bell-Bhuiyan
  • November 25, 2013

Room for Love is no conventional, sweet and cheerful, happy-ending love story. It’s a painful, sometimes bitter, account of the unlikely collision of two people’s lives told with sincere authenticity…

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