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Young Hag – Discover the Magic Within in Isabel Greenberg’s Arthurian Retelling from Jonathan Cape

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 9, 2024

‘Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have…

Features

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“I Never Get Sick of Folk Tales and Mythology” – Isabel Greenberg Talks Arthurian Legends, the Brontës and Her Self-Publishing Roots

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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The Midnight Babies – Isabel Greenberg Mixes Children’s Illustration and Sequential Art in this Delightful Nocturnal Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2023

As a general rule we don’t encourage copying large swathes of text directly from the publicity of work we review at BF. But in the case of Isabel Greenberg’s The…

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Confinement – Isabel Greenberg’s First Self-Published Work in Years Provides an Eerily Atmospheric Folk Song Adaptation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2023

SLCZF 2023! It’s hard to believe that it has been three years since we last reviewed a book by Isabel Greenberg (Glass Town, her part speculative biography/part metafictional meditation on…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Glass Town – Part Speculative Biography, Part Metafiction, Isabel Greenberg Brings the Brontë Juvenilia to Comics in Her Most Accomplished Work to Date

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2020

Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for February 5, 2020 – Glass Town, The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time, EC Archives: Psychoanalysis and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 2020

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 event or digital…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Athena: The Story of a Goddess – Imogen and Isabel Greenberg Bring the Ancient World to a Younger Readership with a Fun and Accessible Flourish!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2018

When it comes to inspiring an interest in the ancient world in younger readers, sisters Imogen and Isabel Greenberg have a proven track record in this area with books like…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for August 8, 2018 – Athena: The Story of a Goddess, Sandman Universe, Love Letters to Jane’s World and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 7, 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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg Returns to the World of Early Earth in a Triumphant Sequel from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2017

Back in 2013 Isabel Greenberg was the winner of the Breakout Talent category in our annual Broken Frontier Awards for her much lauded debut graphic novel The Encyclopedia of Early…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Castle in England – The National Trust and Nobrow Press Team Up in a Trip through the History of Kent’s Scotney Castle

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2017

This is a book that has clearly been designed for a crossover audience and a project that recognises the value of comics as a communication tool that is succinct in presentation but…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for September 7, 2016 – The One Hundred Nights of Hero, Misty, Mezolith, Red Rosa, Glitterbomb and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 6, 2016

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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for April 6, 2016 – Black Panther, Minor Leagues, 5,000 km Per Second, Empress, Dirty Rotten Comics and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 5, 2016

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…

Blog

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Don’t Forget – The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Featuring Emma Rios and Isabel Greenberg is Tonight, Monday November 16th!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 16, 2015

Thought Bubble may be over but the comics and socialising continues in London tonight with a post-TB Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw featuring Emma Rios and Isabel…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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More New Projects Announced by Avery Hill Publishing – Isabel Greenberg, Owen D. Pomery and Abraham Christie Join the 2015 Line-up!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2015

If last week’s first impressive list of 2015 books coming from Avery Hill Publishing wasn’t enough for you then the micropublisher have followed up with a second announcement of projects…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Dreadful Wind and Rain – Isabel Greenberg Visits the Tangled Folk Song of ‘Two Sisters’ in this Gosh! Comics Publication

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2015

Over the last few years Isabel Greenberg has carved something of a niche out for herself with work that puts her own distinctive spin on the worlds of myth, legend…

Edinburgh International Book Festival - Stripped

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Edinburgh International Book Festival Announces Programme for Stripped 2014

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 12, 2014

After last year’s extravaganza, it’s nice to see that the Edinburgh International Book Festival hasn’t forgotten about comics this year. The ‘Stripped 2014’ strand is there “to celebrate this brilliant…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Modern Times

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2014

Billing itself as the UK’s “first graphic newspaper since the Titanic sank” Modern Times is an intriguing new project overseen by a three-woman team of Royal College of Art students….

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Tall Tales and Outrageous Adventures #1: The Snow Queen and Other Stories – Isabel Greenberg Gets the Great Beast Spotlight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2014

While 2013’s The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was the graphic novel that brought Isabel Greenberg to a deservedly wider audience – indeed she was the winner of our Breakout Talent…

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