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GOOF – Pure, Unadulterated Fun for Kids from Marc Jackson, Charlie Adlard, Tor Freeman, Rachael Smith, James Kochalka and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2025

Described as “the world’s goofiest comics magazine!”, editor Marc Jackson’s GOOF is a fun collection of short humour comic strips by an extremely impressive line-up of creators from across the…

Blog

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Pack the Sack – ‘American Elf’ Creator James Kochalka Gets into the Christmas Spirit with a New Festive Ditty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2018

We’re feeling suitably festive here at BF at the moment so expect to see some Christmassy-themed short blogs over the course of the next week or so. It’s been a…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for June 15, 2016 – Hole in the Heart, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Life, Death and Sorcery, Elf Cat in Love and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 14, 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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Retrofit and Big Planet Return to Kickstarter for Another Eclectic Slate from Some of Comics’ Most Individual Voices

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 14, 2016

Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Box Brown’s Retrofit Comics imprint, which has gone from strength to strength since joining forces with Big Planet Comics, a chain of comic…

Features

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“I Have Fun, Living Life and Making Stuff”: James Kochalka Prepares the Glorkian Warrior for a Second Voyage

  • by Paul Mirek
  • March 12, 2015

For the better part of two decades, James Kochalka has been honing his inimitable cartooning style across an increasingly staggering bibliography of comics work. In between, he’s found time to…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Fungus: The Unbearable Rot of Being – Mycological Musings on Modern Living from James Kochalka, Retrofit and Big Planet Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2015

James Kochalka’s American Elf was not just one of the finest diary comics we have ever had the privilege of consuming but also an acutely observed piece of social commentary…

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Process #3: Discussing the Mechanics of the Comics Page

  • by Steven Walsh
  • June 12, 2013

Process is a comics workshop and discussion group that meets up on the first Wednesday of every month at London’s Gosh! Comics from 7-9 pm. The idea is to have…

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