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Don’t Miss Ghost Comics Festival this Saturday October 26th for the Very Best in Alternative and Contemporary Comics Practice!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 21, 2019

This year’s Ghost Comics Festival comes to the Art School in Glasgow this Saturday October 26 with an impressive array of alternative and contemporary comics creators. Combining the type of…

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Seven Stories #4 – O Panda Gordo’s Experimental Anthology Examines Storytelling Without Colour with Work from Rosie Brand, Chloé Bertron, Maria Medem and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 21, 2019

If you’ve been following our coverage of micropress/distro O Panda Gordo’s Seven Stories so far then you’ll be aware that the anthology’s ostensible premise is based on 19th-20th century literary…

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Ghost Comics Festival Returns to Glasgow on October 26th – Open Call for Exhibitor Applications Announced

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2019

Last year saw a new comics event debut in Glasgow when João Sobral (O Panda Gordo), Jules Scheele (Queer: A Graphic History) and Jessica Taylor co-founded and launched Ghost Comics…

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Seven Stories #3 – Third Issue of O Panda Gordo’s Anthology Series Features Glasgow-Based Artists Including João Sobral, Jules Scheele, Suds McKenna and Jessica Taylor

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2019

We’re playing catch-up a little at the moment with anthology series Seven Stories – artist João Sobral’s pet project through his O Panda Gordo micropress – given that two issues…

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Seven Stories #2 – O Panda Gordo Present Another Collection of Experimental Comics Shorts from Bruno Borges, Émilie Gleason, Lasse Wandschneider, Giada Ganassin and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2019

Edited and published by João Sobral as part of the output of his micropublishing venture O Panda Gordo, the twice-yearly anthology Seven Stories takes its premise from nineteenth/twentieth century literary critic Arthur…

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Ghost Comics Festival Debuts on October 27th – New Alternative Comics Show Aims to Promote Local Indie Talent in Glasgow

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 17, 2018

Considering the site’s ethos we’re obviously huge fans here at Broken Frontier of any projects that look to showcase the grassroots scene and boost alternative comic talent; especially those that…

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“That’s the Thing I Love about Comics: the Multitude of Possibilities of Approaches and Processes and Results” – Talking with João Sobral about Scottish Micropublisher O Panda Gordo

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 21, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! João Sobral established O Panda Gordo in 2011 in his native Portugal, before upping sticks and moving over to Glasgow in 2014. It’s here that the nascent publisher/distributor…

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Seven Stories #1 – Amanda Baeza and Ed Cheverton Are Among the Contributors Exploring the Nature of Storytelling in O Panda Gordo’s Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2018

João Sobral’s micropublishing venture O Panda Gordo began its life in Portugal several years ago. The project has since moved to the UK and is now based in Glasgow but,…

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“After 10 Years We Want to Try to Find Ways to Surprise Us as Well as the Readers” – Looking Back on a Decade of Latvia’s Eisner-Nominated kuš! Comics with David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 14, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONGOING SERIES NOMINEE! Latvian-based micropublishers kuš! comics celebrated a decade of publishing in 2017 – a year that also saw their alternative comics fare nominated for…

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‘Money Worries #1’ and ‘Spare Me’ – Adventures in Capitalism and an Escape in Nature with Two Minicomics from O Panda Gordo

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 9, 2017

Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…

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