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Stan and Nan – Sarah Lippett’s Beautiful Reflection on the Bonds of Family and the Lives that Shape Our Own

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2016

A revealing reflection on the relationships that guide our passage through life and the richness of the bonds of family. It’s hardly the most perceptive of observations to make but…

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Staff Picks for June 22, 2016 – Stan and Nan, James Bond, Lucas Stand, DC: The New Frontier and ID

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 22, 2016

It’s 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 BF…

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BF Awards 2015 – Best Graphic Novel: Death of the Artist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2016

Karrie Fransman is something of a regular fixture when it comes to the annual Broken Frontier Awards. Her debut full-length work The House that Groaned was nominated in our 2012…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2015: Announcing the Winners from Our Most Diverse Year of Nominations to Date

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2016

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 12th annual BF Awards. Our 2015 awards saw a record-breaking number of votes come in from our readers, and unprecedented interest in…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“There Are Still So Many Untapped Opportunities to Play with the Medium!” – Karrie Fransman Talks Exclusively to BF about the Truth Behind Her Graphic Novel ‘Death of the Artist’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2015

One of the UK’s most passionate exponents of the possibilities of the comics form, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman is no stranger to the Broken Frontier audience. Her debut GN The…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Death of the Artist – Karrie Fransman and Friends Explore the Endless Possibilities of the Comics Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2015

A celebration of the sprawling possibilities of comics as a form? A dissection of the fundamental nature of a creator’s relationship with their audience? Or a slice-of-life drama about growing…

Hubert by Ben Gijsemans

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“Making Comics is a Destructive Process” – Ben Gijsemans Talks about His Existential OGN ‘Hubert’

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 10, 2015

Hubert, Belgian artist Ben Gijsemans’ parable of an introverted art lover, speaks to the human condition, isolated in the chaos of modern life, determined to avoid all opportunities less they should lead…

Michael Cho Shoplifter

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Hope and Connection in Unexpected Places: Michael Cho Talks ‘Shoplifter’

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • October 22, 2014

“I view comics as a medium, not a genre, so I have a desire to tell a variety of stories. And my approach is different depending on the story I…

Sugar Skull by Charles Burns

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 1: Shoplifter, Sugar Skull, Brides of Helheim, Men of Wrath, Loverboys & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • September 30, 2014

It’s almost 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…

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Lighter than My Shadow – Katie Green’s Inspirational Graphic Memoir of “Eating Disorders, Abuse and Recovery”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2014

Lighter than My Shadow is an outstanding and courageous use of the graphic novel format to inform, to elucidate and to share. Arguably, the graphic memoir is the strand of…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 12, 2014

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • February 11, 2014

It’s almost 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, BF…

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BF Awards 2013 – Breakout Talent: Isabel Greenberg

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 31, 2013

To be slightly parochial for the moment – but appropriately so, I think, given the nominees in this category – it has been a truly remarkable year for emerging graphic…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 21, 2013

A heady mix of the spellbinding, the poignant, the wacky and, at times, the heartbreaking, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a book worth both the wait and the hype…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 2, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • September 30, 2013

It’s almost 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, BF…

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‘The Gigantic Beard that was Evil’ Wins 9th Art Award at Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2013

At the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon the winner of Graphic Scotland’s inaugural 9th Art Award for the best full-length English language graphic novel of the last year was…

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Process #4: S.J. Harris on Creating Eustace

  • by Steven Walsh
  • July 8, 2013

In this month’s report from the Process group at London’s Gosh! Comics, Eustace’s S.J. Harris gives some fascinating insights into his new book from Jonathan Cape. Process is a comics…

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Eustace

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2013

With a deliciously morbid wit, debut graphic novelist S.J. Harris delivers a biting satire on the skewed mores of 1930s Britain in Eustace, his dark comedy of manners, published by…

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