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I Feel Love – Romance Comics with the Bleakest of Twists in this New SelfMadeHero Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2021

A follow-up to 2018’s anthology I Feel Machine – an exploration of the darker implications in our relationship with technology – SelfMadeHero’s I Feel Love similarly brings us six unsettling…

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I Feel Machine – Shaun Tan and Tillie Walden Are Among the Contributors to this Unsettling SelfMadeHero Anthology Exploring the Darker Side of Our Relationship with Technology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2019

Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…

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Staff Picks for June 13, 2018 – Cloud Hotel, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, By Night and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 12, 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…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #9 – Slice-of-Life, Horror, Comedy, Visual Poetry and More in Another Top Edition of the Throwaway Press Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2017

We all know by now that if you want an all-encompassing sampler of the breadth and diversity of the ever vibrant small press publishing scene in the UK (and beyond!)…

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BadTwin Presents Krent Able & Julian Hanshaw – Safari Festival’s Dynamic Duo Bring an Underground Vibe to the Proceedings

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2016

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! From the introductory moments when we’re introduced to the self-deprecatingly skewed on-page personas of Krent Able and Julian Hanshaw – one squatting Gollum-like in his subterranean kingdom…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #7 – An Eclectic Array of Styles and Approaches from Jey Levang, Lucie Ebrey, Julian Hanshaw, Alex Potts, Douglas Noble and Co

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2016

While many UK small press anthologies theme themselves around specific subject matter or topical material Dirty Rotten Comics has a more philosophical focus to its contents. Each and every issue…

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Exclusive Preview: Dirty Rotten Comics #7 – Sneak Peeks at Strips by Alex Potts, Jey Levang, Andrew Warwick, Lucie Ebrey and Julian Hanshaw

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2016

Hot on the heels of the announcement of their new publishing venture Throwaway Press, the Dirty Rotten Comics team are gearing up for the launch of the latest issue of…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dirty Rotten Comics #6 – Two Generations of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ Creators Converge in the Latest DRC Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2016

There are points when you can’t help but repeat yourself when you cover the same comics projects multiple times in a year. But sometimes those same recycled sentiments simply cannot be…

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Tim Ginger – Childlessness and Conspiracy Theories Converge in Julian Hanshaw’s Melancholy Drama from Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2015

Emotive subject matter tackled with grace and serenity, this is Julian Hanshaw’s finest book to date. Julian Hanshaw’s graphic novel Tim Ginger from Top Shelf Productions was our Broken Frontier…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 22, 2015 – Tim Ginger, Fante Bukowski, Wolf, Power Up and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 21, 2015

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…

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‘HOAX Psychosis Blues’ Signing at Gosh! Comics this Saturday July 19th – Featuring Karrie Fransman, Rian Hughes, Mark Stafford, Hannah Berry, Ravi Thornton and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2014

The graphic memoir. Arguably, it’s the one strand of graphic novel publishing most responsible over the last few years for persuading those unfamiliar with the form of its integral value as…

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“Finding Beauty in the Dark” – Ravi Thornton Talks HOAX Psychosis Blues, Cross-Media Storytelling and ‘Brin & Bent’ Two Years On

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2014

In 2012 cross-media creator Ravi Thornton made an immediate impact on the world of comics with the dark and layered fantasy The Tale of Brin & Bent and Minno Marylebone,…

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HOAX Psychosis Blues – Ravi Thornton, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry, Karrie Fransman and Company Underline the Astonishing Power of the Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2014

HOAX Psychosis Blues is the ultimate expression of the graphic memoir’s unique power to share and communicate personal experience. A hauntingly beautiful masterpiece. Back in 2012, Ravi Thornton and Andy…

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