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Safaa and the Tent: Diary of a Cartoonist from Gaza Oct 2023-Dec 2024 – A Simply Essential Piece of Personal Testimony from Safaa Odah

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2025

While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….

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Preview: Safaa and the Tent – LICAF Bring Palestinian Cartoonist Safaa Odah’s Account of Living through the War on Gaza to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2025

A week or so back on social media I spoke of an upcoming review of a book that you would not have heard of yet but was going to be…

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British Comics Now – Apply to Two Incredible New Opportunities for British Creators!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

British Comics Now is back for 2025 with two amazing new opportunities for British creators. The initiative “aims to be a nationally-significant project for Britain’s comics and graphic novels sector,…

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The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2024 – Looking Back on a Weekend of Shared Passion for the Form at LICAF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2024

It’s important, I think, to firstly put my visit to last weekend’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival into some kind of personal context because when you haven’t been to a…

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“I Have Always Been an Advocate for Diversity and Representation” – UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on Bringing Comics to Wider Readerships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 25, 2024

He’s the fifth UK Comics Laureate and also the first person of colour to fill that position, and creator Bobby Joseph is obviously relishing his time in that role! An…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, September 19th for a LICAF Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 16, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, September 19th. This time we’re celebrating the upcoming Lakes…

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The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announces the ‘British Comics Now’ Initiative, Taking UK Talent to International Audiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2024

Announced this week, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s new British Comics Now programme is set to give UK indie creators some amazing opportunities in the course of coming months….

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The New Scriptorium and LICAF’s Open Call for a Comic Artist and a Two-Week Residency in Arbroath

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2024

In partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the New Scriptorium – an an artist-designed and built structure sited inside the historical grounds of Arbroath Abbey – is looking…

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The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announces the Comics Rights Market for 2024

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2024

Creating opportunities for creators and for the form in the UK is a hot talking point at the moment. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has its own contribution to…

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Comic Art Europe Brings Together Four European Organisations to Promote the Power of Comics and Graphic Novels

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 22, 2020

With the ominous spectre of Brexit looming ever closer here’s a reminder of something comics-related designed to foster links within the European comics community. The UK’s Lakes International Comic Art…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Here Comes Cat Stevens! – Marc Jackson’s All-Ages Comic Fun Combines Pizza, Monsters and Slapstick Humour

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2017

A contributor to such esteemed comics for kids as The Beano and Moose Kid Comics, Marc Jackson is also the man behind the Macc-Pow! comic festival. One of his most…

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A View from the Frontier – Where to Catch the Broken Frontier Team as the Autumn Festival Season Approaches

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2017

There’s less than a month to go until this year’s Thought Bubble – rescheduled to September this year  – which means the Broken Frontier team are preparing for the best part of…

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Five Bridges: Stories of the Flood – Mike Medaglia, Lisa Woynarski and Farokh Soltani’s Exhibition Looking Back at the 2015 Cumbria Flooding Opens for LICAF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2016

Mike Medaglia is one of those creators we’ve been privileged to follow at Broken Frontier from their early days in comics and watch as their work has grown, developed and…

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You Ask, We Tell! – A Panel on Pitching to Publishers, Comic Shops and the Press at this Year’s LICAF with Page 45, Avery Hill and Broken Frontier

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 6, 2016

It’s the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in just over a week’s time and we’re delighted to say that BF will be playing a role in the ‘You Ask, We…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Tillie Walden and ‘On a Sunbeam’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2016

With Eisner nominations, Ignatz wins and, of course, that Broken Frontier Awards triumph in the our Breakout Talent category, it can hardly be said that Tillie Walden’s comics output has…

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