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    The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns IN PERSON – Celebrate 10 Years of Our D&D Event with Guests Mark Stafford, Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong on Friday, June 27th

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • May 30, 2025

    Nearly a decade ago on Friday, June 25th, 2015 the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was born. That first meet-up was held in the John Snow pub…

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    All About the Ink! – A New Exhibition of Contemporary Cartooning at London’s Bookery Gallerie Featuring Mark Stafford, Shaky Kane, Sarah Gordon, Jenny Robins and More

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • March 27, 2023

    Featuring a veritable who’s who of Broken Frontier-featured artists (including our own Jenny Robins!) All About the Ink! is a new exhibition of “contemporary cartoonists and comics art” at the…

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    Framed – Sean Azzopardi Curates a New Comics Exhibition Including Work from Sarah Gordon, Olivia Sullivan and Dan White as He Looks to Make Hull “a Magical Comics City!”

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 12, 2022

    That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…

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    Soaring Penguin Press to Publish ‘Salmonella Smorgasbord’ Collecting Comics Work by Mark Stafford

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • August 4, 2021

    If you’re a fan of the work of Mark Stafford, one of the most imaginative cartoonists on the UK scene and the Artist-in-Residence at London’s Cartoon Museum, then you’ll be…

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    Malty Heave #2 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Return with a Second Horror-Themed Edition of the Parody Anthology

    • by Andy Oliver
    • December 29, 2020

    Fondly sending up a certain decades-old bastion of fantasy magazine publishing (the clue is in the anagrammatical title) Robert Wells and Phil Elliott’s Malty Heave makes a welcome end-of-year return…

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    The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, October 29th for a Halloween Spectacular with Mark Stafford and Douglas Noble!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • October 28, 2020

    We’re back this Thursday October 29th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw for a Halloween Spooktacular! As usual we start at 7.30pm BST on…

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    Department of the Peculiar Goes POP! #1 – The UK’s Unlikeliest Super-Team Returns Courtesy of Rol Hirst and Robert Wells

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 13, 2020

    While artist Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack ( & Brain) and Malty Heave) may be more familiar to Broken Frontier readers, his collaborative partner on Department of the Peculiar…

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    Preview: Heavy Metal #298 – Venerable Comics Anthology Magazine Goes Back to its Sci-Fi Roots and Journeys to the “Furthest Reaches” in March

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 20, 2020

    We have an extensive preview of Heavy Metal #298 today at BF (the magazine that, of course, published work by our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Miranda Smart…

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    Broken Frontier Launch at London’s Gosh! Comics – BF Anthology and Small Press Yearbook Creators Get Their Moment in the Spotlight

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 1, 2016

    Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…

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    Save Our Souls #1 – Graphic Reportage Sits Side-by-Side with Written Journalism in David Ziggy Greene’s Promising New Anthology Series

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 22, 2016

    Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…

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    Last Chance to Back David Ziggy Greene’s ‘Save Our Souls’ Magazine on Indiegogo – Includes Contributions from Mark Stafford, Verity Glass, Joe Sparrow and Fumio Obata

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 20, 2015

    In the aftermath of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and the run-up to Thought Bubble it’s hardly surprising that some deserving crowdfunding projects may have got lost in the…

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    The Man Who Laughs – Hugo’s Novel Brought to Macabre Life by Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Guest Creators Hine and Stafford

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 29, 2015

    A compelling distillation of the character study that is at the true heart of Hugo’s novel. Mention Victor Hugo’s 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs to a mainstream comics fan…

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    Staff Picks for July 29, 2015 – Not Funny Ha-Ha, Grindhouse, Sea Urchin, Meanwhile… and More

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • July 28, 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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    Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw July 2015 – Guest Creators Mark Stafford, David Hine and Danny Noble Profiled Here!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 17, 2015

    With less than two weeks to go until the next Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw, Mark Stafford’s fantastic new poster for the event (below) is now doing the rounds…

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    The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns on July 30th with Guest Creators Mark Stafford, David Hine and Danny Noble

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 13, 2015

    After last month’s hugely successful inaugural evening, the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night returns on Thursday July 30th hosted by BF Editor in Chief Andy Oliver…

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    Broken Frontier Anthology: “I’m Not Interested in Heroes or Idealised Characters. I’m All about the Doubt” – Mark Stafford Discusses His Macabre Approach to the Page

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 12, 2015

    Mark Stafford has built up a reputation in UK comics in recent years for visual storytelling that is eerily macabre in tone and atmosphere. A frequent collaborator with David Hine on…

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    Broken Frontier Anthology: “It’s Important to Confront My Fears and Phobias on the Page” – Why David Hine Takes His Readers to the Dark Side

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 25, 2015

    Writer (and sometime artist) David Hine has been treating readers to his intense and intelligent chills for years. We talk to him about his career so far, the power of…

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    Moose Kid Comics #1 – A Celebration of British Children’s Comics Featuring Jamie Smart, Gary Northfield, Rachael Smith, Young Tank Girl and Many More!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 6, 2014

    It’s no secret that, while the profile of the graphic novel has never been higher, at the other end of comics’ demographic market sequential art for children continues to struggle…

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