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DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test – Demon Possession, Social Anxiety, Time-Travelling Assassins, Sarcastic Pop Culture References and Perfectly Timed Physical Comedy? Must Be a Tuesday in the World of DeadEndia

  • by Jenny Robins
  • January 17, 2019

Pantheon by Hamish Steele is one of my all-time favourite graphic novels, so I was really excited to read his new one DeadEndia. It’s pitched for a slightly younger audience…

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Through a Life – Juxtaposing the Epic and the Human as We Dream of the Stars with Tom Haugomat and Nobrow Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 31, 2018

In Through a Life from Nobrow Press Tom Haugomat exploits comics’ distinctive relationship with the passing of time to poignantly encapsulate an entire lifetime in less than 200 pages. Beginning…

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Kingdom – Jon McNaught’s Quietly Melancholic Masterpiece is a Tour de Force of Slice-of-Life Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2018

The profound eloquence of artist Jon McNaught’s storytelling lies in his ability to speak to us without words; to evoke a sense of shared experience on a purely empathetic level;…

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Staff Picks for October 3, 2018 – Kingdom, Hellstorm Omnibus, Bastard, The Umbrella Academy and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 2, 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 event or digital…

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Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn – Ryan Heshka’s Girl Gang Return in Another Riotously Raucous 1950s Pastiche from Nobrow Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2018

Spinning out of the Mean Girls Club one-shot that was published as part of Nobrow Press’s 17 x 23 series a few years back, Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn reunites…

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Brownstone’s Mythical Collection – Dip into the Magical Brownstone Family Saga Courtesy of Joe Todd-Stanton and Flying Eye Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2018

Published by Nobrow Press’s children’s imprint Flying Eye Books, Joe Todd-Stanton’s Brownstone’s Mythical Collection series combines elements of illustrated storytelling and sequential art to bring its magical tales of family lineage…

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Gamayun Tales Vol. 2: The Water Spirit – Experience the Intoxicating Artistic Splendour of Alexander Utkin in this Second Adaptation of Russian Folklore from Nobrow Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2018

As a publisher Nobrow Press are, of course, renowned for graphic narratives of rare and often unparalleled beauty. This was a point I made a couple of weeks back at…

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Staff Picks for August 1, 2018 – Gamayun Tales: The Water Spirit, The Seeds, Assassinistas and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 31, 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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Dalston Monsterzz – Dilraj Mann’s Stylish Graphic Novel Delivers His Most Ambitious Comics Narrative to Date

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 29, 2018

Dalston Monsterzz is Dilraj Mann’s largest work to date. Literally, since, at 80 pages, it dwarfs the lengths of any of his minicomic of anthology work. Physically, in that it…

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Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams – 70 Artists Celebrate Ten Years of Nobrow Press in this Gorgeously Presented Special Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Ten years ago Nobrow Press sprung onto the comics scene taking sequential art into new and exciting arts-based directions with work that embraced a strong sense of graphic design, challenging…

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Staff Picks for June 6, 2018 – Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Apollo, DeadEndia and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 5, 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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Staff Picks for May 2, 2018 – Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams, The New World: Comics from Mauretania, The Communist Manifesto, Daygloayhole and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 1, 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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Celebrating World Book Day UK 2018 – 10 Entry Point Graphic Novels for Non-Comic Readers that Showcase the Unique Language of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2018

It’s World Book Day in the UK today (for the rest of the world it’s late April!). Last year we asked comics folk for their graphic novel recommendations and we always grasp WBD…

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Gamayun Tales Vol. 1: The King of Birds – Alexander Utkin’s Lavish and Rich Illustrative Style Brings Russian Folk Tales to Life in Nobrow’s First Book of 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2018

The first in a (presumed) series of books, Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales: The King of Birds (translated by Lada Morozova) is an all-ages offering from Nobrow Press based on original…

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Out of Nothing – Humankind’s “Dreaming Mind” Explored in Locke and Blandy’s Millennia-Spanning Graphic Journey from Nobrow Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2018

A graphic novel that – from the Big Bang to a far-flung future – is essentially a history of ideas, a chronicle of the birth of creativity and an exploration…

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Staff Picks for November 1, 2017 – Grandville: Force Majeure, The Gravediggers Union, Out of Nothing, Expansion and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 1, 2017

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, comics events or digital storefront,…

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ELCAF 2017 – The Broken Frontier Team Look Back on a Fabulous Weekend of Comics Culture in East London!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 23, 2017

This year’s East London Comics & Arts Festival (ELCAF) saw our highest level of Broken Frontier participation in the event to date. Last week we ran a very popular ELCAF…

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Staff Picks for June 7, 2017 – Bulletproof Coffin: The 1000 Yard Stare, The Flintstones, Magnus and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 6, 2017

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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