BF Awards 2015 – Best One-Shot: Lost Property
Here at BF we’ve been following the career of our Broken Frontier Best One-Shot Award winner – Lost Property creator Andy Poyiadgi – from way back in those halcyon small press days when he…
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Broken Frontier Awards 2015: Announcing the Winners from Our Most Diverse Year of Nominations to Date
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…
‘Golemchik’, ‘Vacancy’ and ‘The Hunter’ Mark a Welcome Return for Nobrow’s Showcase 17×23 Format
Nobrow’s project to introduce new comics voices in an accessible format brings us enjoyable work from William Exley, Jen Lee and Joe Sparrow. This year has seen the welcome return of…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 8, 2015 – The Tomorrows, Strange Fruit, Bacchus, Negative Space and More
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…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 10, 2015 – Towerkind, Starve, Blubber, It Will All Hurt and More
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…
Broken Frontier Anthology: Jamie Coe Discusses his Debut Book ‘Art Schooled’, and How Satisfying Characters Should be Morally Questionable
Young, talented artist and creator Jamie Coe has only recently put out his first full-length graphic novel, Art Schooled, but he’s already becoming a distinctive and exciting comics creator. He…
Meet Andy Poyiadgi, Joe Sparrow and William Exley at the Nobrow Press 17 x 23 Launch Party on May 15th at Gosh! Comics
Nobrow Press’s 17 x 23 series of books was one of the early staples of their publishing output providing a showcase format for new creative voices. When I interviewed Nobrow’s…
ELCAF 2015 – Nobrow’s East London Comics and Arts Festival Returns in Double-Sized Form in June
The new website for ELCAF – Nobrow Press’s East London Comics and Arts Festival – has opened ready for the 2015 incarnation of the event “dedicated to showcasing the most…
Lost Property – Andy Poyiadgi’s Debut Book from Nobrow Press is a Beautiful, Life-Affirming Parable
Lost Property is a beautifully paced piece of writing that examines one of the fundamental themes of the human condition – that need to find our own place in the…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for March 4, 2015 – Lost Property, Descender, All-New Hawkeye, Big Man Plans & More
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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Preview: Lost Property – Andy Poyiadgi’s Unmissable Debut Book Coming Soon from Nobrow Press
Writing a column with a stated mission of “unearthing the gems of the small press” for a few years here at Broken Frontier means I have had the pleasure of…
Inside Look: Jamie Coe on Creating His Debut Book ‘Art Schooled’ for Nobrow
Inside Look is Broken Frontier’s director’s commentary-like feature in which creators take you behind the scenes of one of their latest comics to hit the stands. In this edition, Jamie…
Contest: Win a copy of Jamie Coe’s debut graphic novel, Art Schooled
If you’ve read our Staff Picks this week, you know we’ve been singing the praises of young mister Jamie Coe, whose debut graphic novel Art Schooled is now available globally…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 5: Art Schooled, Tooth & Claw, Day Men, Grandville: Noel, Terrible Lizard & More
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…
Big Mother #4 – The Intricate Work of Dutch Artist Raymond Lemstra Goes International
As regular readers of Crossing Borders know, I have been reading European comics since long before I rudely mastered the English language and could read their US and UK counterparts. That’s why…
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Luke Pearson’s Heroine Hilda is Back as She Battles the Black Hound
Quality UK publisher Nobrow publishes the third album of creative powerhouse Luke Pearson’s Hildafolk series which mixes humour, mystery and fantasy into another superb piece of escapism for young and…
Map of Days
Ambitious storytelling meets exquisite design in Robert Hunter’s lovely fable, marking another triumph for Nobrow Press. Emerging graphic novelist Robert Hunter and the design-led British publisher Nobrow got to know…
Biografiktion
The fantastic secret lives of ABBA and Eddie Murphy are revealed to the public at last in the Nobrow compilation of this cult European series. Berlin small press collective Edition…
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