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Looking Back at Safari Festival 2015 – Curation Reflects Philosophy as East London Plays Host to an Outstanding Array of Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2015

It can barely have escaped the notice of even the most casual Broken Frontier reader that August saw significant coverage for UK publisher Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival on this site. Over…

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Not a New Wave – Julia Scheele, Jess Milton and Rachael Smith Are the Star Turns in this Sleater-Kinney Tribute from One Beat Zines

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 21, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s zine-making collective/distro One Beat Zines burst onto the small press scene at the end of last year with their well-received multi-creator…

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Safari Showcase: Breakdown Press Launch ‘Another Blue World’ and Bring Back DeForge and Cossé Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 21, 2015

  A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! With less than 24 hours to go until the second staging of the Safari Festival, it’s time to go back to where we started with…

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Safari Showcase: Retrofit Comics Brings Some of the World’s Best Alt-Cartooning to London

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 20, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Retrofit Comics, a boutique publisher established by prolific cartoonist Box Brown via a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011….

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Safari Showcase: Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives – The Powerful Social Commentary and Bitingly Incisive Satire of Artist Darren Cullen

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Keep an eye out for Darren Cullen because whether it’s via the comics page or another artistic medium I suspect you will be hearing a lot…

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Parsley Girl – Pure Escapist Fantasy Fun from the Ever Imaginative Cartooning Mind of Matthew Swan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of whimsical UK small press fantasy, Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl loosely sits somewhere between Colin Bell and Neil Slorance’s Dungeon Fun and Adam Vian’s Long Lost…

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Safari Showcase: Will Sweeney Takes Us on a Flourescent Journey to Greenfuzz – and Beyond

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 19, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Multi-talented illustrator, designer, animator, musician and DJ Will Sweeney is probably best known to comics fans for his series Tales From Greenfuzz. And this Saturday the…

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Itinerary April 2015 Japan #1 – An Infectiously Enthusiastic Travelogue Comic from Wai Wai Pang

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Wai Wai Pang’s rather straightforwardly titled Itinerary April 2015 is her travelogue comics account of a trip to Japan she took in the Spring of this year, with…

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Safari Showcase: In ‘Silica Burn’, Liam Cobb, Tom Kemp and Will Tempest Use the Comics Form to Explore Issues of Technology and Identity

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 18, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! As mentioned in their interview with Broken Frontier last week, UK artists Liam Cobb, Tom Kemp and Will Tempest have collaborated to produce an anthology comic,…

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Small Press Spotlight on… kuš! komiksi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! For anyone with an interest in the international small press comics scene there are few more important micropublishers out there at the moment than Latvian outfit kuš!….

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mini kuš! #30-33 – Lala Albert, Marie Jacotey, Amanda Vähämäki and Terhi Ekebom Feature in Four More Minicomics from the Latvian Micropublisher

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 14, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! With Latvian micropublisher kuš! making a welcome appearance at London’s Safari Festival on August 22nd it seems an appropriate time to take a look at the…

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Safari Showcase: Tom Kemp, Will Tempest and Liam Cobb Open the Experimental Pages of the Comics Workbook

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 14, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN With a minimum of formatting and simply subtitled ‘An online magazine for comic book makers’, Comics Workbook has become one of the more interesting online destinations for…

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Early Learnings – Poignant Reflection and Brilliant Comedy Timing Go Hand-in-Hand in Babak Ganjei’s Collection of Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “This was the Nineties. Music wasn’t considered free and we played our purchases until they worked for us.” Around a year ago I covered Babak Ganjei’s…

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Safari Showcase: Donya Todd – From the Hallucinogenic World of ‘Death & the Girls’ to Kick-Ass Anthology ‘Bimba’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “It’s not often I get the opportunity to describe a creator as a true original but in Donya Todd’s case it would be criminal not to…

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Safari Showcase: EyeBall Comix Offer an Unashamedly Underground Antidote to ‘Waitrose Comics’

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 12, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Now I’m as keen as anyone to get comics to a wider readership, but while it’s great to see the form, ahem, representin’ in fancy bookshops…

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Safari Showcase: Breakdown Press – Cutting Edge Work from Visionary Creators Past and Present

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2015

  A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Breakdown Press have been steadily developing a deserved reputation for publishing comics with a distinctive vision and philosophy.” – Broken Frontier Mutiny Bay review It’s…

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Teagle Comics #1-2 – Meet Snakeman, Metatron the Living Meteorite and More in Another Splendid Jack Teagle Pastiche

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of sheer unbridled escapism, there are few creators on the UK small press scene who offer such an unrelenting sense of fun as Jack…

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Safari Showcase: Simon Moreton – The Minimalist Autobiography of ‘Smoo Comics’ Profiled

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Quite simply, Simon Moreton is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics” – ‘Celebrating 2013: Ten UK Small…

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