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A View from the Frontier – Broken Frontier’s Ally Russell and Andy Oliver Look Back on Safari Festival 2017

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 14, 2017

Something a little different this week for ‘A View from the Frontier’ as Broken Frontier staffers who were at the fourth Safari Festival this past weekend give their thoughts on…

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Staff Picks Safari Festival Special – Shaky Kane’s Good News Bible, Corridors, Berserker, Clubhouse and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…

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Corridors – A Day at the Office Becomes a Buñuel-esque Odyssey in Lane Milburn’s Unsettling Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As the profile of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival has grown and evolved since its inception three years ago it has become known as much for the notable…

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Performance – Gender and Performativity Explored in One Beat Zines’ Vital Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…

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Preview: Dokudami Tenement – Takashi Fukutani’s 1980s Japanese Cult Manga Series Translated into English Via Black Hook Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the most exciting new releases available at Safari Festival this weekend, Dokudami Tenement collects the first volume of Takashi Fukutani’s 1980s Japanese cult manga series…

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Sound of Snow Falling – Maggie Umber Explores the Natural World in this Gorgeous Study of the Great Horned Owl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…

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Entity Reunion – The Unique Comics Vision of Alexander Tucker Embodied in this Safari Festival Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Impenetrable yet eerily familiar, indefinable yet focused, unique in delivery but soaked in the standards of pop culture, metaphysical and still fundamentally human…  Alexander Tucker’s work is…

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Preview: Spare Me – Disa Wallander’s New Comics Zine from O Panda Gordo Debuts at Safari Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! New Disa Wallander work is always worth checking out and this weekend’s Safari Festival sees the debut of Wallander’s new comics zine published by João Sobral’s Glasgow-based micropublishing…

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The Fields Beyond Episode 1 – Matthew Pettit Introduces Us to the Nightmarish Environs of the Electric Gentleman’s Club

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…

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A View from the Frontier – UK Festival Season Begins as Safari Festival Looms on the Horizon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! This Saturday the focus of the London comics scene will once again be on the east side of the capital as Safari Festival returns for its fourth…

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Preview: ‘Mirror Mirror II’ Edited by Julia Gfrörer & Sean T. Collins and ‘Yours’ by Margot Ferrick – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The ever experimental Minneapolis micropublisher 2dcloud are on the exhibitor line-up at this year’s Safari Festival and we’re previewing some of the new books they’ll have on show…

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Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Minimalist Drama Takes the Reader on a Spontaneous and Evocative Journey of Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…

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Preview: ‘Kindling’ by Xia Gordon and ‘Architecture of an Atom’ by Juliacks – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s always exciting when international publishers with an ethos that you especially respect and admire make a rare festival visit to the UK. The inclusion of the ever…

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“Half the Fun is Finding New Illustrators and Seeing What They’ve Brought” – Artist Luke Stuart on His Comics Practice and the Safari Festival Experience

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I first came across Luke Stuart’s work when tabling next to him at last year’s Safari Festival, whereupon I was struck by his black and neon poster…

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kuš komiksi: š! #29 – Celebrating 10 Years of the Acclaimed Latvian Micropublisher’s Output

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For the last ten years micropublisher kuš! has been bringing us a truly international body of work via its signature digest anthology comic, its mini kuš! minicomics and its…

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Preview: #classicdebeauvoir – A Community Commemorated by its Rubbish in Babak Ganjei’s New Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei is a man of diverse artistic practice. UK small press comics aficionados may know him from his humorous strips in Hilarious Consequences – described by the…

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Slasher #1-2 – The Strangely Alluring Bleakness of Charles Forsman’s Psychological Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! If there is such a thing as a group of headlining artists at Safari Festival 2017 then Charles Forsman is most certainly among those who qualify for…

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Minor Leagues #3 – Grief and Loss Explored in the Latest Issue of Simon Moreton’s Essential Autobiographical Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I have been writing about Simon Moreton’s work at Broken Frontier for several years now and I can point to many reasons as to why it has…

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