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…
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…
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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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…
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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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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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…
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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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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!September 30, 2021
“We Try to Remain as True as Possible to the Original Work” – Digital Publisher Europe Comics on Bringing the Very Best of European Comics Practice to Wider AudiencesSeptember 21, 2021
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of WendyAugust 30, 2021
