A View from the Frontier – Welcome to Safari Festival Fortnight 2017!
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Get used to that intro to articles at Broken Frontier over the next couple of weeks because it’s going to be a regular fixture on the site…
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Announcing Safari Festival 2017 – Anya Davidson, Charles Forsman and Lane Milburn Headline at Breakdown Press’s New Wave Comics Celebration on August 12th
Safari Festival Fortnight has been a major piece of event coverage here at Broken Frontier over the last two years as we’ve sought to support Breakdown Press’s celebration of new waves…
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A Year in Reviews – Looking Back on Broken Frontier’s 2016 UK Small Press Coverage in ‘Small Pressganged’
As we approach 2017 it seems only fitting to look back on the UK self-publishing world in 2016 through a ‘Small Pressganged’ lens. This was the year that this column…
Preview: John’s Worth #2 – Jon Chandler’s “Scorched Earth Sex Nightmare” Returns for Safari Festival
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Throughout this past week at Broken Frontier we’ve been previewing some of the new releases from Breakdown Press that you can pick up at Safari Festival this…
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Preview: Live at the Drive – Sorority’s Comic/Record Combo from Breakdown Press
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Continuing our preview coverage of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival releases, we’re looking today at the comic/record combo pack Live at the Drive by Sorority, the band consisting…
Small Press Spotlight on… Babak Ganjei
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei’s artistic practice ranges from his satirical blackout poetry to his his powerfully honest autobio comics. His self-deprecating humour often makes telling points but he’s as comfortable utilising it for throwaway gags…
The Safari Festival Run-Up Begins – Decadence Comics Exhibition, Joan Cornellà Signing at Gosh! Comics and Safari Pre-Party with Breakdown Press
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As all regular Broken Frontier readers will know by now, Safari Festival is coming this Saturday August 27th. But before the big day there are a number…
Exclusive Preview: Wax #1 – Take a First Look at Matthew Pettit’s Collection of Strips Debuting at Safari Festival
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Debuting at Safari Festival Matthew Pettit’s Wax #1 is the first issue of a three-colour risograph “solo anthology” showcasing his work. Pettit describes the book as “made up of…
Preview: Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Debut Book from Breakdown Press is a Top Safari Festival Pick
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the great joys of an event like Safari Festival is discovering creators whose work you may not be so familiar with. One such artist at…
Staff Picks for August 24, 2016 – Safari Festival Special Including Green Graves, Picnoleptic Inertia, Joyride, Decadence Comics and More!
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! This week’s BF Staff Picks is slightly different from our…
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BadTwin Presents Krent Able & Julian Hanshaw – Safari Festival’s Dynamic Duo Bring an Underground Vibe to the Proceedings
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! From the introductory moments when we’re introduced to the self-deprecatingly skewed on-page personas of Krent Able and Julian Hanshaw – one squatting Gollum-like in his subterranean kingdom…
Preview: Palace #0 – Hard-to-Find Antoine Cossé Classics Compiled by Breakdown Press
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Today’s pre-Safari Festival preview of Breakdown Press’s new releases looks at Palace #0, a collection of seldom seen gems from Breakdown regular Antoine Cossé. I was particularly taken…
Green Graves – Liam Cobb’s Fatalistic, Intense and Feverish New Comic is a Safari Festival Must-Buy
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes we use the word “experimental” far too casually to describe intriguing new comics work when the practitioners in question are not so much experimenting as perceptively…
Small Press Spotlight on… Ally Russell
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! A newer face on the small press comics scene, Ally Russell makes her Safari Festival debut with the print version of her Killer Klowns from Outer Space…
Preview: Picnoleptic Inertia – Breakdown Press Collect the Work of Decadence Comics’ Stathis Tsemberlidis
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Safari is coming this weekend and festival organisers Breakdown Press have a bumper batch of new releases to celebrate. We’ll be previewing those titles this week at…
One and the Dawn of Reality – Ed Cheverton and Otto Press Introduce Us to the Saga of the Spectral Pilot
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Combining old school space opera with re-imagined creation myth, Ed Cheverton’s One and the Dawn of Reality is an A4 landscape format comic published by Otto Press….
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It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be – Three Interlocking Stories from Slice-of-Life Specialist Lizzy Stewart
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Three tales loosely connected by the interlocking existences of their protagonists – but all linked firmly in theme – make up Lizzy Stewart’s A4-sized comic It’s Not What You…
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Parsley Girl: Carrots – Another Riotous Misadventure for Matthew Swan’s Fun Fantasy Heroine
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
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