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Dream Diaries – Shazleen Khan Ruminates on Loss and Empty Spaces in this Shortbox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 26, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning artist Shazleen Khan has become something of a semi-regular fixture here at BF over the last few years given the success and…

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PUDICA33 – Chelsea Akpan Takes Us on an Alien Quest in Another Shortbox Comics Fair Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 14, 2022

Creating truly alien visual environments in comics does not necessarily require elaborate extremes of intricately designed and pseudo-realistic extraterrestrial landscapes, flora and fauna. In PUDICA33, another digital offering from this…

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The StarBrigade In: A Quest to Help a Friend – Yetunde Ekuntuyi’s Delightful All-Ages Story with a Worthy Message, Available Via the ShortBox Comics Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2022

Back in 2021 Yetunde Ekuntuyi was another artist we featured in a creator round-up on the site after she participated in our Broken Frontier Small Press Day one-tweet review event…

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Meteors – Kry Garcia’s Quietly Observed Coming-of-Age Story is Defined as Much by What Isn’t Said or Shown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2022

Kry Garcia’s Meteors is a curious comic. I certainly do not mean that in a pejorative way however, but rather to describe a short story that is idiosyncratic, unexpected and…

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Temple – Jack T. Cole’s Fantasy Tale of Discovery and Rebirth from Shortbox

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2022

I have spoken a lot at Broken Frontier recently about the particular skills needed to communicate a wordless narrative in comics. What I probably haven’t discussed in quite so much…

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Shortbox to Publish First Full-Length Graphic Novel – ‘A Cat’s Day’ by Genie Liang Currently Crowdfunding

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 6, 2022

Shortbox announced their first full-length graphic novel A Cat’s Day by Genie Liang this week. With the acclaimed publisher recently announcing they were closing down their publishing operations this will…

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The Drake’s Sword – Molly Mendoza’s Fantasy Tale is a Sumptuous Feast for the Eyes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 21, 2021

A couple of years ago at Broken Frontier I described Molly Mendoza’s graphic novel Skip as both a “truly magnificent visual spectacle” and “a deeply human story”. That reality-jumping book…

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Don’t Look – Nocturnal Terrors Encroach in Sadiya’s Claustrophobically Atmospheric Short Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 14, 2021

We have all been there at some point. Restless nights, the frustration of not being able to drop off to sleep, the consequent anxiety that only exacerbates our insomnia. But…

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Mercury’s Closet – Geov’s Tale of Demonic Dress-Up is Both Gloriously Ridiculous and Oddly Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2021

“Two demons practice the forbidden art of dress-up” is given premise of Geov’s Mercury’s Closet, another comic from the October-running Shortbox Fair which highlights the breadth and diversity of approaches…

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No Comply – Joe Decie’s Latest Comic Provides an Experimental Sci-Fi Sensory Overload

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 12, 2021

Let’s get my favourite phrase out of the way in the first sentence and make the remark that Joe Decie’s new comic No Comply is pure language of comics magic,…

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All the Things I Forgot – Anabel Colazo’s Fantasy Short Contains Profounder Layers of Meaning

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 11, 2021

Over the last 18 months we have all got very used to alternative online methods of delivery in every aspect of our lives, and the comics scene has been no…

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ShortBox Comics Fair 2021 – Exclusive Digital Releases from 48 Creators to Debut During October’s Month-Long Online Event

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 16, 2021

As comics festivals and fairs have continued to adapt and evolve online in response to the events of the last 18 months there’s been a growing move towards events that…

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She Would Feel the Same – Emma Hunsinger’s Beautiful and Thought-Provoking Exploration of Relationships and Break-Ups from Shortbox

  • by Holly Raidl
  • December 15, 2020

She Would Feel the Same is a beautifully made book creating a detailed depiction of a break-up. It gives a refreshing take on the idea with a less dramatic portrayal…

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Don’t Go Without Me – Shortbox Presents Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Trio of Surreal, Otherwordly Narratives

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • March 24, 2020

In Don’t Go Without Me, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s masterful comic storytelling takes us to three extensively detailed, captivating worlds where we are given space to reflect on love and memory, and…

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Sobek – James Stokoe’s Shortbox Tale of an Ancient Egyptian Crocodile God is a Sumptuous Visual Feast of a Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2019

If you were reading US serial comics in the 1990s you’ll remember the craze for “cover enhancements” during that period, when the major publishers became locked in an ever escalating…

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Taemons – Form, Theme and Narrative Work in Perfect, Fully Integrated Symbiosis in Kim Salt’s Shortbox Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2019

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! The opening pages of Kim Salt’s Taemons – published by ELCAF exhibitors Shortbox – offer a near mesmerising example of using comics’ unique visual language to communicate personal…

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Summer Break – Lottie Pencheon Explores Mental Health Issues in a Quietly Powerful Comics Masterpiece from ShortBox

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 1, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Graphic medicine – the term coined by graphic novelist and GP Ian Williams – is one of the strands of comics narrative that has played a vitally…

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Preview: Shortbox #8 – Pre-Order the Latest Edition of the Acclaimed Independent Comics Box Featuring Work by Niv Sekar, Lottie Pencheon, Joe Sparrow, Anatola Howard, George Mager and Egle Zvirtblyte

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2018

Pre-orders for the latest edition of Zainab Akhtar’s carefully curated independent comics box ShortBox went live today and you have until April 27th to make sure you get hold of this…

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