Biggol #1 – Ioan Morris Spins the Densely Humorous History of a Lost Fantasy TV Classic
Way back when, Otto Von Bismarck famously said something along the lines of “laws are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made”. I’ve no doubt…
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Starman: Freddie Burretti, The Man Who Sewed the World – Paul B. Rainey Puts the Spotlight on One of David Bowie’s Key Collaborators
When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…
Caption 2017 – UK’s Longest-Running Small Press Festival Returns after a Two-Year Hiatus this December
Alex Fitch of Panel Borders has been in touch to let BF know that Caption – the UK’s longest-running small press festival which originally took place between 1992 and 2013…
Preview: Slang Pictorial #1 – Nick Prolix’s ’60s Crime Drama ‘The Sheep and the Wolves’ Debuts in Print at Nottingham Comic Convention
The first issue of Nick Prolix’s Slang Pictorial comic – debuting at Nottingham Comic Convention on Saturday October 29th – acts primarily as a venue for the opening chapter of his retro crime…
How to Have Healthy Hair and Grow it Long – Annie Lawson Joins the No Shampoo Revolution in this Engaging Autobio Offering
If you’ve never encountered Annie Lawson’s lively cartooning style before then you’ve inexplicably missed the output of a comics creator whose strips have been enjoyed by readers since the early 1980s….
Electricomics Asks the Small Press Community for Input on Digital Delivery – Complete Their Brief Survey and Add Your Thoughts
Electricomics – the “digital comics self-publishing ecosystem” project managed by Leah Moore – are asking for the input of the small press scene as they look to provide a digital community…
The Making of Art Lady – Community and Inclusivity Are the Heart of Eve Turner-Lee’s Slice-of-Life Offering
There’s something delightfully layered about using as inclusive a medium as comics to talk about the wider subject of inclusivity in the arts, as Eve Turner-Lee does in her self-published The…
Tales of the Old West – Dom McKenzie is Quick on the Draw in this Comedy Period Piece
Taking a largely mythical Wild West as its inspiration, Dom McKenzie’s Tales of the Old West is a short collection of rapid fire shorts that fondly pull apart some of…
Windy Wilberforce Meets Sun Ra – Space is the Place as Ed Pinsent’s Intellectual Explorer Makes a Welcome Comeback
The return of Windy Wilberforce – and his creator, small-press pioneer Ed Pinsent – heralds a refreshing reunion with what feels like an old acquaintance. I used the phrase about Phil Elliott…
Cindy and Biscuit Volume 1: We Love Trouble – One Girl and Her Dog Battle the Forces of Darkness in Dan White’s Endearing Fantasy Comedy Romp
One angry little girl, her brave and resilient dog, and the constant threat of werewolves, ghosts and alien conquerors. Welcome to the world of Cindy and Biscuit. If you’re a…
Tight Larks: A Collection of Crucial Comics – Paul Jon Milne Offers Up a Dark and Abstruse Take on ‘Viz’-Style Parody
Sitting somewhere between a much darker and abstruse version of Viz and an underground comix homage, Paul Jon Milne’s Tight Larks: A Collection of Crucial Comics is an anthology compilation…
Transgender Step Parent #1 – Often Poignant Observational Humour from Andrew Lips and Black Lodge Press
Coming to us via UK zine and minicomics micropublisher Black Lodge Press, Andrew Lips’s Transgender Step Parent is described as “a series of funny/serious comics on being a trans co-parent,…
To the Waters and the Wild – The Mother-Child Bond Examined in a Fantasy Horror Tale from Jake Dudas
Lines from the poem ‘The Stolen Child’ by William Butler Yeats act as a preface to Jake Dudas’s To the Waters and the Wild, an unsettling supernatural tale from a…
The Weight #1 and #2 – Melissa Mendes Offers Intimate Comics Storytelling at Its Very Best
In her long-form tale of depression-era childhood, Melissa Mendes draws on her family history to create a rich portrait of a young girl and the confusing, often brutal world around her….
A Dark Forest #1 – Kate-mia White’s Shadowy Fairy Tale is a Haunting and Claustrophobic Affair
The absolute joy of writing a column like this is that the thrill of discovery and the sense of awe that goes with it are constant companions in my quest…
A Bunch of Amateurs – Andrew Waugh’s Droll Investigation of Some of Science’s Most Unlikely Heroes
The back cover blurb to Andrew Waugh’s A Bunch of Amateurs describes the book as “comic vignettes about the boffins, tinkerers and inventors who changed scientific history from their kitchen…
Poem from a Bus Shelter – Clare Shaw and Louise Crosby Bring the Power of Poetry to the Comics Page
Coverage of poetry in comics is hardly unheard of here at Broken Frontier – in the last year I’ve given mention to projects like Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues and…
Old Ground #1 – Cemetery Slapstick and Morbid Meditations Abound in Noel Freibert’s Visceral Dark Comedy
Noel Freibert’s Old Ground is, without a doubt, one of the more curious offerings I am likely to cover in this column in 2015. Set in the confines of the…
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