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Gary Spencer Millidge’s ‘Strangehaven’ Optioned for Film and TV by IDW Entertainment

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 23, 2021

Now running for over a quarter of a century, Gary Spencer Millidge’s landmark Strangehaven series first appeared as a self-published offering in the 1990s. A comic that remains as difficult…

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Soaring Penguin Press to Publish ‘Salmonella Smorgasbord’ Collecting Comics Work by Mark Stafford

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 4, 2021

If you’re a fan of the work of Mark Stafford, one of the most imaginative cartoonists on the UK scene and the Artist-in-Residence at London’s Cartoon Museum, then you’ll be…

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Sugar: Life as a Cat – A Mesmerizingly Beautiful Rendition of the World According to the Cats of Serge Baeken; Eponymous Tomcat Sugar Will Steal Your Heart with His Deadpan Wisdom

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 5, 2018

What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 3, 2017

Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…

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Staff Picks for October 4, 2017 – Marney the Fox, Breaks, Eugenic, Geis and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 3, 2017

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…

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Staff Picks for February 15, 2017 – Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie, Angel Catbird, Lovers in the Garden, The Wild Storm and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 14, 2017

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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Introducing Keara Stewart and Wallis Eates – A New London Laydeez Do Comics Interim Team at the New Venue of Gosh! Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2015

When the London incarnation of popular monthly comics meet-up Laydeez Do Comics returns after its summer break in October it will do so with a new team at the helm…

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Staff Picks for July 29, 2015 – Not Funny Ha-Ha, Grindhouse, Sea Urchin, Meanwhile… and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 28, 2015

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Broken Frontier Anthology: “I’m Not Interested in Heroes or Idealised Characters. I’m All about the Doubt” – Mark Stafford Discusses His Macabre Approach to the Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2015

Mark Stafford has built up a reputation in UK comics in recent years for visual storytelling that is eerily macabre in tone and atmosphere. A frequent collaborator with David Hine on…

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Soaring Penguin Press Announce 2015 Kickstarter Campaign – Back Graphic Novels from Ellen Lindner, Laura Howell, Bach and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2015

Small in form but breathtakingly diverse in output, Soaring Penguin Press have become renowned for their eclectic publishing catalogue. From Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan to Howard Hardiman’s The Lengths, through…

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Soaring Penguin Press Announce 2015 Publishing Plans Including Work from Laura Howell, Ellen Lindner and John Maybury

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2015

If there’s one thing you can always rely on with Soaring Penguin Press’s output it’s eclecticism. From Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan to Howard Hardiman’s The Lengths through to anthology series…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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State of the Small Press Nation – Is the Ever Expanding Number of UK Comics Shows, Festivals and Fairs Sustainable?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2015

Is the rapidly expanding number of UK comics-related shows, fairs and festivals to exhibit at an advantage? Or is this level of growth actually stretching small press creators and their…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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State of the Small Press Nation – Is Self and Micro Comics Publishing in the UK Growing Faster than its Potential Audience? (Part 2)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 16, 2014

Yesterday we began a major multi-part series of articles in ‘Small Pressganged’ looking at the challenges facing micro and self-publishers as we go into 2015. Over the next few weeks…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 26, 2014

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • February 25, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

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Mengelmoes #1 – Willem Samuel’s South African Slice-of-Lifer with a Fantasy Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2014

The juxtaposition of the commonplace and the everyday with the fantastic and the bizarre makes Mengelmoes an unpredictably intriguing read throughout. For those wondering, Mengelmoes means something akin to “mish-mash”…

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The Black Feather Falls Book One: Ellen Lindner’s Period Murder Mystery Comes to Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2014

A lavish and opulent visual feast of a comic with a gripping plot at its heart, Ellen Lindner’s historical drama is a must-buy affair. London, the 1920s, and American Tina…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 9, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • October 8, 2013

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2013

Soaring Penguin Press’s exquisite repackaging of this extraordinary reinterpretation of the timeless children’s favourite is undoubtedly one of the most essential graphic novel collections of the year. London, 1887, and…

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