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A comic about researching for another potential comic might sound like it’s all kinds of self-indulgently meta but Beth Barnett’s Dreamers of the Day is the polar opposite; an honest,…
SPX‘s importance as a small press comics convention in North America cannot be overstated. The reasons have less to do with business and more to do with its consistent geographic…
Birdcage Bottom Books are one of our favourite US small press publishers here at Broken Frontier with their output of genuinely indie, experimental and alt comics typifying the kind of…
Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…
While we’re going to be somewhat Thought Bubble-intensive over the next two weeks at Broken Frontier we mustn’t forget that SPX is coming this weekend with a whole host of…
The 20th edition of the Small Press Expo (SPX) was a huge show. Held as always in Bethesda, Maryland, it rounds up the most important publishers and cartoonists in the North American indie…
Small Press Expo 2014 (SPX) is over but the energy it generates isn’t gone yet. I’d love if I could always vibrate at the specific frequency this particular comic book…
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
Some Thoughts on Toxic Fandom in British Comics – Or Why the UK Comics Industry is Right to Unshackle Itself from What Amounts to Comicsgate-Style ThinkingMarch 22, 2022
