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“I Like to Build Worlds” – Claire Scully on Taking Psychogeographical Comics in New Directions in the Pages of ‘Outer Wilderness’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Redefining how we think about psychogeographical comics, Claire Scully’s Wilderness trilogy came to a conclusion last month with the publication of the third and final part Outer Wilderness…

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Ghostly Thoughts – These Three Haunting Short Stories Are a Testament to Alxndra Cook’s Development as a Sequential Artist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2022

Watching the growing confidence in storytelling craft of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators as they become more conversant with the language of the medium is always a pleasure….

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Sour Pickles – Clio Isadora’s Avery Hill Graphic Novel Provides Incisive Social Commentary on Privilege and the Realities of the Contemporary Student Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2022

As part of our coverage of the last in-person East London Comics and Arts Festival I covered Clio Isadora’s short comic Is it Vague in Other Dimensions?, a very individual…

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Junk #2 – Sam Baldwin’s Anthology Brings Us Offbeat Tales from a North London Estate

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2022

Sam Baldwin’s second issue of anthology Junk begins with a two-pager detailing a number of ever more outlandish ways way to dispose of the comic should one make the supposed…

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Nottingham to London – Fragments of Lived Experience Are Scattered Across the Pages of this New Work from Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2021

One of a trio of new comics that Peony Gent debuted at Thought Bubble this year (see our review of Three Comics here for another of those offerings) London to…

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Home – Gareth Brookes Takes Us on a Psychogeographical Journey with a Lurking Morbidity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2021

Psychogeographical comics work looks to explore the intersections between place, time and memory. It can look at how we shape our environments and, in turn, how our environments shape us….

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Three Comics – Peony Gent’s Latest Collection of Graphic Poetry is the Perfect Introduction to Her Boundary-Pushing Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…

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Are You Satisfied? – Miranda Smart’s Abstract Cross-Media Minicomic Encourages Us to Consider the Mechanics of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 25, 2021

This isn’t the first time I have said this and it certainly won’t be the last, but over the years that I have been writing for Broken Frontier I have…

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Waiting Room – Shiqian Pan’s Short Tale Reminds Us of the Vulnerability of First Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2021

HCZF MONTH! Shiqian Pan describes her comic Waiting Room as “a story for those girls who have been crushed bit by bit by neverending anticlimactic waiting.” It begins as something…

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Systems – Olivia Sullivan Asks Us to Experience, Absorb and Immerse Ourselves in Her Latest Abstract Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2021

HCZF MONTH! Olivia Sullivan’s latest print comics zine Systems is described as exploring “the world of botany, environmental landscapes and themes of wanderlust” as it “documents observations of the weird…

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A Pocket Chiller: Mutton Chops – Ovine Suspense from Olivia Sullivan in this Psychogeographical Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2021

Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller line promises “new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours”. Its line-up of UK indie and alt talent to date has…

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“I Hope that My Work Evokes Emotion” – Alxndra Cook on Embarking on Her Comics Journey, Self-Publishing and Her Wider Artistic Background

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2021

London-based illustrator and designer Alxndra Cook first featured a few years ago on Broken Frontier when we covered some of her lively and quirky zines. Her relatively recent move into…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Roles We Play – Sabba Khan’s Exploration of Identity and Self as a Second-Generation Muslim Migrant is One of the Key Releases of 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2021

To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…

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Vicious Creatures – Sarah Gordon’s Own Brand of Graphic Melancholy Creates Something Unique Out of the Recognisable Standards of the Horror Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2021

Over the last few years artist Sarah Gordon had been producing a series of delightfully disturbing short horror comics with such a prolific zeal that I could barely remember from…

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Inside Look: The Dancing Plague – Gareth Brookes on the Pyrographical and Embroidered Process Behind His SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel

  • by Gareth Brookes
  • July 8, 2021

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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“I Literally Just Create what I Feel Like” – Shane Melisse on Working in Multiple Genres and Participating in the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2021

Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

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Wednesday’s Child – Alxndra Cook Displays an Astonishing Talent for Speaking to Her Audience with a Delicate and Powerful Intimacy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2021

Slice-of-life or autobio comics work doesn’t necessarily have to be rooted in attempts at capturing the literal actuality of events and their emotional impact. In Wednesday’s Child 2021 Broken Frontier…

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