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Whistle – Beneath the Whimsy, Louka Butzbach’s Rustic Fable Reflects Contemporary Concerns

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 25, 2020

Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…

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The Pits of Hell – Breakdown Press Collect the Raw, Visceral and Ever Vital Work of Alternative Mangaka Ebisu Yoshikazu

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 19, 2019

“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…

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The Artist: The Circle of Life – Raw, Tender, Silly and Sweet, Anna Haifisch’s Surreal Satire on the Life of Emerging Artists Manages to be Joyful Despite Being Composed Mostly of Disasters

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 30, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! When Anna Haifisch received an email from Vice magazine in 2015 inviting her to do a weekly cartoon strip she said yes right away. Given a blank slate,…

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Windowpane – Joe Kessler Provides a Tour de Force of Experimental Comics Via Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2019

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Compiling all-new material alongside the third and fourth volumes of Joe Kessler’s Windowpane series, this latest incarnation of the artist’s signature title was released at the end of…

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‘The Prince’ and ‘The Inspector’ – Providing Chills, Laughs and Social Comment, Two Very Different Comics Highlight the Distinctive Talent of Liam Cobb

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 3, 2018

Reading a review of The Prince on a reputable US comics site, I was surprised to read that Liam Cobb might be best known in that part of the world…

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Generous Bosom #3 – Conor Stechschulte Takes Us Further Down the Rabbit Hole in His Deepening Mystery

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 13, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Lengthy gaps between issues is one of the problems with serial storytelling in comics. However, in his mysterious drama Generous Bosom, Conor Stechschulte has created a sense of…

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Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Minimalist Drama Takes the Reader on a Spontaneous and Evocative Journey of Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…

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World in the Forcefield #1 – The Spiritual and the Nihilistic Embrace in Alexander Tucker’s Epic Saga from Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2017

There are graphic narratives that exist to be experienced and absorbed rather than to be read and dissected in a traditional sense. Musician and artist Alexander Tucker’s World in the…

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The Artist – Doomed Aspirations Abound in Anna Haifisch’s Satirical Take on the Art World from Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 9, 2017

Laughing at the pretensions and idiosyncrasies of the art world – whether doing so with fond and gentle humour or scathingly acidic wit – is hardly new ground to tread….

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On Topics #2 – Michael DeForge Returns to Breakdown Press with a Characteristically Intelligent Comics Double Bill

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • September 15, 2016

Comprised of the two short pieces ‘The Prime Minister of Canada’ and ‘Talking Sweat’, Michael DeForge’s latest Risograph release via London’s Breakdown Press sees the prolific comics artist operating within…

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Red Red Rock and Other Stories – Four Decades on, Hayashi Seiichi’s Alternative Manga Retain the Power to Beguile and Mystify

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 10, 2016

Red Red Rock and Other Stories, a new collection of Hayashi Seiichi’s alternative manga from Breakdown Press, is a demanding but rewarding read. After 30 years of thumbing (and latterly…

Generous Bosom (Conor Stechschulte; Breakdown Press)

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“Most of My Favourite Art Has a Strong Sense of the Uncanny”: Conor Stechschulte Tells Us about His Comics Journey So Far

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 24, 2016

One of the things we enjoy most at Broken Frontier is following the development of exciting new talents. One such creator is Conor Stechschulte, who came to wider attention in…

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Hax – Lale Westvind Sends an Intense Psychedelic Postcard from a Traumatised World

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 12, 2016

In Hax, from Breakdown Press, artist Lale Westvind uses an powerful visual style to evoke a woman’s journey through a broken landscape. Hax, by New York-based artist Lale Westvind, hums with the…

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Gardens of Glass – Lando’s Oblique but Hypnotic Socio-Political Sci-Fi Collected by Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2015

Published last year by Breakdown Press, Gardens of Glass – Lando’s retrospective collection of short story strips from the last few years of Decadence Comics – explores “ideas of human…

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Sindicalismo 89 – A Tale of Sprawling Urban Chaos from Mexican Creator Inés Estrada and Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2015

It was Latvian publisher kuš komiksi who first introduced me to the work of Mexican comics creator Inés Estrada, and the grotesque near-psychedelia of her Borrowed Tails minicomic (mini kuš…

Generous Bosom (Conor Stechschulte; Breakdown Press)

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Generous Bosom, Part One – A Gripping Start to a Major New Work from Rising Star Conor Stechschulte

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 16, 2015

In a beautifully produced edition from Breakdown Press, the first part of Generous Bosom, a major new work from rising star Conor Stechschulte, is a startling comic. Without a lot…

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Mutiny Bay – An Eerie Examination of Magellan’s Famous Voyage from Antoine Cossé and Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2014

Over a Safari Festival weekend in which desirable comics treasures were in abundant supply, and attendees could be forgiven for lapsing into sequential art sensory overload, there were nonetheless a…

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