10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If you’re in London on Saturday August 31st between 7-9pm then keep your diaries free! Our chums at Gosh! Comics are putting on the comics party of the year to celebrate 10 Years of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ initiative. There’s an absolutely epic guest list of creators, ranging from the first #BF6toWatch intake in 2015 to our current year.
Just in case you’re coming to this news unaware of what our ‘Six to Watch’ programme is all about, it actively seeks out deserving emerging voices in comics to champion their work and bring it to wider audiences. It provides the six chosen creators with a year of guaranteed coverage at BF, a mentoring initiative, and multiple opportunities to be a part of Broken Frontier-related comics events, panels and talks.
Poster by Manon Wright
From their self-publishing and small press roots, Six to Watch creators have gone on to be published by the likes of 2000 AD/Rebellion, Avery Hill Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Faber, Fantagraphics, Graphic Universe, Icon Books, Image Comics, Jonathan Cape, Koguchi Press, kus! comics, Myriad Editions, Oni Press, SelfMadeHero, Seven Stories Press, Street Noise Books, Titan Books, Unbound, Z2 Comics, and countless micropublishers.
Notable work has included Sabba Khan’s The Roles We Play (Myriad Editions), Danny Noble’s Shame Pudding (Street Noise Books), Jem Milton’s The Flying Ship (Dark Horse/Tapas), Shanti Rai’s Sennen (Avery Hill), Anna Readman on ‘Abelard Snazz’ in 2000 AD (Rebellion), Mollie Ray’s Giant (Faber), and Dominique Duong’s upcoming Patchwork (Jonathan Cape), among many others.
To commemorate this momentous occasion, around thirty of the Six to Watch creators (subject to schedules) will be at Gosh! at the end of August for the ’10 Years of the Broken Frontier Six to Watch’ party. That number includes Abs Bailey, Alba Ceide, Aleesha Nandhra, Alice Urbino, Alxndra Cook, Andy Barron, Beatrice Mossman, Cat Sims, Dominique Duong, Ed Firth, Ellice Weaver, Joe Stone, Josh Hicks, Kat Cass, Kate-mia White, Kry Garcia, Manon Wright, Mereida Fajardo, Norm Konyu, Olivia Sualdea, Olivia Sullivan, Peony Gent, Pigeon/Kamila Krol, Rachel Tubb, Sabba Khan, Sammy Ward, Shanti Rai, Tal Brosh, Tinglin Liu, Tom Philipson, Zhenyi Zheng and Zoè Delautre Corral.
That’s one heck of a line-up! Join us in August for free drinks, excellent company and some of the most talented UK-based emerging voices of the last decade as we raise a glass to their incredible achievements in that time.
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