SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Throughout this past week at Broken Frontier we’ve been previewing some of the new releases from Breakdown Press that you can pick up at Safari Festival this…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Continuing our preview coverage of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival releases, we’re looking today at the comic/record combo pack Live at the Drive by Sorority, the band consisting…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei’s artistic practice ranges from his satirical blackout poetry to his his powerfully honest autobio comics. His self-deprecating humour often makes telling points but he’s as comfortable utilising it for throwaway gags…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As all regular Broken Frontier readers will know by now, Safari Festival is coming this Saturday August 27th. But before the big day there are a number…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Debuting at Safari Festival Matthew Pettit’s Wax #1 is the first issue of a three-colour risograph “solo anthology” showcasing his work. Pettit describes the book as “made up of…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the great joys of an event like Safari Festival is discovering creators whose work you may not be so familiar with. One such artist at…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! This week’s BF Staff Picks is slightly different from our…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! From the introductory moments when we’re introduced to the self-deprecatingly skewed on-page personas of Krent Able and Julian Hanshaw – one squatting Gollum-like in his subterranean kingdom…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Today’s pre-Safari Festival preview of Breakdown Press’s new releases looks at Palace #0, a collection of seldom seen gems from Breakdown regular Antoine Cossé. I was particularly taken…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes we use the word “experimental” far too casually to describe intriguing new comics work when the practitioners in question are not so much experimenting as perceptively…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! A newer face on the small press comics scene, Ally Russell makes her Safari Festival debut with the print version of her Killer Klowns from Outer Space…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Safari is coming this weekend and festival organisers Breakdown Press have a bumper batch of new releases to celebrate. We’ll be previewing those titles this week at…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Combining old school space opera with re-imagined creation myth, Ed Cheverton’s One and the Dawn of Reality is an A4 landscape format comic published by Otto Press….
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Three tales loosely connected by the interlocking existences of their protagonists – but all linked firmly in theme – make up Lizzy Stewart’s A4-sized comic It’s Not What You…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Paloma Dawkins’ Summerland – one of the latest batch of releases for those who backed US micropublisher Retrofit’s most recent Kickstarter campaign – is a comic that…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Blurring the lines between catalyst and non sequitur, Laura Ķeniņš’ Alien Beings is the latest short-form offering from Latvian micropublisher kuš!’s line of mini kuš! comics. Its…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! With his long-running and influential zine comics series Smoo Comics having recently come to an end, and his new publication Minor Leagues taking his creative practice in…
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