#hczf month 2021
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HCZF Round-Up - Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
HCZF MONTH! As Hackney Comic + Zine Fair comes to a close we thought we’d wind up our HCZF Month of coverage with a round-up of some of the books and comics available that we’ve reviewed here at Broken Frontier in the past. We have limited this to work released in 2021 with a couple of exceptions for those whose debut graphic novels were published after the pandemic began and subsequently lost…
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HCZF Round-Up - Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! As Hackney Comic + Zine Fair comes to a close we thought we’d wind up our HCZF Month of coverage with a round-up of some of the books…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/hall-one-hczf-round-up-2021/
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Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley - Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley – Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
HCZF MONTH! There are times you pick up a small press project and realise that the term “labour of love” isn’t even remotely adequate to express the obvious thought and care that has gone into it. Akio Volume 1 (subtitled Suigin Valley) is one such book. Published by Dreambaked, this manga fantasy saga is the work of Curtly Ferguson and C.H. Barnett and is the first collection in a projected…
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Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley - Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! There are times you pick up a small press project and realise that the term “labour of love” isn’t even remotely adequate to express the obvious thought and…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/akio-dreambaked-ferguson-barnett-hczf/
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The Blame #1 - Jon Aye Embraces a Truly Playful and Experimental Approach to Both Storytelling and Subject Matter.
The Blame #1 – Jon Aye Embraces a Truly Playful and Experimental Approach to Both Storytelling and Subject Matter.
HCZF MONTH! The territory where cute meets cynical can be a dangerous one. In The Blame Jon Aye plays in that territory and stakes a claim to versions of bleakness that are by turns beautiful, banal and bizarre. It’s a pleasure to see this kind of collection, where the artist has been able to make the work that speaks to them, and try out different approaches to both the visuals and the subject…
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Conniptions - Stephen Morton's Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
Conniptions – Stephen Morton’s Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
HCZF MONTH! Irish artist Stephen Morton’s Conniptions takes a distinctively dark approach to (assumed) autobio comics. If creators like Joe Decie and Matthew Dooley can be said to be combining autobiographical work with surreal flights of fancy then Morton is perhaps doing something similar but with soberingly strange dives of despondency instead. Conniptions is a 40-ish page collection of short…
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Conniptions - Stephen Morton's Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! Irish artist Stephen Morton’s Conniptions takes a distinctively dark approach to (assumed) autobio comics. If creators like Joe Decie and Matthew Dooley can be said to be combining…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/conniptions-stephen-morton-hczf/
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Burrow – Joe Callanan's Lovely Little Comic Looks at the Experience of Anxiety through a Relatable and Playful Device that Will Speak to a Lot of Us in these Times
Burrow – Joe Callanan’s Lovely Little Comic Looks at the Experience of Anxiety through a Relatable and Playful Device that Will Speak to a Lot of Us in these Times
HCZF MONTH! Joe Callanan’s work often explores softly sinister and whimsical lands, full of richly imagined environments and characters that feel both nostalgic and contemporary. While there’s no doubt that the protagonist of Burrow lives in just such a world, they’ve clearly not seen it in a while. Instead they reside deep in a cosy hole under a forested futurescape, where the exit hole is…
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Waiting Room - Shiqian Pan's Short Tale Reminds Us of the Vulnerability of First Love
Waiting Room – Shiqian Pan’s Short Tale Reminds Us of the Vulnerability of First Love
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 more akin to a slice-of-life comic but with accompanying hints of the fantastic before slowly transitioning into something altogether more surreal in its symbolism.
A young woman sits awaiting a phone call, the…
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Waiting Room - Shiqian Pan's Short Tale Reminds Us of the Vulnerability of First Love
by Andy Oliver
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…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/waiting-room-shiqian-pan/
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Throwing Pennies - Mereida's Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph
Throwing Pennies – Mereida’s Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph
HCZF MONTH! A couple of months back when I interviewed Mereida Fajardo about her practice I asked whether her constant experimentation with the form was a conscious decision to learn her storytelling craft through an interrogation of the medium’s possibilities, rather than focusing on developing just one consistent style. Her reply was: “100%. I’m not the most skilled draughtsman so I’m more…
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Throwing Pennies - Mereida's Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! A couple of months back when I interviewed Mereida Fajardo about her practice I asked whether her constant experimentation with the form was a conscious decision to learn…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/throwing-pennies/
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Tina & Britney & The Visitor Part 1 - More Outrageous Mermaid Slacker Comedy from the Uncompromising Imagination of Jade King
Tina & Britney & The Visitor Part 1 – More Outrageous Mermaid Slacker Comedy from the Uncompromising Imagination of Jade King
HCZF MONTH! Back in 2018 when I asked small press creator Jade King about the genres she worked in and themes of her comics she defined them as “wonky faces, gross food, bodies, aliens [and] strange British phenomena (like meat raffles).” While that may sound eclectic in a gloriously bizarre way, or even perhaps a little esoteric in some aspects, it’s a far more fitting way of summing up her…
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Tina & Britney & The Visitor Part 1 - More Outrageous Mermaid Slacker Comedy from the Uncompromising Imagination of Jade King
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! Back in 2018 when I asked small press creator Jade King about the genres she worked in and themes of her comics she defined them as “wonky faces,…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/tina-britney-the-visitor-part-1-jade-king/
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Undomesticated - Cécile Simonis Asks Us to Embrace Our Inner Wilderness in Her HCZF Debut Comic
Undomesticated – Cécile Simonis Asks Us to Embrace Our Inner Wilderness in Her HCZF Debut Comic
HCZF MONTH! One of the most pleasurable things about being involved in the UK comics festival circuit is the opportunities it provides to meet new creators on a more one-to-one basis and chat about their work. I have been involved for several years now with ELCAF’s Springboard Meetings (essentially portfolio reviews) and they’ve introduced me to a number of artists who I have gone on to feature…
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Undomesticated - Cécile Simonis Asks Us to Embrace Our Inner Wilderness in Her HCZF Debut Comic
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! One of the most pleasurable things about being involved in the UK comics festival circuit is the opportunities it provides to meet new creators on a more one-to-one…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/undomesticated-cecile-simonis-hczf/
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