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    Author: Rebecca Burke

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    SHELTER: Early Doors – Lucy Sullivan’s Memorable Tale of Trauma, Womanhood and Witchcraft

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • March 7, 2023

    SHELTER: Early Doors is a profound and emotive story, where paint-strokes portray trauma in such a versatile and up-close way that you cannot help but feel yourself involved. This results…

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    Inside Look: Zines, Secrets, and Loneliness – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on the Recent Autobiographical Zines and Comics of R. E. Burke

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • October 31, 2022

    BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Perhaps unsurprisingly many of our team at Broken Frontier are hugely talented artists in their own right. Over the last few years such luminaries of the…

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    ­­­Cicatrix – A Symbolic Statement from Elle Shivers about Guilt and Privilege, Published by Silver Sprocket

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • October 11, 2022

    Cicatrix by Elle Shivers is full of cramped panels that reflect the ruminating mind of our protagonist, who has discovered a lump on their neck. This growth is artistically represented…

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    The Young Woman and the Sea – Catherine Meurisse Steers Us Through the Rough Storm of an Artist’s Struggle to Depict Nature, from Europe Comics

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • June 27, 2022

    Catherine Meurisse’s The Young Woman and the Sea, published by Europe Comics, follows a young artist’s residency in the Japanese countryside – with the aim to draw nature. During her…

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    Quiet Thoughts – Karen Shangguan’s Collected Musings on Impermanence, Nature, and the Poetry of Comics, from Avery Hill Publishing

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • January 31, 2022

    Quiet Thoughts is a collection of Karen Shangguan’s gentle and poetic comic narratives, published by Avery Hill Publishing. Varying in levels of abstractness, but consistently beautiful, Shangguan’s art allows us…

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    Celestia – Manuele Fior’s Anticipated New Release Immerses the Reader in an Ethereal Dreamscape of Ever-present Villains, Mindreaders and Lovers, from Fantagraphics

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • July 30, 2021

    Celestia, the latest graphic narrative from Manuele Fior, immerses readers in a vast and ethereal dreamscape of the future, where complex interpersonal dynamics are one of many aspects to simultaneously…

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    Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Poignant Graphic Novel Debut on Queer Love, Family and the Detriment of Expectations, from Fantagraphics

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • June 10, 2021

    Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…

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    A House Without Windows – Life Drawn Present Didier Kassaï’s Comic Art Alongside Marc Ellison’s Photography in This Unflinching Documentary of the ‘Forgotten Crisis’ in the Central African Republic

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • May 24, 2021

    A House Without Windows is an important and necessary read to acknowledge the current state of affairs in the Central African Republic and to look through the windows provided for…

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    Covers Album: Rebecca Burke – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Linnea Sterte, Kerascoët and Gabriel Hernández Walta

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • May 19, 2021

    In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

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    Ex.Mag Vol. 3: Crumbling Kingdom – Latest Peow Anthology Heralds the Misfortune, Misanthropy and Misery of the Dark Fantasy Genre (With Just the Right Amount of Wit and Whimsy to Sweeten the Pot)

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • April 29, 2021

    This whopping 192-page collection by Peow is their latest in a series of genre-based anthologies. As noted in the preliminary pages of Ex.Mag Vol. 3, the anthologies were brought about…

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    The Two Lives of Penelope – Judith Vanistendael Continues to Bring a Powerful Voice to the Comic Scene in this Story of a Surgeon Haunted by Both Her Work and Gender Expectations

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • April 1, 2021

    Judith Vanistendael’s The Two Lives of Penelope tells the story of a woman living two parallel lives – one as a mother, in a cosy home, with a loving husband…

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    Sunshine State – John Carvajal’s Slice-of-Life Explores the Tension Between Uncertainty and Self-Identity

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • March 16, 2021

    In Sunshine State, John Carvajal takes us along for the ride as we follow Milo, stumbling through life, trying to find his feet. Carvajal’s watercolours are evocative of these youthful, washed…

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    Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale – Marta Selusi’s Whimsical Fantasy Comic Explores the Effects of Anxiety in a World Full of Monsters

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • January 6, 2021

    Marta Selusi’s second graphic novel, Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale tells the story of Shu, a young boy who wakes up one morning to find his mother gone and…

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    Slaughterhouse-Five – Ryan North and Albert Monteys Continually Twist the Comic Form in this Undeniably Self-Aware Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Masterpiece

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • December 17, 2020

    Ryan North and Albert Monteys continually twist the comic form in this undeniably self-aware adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five, for BOOM! Studios/Archaia. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Ryan North and Albert Monteys…

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    Love on the Isle of Dogs – Jude Cowan Montague’s Graphic Memoir Epitomises the Versatility of the Comic Form in a Vulnerable Reflection on the Intersection of Love and Mental Health

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • September 24, 2020

    On the surface, Love on the Isle of Dogs is a story about love that constantly interrogates itself, asking even in the beginning: “What & Who is Love anyway?”. This…

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    Victory Point – Owen D. Pomery’s Captivating Comic is a Refreshing Release and Reflection on Permanence and Perspective, from Avery Hill Publishing

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • August 5, 2020

    Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…

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    Upgrade Soul – Ezra Claytan Daniels Uses the Science Fiction Genre as a Conduit for Thought-Provoking Questions Regarding Race, Identity and What it Means to Be Human

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • July 28, 2020

    Upgrade Soul is a thought-provoking science fiction comic about Hank and Molly Nonnar, an elderly couple who are deciding how to be remembered by the world; and how they can…

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    We Served the People: My Mother’s Stories – Emei Burell Recounts the Stories of Her Mother’s Disrupted Childhood During the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • June 29, 2020

    In We Served the People, Emei Burell shares her stories of her mother, Yuan, growing up in China during a time when childhoods were being interrupted by the Cultural Revolution….

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