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Sanctuary – Jenny Mure’s Haunting Fairy Tale of Motherhood, Magic and the Limits of Protection

  • by Lydia Turner
  • March 27, 2026

Launched at 2025’s Thought Bubble Comic Festival, Sanctuary by Jenny Mure, an illustrator and comics creator based in Nottingham, is a self-published comic about motherhood, loss and longing. Set in…

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Short Stories – André Caetano Takes Us on a Trip into the Imagination in this Collection of Beautifully Rendered Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 26, 2026

As its title obviously suggests Short Stories is a collection of Portuguese creator André Caetano’s shorter-form narrative for comics anthologies and other related venues. Publications like this are always a…

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The Girl Who Draws on Whales – Ariela Kristantina’s Visually Arresting Water-World Story from Dark Horse Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • March 25, 2026

The Girl Who Draws on Whales is an environmentalist story set in a futuristic flooded world. Wangi, the lead character, lives on an island which is visited every year by…

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A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath – Jules Valera’s Abstract Trilogy Uses Cosmic Metaphor to Explore Very Human Experiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2026

Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…

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Big Apple Matinee – A. T. Pratt’s Minicomic Tribute to New York Iconography is a Pop-Up, Foldout, Tactile Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2026

A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…

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Ornithomancy – Lily Vie’s Gorgeously Glowing Pages Tell a Cathartic Sci-Fi Realism Story of Understanding the Other

  • by Ray McGrother
  • March 18, 2026

The Thought Bubble convention is a smorgasbord of amazing comic works. So much so that I have only just got around to finishing all the books and zines I bought…

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Mad Villain #1 – Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry’s Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2026

Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) –  the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio…

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This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends – Alexandra Gallant-Lee Explores the Ethics of Our Relationships with Carceral Spaces

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2026

Alexandra Gallant-Lee’s This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends is a zine-style exploration of a subject that is unafraid to ask difficult questions. Using her background in…

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Colossive Cartographies #70 – Patrick Wray Observes as ‘The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs Into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2026

As I’ve said before when reviewing the Colossive Cartographies series there’s sometimes a dilemma as to whether the reader should bring their own interpretation to their fold-out zine narratives or…

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Boss of the Underworld Book 1 and 2 – Inventive and Fun Adventures for Kids and Adults from Tor Freeman

  • by Edward Picot
  • March 11, 2026

Tor Freeman’s Boss of the Underworld series so far (Shirley vs. The Green Menace and Shirley vs. The Huge Beast) gives us two funny books for kids, but the humour…

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30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide – Mohammad Sabaaneh Brings the Harrowing Stories of Palestinians to the Page in this Broken Frontier Award-Winning Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2026

The winner of the 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction, Mohammad Sabaaneh’s 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide was one four comics offerings on the atrocities in…

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Silent Pictures – Kevin O’Neill’s ‘Feartreland’ and ‘The Balaclava Kid’ Give Us a Final Celebration of a True Comics Genius

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2026

What can one say about the work and influence of the late Kevin O’Neill that has not been said before? As a child growing up during the Golden Age of…

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The Stranger #2 – The Mystery Deepens in Philipson, Patricks and Baker’s Excellent Noir Detective Fiction Series (with a Sprinkling of Super-Heroics)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2026

I probably say it to the point of tedium but on the few occasions that we do review super-hero comics at Broken Frontier it’s because they have something different to…

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Let This One Be a Devil Vol. 1 – An Intriguing Look at a Genuine American Folk Tale and Its Origins from Dark Horse

  • by Edward Picot
  • March 4, 2026

1909. A bespectacled young man, Henry Naughton, has recently returned from the city, following his father’s death, to stay with his mother and younger brother on the family farm in…

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Hard Core Drugs – Sleepyhouse2 Crafts a Horrific Tale of Broken Lives, Addiction and the Strength of Found Family

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 27, 2026

There are scores of talented cartoonists on the Bluesky social media network. sleepyhouse2 from Detroit, Michigan stands out among the crowd with her sometimes haunting posts and colourful serialized comics…

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Cruel Universe Vol. II #7 – Amy Roy and Malachi Ward’s ‘Artificial Insanity’ is a Short-Form Comics Masterpiece and a Damning Indictment of Generative AI Slop

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2026

Oni Press’s EC Comics revival has been notable not just for bringing non-super-hero genre comics fiction to the fore but for being at the front of a mini resurgence in…

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Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology – Skai Campbell Makes a Plea for the Conservation of the Spiny Mammals in this Anthology Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2026

Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology comes to us via 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell. Its origins lie in the artist’s recent fascination with hedgehogs,…

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Remember Us to Life – Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Graphic Memoir Speaks for the Silenced

  • by Swati Nair
  • February 25, 2026

“The first generation were quiet, the second generation felt they couldn’t ask, and now the third generation tries to find out what happened.” It’s a framing that haunts Remember Us…

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