I, René Tardi, P.O.W. Vol. 1-3 – Jacques Tardi Chronicles Memory and Survival After World War II
How do you tell a story that has already been told many times? How do you tell a story that at times seems stuck in time because the past, present,…
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Noble Head Funnies – Edward Bolman’s Whimsical Series is Collected by Phoenix Productions
Edward Bolman has been self-publishing his own unique brand of droll nonsense since the Seventies. Aside from Tim Corrigan’s C&T Graphics publishing Bolman’s three issue solo series, The Bathing Machine,…
The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1 – Riad Sattouf’s Graphic Memoir Exploration of Clashing Cultures Continues
The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1 features 14-year-old Riad, an aspiring artist and a self-proclaimed loser, whose seemingly ordinary life…
News from the Fallout TPB – A Nervy, Visually Arresting Zombie Tale from Chris Condon and Jeffrey Alan Love
1962. An atomic bomb test is taking place in Nevada. The general in charge has commanded that the site of the explosion should be shifted, so that all the troops…
Meep, Logging Off_ – Bhavani Bala’s Foldout Minicomic Centres Themes of Mental Health through Cosmic Metaphor
One of the greatest joys in considering self-published comics work in print is the opportunities it affords for unfiltered experimentation with the form’s possibilities. To see something like Bhavani Bala’s…
Artichoke Knight – Alex Newton’s Culinary Fantasy is a Real Treat
Picture the scene: a small costal town at the end of the world. Not much happens here. In fact, it’s pretty mundane. Which is why residents look forward to the…
The Book of Murmurs – Candice Purwin’s Graphic Novel is a Knock-Out Fantasy Epic You Won’t Want to Miss
As a child, I devoured books about heroes who went on great adventures. I was the weird kid who spent more lunches than I cared to admit in the library,…
Opioids and Organs – Arizona O’Neill Gives Us a Harrowing, Brutal Indictment of a System that Profits from Pain
To read about loss is always hard, given how someone else’s pain inadvertently resonates with one’s own. What’s harder is coming to terms with loss that makes no sense, because…
Creased Comics – New York Review Comics Collect the Bizarre and Irreverent Cartooning of Brad Neely
Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
Bone Broth – Alex Taylor’s “Coming-of-Age Queer Thriller” Incorporates Themes of Friendship, Trans Experience and the Supernatural into a Bleakly Humorous Narrative
The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…
Judge Dredd: One-Eyed Jacks – The Art of Anna Readman is a Major Draw in this Dredd Crossover with 1960s/’70s British Weekly ‘Valiant’
The worlds of 2000 AD as a shared universe have never been as intertwined in the same way as their American counterparts. There were obvious links between some strips in…
Vintage: The Definitive Comics Collection 2009-2025 – The Elastic Cartooning of David Ziggy Greene Gets a Retrospective Collection
There are multiple directions from where you may have become familiar with the contributions of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. Perhaps it was from his groundbreaking graphic reportage series Scene &…
Mary Pain – Lola Lorente Provides a Moving, Subtle Exploration of Coping with Tragedy While Looking for Hope
There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…
Narrow Rooms – Choi Sungmin’s Dark Fable from Drawn & Quarterly Says a Lot About the Fragmented Times We Live In
Lee Daye, the protagonist of South Korean artist Choi Sungmin’s Narrow Rooms, is a young woman preparing for her annual art exam. Far from home and alone in the big…
Endsickness – Sofia Alarcon’s Conundrum Press Collection Examines the Concept of Eco-Anxiety
Endsickness is both the title of Sofia Alarcon’s collection of environmentally themed short comics stories and a term denoting the existential angst many feel as the world around us becomes…
Go-Man! Vol. 1: Champion of Earth – Hamish Steele Combines Monster-Fighting Heroics with a Layered Story about Life with Autism
Very broadly speaking, the work that we tag for our socially relevant Broken Frontier comics resource lists falls into two camps. There’s the graphic memoir or biography side bringing personal…
mini kuš! #139: BLJ – Leo Fox’s Philosophical Visual Essay Ponders on the Concept of Infinity Via Super Mario 64 and ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
While other entries in the mini kuš! series can be enjoyed for their aesthetics, narrative or abstraction, ‘BLJ’, #139 in the long-running minicomics series, is one of the most fascinating recent…
Oracles – Olivia Sullivan Takes the Reader on a Journey of Discovery in this Powerful Piece of Graphic Poetry from Avery Hill Publishing
It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…
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