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Chrysanthemum Under the Waves – Maggie Umber Provides a Darkly Layered, Haunting Insight into Her Psyche Across Nine Vignettes

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 20, 2025

Chrysanthemum Under the Waves is a self-published collection of comics from cartoonist and former 2dcloud associate publisher Maggie Umber. Within nine wordless, black and white vignettes, Umber expresses a mourning…

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Now #5 – Fantagraphics’ Anthology Series Returns to Remind Us All of the Uniquely Sophisticated Language of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2019

When we last reviewed an issue of Fantagraphics’ bumper-sized anthology series Now at Broken Frontier we described it as “a vitally important piece of comics curation that deserves to be…

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Sound of Snow Falling – Maggie Umber Explores the Natural World in this Gorgeous Study of the Great Horned Owl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…

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