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1972 – Rachael Ball’s Autobio Short Will Bring Back Familiar Childhood Experiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! There’s an origin story of sorts to Rachael Ball’s 1972 short comic. The premise of it is based on an exercise given to attendees at her…

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“Creating Women is a Celebration of Brilliance and Diversity” – Rachel A. Davis and Amy Galloway on the New Comics Video Interview Series Debuting this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2021

Announced last month here at Broken Frontier, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut later this month and one that will include a number of interviewees…

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Wolf – Rachael Ball Examines the Realities of Childhood Bereavement through the Dual Lenses of the Everyday and the Outlandishly Imaginative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2019

Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…

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Charmingly Creepy Overlapping Worlds Slip Off Rachael Ball’s Pencil into Your Hands in the Form of Childhood Grief Fable ‘Wolf’ – We Talk to Her about Her New Graphic Novel from SelfMadeHero

  • by Jenny Robins
  • October 30, 2018

Remembering childhood is not unlike remembering a dream, or a story you heard a long time ago, for Rachael Ball it’s all three at once: “When things are mixed up…

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Staff Picks for October 24, 2018 – Wolf, The Books of Magic, Dave McKean: Short Films, Lodger and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 23, 2018

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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Join Us at the First Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2017 on Tuesday February 28th with Guest Artists Rachael Ball, Matthew Dooley and Sarah Gordon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2017

After a winter break the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw hosts its first event of 2017 this coming Tuesday February 28th with another talented trio of  comics creative forces…

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The Inflatable Woman – Rachael Ball’s Debut Graphic Novel is a Visionary Entry in the Graphic Medicine Canon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2017

Graphic medicine quite unlike anything to come before it, The Inflatable Woman is a visionary use of this ever expanding area of slice-of-life comics. The Inflatable Woman marks the first full-length…

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Staff Picks for October 28, 2015 – The Inflatable Woman, Black Magick, Art Ops, Class Photo, Beef with Tomato, Creepy and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 27, 2015

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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A Bit of Undigested Potato – Keara Stewart’s Dream Anthology Features Karrie Fransman, Matilda Tristram, Gareth Brookes, EdieOP, Danny Noble, Rozi Hathaway and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2015

Available at CECAF! The niggling night terrors of 40 creators bubble balefully to the surface in Keara Stewart’s unsettling anthology collection mixing comic strips and single illustrations to bring to disturbing…

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