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    Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age Story

    • by Lonnie Mann
    • June 24, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process…

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    Street Noise Books’ Publishing Line-Up for Spring 2025 Announced – Another Selection of Socially Relevant Comics Work to Watch Out For

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • October 15, 2024

    Street Noise Books continue their mission to bring thought-provoking and socially relevant work to readers in 2025 with another line-up of important books coming in Spring. Street Noise Books Presents:…

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    Nervosa – A Painstakingly Honest Debut About Disordered Eating from Hayley Gold and Street Noise Books

    • by Lydia Turner
    • June 17, 2024

    Upon receiving my copy of Nervosa from Street Noise Books, I was surprised that I hadn’t come across the work of cartoonist Hayley Gold before. Gold seems to be a…

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    Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 3, 2024

    PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…

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    Look Again – Recovering from Trauma is Thoughtfully Unpacked in Elizabeth A. Trembley’s Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books

    • by Lydia Turner
    • May 31, 2024

    “To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…

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    Street Noise Books Reveal Their Autumn 2024 Publishing List of Socially Relevant Comics Work

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • May 16, 2024

    The end-of-year publishing schedule from Street Noise Books, one of our favourite publishers here at BF, has been announced. Check out the new titles in the press release below. Graphic…

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    “Magical, Transcendental, Visibly Muslim, But Also Ordinary and Mundane” – Sabba Khan Talks About Her Graphic Memoir ‘The Roles We Play’/’What is Home, Mum?’

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 12, 2023

    It’s been quite a while since I last chatted with Sabba Khan here at Broken Frontier and, in the intervening years, our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has…

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    Progressive Publisher Street Noise Books Announce Spring 2024 Graphic Novels Line-Up

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 28, 2023

    The ever relevant Street Noise Books have announced their first books of 2024. Check out the press release below for full details. STREET NOISE BOOKS Presents: Revolution, Disability, Religion, and Mental Health…

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    Gay Giant – Gabriel Ebensperger’s Graphic Memoir is a Big, Bold, Loud and Endearingly Honest Affair

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 28, 2023

    PRIDE MONTH 2023! While Gabriel Ebensperger’s graphic memoir Gay Giant may be focussed on growing up queer back in the 1990s there’s obviously an entire social level that makes it…

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    The Last Gay Man on Earth – Ype Driessen Brings Photo Comics to Graphic Memoir

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 8, 2023

    PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…

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    Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine – Mohammad Sabaaneh Provides an Award-Winning Account of Imprisonment, Confinement and Interrogation

    • by Jon Aye
    • November 15, 2022

    In 2013, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh was detained while crossing the King Hussain checkpoint between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. This wasn’t altogether unexpected, as Sabaaneh has been working…

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    Inside Look: Shame Pudding – Danny Noble Provides a Creator Commentary on Her Acclaimed Graphic Memoir of Jewish Family Life and Eccentric Grandmas

    • by Danny Noble
    • October 24, 2022

    BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In 2015 cartoonist Danny Noble was among the number of our very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme; an initiative that, perhaps…

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    Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 9, 2022

    What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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    I’m a Wild Seed – Sharon Lee De La Cruz Reconstructs Her Identity as a Queer BIPOC in a Vibrant Debut from Street Noise Books

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 12, 2021

    Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…

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    The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 10th for a Street Noise Books Special with Danny Noble, Woodrow Phoenix and Bishakh Som!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • December 8, 2020

    Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday December 10th with a Street Noise Books Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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    Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir – Bishakh Som’s Exploration of Identity is a Remarkably Layered Graphic Memoir with More than a Hint of the Meta to Its Pages

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 20, 2020

    Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…

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    Come Home, Indio – Jim Terry Crafts an Extraordinary Testimony to His Alcoholism and Mixed-Race Heritage

    • by Bruno Savill de Jong
    • October 21, 2020

    Jim Terry never understood why his parents drank. “They never seemed happier when drunk”, Terry reflects in his autobiography Come Home, Indio, “just sad or angry. And mean”. Alcohol only…

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    “Our Books… Seek to Provide a Platform for the Voices of Marginalized People” – Street Noise Books Publisher Liz Frances on Curating a Range of Graphic Novels with a Radical and Inclusive Vision

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 15, 2020

    With a focus on work that champions inclusivity and marginalised voices, new publishers on the indie comics scene Street Noise Books have a line-up of books that represents exactly the…

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