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Nancy & Sluggo’s Guide to Life – A Reminder of the Enduring Appeal of Ernie Bushmiller’s Precocious 8-Year-Old in this NYRC Collection of Classic Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2025

Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…

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Cartoonists for Palestine – 60 Comics Creators Respond to the Genocide in Gaza in this Essential Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….

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Commando #5829 – DC Thomson’s Long-Running Series Takes a Sidestep into Greek Mythology in ‘Sword of Destiny’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

It’s one of the last great survivors of a classic era of British comics on newsagents’ shelves and for decades the digest-sized Commando series has been presenting old-school tales of…

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mini kuš! #128: Silent Observations – Apolonija Lučić Sidesteps the Harshness of Reality in this Abstract Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2025

Ah, abstract comics and that ironic aspect where their dissociative qualities actually bring the reader closer to their subject matter. ‘Silent Observations’ by Apolonija Lučić is #128 in the kuš!…

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Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches – Graphic Mundi and Yazan al-Saadi Present a Collection of Voices from the Middle East on the Fight for Self-Determination

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2025

To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…

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Colossive Cartographies #62 – Harriet Merry Takes Us on ‘The School Run’ in the Latest Fold-Out Zine from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2025

There’s something undeniably interesting about how sometimes the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies zines benefit from the added context on the Colossive site. If you do this the right way around…

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mini kuš! #127: Swelling – Walker Tate’s Body Horror Short is Both Disconcerting and Bleakly Funny

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2025

With a tongue-in-cheek take on body horror Walker Tate’s ‘Swelling’, #127 in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mini kuš!  minicomics series, initially seems less experimental than some of the more opaque or…

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London Horror Comic #11 – The Latest Issue of John-Paul Kamath’s Long-Running Series Mixes Slapstick Horror with Intense Psychodrama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2025

For the best part of two decades now John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic has been a staple of the UK small press circuit. Kamath’s stories have been illustrated by a…

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Huda F Cares? – Huda Fahmy Explores Themes of Sisterhood, Family and Life as an American Muslim Woman in Another Funny and Touching Slice-of-Life Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2025

I cannot ever envisage a point where the slightly naughty wordplay of Huda Fahmy’s graphic novel titles will ever get wearisome. The follow-up to Huda F Are You? her most…

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The Power of Welcome: Real-Life Refugee and Migrant Journeys – Ada Jusic Brings Five Testimonies to the Page in this Comics Anthology Aimed at Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2025

It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…

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LICAF Now & Next – Discover More About the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Work Championing Comics in this Zoom Event with Lucy Sullivan and Mollie Ray

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

There have been some very inportant comics community initiatives from the direction of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival of late, including British Comics Now (of which I will be…

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The House on 52 Carlton Street – Exorcism and Otherworldly Horror Combine in Zen K.’s Gripping Manga Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…

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Zarjaz Sci-Fi Special 2024 – The ‘2000 AD’-Inspired Anthology Revisits the Early Years of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2025

If, like myself, you are a crusty old comics fan of a certain age then you will no doubt be delighted that the latest incarnation of 2000 AD-inspired, fan-created anthology…

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Con & On – Comedy and Pathos Go Hand in Hand in Cornell and Cresta’s Story of a Cast of Comic Convention Attendees Across the Years

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2025

Con & On has the strange quality of feeling slightly atypical of Ahoy Comics’ usual output and yet somehow completely at home in their catalogue of projects. “Funny Vertigo” may…

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Summit – Abi Wye’s Poignant Magical Realism Comic Has a Touching Yet Funny Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2025

It would be painful for me to say that in the pages of Summit Abi Wye takes the idea of magical realism to uncharted heights but it’s too late now…

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The Cave of Cats Chapter 1 – A Very Promising Opening Instalment for Céilí Braidwood’s Folkloric Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2025

If you are nearer to the beginning of your comics journey and embarking on a long-form narrative my advice has always been to get an early chapter out there in…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matter! – A Broken Frontier Commitment to Our Community in Response to Current World Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2025

We already knew we were living in the bleakest of timelines but with every passing day it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by the stygian darkness of its excesses. As…

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Summer Maze – Reality and Truth Become Blurred and Indefinable in Zhenyi Zheng’s Form-Pushing Abstract Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2025

Abstract comics work often exists to allow us to find our own meaning in its pages. By definition it is not about elaboration; it provokes and evokes emotional responses, disseminates…

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