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Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans – A Wave Blue World Light a Beacon of Solidarity for Gender Diverse Kids

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A Wave Blue World have been making something of a name for themselves over the last few years when it comes to LGBTQIA-focussed comics anthology books, including…

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Heartstopper Vol. 5 – Charlie and Nick’s Relationship Hits a Pivotal Point in the Penultimate Collection of the Smash Hit Alice Oseman LGBTQIA Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When last we visited the characters of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper it was for our Pride Month coverage two years ago when we looked at all four print…

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Transitions: A Mother’s Journey – A Different Perspective on the Trans Experience from Élodie Durand and Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…

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Where We Are, Where We SHOULD Be: Shaping a Future for Young Trans People – An Essential Guide Book for Both Trans Youth and Allies, Via Comics Youth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Sometimes at Broken Frontier we’re happy to bend the rules a little and venture into the realms of zines and DIY culture, or to look at publications…

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Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up – Lewis Hancox’s Second Graphic Memoir is Witty, Raw and Unflinchingly Honest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 – Reintroducing Coagula, DC’s First Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…

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Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story – Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman Provide a Heartfelt Origin Story for DC’s Cross-Media Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When we launched our Pride Month coverage earlier this month we promised you that our coverage would venture into territory not usually traversed at Broken Frontier. For…

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Why I Adopted My Husband – Yuta Yagi’s Collection of Strips About the Realities of Life as a Gay Couple in Japan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Despite constant pushback from non-progressive elements, there’s been a forward momentum to the concepts of gay marriage and equality in the law in many countries in recent…

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Currently Crowdfunding on Kickstarter the Comics and Illustration Anthology ‘Bosh Zine’ Features Work from BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Abs Bailey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! We need more small press comics anthologies in the UK. I have been saying this for a few years now at Broken…

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The Out Side – Trans and Non-Binary Stories Brought to the Comics Page in this Inspiring Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Bringing together the work of 29 trans and non-binary creators The Out Side is an often celebratory collection of stories focussing on themes of gender and identity….

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Star Trek: Celebrations – The Spotlight Falls on the Franchise’s LGBTQIA Cast in this Anthology One-Shot Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! What immediately strikes the reader about IDW’s Pride Month Star Trek: Celebrations one-shot is how much its title is a statement of intent. This collection of five…

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Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…

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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles – Revisiting Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Outstanding Queer Comics Re-Imagining of a Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Favourite

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….

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Skin Deep – Flo Woolley’s Queer Horror Romance from Silver Sprocket Has a Strangely Unsettling Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…

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Fractures Book Two – A Wolfgang Crowe Depicts the Appalling Aftermath of Homophobic Brutality in the Second Issue of this Powerful Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…

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BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Mereida Fajardo Longlisted for the World Illustration Awards for ‘Zayani Zam’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the tenth year of our ‘Six Creators to Watch’ mentorship programme we’re determined to spotlight as many new achievements of our…

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Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben – Trujillo and Hastings Ask Questions of How History Remembers Queer Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…

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My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…

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