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Author: Andy Oliver

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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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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 5 – The Focus Shifts in the Final Volume of Okura’s Heartwarming Manga Tale of Family and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…

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Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2024 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! For the last couple of years here at Broken Frontier we have been adding to our year-round commitment to our LGBTQIA community with a dedicated month of…

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“Comics in Libraries Just Makes Sense” – The British Comics Now Delegation Talks About Their TCAF Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! If you followed all our pre-TCAF coverage then you’ll know the drill by now but let’s recap on what the British Comics Now programme is all about…

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Exclusive Preview! Stingray: Deadly Uprising – New Comics Collections Featuring the Classic Supermarionation Characters Coming Soon as Part of the Multi-Platform 60th Anniversary ‘Stingray’ Event

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2024

“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” Those scene-setting words are just one of the many fondly remembered elements associated with 1960s pop cultural phenomenon Stingray. First broadcast in…

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Sunflowers – Keezy Young’s Remarkable and Powerful Account of Living with Bipolar Disorder from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2024

There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…

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Bad Medicine – Christopher Twin’s Conundrum Press Horror Anthology Takes Inspiration from Cree Folklore

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2024

Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…

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Gunhild Vol. 1 – Fred Tornager’s Endearingly Witty Manga Fantasy Series Blends Humour and Norse Mythology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2024

Saturday AM brands itself as providing “the world’s most diverse manga-inspired comics.” A quick perusal of its publishing line-up underlines the strength of that claim with a plethora of titles…

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Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos – New York Review Comics Bring Jay Jackson’s Seminal, Anti-Racist, Sci-Fi Newspaper Strip Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2024

What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…

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Koguchi Magazine #2: Neo-Future – Dystopian Future Tech Runs Amok Courtesy of Alxndra Cook, Bon Idle, Justin Morales and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The second of Koguchi Press’s self-titled Koguchi Magazine anthology series comes with the subtitled theme of ‘Neo-Future’ and compiles seven short, complete,…

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Watch the British Comics Now Video Celebrating the Work of the First TCAF Delegation!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As you no doubt know by now after our interview coverage and, as mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year, six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending…

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“I Love to Walk on the Spectrum Between Explicitness and Obscurity” – Jason Chuang on the Visual Language of Comics and Abstract Takes on Autobio

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! 10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic…

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“I Want to Figure Out How to Make Work that is Useful to Others” – B. Mure on ‘Ismyre’, Allegory and the Realities of World-Building in Fiction

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“If I Make a Comic, People Are More Able to Empathise With What I’m Trying to Communicate” – Bex Ollerton Talks Neurodivergence in Comics and Her Upcoming Projects

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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The Space Between the Trees – Norm Konyu’s Latest Supernatural Story is a Taut, Twisting, Turning Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Norm Konyu comics are designed to unsettle. Not in an outrageously over-the-top or gratuitous way. More in the manner of a narrative…

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The Mirage – Owen Michael Johnson’s Crime Heist Pastiche Reveals Hidden Layers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

It’s been a while since we last had the opportunity to review a comic from the genre-hopping mind of Owen Michael Johnson (Beast Wagon, Reel Love). Over the years Johnson’s…

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“Norse Mythology… It’s Such a Wonderful and Incomplete Beast” – Martin Simpson on His Graphic Novel ‘NORD’ and His Love of Legend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“I Like Reopening Certain Parts of My Life that Were Challenging” – Clio Isadora on Autobio Comics and Her Avery Hill Graphic Novel ‘Sour Pickles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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