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Safaa and the Tent: Diary of a Cartoonist from Gaza Oct 2023-Dec 2024 – A Simply Essential Piece of Personal Testimony from Safaa Odah

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2025

While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….

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Becky Burke is Home – A Family Statement Clarifying the Realities of British Cartoonist R. E. Burke’s Ordeal and Thanking the Community for Its Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2025

Over the last few weeks the comics community has been deeply concerned about the plight of British cartoonist R. E. Burke, detained for 19 days in the US by ICE…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Edgar Allan – New Poe-Inspired Work with the Haunting Visuals of Norm Konyu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2025

A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…

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mini kuš! #130: A Box of Candy – etchingroom1 Reflects on the Harsh Pain of Unfulfilled Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2025

And so to the final release from the latest clutch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! minicomics (catch up with our most recent reviews of the series here). Ukranian…

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Preview: Safaa and the Tent – LICAF Bring Palestinian Cartoonist Safaa Odah’s Account of Living through the War on Gaza to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2025

A week or so back on social media I spoke of an upcoming review of a book that you would not have heard of yet but was going to be…

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Free For All #1 – Waging War on Billionaires in Patrick Horvath’s Satirical One-Shot from Oni Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2025

If there were ever a time to “wage war on billionaires”, as the promo blurb for Patrick Horvath’s Free For All puts it, it is right here and now. This…

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Colossive Cartographies #63 – Experience the Capabilities of the ‘Astorial Shower App’ in Ed Pinsent’s Latest Colossive Cartographies Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 14, 2025

A third outing for UK small press comics legend Ed Pinsent in the Colossive Cartographies series from Colossive Press acts as a welcome reminder of the unique vision of this…

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So Buttons #14 – ‘Life and Death’ is the Theme for the Latest Issue of Jonathan Baylis’s Always Welcome Autobio Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 11, 2025

Hitting us on an annual schedule Jonathan Baylis’s So Buttons anthology series sees Baylis collaborating with numerous artists to bring largely autobiographical snapshots to life. One of its greatest selling…

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Assorted Crisis Events #1 – Camp and Zawadzki Capture the Zeitgeist in Their Comics Events Homage Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2025

If Assorted Crisis Events #1 is just one thing then it’s a book for the spirit of the age. In this first issue, writer Deniz Camp and artist Eric Zawadzki…

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#BringBeckyHome – UK Comics Creator and Former Broken Frontier Team Member R. E. Burke Detained by ICE Since February (UPDATE: BECKY IS HOME!)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2025

UPDATE: Becky is home! This one is very personal to the Broken Frontier team. R. E. Burke (who wrote for Broken Frontier as Rebecca Burke between 2020 and 2023) is…

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Crowdfunding Corner: The Stranger #2 – CoCo Comics’ Captivating Super-Hero Mystery Series Returns to Kickstarter for a Second Instalment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2025

A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…

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War on Gaza – Joe Sacco’s Commentary on Events in Gaza Demands We Do Not Look the Other Way and Instead Confront the Horrors that Surround Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2025

As the cartoonist behind Palestine, unquestionably a seminal piece of graphic journalism, and its follow-up Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco’s commentary on the genocide in Gaza over the last year…

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Pleasure Beach #1 – Josh Pettinger’s Dark Tale of Returning to Your Childhood Home Has a Bleakly Alluring Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2025

Josh Pettinger describes the first issue of his Pleasure Beach series simply as “a PTSD fever dream about going home.” That though, and the apparent subtitle of ‘Hot Summer Megadepression’,…

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two – Emil Ferris Combines Coming-of-Age Story, Murder Mystery and Sequential Experimentation in this Much Anticipated Follow-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2025

When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…

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Span – Mike Armstrong’s Fantasy Story of Woodland Spirits Speaks of Familiar and Universal Truths

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2025

Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…

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“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: The Coda – An Ignominious End to Frazer Brown’s Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Charity Anthology as Kickstarter Finally Intervenes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2025

Kickstarter have finally intervened in the long-running saga of the unfulfilled Tales from the Quarantine “charity” comics anthology by suspending its editor and supposed publisher Frazer Brown’s account with the…

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Sagas of the Shield Maiden Book Four – Laura Helsby, Alice Leclert and Rachel Tubb Join Asa Wheatley in the Fourth Outing for the Viking Western Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2025

Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…

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My Taxidermy Angel – Rein Lee’s Tale of Queerness, Religious Trauma, Identity and Self-Acceptance is Incredibly Assured Early Work from a Newer Voice on the Indie Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2025

When I am asked what I look for when selecting artists for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch’ initiative the answers I could give would be multitudinous. But…

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