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    Author: Andy Oliver

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    Treading Water – Rowan Frewin’s Story of Gender Identity and Self-Realisation Spreads a Welcome and Positive Message

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 10, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! We’ve reviewed a number of projects featuring Rowan Frewin’s work over the last year and a half here at Broken Frontier, encompassing a number of different formats….

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    The Metalhead Next Door – Mamita’s Gay Love Story of the Awkward Relationship Between Neighbours is a Slowly Building Yet Intense Character Piece

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 9, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! As love stories go, Mamita’s The Metalhead Next Door is something of a slow burn. This is not a criticism because this pensive, introspective pacing is very…

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    Boy Island – Leo Fox Takes Us to an Allegorical Fantasy World as He Again Explores the Realities of the Trans Lived Experience

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 5, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…

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    Florrie: A Football Love Story – Anna Trench Brings Us a Touching Queer Love Story Set in the Early Years of Women’s Football

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 4, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…

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    Tidal Waves – Homophobia and Cycles of Abuse Explored in Rein Lee’s Unflinching Portrayal of a Toxic Relationship

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 2, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…

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    Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2025 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 2, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Although LGBTQIA coverage is a regular all year round part of our posting at BF, Pride Month is always extremely important to us as an even more…

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    Don’t Fold Press Presents the ‘Something Alien’ Anthology – Established Indie Creators Team Up with Exciting New Voices in this Debut Comic from a New UK Micropublisher

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 30, 2025

    It’s always exciting to see a new micropublishing venture on the UK scene and PJ Fairweather’s Don’t Fold Press makes its debut with an anthology mixing familiar small press names…

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    Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier – Guidelines for Contributors

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 29, 2025

    There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…

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    Colossive Cartographies #66 – davidt dunlop’s ‘Heartbroken’ is a Striking and Powerful Contribution to the Fold-Out Zines Series

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 29, 2025

    Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…

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    Preview: Cimarron (The Wild One) – The Story of Explorer and Chief Scout Dwayne Fields Comes to Comics Courtesy of Soi Books, Sophie McVeigh and BF Six to Watch 2025 Artist Shuning Ji

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 28, 2025

    Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…

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    Kusama: Polka Dot Queen – Simon Elliott’s Graphic Biography of the Influential Artist is an Intriguing Entry Point into Her Practice

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 27, 2025

    Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…

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    Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 26, 2025

    Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…

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    Cramp – Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 21, 2025

    There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…

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    “We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press Perspective

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 19, 2025

    Many years ago, on a panel at the late, lamented London shop Orbital Comics, I was asked about my role in comics journalism. My answer was a simple one. “I’m…

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    “A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young Creators

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 16, 2025

    Described as “a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time”, Acid Box is a multi-creator graphic novel with a difference, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Written by Sara Kenney…

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    They Shot the Piano Player – The Disappearance and Murder of Jazz Musician Tenório Jr. Investigated in this Compelling SelfMadeHero Graphic Biography

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 14, 2025

    A 2024 Broken Frontier Award-nominated book in the Best Graphic Non-Fiction category, writer Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player is both a celebration of a period of…

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    The Witch and Loaf Cat – Katherine Hemmings Creates a Magical and Adorable Duo from a Most Unlikely Premise in this Short Strips Collection

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 12, 2025

    A return to the UK small press world today and a look at one of the many comics I bought at Thought Bubble last year and have only just got…

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    “A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media Practice

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 7, 2025

    “Cold Chips is simply one of the most confident first-time self-published efforts I have seen in my nearly two decades of reviewing at BF.” Those were my words earlier this…

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