Twins: A Memoir – Teresa Robertson’s Story about Family Tragedy and Renewal
It’s mentioned on the back cover of the book, so it isn’t giving anything away to say that Twins is largely the story of Teresa Robertson and her twin brother…
Author: Edward Picot
The Shadow Planet Vol. 1 – Barbieri, Paliarani and D’Amico Present a B-Movie Sci-Fi Horror Romp
The Shadow Planet, according to the blurb on the back of the book, is “a story of Lovecraftian horror in space”. That isn’t a very accurate description, though. Lovecraft is…
Socrates – The Father of Philosophy Taken Out of His Ivory Tower by Barilli, Ranghiasci and Mad Cave
Socrates is essentially a courtroom drama. It deals with the trial of the Greek philosopher Socrates, known as the father of philosophy. As many readers will know, he was accused…
Sleepless Planet – Maureen Burdock Presents Insomnia as a Symptom of Capitalism, Via Graphic Mundi
Sleepless Planet is a long book – 240 pages, if you include the notes and acknowledgements at the end. It’s narrated mainly by Burdock herself, who tells us that “It’s…
Gracie’s Ghost Vol. 1 – Dawn Brown’s Story About Bullying and Learning to Cope from Image Comics
One of the main themes of Gracie’s Ghost is bullying. “Every day,” says the Afterword at the end of the book, “we have the chance to decide what kind of…
The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang – Stan Yan’s Comedy-Horror for Kids, with a Bit of Extra Depth
The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang sets off as if it’s going to be a graphic-novel version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, with an Asian slant. But it soon…
The Hive Vol. 1 – An Ultra-Violent Thrill-a-Minute Crime Caper from Lieberman, Henderson, Azpiazu and Image Comics
The Hive is a crime thriller with a science fiction twist. Certain individuals in the story are able to control the thoughts and actions of others by getting inside their…
This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir
“One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…
The Stoneshore Register – A Subtle Story about Unresolved Mysteries from G. Willow Wilson, M.K. Perker and Dark Horse
The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…
The Ardent – Carl Antonowicz Takes Us on a Journey through a World of Grungy Cynicism
The Ardent by Carl Antonowicz, from Fieldmouse Press, is set in an imaginary medieval land. It opens in a monastery which is closing down because its lands and buildings are…
The Colour Out of Space – Colour Reproduction; Gou Tanabe’s Adaptation Does Full Justice to Lovecraft’s Original Story
“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain…
It Rhymes with Takei – Set to Stun? George Takei’s New Graphic Memoir from Top Shelf Tells a Story of Coming Out Later in Life
PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…
Souvenir – Sara L Jewell’s Memoir in Fragments from Fieldmouse Press
Souvenir is described in the back-page blurb as Sara Jewell’s first graphic novel, but also as a “collection” – “In this deeply intimate collection, Sara Jewell searches for meaning in…
Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics
The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…
Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series
Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…
WetNurse #1 – Offbeat Tales from Nicholas J Woodhead, Via the Lethargic Margin
Nicholas J Woodhead is a cartoonist from Birmingham, UK, who lives in London. His website is called Lethargic Margin Comics, and he is the creator of the “one-person anthology comic”…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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