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Author: Gary Usher

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Stardate – The Worst Case Scenario for Interplanetary Dating Shows By Eran Aviram and Aviv Or

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 23, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Our family watches way too many reality shows, and they all seem to shine the worst light on humanity. Stardate by Eran Aviram and Aviv Or…

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The Golden Fish – Fumika’s Antiquarian, Near Future, Quest Short Story is a Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 20, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Fumika is a Japanese artist bringing with them to Thought Bubble a wide range of products graced by their classic illustrative style. Most sought after should…

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Joe’s Comix: Wild Kingdom – Classic Hutchinson Brothers 1980s Mini-Comics Reformatted for the 21st Century from Phoenix Productions

  • by Gary Usher
  • September 10, 2026

Previously at Broken Frontier we covered Steve Willis and Edward Bolman volumes from Tom Fellrath’s Phoenix Masters series, both of which explore absurdity in the extreme with a humorous, all-ages…

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Comet Club – Teenage U.F.O. Hunters Tackle Reality and Life’s Expectations in Yi Yang’s Fantagraphics Debut

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 13, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Yi Yang was born in northeastern China, and moved to Bologna, Italy to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. She published two books there…

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Shock Treatment – EC Comics’ Precursor to Modern Graphic Medicine Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 5, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Graphic Medicine as a genre did not exist in 1955 when Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cast their editorial net wide after their EC horror comics were…

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Medium – Rae Whitlock Examines the Intersection of Reality and the Supernatural, from Comics Blogger Books  

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 16, 2026

Rae Whitlock is a multidisciplinary creator from Richmond, Virginia. She earned a MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Some of her previous self-published…

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Noble Head Funnies – Edward Bolman’s Whimsical Series is Collected by Phoenix Productions

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 27, 2026

Edward Bolman has been self-publishing his own unique brand of droll nonsense since the Seventies. Aside from Tim Corrigan’s C&T Graphics publishing Bolman’s three issue solo series, The Bathing Machine,…

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Hard Core Drugs – sleepyhouse2 Crafts a Horrific Tale of Broken Lives, Addiction and the Strength of Found Family

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 27, 2026

There are scores of talented cartoonists on the Bluesky social media network. sleepyhouse2 from Detroit, Michigan stands out among the crowd with their sometimes haunting posts and colourful serialized comics…

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The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke – The Absurdity of Life Shown Through Steve Willis’s Adaptation of ‘Hamlet’, Published by Phoenix Productions 

  • by Gary Usher
  • January 29, 2026

Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…

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LUX:plorations: A Universe of Research Volume #4 – Science Comics from the University of Luxembourg Delve Into Upcycling, Dyslexia, Neurology and Cancer in an Accessible Format 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 20, 2025

This is the fourth volume of non-fiction comics put together by a large team at the University of Luxembourg, under the guidance of Nicole Plaschek (Project Manager DESCOM, Faculty of…

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Dead on Arrival – A Truly Unique Take on the Undead in Samanta Batllori’s Original Horror Graphic Novel

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Samanta de la Rosa Batllori is a freelance comic artist from Mexico City, Mexico, who is probably best known in the UK for illustrating H.L. Roberts’…

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Under Pressure Book One and Book Two – Robert Sienicki’s Laugh Out Loud Portrait of a Comic Creator’s Life in Poland

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Robert ‘bele’ Sienicki is a comics creator from Poland, and he let’s his work speak for itself, bringing us an interesting portrait of life and comics…

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Through the Looking Glass – KitsuneArt Deconstructs AI Dangers Viewed from a Wonderland Perspective

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 10, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! KitsuneArt (aka, Lucia Fioretti) is no stranger to Broken Frontier readers or Thought Bubble. At Thought Bubble 2025 KitsuneArt will be part of the Very Tiny…

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Angry Duck Vol. 1 – KA Sandholm Breaks Down the Most Annoying People in the World Through the Eyes of an Angry Duck 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 7, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Angry Duck (Arga Ankan in Swedish) is the creation of KA aka Karen Anna aka Karen Anna S. Sandholm, a Norwegian cartoonist attending Thought Bubble for the…

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The Hanging – A Pre-Apocalyptic Dystopia Seen Through a Family Dynamic by Aaron Losty, from Strangers Publishing 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 6, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Aaron Losty is originally from Ireland and currently working from Canada. He has built a strong portfolio of unique publications including: his webcomic on Patreon, Clearwater; The Waves…

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Beyond the Black Void Vol. 1 – A Vibrant Science Fiction Anthology from 2024 ‘2000 AD’ Talent Search Runners-Up 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 4, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The 2000 A.D. Talent Search takes place at Thought Bubble every year, with one talented writer and artist winning a competition for a chance to contribute to the…

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The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira #1 – Bending Reality with Sapphira Olson and Her Fictionalized Versions of Herself (and Her Cat, Felicette)

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Sapphira Olson is a novelist and poet (Woman in the Ship, Parables, The Dandelion Tree, Android Author, Anna Newton Destroys the World, Stanley Park), but around…

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Down North, Where No One Goes #1 – Ramón Perales Cano and Company’s Brutal Far Future Tale of Conquest and Greed

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 21, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Spanish artist Ramón Perales Cano is a first time exhibitor at TB under the moniker of “Ramonkey Perales”. He may best be remembered for editing and…

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