Final Cut – Charles Burns Gives Fabulous New Life to Old Preoccupations
Charles Burns offers his readers no clues. There is no subtitle hinting towards a plot, no description or biography, and nothing to give one an indication of what they are…
Author: Lindsay Pereira
Forces of Nature – Edward Steed Provides a Smart, Hilarious Collection of Gags About a World Gone Awry
Legendary cartoonist Adrian Tomine has a wry endorsement of Edward Steed at the back of this, the latter’s debut collection. “I met Steed years ago at a fancy New Yorker…
Raw Sewage Science Fiction – For Those Wondering What Marc Bell is Trying to Say, It’s Great How His Drawn & Quarterly Book Comes No Closer to an Answer
One of the nicest things one can say about an artist is that their work is confounding. It may seem like a backhanded compliment, but it expresses a willingness to…
Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It – A Great Introduction to the Fearless World of Tara Booth from Drawn & Quarterly
Tara Booth describes herself as an Ignatz Award-winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia, whose candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humour on issues related to mental health, addiction,…
Erased – Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol Take on Hollywood’s Historical Revisionism with a Fictional Account of an Actor of Colour
One of the most troubling notions to emerge from a reading of Loo Hui Phang’s powerful new graphic novel Erased: An Actor of Colour’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood,…
Absolute Simultaneity – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Tap into the Anxiety of our Zeitgeist
There’s something comforting about artists choosing to publish what they want, without worrying about whether established publishers will put their weight behind it. Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s latest…
Moomin Adventures: Book One – Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson’s Timeless Stories Are Being Reissued Because They Deserve to Be
One of the many delightful things about Tove Jansson’s legendary Moomins is how the series is often recommended online for readers between 7 and 9. This is amusing when one…
Second Hand Love – Drawn & Quarterly Provide Further Proof That Japanese Comics Creator Yamada Murasaki Was Ahead of Her Time
It takes a while to pinpoint what Yamada Murasaki manages to evoke with her pithy stories. It isn’t exactly ennui, but more a lingering dissatisfaction with the status quo as…
A Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal Showcases Her Innate Gift for Storytelling Via Drawn & Quarterly
There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…
Vera Bushwack – Sig Burwash Raises Powerful Questions About Toxic Masculinity and Entrenched Gender Roles
What do cowboys look like? Can nonbinary people survive on their own in the woods? How are gender roles assigned? These are some of the questions that popped into my…
Self-Esteem and the End of the World – Luke Healy Turns His Critical Eye on Himself
There are two predominant explanations of what a metanarrative is, when one engages in literary criticism. One refers to the idea of experimentation, where an author wilfully chooses to break…
What It Is – Lynda Barry’s Eisner Award-Winning Book is Now in Paperback, Still Impossible to Describe, But Incredibly Vital
What It Is is one of those books that either grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go, or seeps slowly into your consciousness and shifts how you look…
Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back – FLuX Brings David Good’s Incredible Story to Colourful Life Via NBM
The artist FLuX describes his work as ‘Trompe Nouveau’, a style and technique that combines hyper-realistic oil painting with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau. It makes for a mildly disconcerting…
Harlem – NBM Bring Mikaël’s Compelling Three-Part Tale of New York City in the 1930s to a Powerful Close
There are certain ideas and images that come to mind unbidden whenever the words ‘Harlem Renaissance’ appear. A lot of this has to do with how the 1920s and 1930s…
Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave – Yann Damezin Breathes New Life Into a Classic Arabian Tale, from Life Drawn
Around 1188, Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi wrote a poem in Arabic, based on seventh-century poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi, which grew to become one of…
Denison Avenue – Christina Wong and Daniel Innes Shine a Light on the Loneliness of Little Lives in Big Cities, from ECW Press
There’s an interesting comment in illustrator Daniel Innes’ biographical note on the back cover of Denison Avenue: ‘Watching the neighbourhood change over the years has ended his love affair with…
GLEEM – D+Q Remind Us of Why Freddy Carrasco’s Work Deserves a Reappraisal
It has been four years since Dominican-born artist Freddy Carrasco took home the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection, as well as the Doug Wright Award for Best Small- or Micro-press…
Winnie-the-Pooh – Travis Dandro Reinvents a Classic with Charm, Poignancy, and a Great Deal of Love
Does a graphic adaptation of a literary classic deserve to exist? It’s the kind of question that lovers of music tend to obsess over whenever a remixed version of an…
Broken Frontier Anthology
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Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“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 PerspectiveMay 19, 2025