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    Author: Tom Murphy

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    “It Oozed Creativity, Comics Community Spirit and FUN” – Yo Comics! Proves that Kids Can’t Get Enough of Comics

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 11, 2025

    The other week I was lucky enough to volunteer at the wonderful Yo Comics! – “a comic fair for kids and by kids”. Organised by comics advocate and educator Helen…

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    White All Around – A Flawed But Powerful Tale of the Fight for Education That Has Strong Contemporary Resonance

    • by Tom Murphy
    • August 4, 2021

    White All Around, translated by Montana Kane from Blanc autour, the bande dessinée by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert, tells the important story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School –…

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    Dead Dog’s Bite #1-2 – Tyler Boss Gives the Reader a Knowing Wink in His Enjoyable Small-Town Mystery

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 27, 2021

    Comics auteur Tyler Boss clearly believes that If you want something done, you should do it yourself. For Dead Dog’s Bite, a four-issue mystery with hints of humour from Dark…

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    Haway Man, Klaus! – Richard Short’s New Collection from Breakdown Press Mixes Humour and Pathos in a World of Thwarted Ambitions

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 12, 2021

    With its alluring design (in collaboration with Joe Kessler), Richard Short’s Klaus Magazine from Breakdown Press has been a welcome presence on the shelves over the past few years. Haway…

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    Karmen #1 – Guillem March’s Exuberant Euro-vision of the Afterlife Loses a Little in Translation

    • by Tom Murphy
    • March 10, 2021

    Guillem March has trodden the mean streets of Gotham in the past, with work on Batman, Catwoman and Harley Quinn for DC Comics. However, the Mallorcan artist is back on…

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    Chasin’ the Bird – Dave Chisholm Delivers a Vivid and Prismatic Look at the Life and Legend of Jazz Giant Charlie Parker

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 23, 2021

    There really ought to be a law against people like Dave Chisholm. As well as being an acclaimed comics writer/artist (including the sci-fi series Canopus and the graphic novel Instrumental),…

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    Revere – John Smith and Simon Harrison’s Intoxicating Technopagan Fever Dream Enjoys a Digital Resurrection

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 4, 2021

    When Karen Berger’s party train pulled out of UK Comics Central in the late 1980s, one passenger was left unexpectedly on the platform: writer John Smith, whose penchant for loopy…

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    Holly – Steven Ingram’s Composed Depiction of Island Life Shows Us a Young Woman at a Crossroads

    • by Tom Murphy
    • December 3, 2020

    Scottish artist Steven Ingram has been building up a substantial comics presence in recent years, including Left, a graphic novel about a cult survivor facing up to the past, and…

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    The Curious Case of Leonardo’s Bicycle – Brick Builds a Dense and Entertaining Investigation of an Apparent Artistic Hoax 

    • by Tom Murphy
    • November 19, 2020

    “Is it about a bicycle?” he asked.  As a lover of tall tales, the first thing that bounced into my noddle when I picked up The Curious Case of Leonardo’s…

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    Happy Hour #1 – Milligan and Montenat Find Plenty to Smile About in the Pursuit of Unhappiness

    • by Tom Murphy
    • November 5, 2020

    Sometimes it’s okay to be unhappy, see. Sometimes being miserable is a sane reaction to shitty circumstances. At the time of writing, Agent Mann, a leading player in this opening…

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    Maids – Katie Skelly’s Treatment of a Notorious Historical Murder is a Class Act – With Reservations

    • by Tom Murphy
    • October 23, 2020

    The work of Katie Skelly – a very welcome guest artist at a Broken Frontier/Gosh! Comics Drink and Draw back in 2017– is usually characterised by pop energy and playful…

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    The Department of Truth #1 – Tynion and Simmonds Take Their Vibrant Conspiracy Theory Story to the Edge of the World and Back

    • by Tom Murphy
    • October 7, 2020

    Conspiracy theories have probably been with us since Ug had a bad day hunting on the plain and, back at the cave, thought it’d be easier to blame his misfortune…

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    Vision – Julia Gfrörer Pulls the Reader into Her Haunted House Mystery and Slams the Door

    • by Tom Murphy
    • September 25, 2020

    In Vision, Julia Gfrörer pulls the reader into her haunted house mystery and slams the door. Julia Gfrörer’s disquieting and relevant new book from Fantagraphics sits very nicely with her…

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    Tiny Acts of Violence – Paranoia is a Way of Life in Martin Stiff’s Polished Political Thriller

    • by Tom Murphy
    • September 9, 2020

    Picture the scene, gentle reader. It’s the balmy spring of 2014, and a fresh-faced dreamer just setting out on his Broken Frontier journey reviews Titan’s collected edition of The Absence,…

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    Whistle – Beneath the Whimsy, Louka Butzbach’s Rustic Fable Reflects Contemporary Concerns

    • by Tom Murphy
    • August 25, 2020

    Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…

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    Eight-Lane Runaways – Henry McCausland’s Debut Graphic Novel is a Riot of Comics Invention With Its Roots in the UK Small Press

    • by Tom Murphy
    • August 12, 2020

    I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…

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    Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence – Joel Christian Gill’s Bruising Memoir is a Call for Empathy and Understanding

    • by Tom Murphy
    • July 24, 2020

    Fights, Joel Christian Gill’s often bruising memoir, pretty much starts with his nightmarish earliest memory. The scared young Joel, dragged along by his mother after her release from prison, sees…

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    Biggol #1 – Ioan Morris Spins the Densely Humorous History of a Lost Fantasy TV Classic

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 29, 2020

    Way back when, Otto Von Bismarck famously said something along the lines of “laws are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made”. I’ve no doubt…

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