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The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook – Matt Lubchansky’s Satire Skewers Right-Wing Rhetoric with an Unforgiving Flourish

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2021

Taking delusional right-wing thinking as its satirical starting point, Matt Lubchansky’s The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook poses the question “what if everything the right thought about the left was real?”, combining…

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Covers Album: Rebecca Burke – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Linnea Sterte, Kerascoët and Gabriel Hernández Walta

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • May 19, 2021

In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

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“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in Lockdown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2021

For the best part of a decade Rachael Smith’s comics journey has weaved in and out of our coverage at Broken Frontier with a remarkable regularity. From her early self-published…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 20th for a ‘Creating Women’ Special with Guest Artist Amy Galloway/Hesitantdoodle

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 19, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 20th for a Creating Women Special with guest…

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“I’ve Connected with So Many Other Second-Generation Muslims as They Opened Up to Me About Their Experiences” – Sayra Begum on Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Mongrel’ and the Responsibilities of Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2021

One of a crop of outstanding British first-time graphic novels to hit the shelves in 2020, Mongrel by Sayra Begum incorporates autobiographical elements elements to tell the story of Shuna,…

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Preview: ELCAF Haul 2021 – Pre-Order Your Bag Full of Artistic Goodies Including Work from Alxndra Cook, Olivia Sullivan, Till Lukat, Sonali Khanna and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2021

It’s been an incredible pleasure for us at Broken Frontier to have been a festival partner for ELCAF over the last few years. It’s one of the most inspiring events…

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“You Can Just Let the Characters Act Out the Story in Your Head and Write it Down” – Jeff Lemire Unboxed as He Talks ‘Sweet Tooth’, His Creative Process and Breaking into Comics

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 17, 2021

Over the past decade, few creators have been as active as Jeff Lemire. Not only the volume of work he produces is crazy, it becomes even more spectacular when you…

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Mental Goblins – The Intrusive Nature of Anxiety Brought to Life by Dave and Tony Pickering in Extended Metaphorical Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2021

Back in 2020 I took a look at Tony Pickering’s Diabetes: Year One, a very distinctive piece of graphic medicine that could best be described as a collection of graphic…

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol. 1 – BOOM! Studios’ Bold and Bracing Sci-Fi Spectacle Faces Issues in/with Space

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 14, 2021

That striking sentence-long title is literal. BOOM! Studios’ creator-owned We Only Find Them When They’re Dead features 24th century humanity’s encounters with city-sized intergalactic Gods, who are always dead on…

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The Tay Bridge Disaster – David Robertson Takes Us Back to the Infamous 1879 Railway Tragedy in His Latest Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2021

The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 is something that has stuck with me from my childhood holidays in Dundee staying with my grandparents. I can vividly remember my grandmother pointing…

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One – Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez’s Laneha House Double Feature Minicomic Plays with the Pure Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2021

Last November at Broken Frontier we exclusively announced the formation of Laneha House, Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez’s micropublishing venture showcasing their own comics and also the publishing home of…

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Covers Album: Holly Raidl – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Takeshi Obata, Faye Simms and Diigii Daguna

  • by Holly Raidl
  • May 12, 2021

In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

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Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir – Katja Klengel Explores “What Being a Woman Today Means to Her”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 12, 2021

“Becoming a woman isn’t exactly what I call a hobby.” Originally published in German by Reprodukt, in 2018 Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir is the recent release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning…

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20/20 – Annie Huang’s Autobio Account of Mental Health and the Pandemic from Australian Micropublisher Blueprint Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2021

Given that many creators working in autobio talk of the often cathartic experience of processing events in their lives on the comics page it’s hardly surprising that over the last…

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“Creating Women is a Celebration of Brilliance and Diversity” – Rachel A. Davis and Amy Galloway on the New Comics Video Interview Series Debuting this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2021

Announced last month here at Broken Frontier, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut later this month and one that will include a number of interviewees…

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V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask – Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s Comics Classic is in the Spotlight in the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 11, 2021

As the world slowly begins to open up again after the necessity of lockdown we have news today from the Cartoon Museum in London about their next major exhibition, this…

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Threshold – Anke Gladnick’s Exploration of Transitioning is a Markedly Assured Comics Debut from Bulgilhan Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2021

Bulgilhan Press are a new micropublisher on the small press scene with a stated aim of “bringing new and experimental comics into the world.” With that as their soundbite mission…

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Cyclopedia Exotica – Aminder Dhaliwal Uses Her Second Graphic Novel to Ask Us All a Few Uncomfortable Questions, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 10, 2021

Brampton, in Canada’s province of Ontario, is home to one of the largest groups of immigrants in the country. It often makes the list of most diverse cities in North…

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