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Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe Explains What it Means to Be Non-Binary and Asexual in Eir Vitally Important Graphic Memoir from Lion Forge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2019

“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…

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Staff Picks for May 15, 2019 – Gender Queer, Bitter Root, The Horror of Collier County and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 14, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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Koyama Press Announces Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Season! – New Books from GG, Connor Willumsen, Michael DeForge, Keiler Roberts, Patrick Kyle and Ben Passmore

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2019

One of the most vitally important indie publishers in comics have announced their Fall 2019/Winter 2020 line-up and it’s an awe-inspiring collection of projects and creators. Koyama Press‘s next batch…

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Five Reasons Why TCAF 2019 Was a Great Way to Spend Last Weekend in Toronto

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 13, 2019

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has been held since 2003. That piece of information came to us not from Wikipedia, but from legendary artist Seth, who had stopped by…

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Cannabis: An American History – Graphic Journalism at Its Most Piercing and Commanding from Box Brown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2019

Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…

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The Horror of Collier County – 20th Anniversary Edition of Rich Tommaso’s Classic is Still Surprisingly Pertinent

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 10, 2019

It is important to keep in mind, whenever one picks up a book by Rich Tommaso, that he began his career a quarter of a century ago with the 3-issue…

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Inside Look: Biscuits (assorted) – Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition Winner Jenny Robins Talks About Her Debut GN and Previous Minicomics Practice in this Exclusive Creator Commentary

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 9, 2019

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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When I Arrived at the Castle – Emily Carroll’s Intense Character Study from Koyama Press is as Hypnotic as it is Terrifying

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2019

True narrative horror is as much about what isn’t said – what is left to the readers’ interpretation and imagination – as it is about the genre’s more overt and…

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US Publishers Lion Forge and Oni Press Announce Merger

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 2019

In breaking news today – and indicative perhaps of the ever changing landscape of US comics publishing – the merger of Oni Press and Lion Forge has just been announced….

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Babyface – Alice Urbino’s Signature Line in Body Horror Poignantly Touches on Familiar Themes of Identity and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2019

Hot on the heels of her recent minicomic Blindenhund comes Babyface, another enticingly macabre graphic medicine/body horror hybrid comic from the distinctive vision of original Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press…

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Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Debuts at London Fields Arches this September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2019

With a number of respected London small press and indie fairs like CECAF, SLCZF and Safari Festival either on hiatus for the moment or having drawn to a close over…

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Staff Picks for May 8, 2019 – Eve Stranger, Blackbird, Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 7, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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Little Girls – Aflleje and DeLaine’s Supernatural Chiller is also a Touching Celebration of the Bonds of Friendship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2019

Harar, Ethiopia, the early 2000s, and Sam is struggling to fit in at her new school. Constantly uprooted due to her father’s work, she makes a new friend in local…

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Giant Days #50 – Cricketing Fun and Games Abound as the Long-Running BOOM! Series Approaches Its Conclusion

  • by Holly Raidl
  • May 3, 2019

Starting with a joke about the annoyance of teaching parents technology, the main story in the latest issue of Giant Days is centred around a cricket match, in which Graham…

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Here’s Why More Lovers of Graphic Novels Should Check Out Edward Gorey

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 3, 2019

Nonsense is an underrated tradition in literature, now relegated to dusty shelves alongside the verse of Edward Lear and lesser-known works by Lewis Carroll. Almost two decades after he passed…

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Lulu the Sensational …and the Family Secret – Cruelty, Courage, Creativity and Family Secrets that Need Some Unpacking in Helen Blejerman’s Faceless Silent Movie of a Graphic Novel

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 2, 2019

“May God watch over you, and protect you and keep you safe.”  Lulu’s mother “enjoyed watching Gene Kelly dance and sniffing round an old poetry book. She abandoned her acting…

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Radiator Comics to Publish Whit Taylor’s Minicomic Series ‘Fizzle’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2019

We have news today at BF from Radiator Comics who have announced they’ll be publishing Whit Taylor‘s Fizzle minicomics beginning with editions of the first two issues at CAKE in…

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Gogor #1 – Ken Garing’s Image Fantasy Series May Just Be the Serial Comics Sleeper Hit of the Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2019

Ken Garing’s new fantasy series Gogor, published by Image Comics, immediately grabs the reader’s attention with a tumultuously paced opening chase scene. It’s so immersive an experience that it leaves…

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