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inQ! Debuts on September 7th, 2024 – New London Comics and Zine Fair Set to Spotlight the UK’s Queer Comics Community

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 21, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! And here’s a most welcome new comics event to be able to announce in Pride Month. inQ! is a curated event spotlighting the UK’s queer comics community….

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Heartstopper Vol. 5 – Charlie and Nick’s Relationship Hits a Pivotal Point in the Penultimate Collection of the Smash Hit Alice Oseman LGBTQIA Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When last we visited the characters of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper it was for our Pride Month coverage two years ago when we looked at all four print…

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Transitions: A Mother’s Journey – A Different Perspective on the Trans Experience from Élodie Durand and Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…

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With a General Election Looming the Comics Cultural Impact Collective Suggest YOU Create Comics for Your New (and Old!) MPs

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 19, 2024

With a whole new intake of MPs coming after this July’s general election in the UK the Comics Cultural Impact Collective have a suggestion for you. Why not underline the…

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Where We Are, Where We SHOULD Be: Shaping a Future for Young Trans People – An Essential Guide Book for Both Trans Youth and Allies, Via Comics Youth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Sometimes at Broken Frontier we’re happy to bend the rules a little and venture into the realms of zines and DIY culture, or to look at publications…

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Anna – Mia Oberländer Challenges Sexism and Tropes of Traditional Femininity in ‘Anna’ from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 19, 2024

Mia Oberländer’s debut graphic novel Anna has already made its mark despite only being published this year: Awarded the Berthold Leibinger Foundation’s Comic Book Award, the German Youth Literature Award…

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African Dark Fantasy Series ‘Imbokodo’ Coming from Dark Horse Comics in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 18, 2024

We may not put up every press release we get sent at Broken Frontier but we do try and keep you informed of new releases that look particularly interesting. Today…

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Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up – Lewis Hancox’s Second Graphic Memoir is Witty, Raw and Unflinchingly Honest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…

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The ‘2000 AD’ Artist and Writer Talent Search is Back for Thought Bubble 2024 – Your Chance to Be Featured in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 18, 2024

Emerging comics creators! It’s time to start thinking about Thought Bubble and the 2000 AD talent search. Full details below. Do you have what it takes to be a 2000 AD…

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Nervosa – A Painstakingly Honest Debut About Disordered Eating from Hayley Gold and Street Noise Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 17, 2024

Upon receiving my copy of Nervosa from Street Noise Books, I was surprised that I hadn’t come across the work of cartoonist Hayley Gold before. Gold seems to be a…

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 – Reintroducing Coagula, DC’s First Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…

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Rebellion Announces the Return of the ‘2000 AD Annual’ for 2025 (Plus a New ‘Treasury of British Comics Annual’ Too!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 17, 2024

This press release kind of speaks for itself! The 2000 AD Annual is back in all its hardcover glory for 2025, alongside the Treasury of British Comics one that sold…

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Lucky Cap Scouts – Candy-Coloured Fun Abounds in O. Stevens’ Silver Sprocket Minicomic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 14, 2024

Confession time. I LOVE blind boxes. It doesn’t matter what’s in them, something about those little, colourful boxes of joy gets me every time. The element of surprise, of trying…

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Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story – Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman Provide a Heartfelt Origin Story for DC’s Cross-Media Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When we launched our Pride Month coverage earlier this month we promised you that our coverage would venture into territory not usually traversed at Broken Frontier. For…

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Inside Look: Starlit Lovers – KitsuneArt Gives Us a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Her and Lor Phoenix’s Slice-of-Life Sapphic Romance Comic

  • by Kitsune Art
  • June 13, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! 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,…

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“This Will Be One of the Weirdest, Wildest Payoffs We’ve Seen in a Comic in a Generation” – Sean Von Gorman and Joey Esposito Talk ‘The Pedestrian’ from Magma Comix

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • June 13, 2024

I’m currently spending far too much time on X and through my scrolling I am taking great joy in finding new comic books to review for readers of Broken Frontier….

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Why I Adopted My Husband – Yuta Yagi’s Collection of Strips About the Realities of Life as a Gay Couple in Japan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Despite constant pushback from non-progressive elements, there’s been a forward momentum to the concepts of gay marriage and equality in the law in many countries in recent…

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Currently Crowdfunding on Kickstarter the Comics and Illustration Anthology ‘Bosh Zine’ Features Work from BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Abs Bailey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! We need more small press comics anthologies in the UK. I have been saying this for a few years now at Broken…

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