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Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches – Graphic Mundi and Yazan al-Saadi Present a Collection of Voices from the Middle East on the Fight for Self-Determination

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2025

To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…

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Preview: LA Strong – Mad Cave Studios Give Details of the Creators Involved in Their Charity Anthology to Support Wildfire Relief Efforts in Los Angeles

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 11, 2025

More news about Mad Cave’s admirable community project LA Strong with a list of contributors and preview pages below. A powerhouse lineup of comic creators unites for LA Strong, a…

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A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II – Rick Geary and NBM Bring Together More Trials, Convictions and Crimes from Our Recent Past

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 10, 2025

A decade or so ago, bestselling American journalist David Grann published a collection titled The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. It brought to light several…

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Colossive Cartographies #62 – Harriet Merry Takes Us on ‘The School Run’ in the Latest Fold-Out Zine from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2025

There’s something undeniably interesting about how sometimes the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies zines benefit from the added context on the Colossive site. If you do this the right way around…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, February 13th for a Valentine’s Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 10, 2025

Your favourite online comics social is back! But in a new location. With recent events on Twitter/X/Xitter seeing a mass exodus of comics folk from the platform we have made…

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mini kuš! #127: Swelling – Walker Tate’s Body Horror Short is Both Disconcerting and Bleakly Funny

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2025

With a tongue-in-cheek take on body horror Walker Tate’s ‘Swelling’, #127 in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mini kuš!  minicomics series, initially seems less experimental than some of the more opaque or…

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Bald – Tereza Čechová and Štěpánka Jislová Bring Awareness of Alopecia and Hair-Loss in New Translation from Graphic Mundi

  • by Lydia Turner
  • February 6, 2025

I won’t pretend that I’ve ever been someone that’s particularly into their hair. Would I like it to look beautifully curled or glossily straight? Yes. Will I ever go to…

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New Limit Break Comics Eco-Horror Anthology ‘Bump in the Night’ Opens for Submissions

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 5, 2025

Limit Break Comics are looking for submissions for their latest anthology Bump in the Night. Keep letting us know about these small press anthology shout-outs, all, and we will also…

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London Horror Comic #11 – The Latest Issue of John-Paul Kamath’s Long-Running Series Mixes Slapstick Horror with Intense Psychodrama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2025

For the best part of two decades now John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic has been a staple of the UK small press circuit. Kamath’s stories have been illustrated by a…

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Willie Nelson: A Graphic History – A Graphic Biography Strictly for Those Who Know Nothing About the Legendary Musician

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 4, 2025

Willie Hugh Nelson, born April 29, 1933, is now 91 years old. Given that he has spent around 81 of those years in the making of music (he joined his…

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Huda F Cares? – Huda Fahmy Explores Themes of Sisterhood, Family and Life as an American Muslim Woman in Another Funny and Touching Slice-of-Life Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2025

I cannot ever envisage a point where the slightly naughty wordplay of Huda Fahmy’s graphic novel titles will ever get wearisome. The follow-up to Huda F Are You? her most…

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The Power of Welcome: Real-Life Refugee and Migrant Journeys – Ada Jusic Brings Five Testimonies to the Page in this Comics Anthology Aimed at Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2025

It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 2025 – Life Drawing, Raised By Ghosts, Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2025

Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and reimagined to fit the…

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The Trigan Empire Returns – Classic UK Comic Strip to Begin New Adventures for the First Time in 40 Years Courtesy of Rebellion, Michael Carroll and Tom Foster

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2025

This you may not have seen coming! Rebellion have announced the return of The Trigan Empire – the beautifully illustrated classic science fantasy strip from the pages of Look &…

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LICAF Now & Next – Discover More About the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Work Championing Comics in this Zoom Event with Lucy Sullivan and Mollie Ray

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

There have been some very inportant comics community initiatives from the direction of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival of late, including British Comics Now (of which I will be…

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Second Sight and Dark Horse Announce ‘Shook! Songs of the Dark Sirens’ – Follow-Up Horror Anthology to Feature Award-Winning Women Creators and Artists of Colour

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 30, 2025

If you enjoyed last year’s Shook!: A Black Horror Anthology then there’s excellent news below. Second Sight Publishing and Dark Horse Comics have announced a follow-up volume Shook! Songs of…

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The House on 52 Carlton Street – Exorcism and Otherworldly Horror Combine in Zen K.’s Gripping Manga Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…

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Belly Full of Heart – A Mushy Amalgamation of Hearts, Romance and Intimacy from Madeline Mouse

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 29, 2025

Described as a “comic book ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future”, Belly Full of Heart from Madeline Mouse and Silver Sprocket is exactly the kind…

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