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Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben – Trujillo and Hastings Ask Questions of How History Remembers Queer Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…

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A Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal Showcases Her Innate Gift for Storytelling Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2024

There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…

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My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…

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Preview: Eventually Everything Connects – Sarah Firth’s Philosophical Comics Debut Comes to the Cartoon Museum in a Signing and Interview Event with Peter Morey

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 4, 2024

Just out from Graphic Mundi, Sarah Firth’s debut book Eventually Everything Connects can best be described in comics terms as “graphic philosophy”. To support this collection of comics essays tackling…

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Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…

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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 5 – The Focus Shifts in the Final Volume of Okura’s Heartwarming Manga Tale of Family and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…

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Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2024 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! For the last couple of years here at Broken Frontier we have been adding to our year-round commitment to our LGBTQIA community with a dedicated month of…

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Preview: Downlands – Titan to Publish Norm Konyu’s Hauntingly Eerie Graphic Novel

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 31, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ 2021 creator Norm Konyu has been on something of a prolific comics-creating spree of late. One of…

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“Comics in Libraries Just Makes Sense” – The British Comics Now Delegation Talks About Their TCAF Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! If you followed all our pre-TCAF coverage then you’ll know the drill by now but let’s recap on what the British Comics Now programme is all about…

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Look Again – Recovering from Trauma is Thoughtfully Unpacked in Elizabeth A. Trembley’s Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 31, 2024

“To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…

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Heebie Jeebies – A Fun and Spooky All-Ages Graphic Novel Which Highlights the Richness of Found Family and Good Friends

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 30, 2024

Heebie Jeebies is a book that I requested to review when I saw writer, Matthew Erman, previewing his new middle-grade graphic novel on X. Now, I know that we shouldn’t…

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Cartoonist Caroline Cash Lined Up as One of the Interim Artists on ‘Nancy’ as Olivia Jaimes Takes a Break from the Strip

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 29, 2024

Courtesy of Silver Sprocket, who shared this news with us, comes the announcement that Caroline Cash (of Broken Frontier Award-winning PeePee-PooPoo fame) will be one of the interim artists taking…

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Exclusive Preview! Stingray: Deadly Uprising – New Comics Collections Featuring the Classic Supermarionation Characters Coming Soon as Part of the Multi-Platform 60th Anniversary ‘Stingray’ Event

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2024

“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” Those scene-setting words are just one of the many fondly remembered elements associated with 1960s pop cultural phenomenon Stingray. First broadcast in…

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Vera Bushwack – Sig Burwash Raises Powerful Questions About Toxic Masculinity and Entrenched Gender Roles

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 28, 2024

What do cowboys look like? Can nonbinary people survive on their own in the woods? How are gender roles assigned? These are some of the questions that popped into my…

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The Battle of Wonk 2024 – Exploring ArtHole’s Small Press and Illustration Fair!

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 27, 2024

Haven’t heard of the Battle of Wonk before? Where have you been hiding! Based on the VERY famous, and COMPLETELY true historical event, ArtHole (a small comic book and illustration…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 30th for a Bronze Age Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 27, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, May 30th. And after a Golden Age and Silver…

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Hexagon Bridge – Richard Burke’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece of Imagination and Artistry

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 24, 2024

Released by Image Comics just last week, Hexagon Bridge is a new trade paperback collecting Richard Burke’s captivating five-issue miniseries. In this celebration of science fiction, Burke is both writer…

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‘Battle Action’ is Back from Rebellion this Year with Garth Ennis Joined by Brian K Vaughan

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2024

One of the most successful of Rebellion’s numerous relaunches/re-imaginings of classic British comics properties Battle Action is returning this year with some big name support for series “showrunner” Garth Ennis,…

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