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Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 13th for a Pride Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 10, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 13th with a Pride Special. Not…

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Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus – All Hail Grog, Frog-Lord of Chaos in His Magical Quest from Davilorium, Alba BG and Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 7, 2024

Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus is a short graphic novel about, you guessed it, a frog named Grog. However, Grog isn’t our ordinary run-of-the-mill frog. This frog is…

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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles – Revisiting Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Outstanding Queer Comics Re-Imagining of a Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Favourite

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….

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Skin Deep – Flo Woolley’s Queer Horror Romance from Silver Sprocket Has a Strangely Unsettling Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…

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Fractures Book Two – A Wolfgang Crowe Depicts the Appalling Aftermath of Homophobic Brutality in the Second Issue of this Powerful Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…

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“The Sea… Can Reflect Back an Infinite Number of Different Meanings” – Tim Bird Talks About Paying Tribute to His Late Mother in ‘Adrift on a Painted Sea’ from Avery Hill

  • by Katriona Chapman
  • June 6, 2024

If you’ve been following the Avery Hill story since the very beginning you will be aware that artist Tim Bird has been part of their publishing output since the very…

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BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Mereida Fajardo Longlisted for the World Illustration Awards for ‘Zayani Zam’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the tenth year of our ‘Six Creators to Watch’ mentorship programme we’re determined to spotlight as many new achievements of our…

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“There’s a Lot of Love for Raccoons Out There!” – Chatting with Creator Michael Avon Oeming About the Wondrous ‘William of Newbury’

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • June 5, 2024

Dark Horse Comics’ new title, William of Newbury, is Eisner Award-winning Michael Avon Oeming’s latest masterpiece. In this brand-new anthropomorphic supernatural series, our adorable raccoon is a neurotic monk, fearful…

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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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