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Ambiguous Loss – Hannah Lee Miller Explores Dementia and Grieving for Someone Yet to Leave Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2022

Way back in 2013, nearly a decade ago, I reviewed Hannah Lee Miller’s short self-published comic Dementia Dad, an autobio offering that I described as “heartrending” in terms of subject…

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Not Because of the People – David Allison’s Collection of Experimental Comics Narratives Take Us on a Tense and Brooding Journey Into Psychogeographical Horror

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2022

Psychogeographical comics are perhaps more widely acknowledged for their autobiographical explorations of the intersections between place, time and memory. But there are other strands to this area of graphic narrative,…

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Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World – As the UK’s Conservative Government Looks to Suppress Fundamental Human Rights Myfanwy Tristram Reminds Us of the History of Protest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 4, 2022

Emerging from an Inktober-related exercise, Myfanwy Tristram’s Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World (the title coming from an Extinction Rebellion placard) is an 80-page celebration…

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mini kuš! #105: Li’l Jormly – Funny Animal Comics Pastiche Meets Capitalism-Induced Existential Terror in Christopher Sperandio’s Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2022

One of the great delights of every four-issue batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is you never know quite what you’re going to get from its series…

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Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 – Lilly Williams’ Pandemic Journey from Pregnancy to Parenting

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2022

Lilly Williams’ Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 is another reminder, if we needed one, of the breadth of approaches to capturing personal experience over the last two years of…

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mini kuš! #103: Grandad Reg – Clara Heathcock and Patrick Wray Explore Themes of Loss and Acceptance During the Pandemic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2022

Another entry in the vitally important and ever growing area of pandemic comics, Grandad Reg tell a story that is deeply personal and yet, sadly, simultaneously all too recognisable. Issue…

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Jumping Mouse Volume 1 – The First Chapter of Ali Hodgson’s Graphic-Memoir-in-Progress Shows Great Promise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2022

If, like me, your perception of time has become so skewed since March 2020 that a few months ago can seem simultaneously like years ago and also yesterday afternoon, then…

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Arrive in My Hands – Trinidad Escobar’s Collection of Queer Erotica and Poetry Comics is a Liberating Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2022

Trinidad Escobar’s rising profile over the last few years has been a testament to her artistic versatility. I can’t remember exactly where I first came across the Filipina cartoonist’s practice…

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The Final Lullaby Vol. 1 and 2 – Feff Silvers’ Supernatural Mystery Series Proves to Be Appealing, Escapist Fun

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2022

To date, Feff Silvers has produced two print volumes of her supernaturally themed webcomic The Final Lullaby, with a third currently crowdfunding. This manga style story follows protagonist Penelope “Horos”…

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Ugly Mug #5 – After 30 Years the House of Harley’s Small Press Anthology Returns with Work from John Bagnall, Ed Pinsent and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2022

Thirty or so years ago, beginning in the late ‘80s, Ugly Mug was a British small press anthology that featured a number of creators who are now considered legends of…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2022 – Spotlighting the Work of Alba Ceide, Beatrice Mossman, Jason Chuang, Kat Cass, Manon Wright and Sammy Ward

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2022

2021 was another year where the self-publishing and small press scene in the UK had to continue to adapt to our changed world, and our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small…

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Junk #2 – Sam Baldwin’s Anthology Brings Us Offbeat Tales from a North London Estate

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2022

Sam Baldwin’s second issue of anthology Junk begins with a two-pager detailing a number of ever more outlandish ways way to dispose of the comic should one make the supposed…

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Handlebar Gumbo – Anna Readman’s Collected Diary Comics Are the Work of a Careful Student of the Language, Intricacies and Nuances of the Medium

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2022

A few years back when I selected Anna Readman as one of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists it was on the basis of one very short digital…

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Gripe Night – Paul B. Rainey is Back with Another Collection of Darkly Humorous Strips and Semi-Autobio Flights of Fancy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2022

Paul B. Rainey is indisputably one of the true veterans of the UK small press comics scene with a prominent presence on the circuit for decades rather than years. His…

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2022

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…

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Prismatik Man #2 – Biological Horror and Technological Unreality Meet in the Second Issue of Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Decadence Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2022

It’s been a little while since we reviewed the first chapter of Prismatik Man at Broken Frontier. The eagerly anticipated second issue of Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Decadence Comics series made its…

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Ant Story – King Louie’s Lab Bring Us the Darkly Funny World of Rory and His Sarcastic Father, Ant Dad

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2022

Coming to us from the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and Dominic Linton, Ant Story is a collection of the comic strips previously presented on Instagram and in…

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Spit Dog – Jamie Kinroy Takes Us to Middle Ages Germany in a Promising Fantasy Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2022

It may be set mostly in the environs of a middle ages kitchen in late fifteenth century Germany but it could be argued that Jamie KInroy’s Spit Dog has social…

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