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Section: Eyecatcher

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Springtime with Badger & Vole – Howard Hardiman’s Delightful Short is Diverting, Cathartic and the Kind of Comic You Will Want to Lose Yourself In

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2021

When I say that not very much happens in Springtime with Badger & Vole it’s most assuredly not a critical observation. Nor am I damning it with faint praise by…

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The Sea Shepherd – “Defend the Oceans” with Sean Azzopardi’s Graphic Biography of the Direct Action Marine Conservation Organisation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2021

A graphic biography of the titular marine conservation organisation and its environmental activist founder Paul Watson, The Sea Shepherd marks one of long-time UK small presser Sean Azzopardi’s semi-regular digressions…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 31, 2021

Trying to describe My Begging Chart, the new book by Keiler Roberts, is like trying to capture what everyday life is like: we all seem to think we can explain…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Beatnik Buenos Aires – A Charcoal and Smoke-Filled Tribute to the ’60s Argentinian Art-Scene

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 28, 2021

Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Down River People – Adam Smith and Matt Fox Plunge into Southern Gothic Literature

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 27, 2021

There’s something about troubled families that clearly attracts Adam Smith and Matt Fox. It is a theme the writer-illustrator team last explored on Long Walk to Valhalla a little over…

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Covers Album: John Cei Douglas – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Adrian Tomine, Tove Jansson, and Mark Bagley & Larry Mahlstedt

  • by John Cei Douglas
  • May 26, 2021

In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

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“Making this Comic also Helped Me Slowly Get More Comfortable with My Own Identity” – Shazleen Khan Talks ‘Buuza!!’, Representation in Comics and Celebrating Art from the Muslim Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2021

One of the rising stars of the indie comics scene Shazleen Khan has just launched the Kickstarter for volume 3 of the print edition of webcomics series Buuza!!, the much…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A House Without Windows – Life Drawn Present Didier Kassaï’s Comic Art Alongside Marc Ellison’s Photography in This Unflinching Documentary of the ‘Forgotten Crisis’ in the Central African Republic

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • May 24, 2021

A House Without Windows is an important and necessary read to acknowledge the current state of affairs in the Central African Republic and to look through the windows provided for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Mannie Murphy Excavates Portland, Celebrities and White Nationalism in this Extraordinary Underground History

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 21, 2021

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is bookended (although they are heavily featured in the middle too) by two young men. One is River Phoenix, the beautiful young actor…

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The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook – Matt Lubchansky’s Satire Skewers Right-Wing Rhetoric with an Unforgiving Flourish

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2021

Taking delusional right-wing thinking as its satirical starting point, Matt Lubchansky’s The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook poses the question “what if everything the right thought about the left was real?”, combining…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in Lockdown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2021

For the best part of a decade Rachael Smith’s comics journey has weaved in and out of our coverage at Broken Frontier with a remarkable regularity. From her early self-published…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I’ve Connected with So Many Other Second-Generation Muslims as They Opened Up to Me About Their Experiences” – Sayra Begum on Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Mongrel’ and the Responsibilities of Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2021

One of a crop of outstanding British first-time graphic novels to hit the shelves in 2020, Mongrel by Sayra Begum incorporates autobiographical elements elements to tell the story of Shuna,…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“You Can Just Let the Characters Act Out the Story in Your Head and Write it Down” – Jeff Lemire Unboxed as He Talks ‘Sweet Tooth’, His Creative Process and Breaking into Comics

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 17, 2021

Over the past decade, few creators have been as active as Jeff Lemire. Not only the volume of work he produces is crazy, it becomes even more spectacular when you…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol. 1 – BOOM! Studios’ Bold and Bracing Sci-Fi Spectacle Faces Issues in/with Space

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 14, 2021

That striking sentence-long title is literal. BOOM! Studios’ creator-owned We Only Find Them When They’re Dead features 24th century humanity’s encounters with city-sized intergalactic Gods, who are always dead on…

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The Tay Bridge Disaster – David Robertson Takes Us Back to the Infamous 1879 Railway Tragedy in His Latest Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2021

The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 is something that has stuck with me from my childhood holidays in Dundee staying with my grandparents. I can vividly remember my grandmother pointing…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir – Katja Klengel Explores “What Being a Woman Today Means to Her”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 12, 2021

“Becoming a woman isn’t exactly what I call a hobby.” Originally published in German by Reprodukt, in 2018 Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir is the recent release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Creating Women is a Celebration of Brilliance and Diversity” – Rachel A. Davis and Amy Galloway on the New Comics Video Interview Series Debuting this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2021

Announced last month here at Broken Frontier, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut later this month and one that will include a number of interviewees…

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Threshold – Anke Gladnick’s Exploration of Transitioning is a Markedly Assured Comics Debut from Bulgilhan Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2021

Bulgilhan Press are a new micropublisher on the small press scene with a stated aim of “bringing new and experimental comics into the world.” With that as their soundbite mission…

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