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Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sugar & Other Stories – Joy San’s Silver Sprocket Horror Collection Combines the Experimental with the Unsettling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2023

Joy San’s Sugar & Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories presented in a variety of narrative styles and visual techniques. If you’re expecting conventional twist-in-the-tale comics horror…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Day on the River (& Other Stories) – Giorgio Pandiani Tackles Climate Change, Pandemic Denial and Environmental Collapse in this Collection of Allegorical Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2023

Compiling four short stories all, to some degree, with environmental themes at their heart Giorgio Pandiani’s A Day on the River (& Other Stories) is an anthology offering that is…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Harvey Knight’s Odyssey – Nick Maandag’s New Collection Effortlessly Blends Absurdity with Profundity, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 15, 2023

The nicest thing about picking up a book by Canadian artist Nick Maandag is not knowing what the next page will bring. Will there be hilarity? There almost always is….

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Quite Simply, We’re Here to Hook Up Good People with Good Comics” – Celebrating 20 Years of a Leeds Comics Shop Institution with Jared of OK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 14, 2023

OK Comics reaches an important milestone this month as the shop celebrates two decades of bringing comics goodness to the people of Leeds and beyond. At a time when the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Baby – Patrick Kyle Explores the Absurdity of Existence via Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2023

In the past here at Broken Frontier I have described Patrick Kyle’s practice as something akin to an “abstract comics masterpiece”. A description that, unsurprisingly, ensures his approach to the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Yes, I’m Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab – Huda Fahmy Communicates Life as a Muslim American Woman with Gentle Humour and an Incisive Wit

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2023

One of the greatest strengths of comics as a form is its ability to communicate experiences with a profound eloquence in an often concise and deceptively minimalist way. Huda Fahmy’s…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Fractures Book One – A Wolfgang Crowe Revisits a Homophobic Assault in a Powerful Piece of Autobiographical Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2023

Penge-based micropublisher Colossive Press have been providing us with a positive feast of eclectic zine and book publishing for a few years now. A Wolfgang Crowe’s Fractures is their first…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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SHELTER: Early Doors – Lucy Sullivan’s Memorable Tale of Trauma, Womanhood and Witchcraft

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • March 7, 2023

SHELTER: Early Doors is a profound and emotive story, where paint-strokes portray trauma in such a versatile and up-close way that you cannot help but feel yourself involved. This results…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey through the Rwandan Civil War – Gaspard Talmasse and Alice Cyuzuzo Give Us a Child’s Eye View of Reprisal and Atrocity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2023

In 1994, in the aftermath of the Rwandan Civil War, young Alice Cyuzuzo and her family were forced to flee the country and make their way to what was then…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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The 2023 Minicomic Award Winners Have Been Announced!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2023

The 2023 Minicomic Award winners have been announced; the second year of an initiative to spotlight “the unique and challenging work in this underrecognized short form medium.” The event was…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Standing Outside the Station, Sweating – Alex Potts Flirts with the Nihilistic in Another Collection of Wittily Dry Autobio Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2023

There has always been something incongruously appealing about the gloomy existentialism to be found in the comic strips of Alex Potts. The long-time UK small press figure is probably best…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Collected John G. Miller 1980-89, 1990-1999, 2000-2011 – A Genre Unto Himself: The Dizzyingly Brilliant Collected John G. Miller

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 1, 2023

J.G. Ballard was a great writer, but his books could always be shorter. That’s not a critique — the man himself was always reaching for greater brevity, the better for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Forest – An Eerie Journey Into Loss and Grief from Thomas Ott and Fantagraphics Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2023

Seeking to escape the grim atmosphere of a family wake, a young boy slips out of his home and into the dark forest that surrounds it. There, amongst its foreboding…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Magic Necklace – Claire Napier’s Erotic Thriller Proves to Be a Brooding Piece of Horror Romance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2023

Horror and romance. Two genres that for some may, on first consideration, seem diametrically opposed in tone but on reflection, of course, make perfect bedfellows. Claire Napier’s one-shot comic The…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act – Desmond Reed’s Darkly Comedic Graphic Novel Combines the Psychedelic and the Profound

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2023

Part of the final line-up of books to be published by US indie micropress Birdcage Bottom Books (and currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter here) Desmond Reed’s The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Enjoy Whatever You’re Working on Now and Get it Out There” – John-Paul Kamath on Self-Publishing and the Landmark Tenth Issue of ‘London Horror Comic’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2023

If you’ve been attending UK comics festivals and cons to any degree in the last 15 years it’s very unlikely that you haven’t at some point encountered British small press…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Momotekku – Themes of Self-Discovery, Acceptance and Rebirth Run through Alxndra Cook’s First Impressive Long-Form Work from Koguchi Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2023

Momotekku is the first published graphic novella outside of self-published comics from 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Alxndra Cook. It brings together all the staples of her sequential…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Rituals – Nicole Goux and Silver Sprocket Take Us through the “Sacred Rites” Before a Night Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2023

If you are a fan of a particular comics artist’s work then the advantage of projects like Nicole Goux’s Rituals – a self-described mini-art book of illustrations from Silver Sprocket…

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