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Young Men in Love: New Romance – A Heady Mix of Genres Makes for a Rewarding Read in A Wave Blue World’s Latest LGBTQIA+ Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! A Wave Blue World’s queer comics anthologies have garnered deserved critical acclaim in recent times. Indeed they have also become a staple of our annual Pride Month…

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Low Orbit – A Small Town Coming-of-Age, Coming Out Story from Kazimir Lee and Top Shelf Productions Told Through a Sci-Fi Novel Lens 

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 16, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Kazimir Lee Iskander is a 2008 graduate of the Minnesota College of Art and Design (BFA, Animation), as well as a 2016 graduate of the Center For…

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Totality – Jeff Lok’s Unique Autobiographical Journey from Fieldmouse Press Rewards Re-Reading

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 13, 2025

Jeff Lok , a Center For Cartoon Studies alum, has self-published humorous work like the solo anthology Gag Rag and co-edited anthologies such as Funny Aminals. Fieldmouse Press and editor…

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DC Pride 2025 #1 – The DCU’s LGBTQIA+ Characters Come Together in a Sprawling Narrative Built on a Foundation of Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! It is, of course, very rare for us to cover super-hero comics here at Broken Frontier. But Pride Month is one of those occasions when we are…

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Pageant – Justin Gradin’s Anti-Romance from Fantagraphics Books Explores the Enigma of the Soulless Soul Mate  

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 10, 2025

The copywriter for the online catalogue listing of Justin Gradin’s sophomore graphic novel, Pageant, certainly doesn’t do him any favors by comparing him to legendary transgressive cartoonists: Gary Panter, Gary…

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Treading Water – Rowan Frewin’s Story of Gender Identity and Self-Realisation Spreads a Welcome and Positive Message

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! We’ve reviewed a number of projects featuring Rowan Frewin’s work over the last year and a half here at Broken Frontier, encompassing a number of different formats….

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The Metalhead Next Door – Mamita’s Gay Love Story of the Awkward Relationship Between Neighbours is a Slowly Building Yet Intense Character Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! As love stories go, Mamita’s The Metalhead Next Door is something of a slow burn. This is not a criticism because this pensive, introspective pacing is very…

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Boy Island – Leo Fox Takes Us to an Allegorical Fantasy World as He Again Explores the Realities of the Trans Lived Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…

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Florrie: A Football Love Story – Anna Trench Brings Us a Touching Queer Love Story Set in the Early Years of Women’s Football

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…

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It Rhymes with Takei – Set to Stun? George Takei’s New Graphic Memoir from Top Shelf Tells a Story of Coming Out Later in Life

  • by Edward Picot
  • June 3, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…

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Tidal Waves – Homophobia and Cycles of Abuse Explored in Rein Lee’s Unflinching Portrayal of a Toxic Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…

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Souvenir – Sara L Jewell’s Memoir in Fragments from Fieldmouse Press

  • by Edward Picot
  • May 30, 2025

Souvenir is described in the back-page blurb as Sara Jewell’s first graphic novel, but also as a “collection” – “In this deeply intimate collection, Sara Jewell searches for meaning in…

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Colossive Cartographies #66 – davidt dunlop’s ‘Heartbroken’ is a Striking and Powerful Contribution to the Fold-Out Zines Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2025

Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…

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Kusama: Polka Dot Queen – Simon Elliott’s Graphic Biography of the Influential Artist is an Intriguing Entry Point into Her Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2025

Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…

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Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2025

Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…

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Goes Like This – An Eccentric New Compendium of Jordan Crane’s Comics from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 23, 2025

Having previously reviewed Jordan Crane’s Keeping Two for Pipedream Comics, I was thrilled to see an exciting new collection of his works being published at Fantagraphics this year. For the…

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RoboWolf #1 – Jake Smith’s Dayglo Retro Crime Comedy from Dark Horse Comics Sells His Zany Vision

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 22, 2025

Jake Smith, a creator based out of Kansas City Missouri, is known for previous Dark Horse titles Blood Force Trauma and Into Radness. His most recent work was IDW’s Godzilla:…

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Cramp – Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2025

There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…

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