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My Brother’s Husband – Looking Back at Gengoroh Tagame’s Acclaimed Tale of Homophobia, Culture, Identity and Family

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Given that we have been running a number of reviews this month for Pride 2022 it feels appropriate to also give some space to relevant work that…

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Black Heroes of the Wild West – James Otis Smith Introduces Some Fascinating Characters from History to a Younger Target Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2022

Last week at Broken Frontier we looked at Tales of the Talented Tenth, another comics biographical publication that put a spotlight on notable Black figures of the past largely forgotten…

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Tamlin – Aven Wildsmith Reimagines Scottish Folk Song as Queer Fairy Tale in this Eerily Beautiful Graphic Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Taking a Scottish folk ballad dating back to the sixteenth century as its starting point Aven Wildsmith’s Tamlin, from Knight Errant Press, brings queer romance, mythology and…

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Tales of the Talented Tenth #3: Robert Smalls – Joel Christian Gill Brings the Story of Another Remarkable Black Figure from History to New Audiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2022

Projects like Joel Christian Gill’s Tales of the Talented Tenth may be celebratory in intent, but they are also a vital reminder of how much work there is still to…

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Heartstopper Vol. 1-4 – Alice Oseman’s “Boy Meets Boy” Story Lives Up to the Hype

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Sometimes in comics commentary you can be very aware of work that can only be described as a true publishing phenomenon without having directly experienced it yourself….

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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 1 & 2 – Okura’s Coming-of-Age Manga is a Funny Yet Touching Tale of the Anxiety of Coming Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Despite social awkwardness being at the heart of each instalment, Okura’s I Think Our Son is Gay is a truly delightful collection of short strips that sits…

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The Girl from the Sea – Molly Knox Ostertag’s YA Queer Romance is a Character-Led Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! As we move ever onwards into this year’s Pride Month it’s important to remember that, while graphic memoirs and graphic biographies exploring the prejudice and challenges faced…

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Archie & Friends: Summer Lovin’ #1 – New Pansexual Character Eliza Han Debuts as the Riverdale Gang Take a Trip to the Funfair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Arguably no publisher has done as much as Arche Comics in the last several years in terms of both taking decades-old iconic characters in radical new directions…

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The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights – Archie Bongiovanni and A. Andrews Take Younger Readers Back to a Pivotal Point in History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Part of First Second’s History Comics series spotlighting pivotal points in history for younger readers, The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights is an obviously…

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Lure – Lane Milburn Explores Climate Change, Privilege and the Commodification of Art in His Socially Relevant Sci-Fi Story from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2022

It hardly needs saying that science fiction has always been a powerful medium for allegorical explorations of contemporary socio-political issues. Lane Milburn’s graphic novel Lure, from Fantagraphics, is an excellent…

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The Closet #1 – Revisit Your Childhood Fears in this Unsettling New Image Horror Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2022

Of all the standards of horror fiction those that touch on our childhood fears have a particular resonance. They represent a time in our lives when the wider world was…

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Scoop Scuttle and His Pals – Fantagraphics Takes the High Energy Slapstick of Basil Wolverton’s “Crackpot Comics” to New Audiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2022

As so much previously uncollected, or otherwise near impossible to find, vintage material has become available in print compilations over the last decade or so, it hasn’t always been the…

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Swan Song – Sonja Ahlers’ Graphic Poetry Collection Combines Fragmentary Reflections with a DIY Culture Feel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2022

One of the things I have come to admire so much about Canadian publisher Conundrum Press is that they have no easily categorised brand identity. If you sift through our…

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Call Me Nathan – Catherine Castro and Quentin Zuttion Chart the Trans Journey from Multiple Perspectives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2022

Unlike many of the books we have covered here at Broken Frontier that deal with the trans experience Call Me Nathan is a semi-fictionalised account of that journey rather than…

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Quarantine Comix: A Memoir of Life in Lockdown – Rachael Smith’s Account of the Early Days of the Pandemic Remains One of the Most Remarkable Achievements in Post-Millennial British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2022

“One of 2020’s most remarkable achievements in comics” was how I described Quarantine Comix, Rachael Smith’s autobiographical series of comic strips a year or two back at Broken Frontier. Originally…

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Candles – Embracing the Breakout Magic of Lyndon White’s Fantasy Graphic Novel from Cast Iron Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2022

If you follow UK comics social media to any degree then you will surely have come across the work of artist Lyndon White, even if you don’t immediately recognise his…

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Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2022

What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Scarlett and Sophie Rickard’s Adaptation Underlines How Robert Tressell’s Socialist Masterpiece is More Relevant Now than Ever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2022

Long held to be a masterpiece of socialist literature, Robert Tressell’s classic novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was first published in 1914. Set in the town of Mugsborough, it features…

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