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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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Dope Rider: A Fistful of Delirium – An Enticing Doorway into the Spellbinding, Hallucinogenic Unreality of Paul Kirchner

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2022

Some years ago when I was making my weekly trip to London’s Gosh! Comics the late, great Steve Walsh (the most recent inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame)…

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Life Out of Sequence – A Truly Inspiring Exploration of the Page and the Self from New York Artist Bruce Zeines

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 26, 2022

“Stream of consciousness is a device I like to employ often. It serves to reveal the sub-conscious stream which can be useful on the path to self-knowledge.” “It has been…

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Better Man – Frank Page’s Poignant Tale of Love, Loss, and Growing Up in New York

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 22, 2022

It sometimes feels as if being different in any way often leads to unpleasant experiences of the sort shared by everyone the world over, regardless of nationality, faith, or colour….

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez Bring Forgotten Stories to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2022

The winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2021, writer Rebecca Hall and artist Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is not…

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Kisses for Jet: A Coming-of-Gender Story – Joris Bas Backer Documents the Trans Experience in a Pre-Millennium Netherlands

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2022

Comics have proved a particularly adept medium for communicating trans experiences in recent years. So much so that we have been building up a resource list here at Broken Frontier…

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Time Zone J – Julie Doucet Uses Her Distinctive Style to Dissect a Whirlwind Romance In Her Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 7, 2022

There is an early panel in Time Zone J where a version of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 pop art painting, Kiss II, appears to show up. One isn’t quite sure about…

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G.I.L.T. #1 – The Conventions of Temporal Adventuring Are Very Different in the Appealing First Issue of Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet’s New Ahoy Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 5, 2022

It wasn’t as if I hadn’t already fostered a sense of growing appreciation for the output of Ahoy Comics. Second Coming and Billionaire Island feature the writing of Mark Russell…

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Sour Pickles – Clio Isadora’s Avery Hill Graphic Novel Provides Incisive Social Commentary on Privilege and the Realities of the Contemporary Student Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2022

As part of our coverage of the last in-person East London Comics and Arts Festival I covered Clio Isadora’s short comic Is it Vague in Other Dimensions?, a very individual…

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Strays – Chris W. Kim’s SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Emotional Experience

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 30, 2022

For someone that has experienced a psychological trauma, the natural impulse is to seek out a safe space and take refuge. But the problem never goes away, it simply stays…

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We Have Demons #1 – Best Jackett Press Kicks Ass, Takes Names and Pushes Envelopes in this Hellbound Thrillride from Dark Horse Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • March 16, 2022

The story in We Have Demons #1 starts out quietly with Lam Lyle, a young girl, visiting her neighbors. But just when we think something terrible is about to happen,…

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Helem – Two Lives at Critical Junctures Are at the Forefront of Stanley Wany’s Visual Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2022

A quick online search for the word “Helem” – the name of Stanley Wany’s eerie graphic journey through the psyches of two lost characters – reveals that the name has…

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Little Monsters #1 – What Secrets Lurk at the Heart of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s New Post-Apocalyptic Horror Series from Image?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2022

I went into Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s new Image Comics series Little Monsters completely blind, not having read so much as a press release or even a line of…

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