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Wake Up, Pixoto! – Weng Pixin Asks Tough Questions of Her Younger Self in Her Powerful Memoir from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 31, 2025

“Girls like you…men just want you for your body. I’m a man. I would know.” The comment raises all kinds of red flags, for men as well as women, because…

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Wiggles Wart Beauty – Worker Exploitation and Multi-Level Marketing Satirised in Clio Isadora’s Fantasy Fable

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2025

Allegory by its very nature is, of course, a perfect narrative delivery system for deeper truths. By couching life lessons in the fantastic or the relatable their messages become all…

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The Red Spot Mystery – Paint, Paranoia, and a Plot Unravelled from Aylish Wood

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 30, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! There’s always a special thrill in discovering a fresh new voice in the world of comics, especially when that debut is as curious and intriguing…

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Hidden Spectrum – Finding Colour in a Grey World with Kama Mielczarek

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 29, 2025

LDC ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Kama Mielczarek, aka Weird is the the Best, is a multi-disciplinary artist from Poland living in the UK. Her main aim with her comics writing…

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Birdking Vol. 3 – Freedman and CROM’s Fantasy Series is Building Up to an Epic Finale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2025

What works so well about Daniel Freedman and CROM’s Birdking is that it manages to blend the familiar escapist elements of fantasy fiction – quests, kingdoms, warring factions and magic…

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the bus 3 – Paul Kirchner’s Many Takes on the Daily Commute of a Bus Passenger Provide One of the Finest Testaments to the Pure Language of Comics You Will Ever Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2025

I have already extolled the virtues of Paul Kirchner’s the bus when I chose it as one of my “Desert Island Comics” for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Between…

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Boxes #3 – Abs Bailey, KitsuneArt, Millie Strachan and Elliot Hanks Join the Line-Up for the Third Issue of ThirdBear Press’s Anthology Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2025

Here we are with just a week and a few days from the end of the Kickstarter for ThirdBear Press’s fourth issue of acclaimed comics anthology Boxes and the realisation…

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Shape of Sadness – destinationplutoo’s Delightful Comic Explores How We Can Accept the Everyday Realities of Our Own Feelings of Sadness

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2025

LDC ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It seems that every time I think we have finished up with our LDC Online Comics Fair coverage for this year that I find one…

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Pieces of Me (Excerpt) – Maia Iotzova Looks at the Structure of a Fractured Mind Through an Exploration of a Mental Breakdown 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Maia Iotzova graduated from the University of Guelph, Canada with a BA in Fine Arts, working in the fields of film and comics among others….

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How to Break a Fall – A Child’s Unique Perspective on Life and Death from Eva C

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Eva C is a Latin American cartoonist based in NYC, turning life’s weird, funny, and quietly gut-punching moments into comics. Her work draws on her…

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Dream Machine – Ky Lawrence Brings Us Mad Scientists, Monkeys and Madness in His Surreal Science Fiction Graphic Novel 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Ky Lawrence graduated from Norwich University of the Arts, he is an animator with an impressive list of highly-stylized self-published comics, as well as contributions to…

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McNab – Adele Pound’s Wordless Comic Shows the Breathtaking Beauty of the Natural World

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Back in college, Adele Pound baffled her fine art tutors by stubbornly painting wildlife instead of whatever was ‘in’. She’s never grown out of it…

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So That’s That Story… Conversations With Mom – Tenli Yavneh is “Just Commenting” in This Hilarious Memoir of Her Mother 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! At seven pages,  Tenli Yavneh’s So That’s That Story is not the shortest publication ever reviewed on Broken Frontier (The Colossive Cartographies probably hold that…

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Abrupt Transitions: Diary of a Midlife Opsimath – Hoorah for Kristen Haas Curtis and Comics about English Literature Degrees!

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 24, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Hoorah for comics about English Literature degrees – a very niche gap in the market has finally been filled! As someone who absolutely loved studying…

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Will Eisner: A Comics Biography – Steven Weiner and Dan Mazur Pay Fitting Tribute to a Legendary Artist

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 24, 2025

There is a page, midway through this excellent biography, that documents how comics were printed in 1936. It shows how artwork was transferred from paper to copper plates, then mounted…

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My Energy Thief – Mandy Norman’s Light-Hearted Approach to Looking at Long Covid 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mandy Norman is a multi-disciplinary commercial artist living in North London. According to information provided she joined the LDComics Online Monthly meetings during her 2021 recovery…

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Tia and Guthrie – Chie Hosaka’s Sweet Comics Short Provides a Delightful Character Set Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering Tia and Guthrie loosely fits into the romcom category, albeit a succinct one-act one. It’s the story of the relationship…

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A Eye: Lighting Up the Mirror to Racism – Moi Tu’s Remarkable Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Dialogue Poses Difficult Questions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Moi Tu’s A Eye (the title a play on artificial intelligence) is a difficult comic to define. Perhaps that’s because in many ways it’s a…

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