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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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Chrysanthemum Under the Waves – Maggie Umber Provides a Darkly Layered, Haunting Insight into Her Psyche Across Nine Vignettes

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 20, 2025

Chrysanthemum Under the Waves is a self-published collection of comics from cartoonist and former 2dcloud associate publisher Maggie Umber. Within nine wordless, black and white vignettes, Umber expresses a mourning…

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Punk Rock in Comics – NBM’s Celebration of a Genre that Emerged in the 1970s and Never Fully Went Away

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 15, 2025

If you have to look up what it means, you probably aren’t very punk. That idea has been around for almost as long as the music, which is a long…

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They Shot the Piano Player – The Disappearance and Murder of Jazz Musician Tenório Jr. Investigated in this Compelling SelfMadeHero Graphic Biography

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2025

A 2024 Broken Frontier Award-nominated book in the Best Graphic Non-Fiction category, writer Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player is both a celebration of a period of…

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The Witch and Loaf Cat – Katherine Hemmings Creates a Magical and Adorable Duo from a Most Unlikely Premise in this Short Strips Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2025

A return to the UK small press world today and a look at one of the many comics I bought at Thought Bubble last year and have only just got…

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Done with Demons – Meet Dora Grents’ Odd Couple in Hell in this Infernal Comedy

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 9, 2025

Dora Grents is an animator living in Denmark. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Storytelling from VIA University College, Denmark. According to her website, Done With Demons was her…

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Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 – Sanika Phawde Combines Humour and Pathos in an Autobiographical Account of the Stresses of Planning for an Indian Wedding

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2025

With its vibrant use of colour and chaotic energy the cover of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 instantly catches the reader’s eye and practically implores them to…

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Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • May 2, 2025

The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…

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Many Opinions and Errors – The Newest Minicomic From Brooklyn, NY Cartoonist Steven Solomon 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 29, 2025

Steven Solomon has exhibited paintings, collages, animation, and large single page comics internationally and domestically, but in recent years has been exploring the possibilities of sequential narratives through an ever…

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Night Shift – Jamie Kinroy Plays with Reader Expectations in a Crime Drama with a Difference

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2025

It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…

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Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

  • by Edward Picot
  • April 25, 2025

Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude – Lomig’s Biography of the American Naturalist is More Important Than Ever

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 21, 2025

It has long turned into a cliché: our collective need to hail books about the environment or environmentalism as timely or relevant. It is a cliché because, despite how good…

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Single Camera Sitcom – Katie Lane’s Ambitious Collage Graphic Novel Collected by Comics Blogger Books 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 18, 2025

Katie Lane has been a comics artist, writer, editor and critic in her long career. Single Camera Sitcom first appeared online on Webtoons and Instagram around 2019, and was subsequently…

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