Punk Rock in Comics – NBM’s Celebration of a Genre that Emerged in the 1970s and Never Fully Went Away
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
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…
The Witch and Loaf Cat – Katherine Hemmings Creates a Magical and Adorable Duo from a Most Unlikely Premise in this Short Strips Collection
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…
Done with Demons – Meet Dora Grents’ Odd Couple in Hell in this Infernal Comedy
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…
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
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…
Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics
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…
Many Opinions and Errors – The Newest Minicomic From Brooklyn, NY Cartoonist Steven Solomon
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…
Night Shift – Jamie Kinroy Plays with Reader Expectations in a Crime Drama with a Difference
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…
Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series
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…
John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude – Lomig’s Biography of the American Naturalist is More Important Than Ever
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…
Single Camera Sitcom – Katie Lane’s Ambitious Collage Graphic Novel Collected by Comics Blogger Books
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…
There’s No Time Like the Present – Time-Travelling Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be in Drawn & Quarterly’s Reissue of Paul B. Rainey’s Graphic Novel
“I like the idea of creating comics for people who might not otherwise read them. People who enjoy watching classic British TV soaps, for example.” That’s how Paul B. Rainey…
WetNurse #1 – Offbeat Tales from Nicholas J Woodhead, Via the Lethargic Margin
Nicholas J Woodhead is a cartoonist from Birmingham, UK, who lives in London. His website is called Lethargic Margin Comics, and he is the creator of the “one-person anthology comic”…
We All Got Something – Lawrence Lindell’s Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Novel is a Reminder that the Simplest Stories Can also Be Profound
There may be an easy way of paraphrasing Lawrence Lindell’s new book. Here goes one attempt: Things may sometimes be hard, but we should remind ourselves that there are always…
Not Red Deeps! – A New Entry in the UK’s Long-Running ‘Life’s A Party’ Autobiography Series from Sean Azzopardi
On his site, Sean Azzopardi describes ‘Life’s A Party’ as “15 years, 600+ pages, one autobiographical series.” Previously, BF’s Andy Oliver has reviewed two entries in this series Once There…
Baby Blue – Bim Eriksson’s Dystopian Graphic Novel, the Swedish Underground in Translation from Fantagraphics
There is a burgeoning alternative comics scene in Sweden that Fantagraphics Books and translator Melissa Bowers have been bringing to English-speaking audiences over the last seven years. It includes Erik…
Freelancer – Monster Hunting, Dead-End Jobs and Existentialism… Alex Newton’s Story Has Got it All!
When hearing the term ‘freelancer’, a few jobs spring to mind: a publicist, a plumber, a tutor or a graphic designer, perhaps. But rarely a monster hunter. I’m all for…
Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 – Camp and Rodriguez Embrace the Language of the Form in Their Re-imagining of the Classic DC Super-Hero
Something we perhaps discuss less frequently when we refer to the “language of comics” is how alternative forms of delivery can provide different storytelling tools. There are opportunities available in…
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