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    The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 – Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • August 12, 2025

    Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…

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    Blood Doughnut – Will Powers Shows Us the Other Side of Vampire Life

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 7, 2025

    “You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…

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    Total Recall of the Heart #1 – Phoebe Hedges and Lizzie Styles Give Us a Queer Cyberpunk Love Story with a Grimy Allure

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 4, 2025

    When you review serialised comics as rarely as I do one immediate and obvious observation you make is that comics commentary on a first issue is like critiquing the first…

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    The Players, The Fool and a Few Fish – Madzillus Calls Upon Timeless Theatrical Tropes in this Queer Melodramatic Debut Graphic Novel

    • by Ray McGrother
    • August 1, 2025

    If I was asked what graphic novel I thought was most comparable to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, but set in the early 2000s, I might say The Players, The…

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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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