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At about the midway point in Scott Finch’s The Domesticated Afterlife, one character advises another: ‘Things are getting weird. Roll with it.’ He’s right, of course, but he’s understating, and…
It’s a most appropriate time to be looking at SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst anthology – the end product of their 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme designed to mentor and champion emerging creators of…
A while ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed the first volume of Witchy, a tale set in a fantasy world where hair length and magical power go hand in hand….
To spend time at Lily and Generoso Fierro’s website is like being invited to dine with a colourful couple for a few hours. They blog about the “carbs and caffeine”…
Quiet Thoughts is a collection of Karen Shangguan’s gentle and poetic comic narratives, published by Avery Hill Publishing. Varying in levels of abstractness, but consistently beautiful, Shangguan’s art allows us…
It’s called a musical comic because the eponymous horse is part of a song-and-dance act. This may sound like an anomaly today, but Neil the Horse made perfect sense in…
There are several things going on in Geneviève Lebleu’s debut Weeding that don’t register with one’s first reading. The body horror, unsurprisingly, becomes the most engrossing thing about the book…
We are plunged into the world of Brigitte Archambault’s unnamed protagonist in The Shiatsung Project without a preamble. We aren’t given any information about who she is, why she lives…
Not all archival comics collections need to be showcases for the best of what the medium can offer in terms of originality and technique. Some can exist solely for nostalgic…
Peculiarly, for a year in which some diverting holiday reading was perhaps more needed than ever, festive comics seem to be few and far between for 2021. One of the…
Of all the Treasury of British Comics reprint collections to have emerged since publisher Rebellion gained ownership of decades of classic UK comics characters a few years back, few have…
It has been more years than I care to remember since I last read any Euripides as an A-level student studying Classical Civilisation, so classicist and poet Anne Carson and…
The first volume of The Department of Truth established the hot new Image series’ mind-bending premise; that enough people believing in one form of reality would manifest it. Conspiracy theories…
Building a haunting tale around the life of the teenage Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, The Gift merges historical events with the stark…
Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart’s Lights, Planets, People! is a layered book, not just in terms of theme but also in its storytelling structure. Three intertwining narrative strands weave in…
Revisit the farm filled with countless haints and twice told tales in the Library Edition of Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Harrow County. Once in a blood moon, a story…
In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. But within the world of Reckless, quite a…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria is the first comic anthology from Edinburgh-based indie comics publisher Quindrie Press. It Kickstarted in September, making substantially more than…
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
Some Thoughts on Toxic Fandom in British Comics – Or Why the UK Comics Industry is Right to Unshackle Itself from What Amounts to Comicsgate-Style ThinkingMarch 22, 2022
