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Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up – Lewis Hancox’s Second Graphic Memoir is Witty, Raw and Unflinchingly Honest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…

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Nervosa – A Painstakingly Honest Debut About Disordered Eating from Hayley Gold and Street Noise Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 17, 2024

Upon receiving my copy of Nervosa from Street Noise Books, I was surprised that I hadn’t come across the work of cartoonist Hayley Gold before. Gold seems to be a…

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 – Reintroducing Coagula, DC’s First Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…

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Lucky Cap Scouts – Candy-Coloured Fun Abounds in O. Stevens’ Silver Sprocket Minicomic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 14, 2024

Confession time. I LOVE blind boxes. It doesn’t matter what’s in them, something about those little, colourful boxes of joy gets me every time. The element of surprise, of trying…

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Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story – Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman Provide a Heartfelt Origin Story for DC’s Cross-Media Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When we launched our Pride Month coverage earlier this month we promised you that our coverage would venture into territory not usually traversed at Broken Frontier. For…

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Why I Adopted My Husband – Yuta Yagi’s Collection of Strips About the Realities of Life as a Gay Couple in Japan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Despite constant pushback from non-progressive elements, there’s been a forward momentum to the concepts of gay marriage and equality in the law in many countries in recent…

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The Out Side – Trans and Non-Binary Stories Brought to the Comics Page in this Inspiring Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Bringing together the work of 29 trans and non-binary creators The Out Side is an often celebratory collection of stories focussing on themes of gender and identity….

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Dandelion – Writer Sabir Pirzada and a Host of Artists Give Us a Bold New Vision of the Future

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • June 11, 2024

There is a lot to digest in Dandelion, Image Comics’ anthology written by Sabir Pirzada with an all-star cast of artists. In Pirzada’s bold, yet alarming, vision of the not-too-distant…

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Star Trek: Celebrations – The Spotlight Falls on the Franchise’s LGBTQIA Cast in this Anthology One-Shot Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! What immediately strikes the reader about IDW’s Pride Month Star Trek: Celebrations one-shot is how much its title is a statement of intent. This collection of five…

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Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…

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Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus – All Hail Grog, Frog-Lord of Chaos in His Magical Quest from Davilorium, Alba BG and Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 7, 2024

Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus is a short graphic novel about, you guessed it, a frog named Grog. However, Grog isn’t our ordinary run-of-the-mill frog. This frog is…

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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles – Revisiting Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Outstanding Queer Comics Re-Imagining of a Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Favourite

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….

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Skin Deep – Flo Woolley’s Queer Horror Romance from Silver Sprocket Has a Strangely Unsettling Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…

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Fractures Book Two – A Wolfgang Crowe Depicts the Appalling Aftermath of Homophobic Brutality in the Second Issue of this Powerful Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…

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Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben – Trujillo and Hastings Ask Questions of How History Remembers Queer Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…

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A Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal Showcases Her Innate Gift for Storytelling Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2024

There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…

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My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…

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Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…

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