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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 5 – The Focus Shifts in the Final Volume of Okura’s Heartwarming Manga Tale of Family and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…

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Look Again – Recovering from Trauma is Thoughtfully Unpacked in Elizabeth A. Trembley’s Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 31, 2024

“To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…

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Heebie Jeebies – A Fun and Spooky All-Ages Graphic Novel Which Highlights the Richness of Found Family and Good Friends

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 30, 2024

Heebie Jeebies is a book that I requested to review when I saw writer, Matthew Erman, previewing his new middle-grade graphic novel on X. Now, I know that we shouldn’t…

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Vera Bushwack – Sig Burwash Raises Powerful Questions About Toxic Masculinity and Entrenched Gender Roles

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 28, 2024

What do cowboys look like? Can nonbinary people survive on their own in the woods? How are gender roles assigned? These are some of the questions that popped into my…

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Hexagon Bridge – Richard Burke’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece of Imagination and Artistry

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 24, 2024

Released by Image Comics just last week, Hexagon Bridge is a new trade paperback collecting Richard Burke’s captivating five-issue miniseries. In this celebration of science fiction, Burke is both writer…

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Sunflowers – Keezy Young’s Remarkable and Powerful Account of Living with Bipolar Disorder from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2024

There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…

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The Butcher’s Boy #1 – Don’t Read Dark Horse Comics’ New Horror Book Before Bedtime!

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 21, 2024

My dad loves horror. So does my sister. I, on the other hand, usually do not. However, as my four-month-old slept, The Butcher’s Boy #1 suddenly made its way to…

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Bad Medicine – Christopher Twin’s Conundrum Press Horror Anthology Takes Inspiration from Cree Folklore

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2024

Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…

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Self-Esteem and the End of the World – Luke Healy Turns His Critical Eye on Himself

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 20, 2024

There are two predominant explanations of what a metanarrative is, when one engages in literary criticism. One refers to the idea of experimentation, where an author wilfully chooses to break…

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Gunhild Vol. 1 – Fred Tornager’s Endearingly Witty Manga Fantasy Series Blends Humour and Norse Mythology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2024

Saturday AM brands itself as providing “the world’s most diverse manga-inspired comics.” A quick perusal of its publishing line-up underlines the strength of that claim with a plethora of titles…

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Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos – New York Review Comics Bring Jay Jackson’s Seminal, Anti-Racist, Sci-Fi Newspaper Strip Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2024

What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…

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The Last Delivery – Evan Dahm’s Entrancing Dark Fantasy from Iron Circus Comics

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 14, 2024

The Last Delivery is an upcoming graphic novel from Iron Circus Comics created by Evan Dahm, a creator who has been hailed as one of the pre-eminent fantasy cartoonists of…

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Koguchi Magazine #2: Neo-Future – Dystopian Future Tech Runs Amok Courtesy of Alxndra Cook, Bon Idle, Justin Morales and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The second of Koguchi Press’s self-titled Koguchi Magazine anthology series comes with the subtitled theme of ‘Neo-Future’ and compiles seven short, complete,…

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Daughters of Snow and Cinders – Eco-Feminism is at Its Very Best in a Stunning Hardback from Núria Tamarit and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 13, 2024

Vivid in glossy hardback, my first thought when looking at the cover of Daughters of Snow and Cinders was awe. The cover is an absolute work of art. A traveller…

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An Alien Who is Also a Mum – Philippa Rice Celebrates the Unique and Beautiful Aspects of Motherhood

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • May 10, 2024

An Alien Who is Also a Mum is a whimsical 16-page comic book created and published by Philippa Rice. Through beautifully painted illustrations, Rice explores the universal theme of motherhood,…

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Young Hag – Discover the Magic Within in Isabel Greenberg’s Arthurian Retelling from Jonathan Cape

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 9, 2024

‘Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have…

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The Space Between the Trees – Norm Konyu’s Latest Supernatural Story is a Taut, Twisting, Turning Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Norm Konyu comics are designed to unsettle. Not in an outrageously over-the-top or gratuitous way. More in the manner of a narrative…

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The Mirage – Owen Michael Johnson’s Crime Heist Pastiche Reveals Hidden Layers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

It’s been a while since we last had the opportunity to review a comic from the genre-hopping mind of Owen Michael Johnson (Beast Wagon, Reel Love). Over the years Johnson’s…

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