Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing
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
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…
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles – Revisiting Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Outstanding Queer Comics Re-Imagining of a Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Favourite
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….
Skin Deep – Flo Woolley’s Queer Horror Romance from Silver Sprocket Has a Strangely Unsettling Appeal
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…
Fractures Book Two – A Wolfgang Crowe Depicts the Appalling Aftermath of Homophobic Brutality in the Second Issue of this Powerful Series
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…
Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben – Trujillo and Hastings Ask Questions of How History Remembers Queer Voices
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…
A Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal Showcases Her Innate Gift for Storytelling Via Drawn & Quarterly
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…
My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket
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…
Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community
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…
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
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…
Look Again – Recovering from Trauma is Thoughtfully Unpacked in Elizabeth A. Trembley’s Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books
“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…
Heebie Jeebies – A Fun and Spooky All-Ages Graphic Novel Which Highlights the Richness of Found Family and Good Friends
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…
Vera Bushwack – Sig Burwash Raises Powerful Questions About Toxic Masculinity and Entrenched Gender Roles
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…
Hexagon Bridge – Richard Burke’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece of Imagination and Artistry
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…
Sunflowers – Keezy Young’s Remarkable and Powerful Account of Living with Bipolar Disorder from Silver Sprocket
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…
The Butcher’s Boy #1 – Don’t Read Dark Horse Comics’ New Horror Book Before Bedtime!
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…
Bad Medicine – Christopher Twin’s Conundrum Press Horror Anthology Takes Inspiration from Cree Folklore
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…
Self-Esteem and the End of the World – Luke Healy Turns His Critical Eye on Himself
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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