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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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What It Is – Lynda Barry’s Eisner Award-Winning Book is Now in Paperback, Still Impossible to Describe, But Incredibly Vital

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 30, 2024

What It Is is one of those books that either grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go, or seeps slowly into your consciousness and shifts how you look…

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Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back – FLuX Brings David Good’s Incredible Story to Colourful Life Via NBM

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 29, 2024

The artist FLuX describes his work as ‘Trompe Nouveau’, a style and technique that combines hyper-realistic oil painting with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau. It makes for a mildly disconcerting…

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Meat4Burgers: Welcome to Burgertory – Beck Kubrick and Christof Bogacs Transport Us to the Universe’s Most Unsettling Fast Food Franchise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Although we covered the first two print issues of Christof Bogacs and Beck Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers series a while back at Broken Frontier…

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Hakim’s Odyssey Books 1-3 – Fabien Toulmé Brings the Story of a Syrian Refugee to the Comics Page with Sensitivity and Empathy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2024

We can never have two many comics testaments to the ongoing realities of the refugee crisis. Every time I cover one and add it to our dedicated Broken Frontier resource…

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Single Mothering – A Candid Insight into the Ups and Downs of Single Parenting from Anna Härmälä and Nobrow Press

  • by Lydia Turner
  • April 18, 2024

I can’t explain how excited I was to get my review copy of Single Mothering in the post. A semi-autographical comic debut from Anna Härmälä, and a new addition to…

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Bludzee – Sloth Comics Presents the Delightfully Absurdist Misadventures of Lewis Trondheim’s Assassin Kitten

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2024

Lewis Trondheim is hardly a name that is unknown outside of his native France but it’s still one that should be far more celebrated in the English-speaking world. Of course…

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Colossive Cartographies #54 – Hayley Gullen Gives Us ‘Hayley’s Guide to Chemo’ in the Latest from the Colossive Press Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2024

‘Hayley’s Guide to Chemo’ is the latest and the fifty-fourth entry in the Colossive Press series Colossive Cartographies; zine-like, fold-out, graphic narratives. Fitting into the graphic medicine area of comics….

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When I Arrived at the Castle – E.M. Carroll’s Intense Character Study is as Hypnotic as it is Terrifying

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2024

This review adapts our original 2019 coverage of E.M. Carroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle when it was first published by Koyama Press. The book is republished this month…

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Harlem – NBM Bring Mikaël’s Compelling Three-Part Tale of New York City in the 1930s to a Powerful Close

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 12, 2024

There are certain ideas and images that come to mind unbidden whenever the words ‘Harlem Renaissance’ appear. A lot of this has to do with how the 1920s and 1930s…

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