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Creased Comics – New York Review Comics Collect the Bizarre and Irreverent Cartooning of Brad Neely

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2026

Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…

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Bone Broth – Alex Taylor’s “Coming-of-Age Queer Thriller” Incorporates Themes of Friendship, Trans Experience and the Supernatural into a Bleakly Humorous Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2026

The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…

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Judge Dredd: One-Eyed Jacks – The Art of Anna Readman is a Major Draw in this Dredd Crossover with 1960s/’70s British Weekly ‘Valiant’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2026

The worlds of 2000 AD as a shared universe have never been as intertwined in the same way as their American counterparts. There were obvious links between some strips in…

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Vintage: The Definitive Comics Collection 2009-2025 – The Elastic Cartooning of David Ziggy Greene Gets a Retrospective Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 5, 2026

There are multiple directions from where you may have become familiar with the contributions of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. Perhaps it was from his groundbreaking graphic reportage series Scene &…

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Mary Pain – Lola Lorente Provides a Moving, Subtle Exploration of Coping with Tragedy While Looking for Hope

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 1, 2026

There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…

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Narrow Rooms – Choi Sungmin’s Dark Fable from Drawn & Quarterly Says a Lot About the Fragmented Times We Live In

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 28, 2026

Lee Daye, the protagonist of South Korean artist Choi Sungmin’s Narrow Rooms, is a young woman preparing for her annual art exam. Far from home and alone in the big…

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Endsickness – Sofia Alarcon’s Conundrum Press Collection Examines the Concept of Eco-Anxiety

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 27, 2026

Endsickness is both the title of Sofia Alarcon’s collection of environmentally themed short comics stories and a term denoting the existential angst many feel as the world around us becomes…

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Go-Man! Vol. 1: Champion of Earth – Hamish Steele Combines Monster-Fighting Heroics with a Layered Story about Life with Autism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2026

Very broadly speaking, the work that we tag for our socially relevant Broken Frontier comics resource lists falls into two camps. There’s the graphic memoir or biography side bringing personal…

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mini kuš! #139: BLJ – Leo Fox’s Philosophical Visual Essay Ponders on the Concept of Infinity Via Super Mario 64 and ‘A Matter of Life and Death’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2026

While other entries in the mini kuš! series can be enjoyed for their aesthetics, narrative or abstraction, ‘BLJ’, #139 in the long-running minicomics series, is one of the most fascinating recent…

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Oracles – Olivia Sullivan Takes the Reader on a Journey of Discovery in this Powerful Piece of Graphic Poetry from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2026

It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…

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All the Cameras in My Room – Michael DeForge Continues to Probe The Darkest Corners of our Collective Consciousness

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 21, 2026

The story that gives this collection its title is also a succinct introduction to what anyone unfamiliar with Michael DeForge can expect. The title of All the Cameras in My…

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We [Palestinians] Are Not Going Away – First-Hand Testimony of the Atrocities in Gaza, Designed by Pleasure Pie and Available Via Little Zine Revolution

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2026

Activism is a key part of the Broken Frontier ethos which is why we have spent so much time on developing our page of Broken Frontier comics resource lists for…

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Very Hungry Women #1 – Daisy Crouch’s Queer Super-Hero Horror Comic Begins with a Gripping First Instalment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2026

As a general rule we usually leave super-heroes to other sites to cover. But there are always exceptions. When we do give space to them at Broken Frontier it’s either…

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Palookaville 25 – Seth Returns to Palookaville and Here Are Some Reasons Why That’s a Great Thing

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 17, 2026

One of the most interesting things a fan of any artist can do is invest time and energy in following the evolution of said artist. When this is done long…

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The Mongoose – Joana Mosi Takes on the Surreality of Grief and Loneliness

  • by Lara Boyle
  • April 16, 2026

I have never read anything quite like Joana Mosi’s quietly powerful new graphic novel The Mongoose, from Pow Pow Press. The book follows a young woman named Julia who lives…

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Elon Musk: American Oligarch – Darryl Cunningham Provides an Outstanding Graphic Biography of a Real-Life Super-Villain

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2026

Daryl Cunningham has a proven track record of communicating extensively researched graphic journalism/biography with a remarkably accessible eloquence. We’ve seen it before in books like Supercrash: How to Hijack the…

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Animan – An English Translation of Anouk Ricard’s Fabulous Creation is Finally Out Via Drawn & Quarterly and Every Page is a Delight

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 15, 2026

Sometime in 1983, Americans were treated to a television series about a superhero called Manimal. It featured a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal he chose, and…

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Action, Before the Ban: The Archival Collection Vol. 1 – The Controversial 1970s British Comic Returns to Print and Proves to Be a Vital Socio-Political Record of its Era

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2026

Back in the Twitter era I posted a few times on the subject of a possible archival collection of 2000 AD that would print compilations of full issue runs from…

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