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    A Eye: Lighting Up the Mirror to Racism – Moi Tu’s Remarkable Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Dialogue Poses Difficult Questions

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 23, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Moi Tu’s A Eye (the title a play on artificial intelligence) is a difficult comic to define. Perhaps that’s because in many ways it’s a…

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    Poet – The Creative Process Visually Dissected in Madeleine Burt’s Form-Pushing Comic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 22, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! One of the great joys of this inaugural LDComics Fair has been discovering so much experimental work. Comics that really grasp the potential of the…

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    The Ardent – Carl Antonowicz Takes Us on a Journey through a World of Grungy Cynicism

    • by Edward Picot
    • July 22, 2025

    The Ardent by Carl Antonowicz, from Fieldmouse Press, is set in an imaginary medieval land. It opens in a monastery which is closing down because its lands and buildings are…

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    The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo’s Scrolling Digital Comic is a Work of Experimental Genius

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 21, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mereida Fajardo is probably largely known for her tactile comics work; practice the physicality of which is a key ingredient in its presentation. But first…

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    Delayed Outing – A Poignant Reflection on Coming Out Later in Life from Toria McCallum

    • by Lydia Turner
    • July 21, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! I had the pleasure of meeting Toria McCallum at last year’s Pride Comics and Art Festival (PrideCAF), and immediately recognised their cutesy style when I was…

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    Falcão – Rayne Booth’s Haunting Character Study Has a Melancholy Truth at its Heart

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 21, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Have we already reached three weeks of our LDComics Fair coverage? Today’s first subject of coverage at Broken Frontier is Rayne Booth’s Falcão, a haunting…

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    A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done – Jenny Robins Brings Us Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists in this Dreamy Collage Comics Experiment

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 18, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Jenny Robins has applied the subtitle ‘Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists’ to her LDComics Online Comics Fair offering A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done….

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    Erin + Pig – Magical Hijinks Ensue with a Witch and her Familiar in this LDComics Fair Offering from Iliadtea

    • by Lydia Turner
    • July 18, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Iliadtea is a creator who has been on my radar for quite a while after I had the pleasure of meeting her at last year’s Pride…

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    Silver River – Catriona Q. Andrew’s Beautifully Illustrated, Sweeping and Tragic Family Memoir 

    • by Gary Usher
    • July 18, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Catriona Q. Andrew has been a freelance illustrator for three decades, as well as a speech and language therapist, art educator, and has also created…

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    Running Out – Myfanwy Tristram Brings Together the Ephemeral and the Profound in this Existential and Experimental Offering

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 17, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! While the LDComics Online Comics Fair is an international event the large of amount of work from UK-based creators is a reflection of just how rich…

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    (Don’t) Go To Law School – Maddy Buck Convinces Herself (and, Her Readers) Law School is Not Boring After All in this Humorous Memoir 

    • by Gary Usher
    • July 16, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Maddy Buck’s cartooning career began at the University of Michigan Law School, and her quest to distill large amounts of information into easily digestible comic…

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    1972 – Rachael Ball’s Autobio Short Will Bring Back Familiar Childhood Experiences

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 16, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! There’s an origin story of sorts to Rachael Ball’s 1972 short comic. The premise of it is based on an exercise given to attendees at her…

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    Shimmer Paths – A Thematically Layered Yet Fun Romp through Fantasy Realms Courtesy of Beastly Worlds

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 15, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…

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    This Land Was Ravaged – Tim Bird Revisits the Devastating Environmental Impact of the Twyford Down Motorway Development

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 14, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Tim Bird’s name has become synonymous with psychogeographical comics whether that be in long-form comics (his study of the ancient woodland that once ran across South-East…

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    Good Day – Zhenyi Zheng Experiments with Form and Structure in a Symbolic Comics Short

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 11, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Authorial intent and reader inference do not always have to align for a successful comics narrative. Indeed, finding our own truths in work that may…

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    Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog – Marc Torices’ Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Novel is Amusing, Absurd, and Hard to Put Down

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • July 10, 2025

    Is this really the first of what are meant to be 40 volumes? Is Cornelius an iconic comic that has been around longer than most of us? Has the anthropomorphic…

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    I Am Perfectly Normal – Lindsey Sheehan’s Fantasy Autobiography is a Real “Slice” of Life with a Touch of Serial Killer 

    • by Gary Usher
    • July 10, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! I Am Perfectly Normal is Lindsey Sheehan’s first published full-length comic, which is available exclusively during July through the LDComics Online Comics Fair. This comic…

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    The Mice that Live in My Walls – Deadly Knitshade’s Jaunty Story is Both Darkly Witty and Strangely Poignant

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 10, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! After reading through a batch of LDComics Fair offerings dealing with some fairly heavy themes Deadly Knitshade’s The Mice that Live in My Walls was…

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