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Charlie: Charles Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World – Steven Brower and Seymour Chwast Give Us a Spotlight Tour of the Little Tramp’s Life and Times

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! From the Fantagraphics Underground line, Charlie: Charles Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World may be unwieldy in title but it’s breezily charming in delivery. At 32…

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Chin Music – R.T. Short Observes the Eccentricities of Cricket, that Most British of Sports, Via Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2026

Sports comics. Once a great genre staple of the British comic industry but now something of a publishing footnote. They’re not entirely unknown in indie and alt circles either –…

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Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom – Marcelo D’Salete’s Powerful Account of a Dark Period in Brazil’s History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Blending documented fact and speculative fiction Marcelo D’Salete’s Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom is a meticulously researched re-creation of the story of…

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Comet Club – Teenage U.F.O. Hunters Tackle Reality and Life’s Expectations in Yi Yang’s Fantagraphics Debut

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 13, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Yi Yang was born in northeastern China, and moved to Bologna, Italy to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. She published two books there…

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The Outsider – Joe D’Esposito’s Graphic Biography of EC Artist Bernie Krigstein Tackles Themes that Are as Relevant Today as They Were in the Artist’s Lifetime

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Working conditions and fair recompense for comics creators is a subject that feels, unfortunately, eternally relevant and never-changing (in anything but a superficial degree.) Joe D’Esposito’s The…

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On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1 – Marina Lisa Komiya Explores Love and Identity in Post-War Japan 

  • by Swati Nair
  • August 10, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The mention of WW II most often summons up images of the Holocaust. It’s easy to find narratives, both fiction and non-fiction, centreed around US experiences of…

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Wish We Weren’t Here: Postcards from the Apocalypse – Peter Kuper’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist Book Reminds Us of How the World is Burning Around Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 6, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we reported that cartoonist Peter Kuper (Ruins, Spy Vs. Spy, World War III Illustrated) had been announced as a 2026 Pulitzer…

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The Pass – The Hustle and Bustle of Restaurant Life Sits at the Centre of Katriona Chapman’s Rich Character Study from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! There’s something about Katriona Chapman’s The Pass that reminds the reader of the structure of a stage play. It’s a nuanced character study to start with. But…

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Shock Treatment – EC Comics’ Precursor to Modern Graphic Medicine Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 5, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Graphic Medicine as a genre did not exist in 1955 when Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cast their editorial net wide after their EC horror comics were…

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Lovers of the Empire Vol. 1 – Yudori Draws a Tender Portrait of Romance in Colonial Korea

  • by Swati Nair
  • August 3, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The 1920s in occupied Korea saw the beginning of Japan’s bunka seiji, or cultural policy. Behind a veneer of modern progress, Koreans were allowed more freedom of…

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Laika – Nessie Mooo Retells the Story of the Doomed Space Dog with an Anthropomorphic Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2026

Back in June for our Pride Month coverage at Broken Frontier I interviewed a number of creators for the very first time. One of those subjects was Nessie Mooo whose…

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True Story – Kate Hazell’s Collection of Autobiographical Strips is Witty, Touching and Highly Recommended

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2026

It’s been an astonishing twelve years since the last time I reviewed a comic from Kate Hazell, the rather idiosyncratic Single Black Glove telling the story of a singular item…

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Konni-Chhua – Deepesh Sangtani Captures Those Awkward Moments of Inadvertent Physical Contact in this Fold-Out Minicomic from Kutty Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2026

Deepesh Sangtani’s Konni-Chhua comes to us from Kutty Press who we interviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Sangtani and co-founder Bhavani Balasubramanyam describe their publishing output as being…

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The Two Pyramids – Giorgio Pandiani’s Sci-Fi Parable Touches on Very Contemporary Themes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2026

A few years back at BF I reviewed Giorgio Pandiani’s ecologically-themed short story collection A Day on the River (& Other Stories) saying of it then that it was “solid…

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Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore – Delightful Anthology Zine Brings Together Tales of Highwaymen, Spooky Funfairs and Spring-Heeled Jack Via the Oxfam Blackheath Team

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2026

Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore is the kind of zine project that really sums up the spirit of Small Press Day. It’s been put together by the volunteer staff…

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Hants Comics Club Anthology 01: Travel – A Community Effort for Small Press Day Featuring Tim Bird, Julian Payne, Ellie May and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2026

To see new regional community hubs forming in the UK comics scene is always reassuring. Such networks organically foster a sense of mutual support and collaboration after all. Great oaks…

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Buuza!! Vol. 1: Good Morning, Salwa – Shazleen Khan’s Queer POC, Low Fantasy Epic Gets a Deserved Collection from Abrams

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 17, 2026

It is not uncommon for us here at Broken Frontier to revisit self-published projects when they are picked up by publishers to provide commentary that both repurposes previous reviews and…

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Medium – Rae Whitlock Examines the Intersection of Reality and the Supernatural, from Comics Blogger Books  

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 16, 2026

Rae Whitlock is a multidisciplinary creator from Richmond, Virginia. She earned a MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Some of her previous self-published…

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