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Grand Slam Romance Book 1 – Emma Oosterhous and Ollie Hicks Combine Queer Fantasy and Sports in an Energetically Paced First Volume

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2024

Starting life as a short self-published black and white comic Emma Oosterhous and Ollie Hicks’ Grand Slam Romance has evolved into something far more expansive. Now a three-book series of…

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NP – Ed Firth’s New Comics Zine Expands on the Themes of His ‘Horny & High’ Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Making its festival debut at the ever excellent Silver Sprocket’s Pride in Panels event in San Francisco this Sunday, Ed Firth’s new…

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mini kuš! #121 – Gary Colin’s Immersive ‘Link’ Experiments with Pacing, Movement and Environment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2024

Far more appreciation needs to be shown for  kuš! comics’ mini  kuš! series given the incredible platform it has provided for experimental and alternative comics practitioners for 122 issues now….

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Class: A Graphic Guide – Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney and Danny Noble Analyse the Realities of Social Inequality and Class Structures

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 14, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Icon’s series of graphic guides have, for some years, provided readers with an accessible and easily digestible entry point to subjects that…

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Curses – This Reprint from Drawn & Quarterly Serves as a Reminder That Kevin Huizenga Has Always Made Great Comics

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 13, 2024

In 2006, American cartoonist Kevin Huizenga’s Curses was included on Time Magazine’s list of the Top Ten comics of the year. He was 29 at the time and, although he…

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The Masque of the Red Death – Tinglin Liu’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story is an Outstandingly Confident Debut Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Sometimes when drawing up the list of names for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme artists are selected for the…

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What Awaits Them – Breakdown Press Present an Essential Collection of the Short-Form Comics of Liam Cobb

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2024

Retrospective collections always make the exercise of reviewing an interesting one given that, as in the case of Liam Cobb’s What Awaits Them from Breakdown Press, we have often reviewed…

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Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington – An Uncanny Exploration of Leonora Carrington and the Surrealist Movement

  • by Lydia Turner
  • February 9, 2024

Depicting the life and career of a remarkable artist like Leonora Carrington in only 144 pages is no mean feat. In her 94 years on this earth, activist Leonora experienced…

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A Call to Cthulhu – Norm Konyu Takes Us on a Cheeky and Knowing Tour of the Lovecraftian Mythos

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A Call to Cthulhu is described on its back cover as “part comic book, part art book, part unsuitable-for-toddlers storybook.” Creator Norm…

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Beano #4222 – The 70th Anniversary Celebrations for ‘The Bash Street Kids’ Begin!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2024

Originally created by the legendary Leo Baxendale under the alternate title When the Bell Rings!, and later illustrated by the equally key David Sutherland for a staggering 3,000-plus strips, The…

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Shubeik Lubeik – Deena Mohamed Creates a Powerful, Subversive Fairy Tale About Happiness and Fulfilment

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 6, 2024

It’s always interesting to look at recurring tropes in literature, and this is particularly enjoyable when it comes to fairy tales because of how they reflect the commonality of our…

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April 17th – Zoè Delautre Corral’s Dreamily Eloquent Visuals Are a Highlight of this Intensely Personal Slice-of-Life Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BROKEN FRONTIER SIX TO WATCH! My go-to advice for aspiring comics creators who decide to plunge straight into full-length work is that it’s essential not to…

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The Painted Nuns of Santa Catalina – Tactile Experimentation Collides with 17th Century Death and Debauchery in Mereida Fajardo’s Latest Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Where the work of Mereida Fajardo is concerned it is not simply the material itself that one awaits eagerly each time a…

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Bigger – Friendship and Connection Beautifully Communicated in Mike Armstrong’s Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A couple of weeks back at a University of the Arts London event I was invited to speak at I was asked…

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Nina Simone in Comics – NBM Filters the Life and Tumultuous Times of Nina Simone Through the Eyes of Artists Inspired by Her

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 1, 2024

There are two immediate advantages offered by NBM whenever it issues a new graphic biography of an iconic musician. For those familiar with the subject in question, these comics are…

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I’m a Luddite (And So Can You!) – Tom Humberstone’s Graphic Journalism Looks at Automation and Capitalism, AI “Art”, Pop Culture and Racism, and Politics in Sport

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2024

Originally presented online via that great platform for graphic journalism The Nib, Tom Humberstone’s I’m a Luddite (And So Can You!) & Other Tales from The Nib brings some of…

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Colossive Cartographies #52 – Becky Bell’s Short Comic ‘Be Brave’ Combines Graphic Medicine and a Celebration of Family Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2024

Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies have become such a well-regarded series of zines not simply because of the clever ways in which each creator uses the Turkish Map Fold format to…

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The Helltrekkers – From the World of ‘Judge Dredd’ Comes this Saga of Survival in the Cursed Earth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2024

While in the early years of 2000 AD there was little in the way of direct crossovers between the anthology’s strips, there were plenty of tangential links that pointed to…

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