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Adversary – Blue Delliquanti’s Powerful Tale of a Queer Relationship in the Pandemic is a Challenging and Provocative Read from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Adversary is not a single-read offering. Nor is it a story that you will digest quickly. It’s one of those comics you need to read, reflect on,…

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Tender – Beth Hetland’s Body Horror from Fantagraphics is Completely Horrifying, Completely Disturbing and Completely Brilliant

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 25, 2024

The cover of Beth Hetland’s Tender from Fantagraphics is exactly the kind of artwork a reader wants to see before diving into a psychological thriller. In stark yellow, pink and…

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Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans – A Wave Blue World Light a Beacon of Solidarity for Gender Diverse Kids

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A Wave Blue World have been making something of a name for themselves over the last few years when it comes to LGBTQIA-focussed comics anthology books, including…

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Heartstopper Vol. 5 – Charlie and Nick’s Relationship Hits a Pivotal Point in the Penultimate Collection of the Smash Hit Alice Oseman LGBTQIA Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When last we visited the characters of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper it was for our Pride Month coverage two years ago when we looked at all four print…

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Transitions: A Mother’s Journey – A Different Perspective on the Trans Experience from Élodie Durand and Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…

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Where We Are, Where We SHOULD Be: Shaping a Future for Young Trans People – An Essential Guide Book for Both Trans Youth and Allies, Via Comics Youth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Sometimes at Broken Frontier we’re happy to bend the rules a little and venture into the realms of zines and DIY culture, or to look at publications…

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Anna – Mia Oberländer Challenges Sexism and Tropes of Traditional Femininity in ‘Anna’ from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 19, 2024

Mia Oberländer’s debut graphic novel Anna has already made its mark despite only being published this year: Awarded the Berthold Leibinger Foundation’s Comic Book Award, the German Youth Literature Award…

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Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up – Lewis Hancox’s Second Graphic Memoir is Witty, Raw and Unflinchingly Honest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…

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Nervosa – A Painstakingly Honest Debut About Disordered Eating from Hayley Gold and Street Noise Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 17, 2024

Upon receiving my copy of Nervosa from Street Noise Books, I was surprised that I hadn’t come across the work of cartoonist Hayley Gold before. Gold seems to be a…

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 – Reintroducing Coagula, DC’s First Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…

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Lucky Cap Scouts – Candy-Coloured Fun Abounds in O. Stevens’ Silver Sprocket Minicomic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 14, 2024

Confession time. I LOVE blind boxes. It doesn’t matter what’s in them, something about those little, colourful boxes of joy gets me every time. The element of surprise, of trying…

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Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story – Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman Provide a Heartfelt Origin Story for DC’s Cross-Media Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! When we launched our Pride Month coverage earlier this month we promised you that our coverage would venture into territory not usually traversed at Broken Frontier. For…

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Why I Adopted My Husband – Yuta Yagi’s Collection of Strips About the Realities of Life as a Gay Couple in Japan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Despite constant pushback from non-progressive elements, there’s been a forward momentum to the concepts of gay marriage and equality in the law in many countries in recent…

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The Out Side – Trans and Non-Binary Stories Brought to the Comics Page in this Inspiring Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Bringing together the work of 29 trans and non-binary creators The Out Side is an often celebratory collection of stories focussing on themes of gender and identity….

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Dandelion – Writer Sabir Pirzada and a Host of Artists Give Us a Bold New Vision of the Future

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • June 11, 2024

There is a lot to digest in Dandelion, Image Comics’ anthology written by Sabir Pirzada with an all-star cast of artists. In Pirzada’s bold, yet alarming, vision of the not-too-distant…

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Star Trek: Celebrations – The Spotlight Falls on the Franchise’s LGBTQIA Cast in this Anthology One-Shot Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! What immediately strikes the reader about IDW’s Pride Month Star Trek: Celebrations one-shot is how much its title is a statement of intent. This collection of five…

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Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…

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Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus – All Hail Grog, Frog-Lord of Chaos in His Magical Quest from Davilorium, Alba BG and Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 7, 2024

Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus is a short graphic novel about, you guessed it, a frog named Grog. However, Grog isn’t our ordinary run-of-the-mill frog. This frog is…

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