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PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….
PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…
There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…
“To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…
Heebie Jeebies is a book that I requested to review when I saw writer, Matthew Erman, previewing his new middle-grade graphic novel on X. Now, I know that we shouldn’t…
What do cowboys look like? Can nonbinary people survive on their own in the woods? How are gender roles assigned? These are some of the questions that popped into my…
Released by Image Comics just last week, Hexagon Bridge is a new trade paperback collecting Richard Burke’s captivating five-issue miniseries. In this celebration of science fiction, Burke is both writer…
There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…
My dad loves horror. So does my sister. I, on the other hand, usually do not. However, as my four-month-old slept, The Butcher’s Boy #1 suddenly made its way to…
Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…
There are two predominant explanations of what a metanarrative is, when one engages in literary criticism. One refers to the idea of experimentation, where an author wilfully chooses to break…
Saturday AM brands itself as providing “the world’s most diverse manga-inspired comics.” A quick perusal of its publishing line-up underlines the strength of that claim with a plethora of titles…
What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
