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mini kuš! #117: Grapefruit – Ana Margarida Matos Provides a Fine Example of Meta Narrative Exploration

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2023

Time again this week to resume our spotlight on the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! with a focus on issue #117’s ‘Grapefruit’ by Portugal-based…

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mini kuš! #116: Piggy Fire – Wild Rituals in the Woods in Darin Shuler’s Eerily Porcine Short Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2023

Continuing our look at the latest batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short comics this week and our attention today turns to #116 – Xeric Award-winning…

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mini kuš! #115: Gym Gains – Gareth Brookes Brings Competitive Romance and Athletic Prowess Together in Another Darkly Knowing Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 22, 2023

kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short, self-contained comics narratives are always a strong signifier of how far we can still use comics innovatively as an experimental storytelling platform. To…

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Juliette – Camille Jourdy Blends Magic With Melancholy to Create an Exquisite Comic Experience, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2023

Here’s a warning of sorts: one may sigh a lot while reading Juliette by French writer and cartoonist Camille Jourdy, first published in 2016 and newly translated into English by…

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A Spell of Trouble – The Treasury of British Comics Presents Two Beautifully Illustrated Supernatural Stories by Trini Tinturé

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2023

It seems almost inconceivable that both of the strips collected in the recent Treasury of British Comics collection of classic 1970s/1980s comics for girls are missing writer credits. But such…

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Crab Lane Crew – Jim Medway’s Wonderful All-Ages Evocation of Childhood from Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Whether it be the understated slice-of-life drama of Playing Out or the wonderfully silly hilarity of the lengthily titled Sgt. Chip Charlton and Mister Woofles of the Royal…

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Banana Trap – Zhenyi Zheng’s Atmospheric Account of Historical Worker Exploitation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Comics exploring themes of worker exploitation represent work we will always be keen to give space and consideration to at Broken Frontier. When they examine those issues with…

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The Last Day of Rain #1 and #2 – Claudia Matosa’s Ecological Sci-Fi Story Projects the Warnings of the Present on the Future

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Back in April at Broken Frontier we ran one of our themed coverage events with a special Earth Day Week of reviews on the site. The material featured…

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Browner-Knowle Vol. 2 #1 – Paul Ashley Brown Reflects on Identity, the Pandemic, Thatcherism and the Realities of the Comics Industry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2023

SLCZF 2023! A year or two back at Broken Frontier I described UK horror comics artist Sarah Gordon as one of our finest practitioners in the area of “graphic melancholy”….

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Endswell #4-5 – Peter Morey’s Graphic Memoir Series is Unpredictable and Creatively Daring to the Very End

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Peter Morey’s Endswell has jumped around both narratively and chronologically since the first issue was published nearly five years ago. An autobiographical story (“based loosely on real events”),…

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Big Ugly – Ellice Weaver’s Second Avery Hill Graphic Novel is an Understated Yet Profound Study of the Sibling Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2023

SLCZF 2023! As I have mentioned before on occasion here at Broken Frontier one of the great privileges of being involved with BF is getting to see work-in-progress months… or…

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Zayani Zam – The Isolation of Life on the Mongolian Coal Road in Mereida Fajardo’s Latest Graphic Novella Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Mereida Fajardo describes one of her new projects Zayani Zam (Fate’s Road) as “a silent graphic novel about loneliness and connection on the Mongolian coal road”. Interestingly when…

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Mzungu Nusu: The Half Foreigner – Nancy ArtMusic’s Short Comics Cover the Black Lives Matter Protests, the Pandemic and Mixed Race Hair Care

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Last year at Broken Frontier we followed the progress of the Reveal! Awards; an initiative for championing the work of women comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and…

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Meems & Feefs: Ferrets from Planet Ferretonia! Vol. 1 – Liza N. Cooper’s Delightful All-Ages Tale of Friendship and Musteline Mirth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2023

SLCZF 2023! As we continue our South London Comic and Zine Fair coverage it’s important to remind our audience that SLCZF has been so carefully curated that there really is…

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Times Tables – A Dark Urban Slice-of-Life Story from the Ever Experimental Gareth Brookes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2023

SLCZF 2023! It would be remiss, to say the least, not to include a review of the work of the South London Comic and Zine Fair’s founder as part of…

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A Crying Shame – Chloe Green’s Emotionally Articulate Meditation on Sadness, Wellbeing and Self-Care

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2023

SLCZF 2023! In a week when there was a sudden resurgence of interest in comics about “being sad” it seems rather appropriate to be covering Chloe Green’s first self-published short…

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Colossive Cartographies #43-48 – The Popular Colossive Press Graphic Narrative Series Returns with Another Six Zines

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Just ready for the South London Comic and Zine Fair, Colossive Press have completed another wave of their popular Colossive Cartographies. This continuing zine series uses the tactile…

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Metal Saga – Rachel Tubb’s Witty Fantasy Saga with a Contemporary Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Over the last few years artist Rachel Tubb’s work has been very much on my radar through her contributions to the yearly WIP Comics anthologies. Her short comics…

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