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Confinement – Isabel Greenberg’s First Self-Published Work in Years Provides an Eerily Atmospheric Folk Song Adaptation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2023

SLCZF 2023! It’s hard to believe that it has been three years since we last reviewed a book by Isabel Greenberg (Glass Town, her part speculative biography/part metafictional meditation on…

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The Color of Always – A Heady Mix of Styles and Approaches in A Wave Blue World’s “LGBTQIA+ Love Anthology”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! While we have covered a wide range of comics formats during our Pride Month celebrations here at Broken Frontier we haven’t as yet put a spotlight on…

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Gay Giant – Gabriel Ebensperger’s Graphic Memoir is a Big, Bold, Loud and Endearingly Honest Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! While Gabriel Ebensperger’s graphic memoir Gay Giant may be focussed on growing up queer back in the 1990s there’s obviously an entire social level that makes it…

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A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick’s Graphic Memoir on Family, Love, Bereavement and Lived Genderqueer Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Earlier this year we were privileged at Broken Frontier to run an exclusive creator commentary in our ‘Inside Look’ series on Will Betke-Brunswick’s A Pros and Cons…

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Snippets: 52 Weeks of Diary Comics – Rachael Smith Provides a “How-to” Guide to Creating Autobiographical Comic Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2023

“Reviewing” Rachael Smith’s Snippets: 52 Weeks of Diary Comics is something of a curious exercise in that effectively this is a review of a comic that doesn’t exist yet. Or,…

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Thieves – Lucie Bryon’s Reverse-Heist Queer Romcom Proves a Singular Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! As a queer teen romance Lucie Bryon’s Thieves, published by Nobrow Press and a nominee for Best Graphic Novel in last year’s Broken Frontier Awards, has already…

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The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #1 – A Gripping First Chapter of Dark Horse’s “LGBTQ+ Horror-Hero Coming-of-Age Series”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Reviewing serial comics is an odd exercise on many levels. You wouldn’t review the first chapter of a book in isolation, after all, so examining the first…

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Ogi’s Summer Break Vol. 1 – Koikawa Gives Us a Queer Love Story with a Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! One of the more telling claims made by those who object to socially conscious themes in mainstream comics is that manga’s rise in popularity is due in…

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Our Colors – Gengoroh Tagame’s Beautifully Crafted Tale of the Intergenerational Friendship Between Two Gay Men

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Last year’s Pride celebrations at Broken Frontier saw a long overdue spotlight from us on Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband, so it seems appropriate to be giving…

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Boys Run the Riot Vols. 1-4 – Keito Gaku’s Critically Acclaimed Manga Story of Fashion, Friendship and the Trans Experience Does Not Disappoint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Combining Japanese street fashion with a trans coming-of-age story, Boys Run the Riot is a manga slice-of-life story fully deserving of the level of acclaim it has…

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Basil and Oregano – Magic, Cookery and Love Are at the Forefront of Melissa Capriglione’s LGBTQ+ YA Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! One of the important aims of our Pride Month celebrations here at Broken Frontier this June was to emphasise the incredible diversity of approaches to LGBTQ+ comics…

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Grandad’s Pride – Harry Woodgate’s Delightful All-Ages Tale is a Joyous Celebration of LGBTQ+ Lives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! A follow-up to the equally delightful Grandad’s Camper, Harry Woodgate’s Grandad’s Pride is an obvious candidate for coverage as part of our Pride Month celebrations at Broken…

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Be Kind, My Neighbor – Yugo Limbo’s Idiosyncratic Trans Love Story is Ambitious and Eerily Alluring

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! In Yugo Limbo’s Be Kind, My Neighbor we have a trans-centric comics narrative with a very different approach than much of the trans and non-binary comics we…

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A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White’s Influential Novel of 1950s Gay Awakening Comes to Comics from Top Shelf Productions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…

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My Life in Transition – Julia Kaye’s Account of Trans Lived Experience Continues in this Second Collection of Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! My Life in Transition is the second collection of Julia Kaye’s Super Late Bloomer series detailing her trans journey. We reviewed the first volume here last year…

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The Last Gay Man on Earth – Ype Driessen Brings Photo Comics to Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…

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Flamer – Mike Curato’s Semi-Autobiographical Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Relevant Coming Out Story for Teens

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! With a new hardcover edition coming later this month, a review of Mike Curato’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel Flamer seems most appropriate for our Pride Month coverage. Set…

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Alone in Space – The Definitive Collection of the Early Work of Tillie Walden, One of the Finest Cartoonists of Our Time

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023!  As our reviews go, today’s look at Tillie Walden’s Alone in Space is going to be a slightly different reading experience. This collection of Walden’s first three…

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