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A Guest in the House – Emily Carroll Plumbs New Depths of Domestic Horror Via First Second Books

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 22, 2023

It’s easy to think of Emily Carroll as an obsessive watcher of horror cinema. It’s there in those hints she offers, in the way she deploys colour like a master…

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Golden Days – Revisit Those Halcyon Childhood Days with Tim Bird’s All Too Familiar Slice-of-Life Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2023

Ah those wistful childhood days when summers felt like a lifetime, the wider world was an adventure waiting to happen, and we felt forever safe in the welcoming cocoon of…

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Walkies! – A Delightfully Canine View of the World from David Ziggy Greene and Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 17, 2023

While Walkies! is an illustrated children’s book rather than comics (though techinically it is sequential art and makes use of comics tools like speech balloons) its provenance makes it a…

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Beauty – Hubert and Kerascoët’s Classic is a Gorgeous, Subversive Fairytale Now Available in English, Thanks to NBM

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 16, 2023

Nothing is ever as it seems when Kerascoët — the French illustrators Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset — are tasked with bringing a story to life. One is led down…

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Salome’s Last Dance – Frisk Your Noodle and Head to a Higher Dimension in Daria’s Tessler’s New Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 14, 2023

Looking for a phantasmagoric, psychedelic trip into the id, ego, and all things in between? Perhaps Salome’s Last Dance, a new graphic novel from acclaimed artist and printmaker Daria Tessler…

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Watership Down – James Sturm and Joe Sutphin Bring the Classic Novel to a New Generation of Readers with a Stunning Graphic Adaptation

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 13, 2023

The act of retelling a masterpiece can’t be easy. It implies confronting readers with preconceived notions, and the possibility of offending purists. There is an added element of failure that…

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Disorder – Erika Price Employs the Darkest Symbolism and Visual Metaphor to Propel Us Into a Nightmarish Mindscape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! To describe Erika Price’s Disorder as body horror seems woefully inadequate. This collection of short visual essays takes autobiographical comics in new directions, employing the darkest of…

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Killtopia Vol. 5 – Dave Cook and Clark Bint Provide an Action-Packed Finale to this Epic Cyberpunk Story Arc

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Ostensibly this is a review of the fifth and concluding story arc volume of acclaimed sci-fi series Killtopia. In reality, though, such is the unpredictable nature of…

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Gyula Diary – Rowan Frewin’s Diary Comic Blends Travelogue, the Trans Non-Binary Experience, and Reflections on Wellbeing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Our Thought Bubble coverage this year has seen a notable resurgence of the diary comic as a specific focus of autobiographical comics. Rowan Frewin’s Gyula Diary adopts…

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Pricks #3 – Another Winning Episode of Geesin and Rowan’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Grim” Parody of the Patriarchy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Before diving into the contents of Fraser Geesin’s traditional Thought Bubble debut comic (again a collaboration with Laurie Rowan) let’s get the confusing part out of the…

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Demon Smooch: Court of the Mad God – On the Road to Hellfest in Will Humberstone’s Supernatural Comedy-Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Thought Bubble fortnight here at Broken Frontier has given us a chance to increase the spotlight on the genre comics work that is usually outnumbered by the…

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The Re-Up #1-4 – Chad Bilyeu and Juliette de Wit Collaborate on this Intimate Examination of Life as a Drug Dealer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Rather than the Pekar-esque vignettes that have to date made up writer Chad Bilyeu’s autobiographical comic Chad in Amsterdam (featuring collaborations with a who’s who of indie…

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Don’t Worry, I Die at the End – Beck Kubrick Gives Us a Masterclass in the Endearingly Self-Indulgent in this Bleakly Witty Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! One of the great draws of Beck Kubrick’s comics is their unpredictability. There are certain thematic throughlines – the dark humour and the knowing wit spring immediately…

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Change – This Year’s WIP Comics Anthology Keeps Up Its Tradition for Being the Showcase Publication for the UK Comics Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Where does one even begin when writing about a book like Change, the 2023 edition of the annual WIP Comics group anthology? Packed to bursting with work…

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The Boy – Jason Chuang’s Vivid and Evocative Use of the Language of the Form is a Quiet Comics Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! It really is the mark of an artist’s talent when a reissue of their debut comic feels so fresh, exciting and innovative as Jason Chuang’s The Boy…

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A Trial Death and Other Stories – Colossive Press Bring Glenn Dakin’s Classic ‘Abe’ Comics Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! When zine specialists Colossive Press (you can read a full-length interview with them here at Broken Frontier) began adding comics material to their already impressive array of…

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One Year Older – Kama Mielczarek’s Diary Comics Have a Soothing and Cathartic Quality to Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! There was a time in the late 2000s when non-subject specific diary comics were everywhere in UK small press comics. At some point the seemingly ubiquitous self-publishing…

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Salmorejo – Kry Garcia Combines Travelogue, Wellbeing and Diary Comics in Her Latest Short Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Stepping aside from her normal fantasy comics focus, the difference between Kry Garcia’s Salmorejo and her previous practice is abundantly clear from its subtitle ‘A Travel Journal…

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