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After an Ignatz win in 2022 for Outstanding Minicomic and a 2023 nomination for Outstanding Artist, there’s far, far more than just a growing buzz around Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo anthology…
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I have bemoaned the marginalisation of old school DIY culture on multiple occasions here at Broken Frontier; that ethos that declares self-publishing comics and zines gives a voice to everyone…
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s third novel, translated by Janet Hong, is her first adaptation, but does not seem particularly out of step with her oeuvre. The Naked Tree was writer Park…
As something of a lapsed reader of 2000 AD as a weekly phenomenon, who these days dips into trade collections rather than following short serialised strips, I find the comic’s…
And so this week to our fourth and final look at the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! comics. For our last foray into minicomics…
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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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…
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…
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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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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