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Zenith – Centrala’s New Book from Maria Medem Lingers Like a Dream that Bleeds into Waking Life

  • by Jon Aye
  • January 19, 2023

Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape. There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example,…

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Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos – B-Movies and Existential Terror Abound in S. Craig Zahler’s Dark Horse Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • January 18, 2023

Reports of UFO sightings and alien abduction begin roughly around the same time manned space flights began. As ghosts represent the landed gentry’s guilt over their legacies, Dracula’s a xenophobic…

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All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson – 50 Years On, NYRC’s Collection Proves that Charles Johnson’s Work is Just as Relevant Now as Ever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2023

We are in something of a renaissance period when it comes to archival collections of socially relevant work like Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End from New…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Laneha House #6 – Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez Cover Mental Health Awareness, Black Lives Matter, and Meta Comic Strips in Their Latest Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2023

In this post-2020 era time can sometimes take on a deceptive quality. That seems to be very much the case sometimes when I check on our coverage of some of…

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Not Quite Almost 10 Years: A Breakup Zine – Edie Woolf’s Minicomic is a Cathartic Tale of Endings and New Beginnings

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2023

Autobiographical work in comics can come from a number of places. On one hand it can be about informing and educating on situations, conditions or experiences. On the other the…

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Wash Day Diaries – Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith Provide Us with a Joyous Celebration of Black Sisterhood

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2023

When looking back at our previous coverage of Wash Day, the minicomic that acted as precursor for Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries, I was somewhat surprised to…

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Coming Home #1 – A Moving Exploration of Military Veterans’ Struggles

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 21, 2022

Like all popular forms, comic books have long been used for propaganda purposes. From Commando War Stories in Pictures to Marvel’s moronic Northrop Grumman collab, they inevitably reflect militaristic orthodoxy. The West…

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Russia 2018: A World Cup Journal – Sputnikat Press Offers a Gimlet-Eyed, Picaresque Journey through Compromised Footballand

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 15, 2022

You have to put up with a lot as a football fan. In that sense, they actually have a surprising amount in common with their natural nemesis: the comic book…

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So Buttons #12 – Jonathan Baylis Hosts Another Top Line-Up of Indie Comics Artists in His Latest Autobio Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 14, 2022

Jonathan Baylis’s long-running collaborative project So Buttons hit its twelfth issue this Autumn with another collection of his autobio whimsy being brought to life by a roll call of diversely…

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Space Trash Vol. 1 – Jenn Woodall Blends High School Rivalries with Science Fiction in a Character-Led Opener

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 13, 2022

Framing the recognisable in the fantastic has always been a clever narrative tool for underlining the universality of certain human experiences. In the first volume of Space Trash, published by…

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The Forest – Jacek Matysiak Takes Us on a Gorgeously Illustrated Trip through Europe’s Woodlands

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2022

We have never been too hung up on rigid definitions of what comics are and are not when it comes to our coverage choices here at Broken Frontier. Whether you…

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John’s Worth – Cosmic Horror, Action Men and Psychedelic Nastiness Abound in Jon Chandler’s Breakdown Press Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 6, 2022

Obviously there’s a lot of gross stuff flying about in (most) David Cronenberg films, but when I first encountered his work as a gore-hungry teen, I’d already had access to…

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Birdking Vol. 1 – Daniel Freedman and CROM Invite Us to Embark on an Epic Fantasy Journey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 5, 2022

Given that I first reviewed his small press comics around a decade ago it feels rather strange to be describing the first volume of Birdking, published a couple of months…

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Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips – A Pivotal Part of Black Comics History Handsomely Collected By Ablaze

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 2, 2022

What elevates a collection of classic comics material from impressive to outstanding is often the care with which a publisher curates its supplementary material. Ablaze’s Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Cindy and Biscuit: End of Level – Dan White’s British Small Press Institution Returns with Another Outing for Our Favourite Monster-Hunting Duo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2022

What I have always appreciated about Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit comics is the way in which the artist has constantly shifted his presentational (and as a result his narrative)…

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Dead Girls: Beach Day – Becca Kubrick’s Atmospheric Horror One-Shot is the Work of an Artist with a Growing Buzz Surrounding Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2022

Sometimes the buzz around a new creator or title means events move too fast for even Broken Frontier to keep up. Such is the case with Becca Kubrick’s Dead Girls:…

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Ant Story: Coffee Days – Rory and Richard Return in Another Bleakly Comedic Tale of Father-Son Conflict from King Louie’s Lab

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2022

At the beginning of this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed Ant Story, a collection of brutally funny short strips by the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and…

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Forest Spirit – Jack Smith’s Minicomic Expresses the Experience of Gender Transition Via the Fantasy Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2022

Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…

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