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Cuckoo – Joe Sparrow Presents a Cosmically-Charged Coming-of-Age Story, from Shortbox

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 2, 2023

Readers may see the major plot twist of Joe Sparrow’s Cuckoo coming well in advance and, indeed, it’s hardly disguising itself given that it’s there front and centre in the…

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The Midnight Babies – Isabel Greenberg Mixes Children’s Illustration and Sequential Art in this Delightful Nocturnal Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2023

As a general rule we don’t encourage copying large swathes of text directly from the publicity of work we review at BF. But in the case of Isabel Greenberg’s The…

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Roaming – Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s  Poignant Tale of Love, Friendship and Growing Up from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 27, 2023

It is when one first looks up, after a hundred odd pages or so into Roaming, that Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s individual skills start to become just a little…

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Huda F Are You? – Huda Fahmy’s Semi-Autobiographical and Endearing Account of a Young Muslim Woman Defining Her Identity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2023

With a title that uses a simple but wonderfully catchy play on words Huda Fahmy’s Huda F Are You? is another collection of the cartoonist’s experiences as an American Muslim…

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Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City – Mosco and Hu Introduce Younger Readers to the Natural World Around Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2023

In these times of deep environmental concern comics projects that raise ecological awareness and a love of the natural world among younger readers are vitally important. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature…

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Roy of the Rovers: The Best of the 1980s: Who Shot Roy Race? – A Classic British Comics Storyline Revisited Courtesy of the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2023

For a certain generation of Roy of the Rovers fans there’s one era of the popular football strip (US readers may hereon mentally insert “soccer” into each reference to football…

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Chua – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Bring Their Cautionary Tale on the Future of Humanity to a Close 

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 14, 2023

It is pure coincidence that Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s Chua — the third and final part of what they call their ‘scientist/subject triptych’ — arrives alongside a new…

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But You Have Friends – Emilia McKenzie’s Haunting Study of Friendship and Loss is One of 2023’s Key Comics Releases

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 14, 2023

(Content warning: references to suicide follow). When you are entrenched in both the world of comics commentary, and the larger community of practice that surrounds it, you are constantly aware…

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Glass Half Empty – Rachael Smith Explores Alcohol Dependency in Yet Another Piece of Outstanding Autobio Comics Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2023

While stories of addiction – in all its multiple forms – are an established sub-genre of graphic medicine it could be argued that when that dependency is alcohol-related the amount…

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Gory Rory Fangface Needs a Kiss – Ziggy Hanaor and Ollie Silvester Provide an Appealing Story for Kids with an Important Message

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 8, 2023

There has certainly been something of a noticeable uptick in children’s books being offered for review to us at Broken Frontier of late that combine narrated illustration and traditional comics….

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Why Don’t You Love Me? – Paul B. Rainey’s Twisting Tale from Drawn & Quarterly Finds the Humanity in the Gloom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2023

Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…

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PeePee-PooPoo #420 – Caroline Cash Gives Us a Fresh Take on the Underground Comics Vibe in this Ignatz Award-Winning Title

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2023

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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The Gull Yettin – Joe Kessler’s Freeform, Expressionistic Graphic Novel from NYRC is a Masterclass in the Possibilities of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2023

Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…

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Darlin’ and Her Other Names Part 1: Marta – Olivia Stephens Blends Genres in this “Werewolf-Western-Horror-Romance” Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2023

A recent Ignatz nominee in the Best Artist category, Darlin’ and Her Other Names Part 1: Marta is described as a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic. If that blending of genres doesn’t immediately…

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When I Came Briefly Back – Jessika Green Says Goodbye to London in this Graphic Poetry Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2023

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…

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The Naked Tree – Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Continues Her Exploration of the Horrors of War With this Adaptation from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 29, 2023

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…

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2000 AD Prog 2346 – The ‘Regened’ Special Returns Including the Stunning Art of Anna Readman on ‘Renk’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2023

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…

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mini kuš! #118: Are You Lost, Little Bunny? – Noemi Vola’s Minicomic is a Quiet Surrender to the Embrace of Nihilism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2023

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…

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