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Silent Horizon – Benjamin Dickson Gives Us Faith, Fear, and the End of the World? 

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 29, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Silent Horizon. A new, self-published graphic novel written and illustrated by Benjamin Dickson. Five years in the making to illustrate and complete. A mystery so intriguing,…

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The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira #1 – Bending Reality with Sapphira Olson and Her Fictionalized Versions of Herself (and Her Cat, Felicette)

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Sapphira Olson is a novelist and poet (Woman in the Ship, Parables, The Dandelion Tree, Android Author, Anna Newton Destroys the World, Stanley Park), but around…

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Dougborne – Light-Hearted ’90s Animated Sitcom ‘Doug’ and Gritty Video Game ‘Bloodborne’ Converge in this Unlikely Shanefaced Mash-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The ever versatile Shane Melisse, aka Shanefaced, has proven himself at home in multiple genres but one of the things he does the very best is…

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Aimé – L. Adassovsky Weaves a Whimsical Fairy Tale of Magic, Melancholy and Wonder

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 27, 2025

Having had the pleasure of reviewing L. Adassovsky’s Hibernation Guide for Rabbits and Hares at Broken Frontier for last year’s ShortBox Comics Fair, seeing her name pop up again in…

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Everything Amplified – Sarah Lippett and Ziggy Hanaor Capture the Chaos and Heart of Teenage Life

  • by Swati Nair
  • October 24, 2025

Everything Amplified, written by Ziggy Hanaor and Sarah Lippett, is a YA graphic novel that captures the throbbing chaos of adolescence. It’s that stage in life where music seems to…

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The Waiting Room – Chie Hosaka Gives Us a Concise Yet Touching Human Drama in this Short A4 Riso Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I was rather taken by Tia and Guthrie, Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering, a few months ago when I reviewed it here at Broken Frontier. Affable…

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Bertilo the Little Baldy – Jingo Li and Bertit Butturini’s Bertilo is Topless, Tiny and Totally Iconic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 23, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! If there’s one thing you need to know about Bertilo, it’s that he’s a “chubby bald Italian fella who loves pizza and is always topless. He…

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Pamphlet 01 – Bryan Lim Junyan and Singaporean Micropublisher PPIPPIPRESS’s “Interuniversal Newsletter for Humanoids” is a Fun, Tactile Artefact

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 22, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! So this is an intriguing little curiosity. Pamphlet 01 (subtitled The Interuniversal Newsletter for Humanoids) comes to us via creator Bryan Lim Junyan and new Singaporean…

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Down North, Where No One Goes #1 – Ramón Perales Cano and Company’s Brutal Far Future Tale of Conquest and Greed

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 21, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Spanish artist Ramón Perales Cano is a first time exhibitor at TB under the moniker of “Ramonkey Perales”. He may best be remembered for editing and…

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The Owl Lady – Claire O’Brien’s Story of a Lifetime Obsession is Both Darkly Funny and Deeply Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Claire O’Brien’s The Owl Lady fits into that traditional idea of the minicomic before that word became horribly overused and lost all meaning. Short in page…

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Socrates – The Father of Philosophy Taken Out of His Ivory Tower by Barilli, Ranghiasci and Mad Cave

  • by Edward Picot
  • October 17, 2025

Socrates is essentially a courtroom drama. It deals with the trial of the Greek philosopher Socrates, known as the father of philosophy. As many readers will know, he was accused…

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Brooklyn Dreams – DeMatteis and Barr’s Darkly-Humoured Meditation on Truth and the Efficacy of Memory is an Exultant Masterpiece of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 16, 2025

The following review of Brooklyn Dreams first appeared at Broken Frontier in 2012 when IDW reprinted the series in hardcover form. With Dark Horse Comics republishing it this month it…

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Sleepless Planet – Maureen Burdock Presents Insomnia as a Symptom of Capitalism, Via Graphic Mundi

  • by Edward Picot
  • October 14, 2025

Sleepless Planet is a long book – 240 pages, if you include the notes and acknowledgements at the end. It’s narrated mainly by Burdock herself, who tells us that “It’s…

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Bean Jr. – A Big-Hatted Bean on a Tiny Car Quest for Fast Food Glory from Ollie Wollerman and ShortBox Comics Fair

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 9, 2025

Can a girl ask for more than a cutesy comic about a baked bean in a large hat? I think not. Introducing Bean Jr., a story about a man with…

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Gracie’s Ghost Vol. 1 – Dawn Brown’s Story About Bullying and Learning to Cope from Image Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • October 8, 2025

One of the main themes of Gracie’s Ghost is bullying. “Every day,” says the Afterword at the end of the book, “we have the chance to decide what kind of…

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mini kuš! #132: The Big Spill – Food-Based Stunts Go Viral in Janne Marie Dauer’s Satirical Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 7, 2025

Janne Marie Dauer’s ‘The Big Spill’ (mini kuš! #132) takes the Latvian minicomics series in a deliciously bizarre direction. This one is, perhaps, a little more densely packed than some…

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Hibernating – Vaso Michailidou’s Comic Debut, Where Mundane Life Collides with Surreal, Magical Chaos

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 29, 2025

The word ‘hibernating’ always provides such a sense of cosiness and warmth. Meaning ‘to spend the winter in a dormant state’, for a homebody, this might sound like total bliss….

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Shadowplay Vol. 1: Midnight School – Samuel Fonseca Unleashes a Brutal, Mind-Bending School of Horrors

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 26, 2025

Imagine attending a school with violent teachers, barbed wires fences, and torture devices. Worse, imagine being unable to remember how or why you ended up there. Introducing Shadowplay: Volume 1:…

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