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The Forest – An Eerie Journey Into Loss and Grief from Thomas Ott and Fantagraphics Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2023

Seeking to escape the grim atmosphere of a family wake, a young boy slips out of his home and into the dark forest that surrounds it. There, amongst its foreboding…

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The Magic Necklace – Claire Napier’s Erotic Thriller Proves to Be a Brooding Piece of Horror Romance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2023

Horror and romance. Two genres that for some may, on first consideration, seem diametrically opposed in tone but on reflection, of course, make perfect bedfellows. Claire Napier’s one-shot comic The…

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The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act – Desmond Reed’s Darkly Comedic Graphic Novel Combines the Psychedelic and the Profound

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2023

Part of the final line-up of books to be published by US indie micropress Birdcage Bottom Books (and currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter here) Desmond Reed’s The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening…

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Momotekku – Themes of Self-Discovery, Acceptance and Rebirth Run through Alxndra Cook’s First Impressive Long-Form Work from Koguchi Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 21, 2023

Momotekku is the first published graphic novella outside of self-published comics from 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Alxndra Cook. It brings together all the staples of her sequential…

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Rituals – Nicole Goux and Silver Sprocket Take Us through the “Sacred Rites” Before a Night Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2023

If you are a fan of a particular comics artist’s work then the advantage of projects like Nicole Goux’s Rituals – a self-described mini-art book of illustrations from Silver Sprocket…

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Image! 30th Anniversary Anthology #10 – Zoe Thorogood and Gustaffo Vargas Are Just Two of the Major New Talents on Show as Image’s Birthday Celebrations Enter the Final Phase

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2023

Monthly serialised comics anthologies are a curious thing. We wax nostalgically about the days when they seemed ubiquitous and yet the reality is that in an era of instantly consumable…

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Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure – Lewis Hancox’s Graphic Memoir is a Raw, Witty and Tender Tale Fully Deserving of Its Critical Acclaim

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 14, 2023

There’s an early scene in Lewis Hancox’s Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure that looks back to his pre-transition schooldays as Lois and being referred to by classmates…

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The Sisters Dietl – Vojtěch Mašek’s Centrala Graphic Novel Delivers a Dark, Brooding and Atmospheric Story

  • by Jon Aye
  • February 14, 2023

Dreams are the way they are because they operate at the intersection of the left and right sides of the brain, the place between the soup-like repository of experience and…

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Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic About Workers & Their Unions – Sam Wallman’s Graphic Journalism is a Call to Mobilise and a Damning Indictment of the Tyranny of Capitalism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 13, 2023

A book detailing the history of the trade union movement in comics form would, of course, always be a project that we would gravitate to here at Broken Frontier. With…

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Brooklyn’s Last Secret – Leslie Stein’s Wry and Amusing Look at What It Means to Be a Small Band on Tour

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 9, 2023

Leslie Stein, full-time cartoonist, part-time bartender, famous meme (Google it) and all-round cool person based on the accounts of those who know her, has been playing music with friends for…

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Estrela d’Oeste – Ashling Larkin’s Beautifully Understated Autobio Comic Tackles Themes of Identity, Grief, Xenophobia and the Mother-Daughter Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2023

Estrela d’Oeste, or “Star of the West” if you require a direct translation, is an autobiographical one-shot by Brazilian-Irish artist Ashling Larkin (also known as Ashling Draws) whose comics endeavours…

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Our Stories Carried Us Here – Green Card Voices Bring Us a Powerful Sequential Art Antidote to Toxic Media Coverage of Immigration and the Refugee Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2023

The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…

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Once There Was Dancing – Sean Azzopardi’s Latest Autobiographical Work is a Knowingly Reflective and Accepting Piece of Gentle Self-Deprecation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2023

The autobiographical works of Sean Azzopardi recently found a new “home” under the banner imprint of Life’s a Party. One of the UK’s greatest, yet still criminally underappreciated, proponents of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – Project Runner Bex Ollerton’s Autistic Comics Anthology is a Monumental Achievement

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2023

Originally presented via the #ASDComicTakeover tag on social media, the short comics collected in the pages of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – An Autistic Comics Anthology come to us…

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Where I’m Coming From – Drawn & Quarterly Remind Us of How Powerful the Voice of Barbara Brandon-Croft Has Always Been

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 20, 2023

They’re referred to as ‘truth bombs’, defined as ‘blunt, undiplomatic statements of something true that others may not want or expect to hear.’ You can experience a whole lot of…

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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…

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