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Be Kind, My Neighbor – Yugo Limbo’s Idiosyncratic Trans Love Story is Ambitious and Eerily Alluring

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! In Yugo Limbo’s Be Kind, My Neighbor we have a trans-centric comics narrative with a very different approach than much of the trans and non-binary comics we…

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A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White’s Influential Novel of 1950s Gay Awakening Comes to Comics from Top Shelf Productions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…

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My Life in Transition – Julia Kaye’s Account of Trans Lived Experience Continues in this Second Collection of Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! My Life in Transition is the second collection of Julia Kaye’s Super Late Bloomer series detailing her trans journey. We reviewed the first volume here last year…

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The Last Gay Man on Earth – Ype Driessen Brings Photo Comics to Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…

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Flamer – Mike Curato’s Semi-Autobiographical Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Relevant Coming Out Story for Teens

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! With a new hardcover edition coming later this month, a review of Mike Curato’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel Flamer seems most appropriate for our Pride Month coverage. Set…

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Alone in Space – The Definitive Collection of the Early Work of Tillie Walden, One of the Finest Cartoonists of Our Time

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023!  As our reviews go, today’s look at Tillie Walden’s Alone in Space is going to be a slightly different reading experience. This collection of Walden’s first three…

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The Real Riley Mayes – Rachel Elliott’s Beautiful and Life-Affirming LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Even if you haven’t read all-ages graphic novel The Real Riley Mayes yet the chances are you will have heard of it. Rachel Elliott’s book has been…

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Blood of the Virgin – Sammy Harkham’s Epic Finally Comes to a Poignant, Intimate Close

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 5, 2023

Some books carry with them the palpable weight of their creator’s lived experience. One can sense the ambition, a reaching for something big, or the effort poured into getting all…

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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 3 & 4 – Okura’s Manga Teen Drama Continues to Be Both Delightful and Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! The last time we reviewed Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay was for our Pride Month celebrations in 2022, so it’s fitting that we…

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The Leopard from Lime Street Vol. 3 – Billy Farmer Returns in this Third Volume of Classic Strips from the 1970s

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2023

Given how heavily it drew from the Lee-Ditko era of Amazing Spider-Man, the status of The Leopard from Lime Street as one of the more celebrated strips of the 1970s…

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Pet Peeves – Nicole Goux’s Tale of a Demon Dog is an Evocative Allegory of Aimlessness, Self-Sabotage and the Creative Struggle

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2023

Over the last four years at Broken Frontier we have covered the collaborative work of the Nicole Goux-Dave Baker team on a number of projects, including Fuck Off Squad, Everyone…

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Before They Lay You Down – Georgia Holland’s Western One-Shot is Packed with Recognisable and Universal Themes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2023

Georgia Holland’s Before They Lay You Down is ostensibly a short story in the Western comics tradition. In reality, though, Holland’s minicomic is far more universal in its themes, exploring…

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Viscera Cera – Claude T.C.’s Escapist Space Romp Pokes Fond Fun at Genre Comics Conventions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2023

One of the less appealing aspects of “mainstream”/super-hero comics in the last decade and a half has been a propensity for confusing mocking the conventions of the form with self-referential…

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20 km/h – Chinese Artist Woshibai Uses the Deceptively Simple to Create Something Profound in His Debut for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 19, 2023

The easiest way to describe a kōan — a Japanese reading of the Chinese gong’an — is to compare it to our version of a riddle, although Zen Buddhists probably…

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Next Time Around – Life Re-Evaluated by Billy Mavreas in this ‘Conundrum 25’ Graphic Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2023

Another of Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ celebratory series of graphic shorts, Billy Mavreas’s Next Time Around sits somewhere on the border between graphic medicine and graphic poetry. We’ve…

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Witching Hour – Beth Fuller’s Beautifully Illustrated Fantasy Tale Epitomises the Quality of Work Coming from the Direction of Quindrie Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2023

Since they arrived on the UK indie comics circuit just over two years ago Quindrie Press have made a powerful mark on the scene. With a socially progressive publishing ethos,…

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The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction – Dark Horse’s Collection of Classic End-of-an-Era EC Comics Arrives in a More Affordable Paperback Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2023

Given that it bridges the 1950s both pre and post formation of the Comics Code Authority, in terms of its historical relevance The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction is a curious…

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Downlands – Norm Konyu’s Bittersweet Supernatural Tale Combines Horror Fantasy with a Human Story of Loneliness and Grief

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2023

Back in 2020 I said of Norm Konyu’s first graphic novel The Junction “this is one of the most accomplished debut books I have ever reviewed for Broken Frontier.” My…

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