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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…

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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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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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