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Radium Girls – Cy’s Beautifully Rendered Account of Employer Negligence and the Fight for Workers’ Rights, from Iron Circus Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 21, 2022

While previously long consigned to history the story of the Radium Girls has recently been given a long overdue revisitation thanks to the 2018 book The Radium Girls by Kate…

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Squeak the Mouse – Massimo Mattioli’s Brutally Funny Parody of Cartoon Violence Excess, Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2022

Years before Itchy and Scratchy were satirising the cartoon violence of Tom and Jerry on The Simpsons Italian artist Massimo Mattioli was providing far more brutal parodies of the animated…

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‘Stray Dogs’ and ‘Stray Dogs: Dog Days’ – Fleecs and Forstner’s Canine Thriller is All the More Chilling for Its Seemingly Incongruous Visuals

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2022

Sometimes a comic’s presentation, design and visual approach is so in contrast to its subject matter that the incongruous and the apposite become happy bedfellows. Such is the case with…

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World Record Holders – Guy Delisle Gives Us Glimpses of an Artist Coming Into His Own, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 16, 2022

There’s a reason established musicians sometimes put out collections of early demos, late into their careers. There’s a hint of vanity, of course, underpinning the assumption that someone wants to…

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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre – Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson Provide a Powerful and Educational Account

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2022

While work exploring socially relevant subject matter has been a growing area of comics publishing over the last decade a relatively newer phenomenon has been the surge of graphic biographies…

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It’s So Magic – Growing Up Isn’t Always Great, But Lynda Barry Shows What Makes It Special

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 14, 2022

The period between childhood and adulthood has confounded, engaged, and frustrated the world’s most amazing minds. To write about this transition is to account not just for physical or intellectual…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sennen – Shanti Rai’s Debut Graphic Novel is a Sensitive and Beautiful Coming-of-Age Story with Some Unexpected Twists

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2022

Shanti Rai’s Sennen is a project that I have admittedly been anticipating eagerly given that Rai was one of my choices for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…

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Forever Forward #1 – A Moody Page-Turner Offers an Enjoyable Darker Take on Time Travel

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • September 12, 2022

A fresh but darker take on time travel, Forever Forward #1 is the latest sci-fi thriller from writer Zack Kaplan (Eclipse, Port of Earth). Dr. Lewis Moody has finally cracked…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Jinx Freeze – Hurk’s First Full-Colour Graphic Novel is a Madcap Foray into a Meandering Mindscape of Outlandish Oddballs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2022

One of comics’ hidden geniuses UK artist Hurk (often Lord Hurk though he now appears to have embraced the zeitgeist and renounced his peerage for his latest book) has long…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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July Underwater – Zoe Maeve’s Perceptive and Meta Coming-of-Age Story Gets a Wider Audience Via Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2022

At the end of last year at Broken Frontier I covered Zoe Maeve’s first published work The Gift, a supernaturally charged journey into pseudo-history and the life of Anastasia Romanova….

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Bad Island – Stanley Donwood’s Silent Ecological Narrative Parallels Our Own Descent into Environmental Catastrophe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2022

These are important times to be amplifying work in graphic narrative that explores the topical, the socially conscious, and the immediately relevant. Practice in these areas continues to grow, allowing…

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Hocus Pocus #5: Levitation – The Finale to Worth and Collver’s Paranormal Investigation Series Proves Its Eisner-Nominated Credentials

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2022

One of the great delights of this year’s Eisner nominations was the inclusion of small press comic Hocus Pocus on the ballot. An investigative series focussing on the history and…

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Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator – Darryl Cunningham’s Latest Graphic Journalism Charts Vladimir Putin’s Chilling Ascent to Power

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2022

It would perhaps be of some tiny comfort if we could say that when Darryl Cunningham’s Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator was published by Myriad Editions in the…

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Puke Banter – A Classic Animated Fave Gets a Vomit-Splattered Makeover Courtesy of James the Stanton and Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 31, 2022

There’s something undeniably appealing about pop cultural parodies when their targets are not the obvious easy objects of biting ridicule but, rather, the cooler and more assured characters of our…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Georgia O’Keeffe – Maria Herreros’ Graphic Biography Gets to the Wild, Brave Heart of this Legendary Painter

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 31, 2022

The newest edition to SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Georgia O’Keeffe is a graphic biography written and illustrated by Maria Herreros and translated from the Spanish edition from Astiberri Ediciones. The…

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Death Threat – Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee Tackle the Subject of Transphobic Abuse with “a Compelling Act of Resistance”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2022

One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2022

“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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2000 AD Prog 2296 – Long May the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s All-Ages Regened Initiative Continue!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2022

It’s indicative of the current levels of entitled toxicity in certain demographics of UK fandom that although apparently consisting of some of the highest selling issues of the year 2000…

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