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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Salamanca Blues Part 1: Sand – Alba Ceide’s Latest Ecological Drama Marks Her First Longer-Form Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2022

With a timely relevance Alba Ceide’s Salamanca Blues Part 1 was recently launched on IndieGoGo, bringing her first longer-form work one step closer to a print edition. Part of Ceide’s…

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Crossing Borders: Travels in Japan – Morag Kewell Takes Us on a Tour of the Sights in Another Enthusiastic Travel Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2022

Way back in 2011 when I first started focussing primarily on the UK small press comics scene at Broken Frontier self-published diary comics were very much the genre of the…

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Birds of Maine – Michael DeForge Takes a Successful Leap from Instagram to Paper, Thanks to D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 12, 2022

The handle ‘@birdsofmainecomic’ on Instagram has over 450 posts and a little over 7,400 followers. Each panel gets hundreds of likes, and Michael DeForge’s bio for the comic promises a…

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Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab – Priya Huq’s Coming-of-Age Story Tackles Themes of Identity, Islamophobia and Family

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2022

Priya Huq’s debut graphic novel, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab, is a fine example of how the comics form so effectively brings us into the lived experiences…

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Animal Stories – Peter and Maria Hoey Immerse Us Once Again in the Limitless Possibilities of Sequential Art as a Visual Language

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2022

If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…

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The Beano #4146 – Footballer and Guest Editor Marcus Rashford Visits Beanotown in an Issue that Emphasises the Comic’s Inclusive and Socially Relevant Credentials

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2022

In comics you know you’re doing good work if you’re an object of both right-wing tabloid newspaper scorn and the ire of a certain demographic of angry middle-aged white men…

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Talk to My Back – Yamada Murasaki Offers Subversive Slices of Women’s Domestic Lives, Via D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2022

In 2017, Martine van Elk, professor of English at California State University, published a comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It documented responses by women to…

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