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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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The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories – Rumi Hara Shares Visions of a Strange and Sublime World, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 3, 2022

Storytellers use the world they inhabit to shape the stories they choose to tell. When looked at from this perspective, there is nothing particularly weird about Rumi Hara’s stories, despite…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Stray – Molly Mendoza’s Slice-of-Life Tale Uses Every Aspect of the Medium to Its Fullest Communicative Capacity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2022

The most notable aspect of Molly Mendoza’s comics for me is the way they unlock the full potential of the form; absolute graphic storytelling that isn’t simply a combination of…

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Everyday Stories of Climate Change – A Global Look at Environmental Collapse from Gemma Sou, Adeeba Nuraina Risha, Gina Ziervogel and Cat Sims

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2022

With an unwelcome but sadly appropriate synchronicity I found myself reading and reviewing Everyday Stories of Climate Change on the evening of the day the UK hit its hottest temperatures…

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Hummingbird Heart – Love and Loss Inform Travis Dandro’s D+Q Memoir Set in the 1990s

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 28, 2022

There are moments in every memoir involving a certain kind of trauma where one can sense the writer reaching deep within to find something worth holding on to. Those moments…

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Best of 2000 AD #1 – A Perfectly Curated Gateway into the Worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for New Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2022

Two and a half years ago at Broken Frontier we advance-reviewed the first issue of Best of 2000 AD, an upcoming anthology maxiseries designed as a gateway publication into the…

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My Perfect Life – Lynda Barry Continues to Shine a Light On Her Iconic World of Ernie Pook for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 26, 2022

Nostalgia is a tricky thing, painting the past to be a lot rosier than it often is. That overriding scepticism comes to the fore whenever the great Lynda Barry approves…

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Komi Can’t Communicate – Tomohito Oda’s Story About Rejecting the Stigmatization of Disability and Embracing One’s Talent Instead

  • by Anson Leung
  • July 20, 2022

Tomohito Oda’s Komi Can’t Communicate focusses on a boy helping a girl navigate through high school life. It is a friendship story that has the distinct twist of the girl,…

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