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The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang – Stan Yan’s Comedy-Horror for Kids, with a Bit of Extra Depth

  • by Edward Picot
  • September 25, 2025

The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang sets off as if it’s going to be a graphic-novel version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, with an Asian slant. But it soon…

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We See Stars Only at Night – Cole Pauls Takes Us on a Dream-Like Visual Journey of Tahltan Symbolism and Motifs in this ‘Conundrum 25’ Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2025

Conundrum Press’s anniversary Conundrum 25 series of one-shots has provided the Canadian publisher with an opportunity to spotlight a diverse number of approaches to the medium alongside some powerful creative…

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Donut Squad Take Over the World! – Comedy Genius for All Ages as Neill Cameron’s ‘The Phoenix’ Faves Arrive in Book Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 23, 2025

UK weekly kids comics The Phoenix has given us some real gems over the years, traversing genre boundaries from slapstick silliness like Bunny Vs. Monkey through to the piercing social…

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Zarjaz Vol.3, #1 and #2 – Alba Ceide’s Art on ‘Strontium Dog’ is the Pick of the Batch in Two Issues that Make Playful Use of ‘2000 AD’ Continuity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2025

Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we looked at the Zarjaz Special that acted as prelude to the third volume of the long-running small press anthology series based on characters…

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The Hive Vol. 1 – An Ultra-Violent Thrill-a-Minute Crime Caper from Lieberman, Henderson, Azpiazu and Image Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • September 17, 2025

The Hive is a crime thriller with a science fiction twist. Certain individuals in the story are able to control the thoughts and actions of others by getting inside their…

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Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me – Mimi Pond Makes History Lessons Cool Again With Her D+Q Biography of an Oddly Intriguing Family 

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 16, 2025

It’s hard to try and paraphrase how colourful (a term that doesn’t do justice) the lives of the Mitford sisters were. Daughters of British aristocrats David Freeman-Mitford and Sydney Bowles,…

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Strategies for Survival – Abod Nasser’s Account of Reinventing Life in Gaza in the Midst of Genocide

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2025

That Abod Nasser’s Strategies for Survival is presented in an unrefined, uncorrected format makes it all the more important an historical document of the genocide in Gaza. Capturing the artist’s…

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Jessica Farm – Fantagraphics’ Collection of Josh Simmons’ Quarter of a Century Work-in-Progress Story Captures a Unique Experiment in the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2025

The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…

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Night Terror – Grisly, Whimsical and Sinister Dreams from John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 11, 2025

A viscous, elongated creature with the body of a large crow, the skull of a man, and a gaping mouth full to the brim of sharp teeth shrieks down at…

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The Weight – D+Q Gives Melissa Mendes’s Beautiful Webcomic the Attention It Has Long Deserved

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 9, 2025

A decade or so ago, while speaking about her plan for The Weight, which had yet to be completed, American artist Melissa Mendes spoke of her love of family sagas that spanned generations….

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Raging Clouds – Yudori Confronts Patriarchy with a Story of Resilience, Friendship and Freedom

  • by Swati Nair
  • September 8, 2025

The act of invention is rarely just about machines or ideas. It’s also about survival and resilience, and finding ways to imagine freedom when the world insists on restraint. In…

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This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir

  • by Edward Picot
  • September 4, 2025

“One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…

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Seeing in the Watery Underworld – Ecological Deliberations from Niki Bañados Who Takes Us on a Trip to the Microscopic World of Stygobites

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2025

Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…

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I ♡ Kill – Monsters, Fantasy and Pointless Bureaucracy All Come Together in April Newton’s Frenetically Funny Comics One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2025

“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…

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Reluctant Sadist #9 – Hal Weaver’s Old School Minicomic with a Bigfoot Theme 

  • by Gary Usher
  • September 1, 2025

Hal Weaver is based in Riga, Latvia, also home of publishing house kuš! comics. He published seven issues of Reluctant Sadist from 1985 to 1989 (with an additional collected edition)…

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Zineapalooza – Party On as the Zinezilla Comics Anthology Returns with Work from Mereida Fajardo, Beastly Worlds, C A Strike, Rein Lee and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2025

With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….

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Cannon – Lee Lai Lives Up to All the Promise of Her Award-Winning Debut ‘Stone Fruit’ with a Powerful, Bittersweet Follow-Up

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 27, 2025

A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…

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mini kus! #131: Animal Denial – Émilie Gleason Looks at Animal Rights, Factory Farming and the Environment in this Memorable Satirical Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2025

Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…

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