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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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Toto Bunny Zine #1 and #2 – Kiera Won’s Minicomics Are a Delightful, Fold-Out Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2025

Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…

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Silent Planet – Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2025

I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…

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Physics For Cats – Tom Gauld Showcases his Caustic Wit to Celebrate the Geeks Who Walk Amongst Us

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 21, 2025

There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…

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The Stoneshore Register – A Subtle Story about Unresolved Mysteries from G. Willow Wilson, M.K. Perker and Dark Horse

  • by Edward Picot
  • August 15, 2025

The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…

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The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 – Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 12, 2025

Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…

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Blood Doughnut – Will Powers Shows Us the Other Side of Vampire Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2025

“You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…

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Total Recall of the Heart #1 – Phoebe Hedges and Lizzie Styles Give Us a Queer Cyberpunk Love Story with a Grimy Allure

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2025

When you review serialised comics as rarely as I do one immediate and obvious observation you make is that comics commentary on a first issue is like critiquing the first…

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The Players, The Fool and a Few Fish – Madzillus Calls Upon Timeless Theatrical Tropes in this Queer Melodramatic Debut Graphic Novel

  • by Ray McGrother
  • August 1, 2025

If I was asked what graphic novel I thought was most comparable to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, but set in the early 2000s, I might say The Players, The…

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Wake Up, Pixoto! – Weng Pixin Asks Tough Questions of Her Younger Self in Her Powerful Memoir from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 31, 2025

“Girls like you…men just want you for your body. I’m a man. I would know.” The comment raises all kinds of red flags, for men as well as women, because…

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Wiggles Wart Beauty – Worker Exploitation and Multi-Level Marketing Satirised in Clio Isadora’s Fantasy Fable

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2025

Allegory by its very nature is, of course, a perfect narrative delivery system for deeper truths. By couching life lessons in the fantastic or the relatable their messages become all…

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The Red Spot Mystery – Paint, Paranoia, and a Plot Unravelled from Aylish Wood

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 30, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! There’s always a special thrill in discovering a fresh new voice in the world of comics, especially when that debut is as curious and intriguing…

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Hidden Spectrum – Finding Colour in a Grey World with Kama Mielczarek

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 29, 2025

LDC ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Kama Mielczarek, aka Weird is the the Best, is a multi-disciplinary artist from Poland living in the UK. Her main aim with her comics writing…

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Birdking Vol. 3 – Freedman and CROM’s Fantasy Series is Building Up to an Epic Finale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2025

What works so well about Daniel Freedman and CROM’s Birdking is that it manages to blend the familiar escapist elements of fantasy fiction – quests, kingdoms, warring factions and magic…

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