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Strays – Chris W. Kim’s SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Emotional Experience

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 30, 2022

For someone that has experienced a psychological trauma, the natural impulse is to seek out a safe space and take refuge. But the problem never goes away, it simply stays…

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We Have Demons #1 – Best Jackett Press Kicks Ass, Takes Names and Pushes Envelopes in this Hellbound Thrillride from Dark Horse Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • March 16, 2022

The story in We Have Demons #1 starts out quietly with Lam Lyle, a young girl, visiting her neighbors. But just when we think something terrible is about to happen,…

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Helem – Two Lives at Critical Junctures Are at the Forefront of Stanley Wany’s Visual Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2022

A quick online search for the word “Helem” – the name of Stanley Wany’s eerie graphic journey through the psyches of two lost characters – reveals that the name has…

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Little Monsters #1 – What Secrets Lurk at the Heart of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s New Post-Apocalyptic Horror Series from Image?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2022

I went into Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s new Image Comics series Little Monsters completely blind, not having read so much as a press release or even a line of…

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The Domesticated Afterlife – Scott Finch Introduces Us to His Absurdist World in an Ambitious and Impressive Read

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 8, 2022

At about the midway point in Scott Finch’s The Domesticated Afterlife, one character advises another: ‘Things are getting weird. Roll with it.’ He’s right, of course, but he’s understating, and…

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Catalyst – SelfMadeHero’s Anthology Champions Emerging Creators of Colour Including Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists Dominique Duong and Jason Chuang

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2022

It’s a most appropriate time to be looking at SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst anthology – the end product of their 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme designed to mentor and champion emerging creators of…

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Witchy Vol. 2 – Ariel Slamet Ries Presents a Unique Fantasy Story that Gives Us Something Fresh Within the Genre

  • by Holly Raidl
  • February 15, 2022

A while ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed the first volume of Witchy, a tale set in a fantasy world where hair length and magical power go hand in hand….

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Vessel – Introducing Us to the Strange and Interesting World of Lily and Generoso Fierro

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 10, 2022

To spend time at Lily and Generoso Fierro’s website is like being invited to dine with a colourful couple for a few hours. They blog about the “carbs and caffeine”…

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Quiet Thoughts – Karen Shangguan’s Collected Musings on Impermanence, Nature, and the Poetry of Comics, from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 31, 2022

Quiet Thoughts is a collection of Karen Shangguan’s gentle and poetic comic narratives, published by Avery Hill Publishing. Varying in levels of abstractness, but consistently beautiful, Shangguan’s art allows us…

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The Collected Neil the Horse – Katherine Collins Still Makes Canadian Readers Smile With the World’s Only Musical Comic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 25, 2022

It’s called a musical comic because the eponymous horse is part of a song-and-dance act. This may sound like an anomaly today, but Neil the Horse made perfect sense in…

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Weeding – Montréal Artist Geneviève Lebleu Uses Body Horror to Powerful Effect in Her Stunning Debut

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 7, 2022

There are several things going on in Geneviève Lebleu’s debut Weeding that don’t register with one’s first reading. The body horror, unsurprisingly, becomes the most engrossing thing about the book…

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The Shiatsung Project – Brigitte Archambault Raises Interesting Questions About Humanity and Technology with Her Debut Book

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 3, 2022

We are plunged into the world of Brigitte Archambault’s unnamed protagonist in The Shiatsung Project without a preamble. We aren’t given any information about who she is, why she lives…

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The Complete Johnny Future – A Rare 1960s British Foray into Super-Hero Territory Collected by the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2021

Not all archival comics collections need to be showcases for the best of what the medium can offer in terms of originality and technique. Some can exist solely for nostalgic…

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Stranger Things Winter Special – Christmas Comes to Hawkins in this Feelgood Celebration of Friendship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 17, 2021

Peculiarly, for a year in which some diverting holiday reading was perhaps more needed than ever, festive comics seem to be few and far between for 2021. One of the…

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 2 and 3 – Mad Max, the Tower Block A.I. with a Vengeful Personality, Returns in the Final Collections of this Classic Brit Horror Comic Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2021

Of all the Treasury of British Comics reprint collections to have emerged since publisher Rebellion gained ownership of decades of classic UK comics characters a few years back, few have…

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The Trojan Women: A Comic – Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno Bring Euripides to Comics Courtesy of Bloodaxe Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 8, 2021

It has been more years than I care to remember since I last read any Euripides as an A-level student studying Classical Civilisation, so classicist and poet Anne Carson and…

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The Department of Truth Vol. 2: The City Upon a Hill – Impressive New Image Series Continues to Question What, and How, We Believe

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • December 2, 2021

The first volume of The Department of Truth established the hot new Image series’ mind-bending premise; that enough people believing in one form of reality would manifest it. Conspiracy theories…

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The Gift – Zoe Maeve Takes Us on a Supernaturally Disquieting Trip Into Russian Pseudo-History and the Last Days of Anastasia Romanova

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2021

Building a haunting tale around the life of the teenage Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, The Gift merges historical events with the stark…

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