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Wage Slaves brings an audacious openness to some unknown realities: being an immigrant and having very little money, and the ease at which certain employers and institutions can exploit these…
I had no idea what a deprogrammer was until I read Talking to Strangers. It sounded like the kind of title one would give a computer technician, which is why…
If we let it, time will bury everything under dust. For nearly 200 years, that’s what threatened to happen to the terrible events of August 16th 1819, when a peaceful…
It’s been a productive couple of years for Belgian creator Max de Radiguès whose work has spanned releases from such purveyors of indie and alternative comics excellence as Fantagraphics (Hobo…
A couple of years ago, Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Disa Wallander was asked to describe her work. It was not an inane question because, as anyone familiar with what she…
From Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss through to J.K. Rowling it’s no secret that some of the classics of children’s illustrated storytelling have weirder, darker undercurrents to them. Kids often…
With critical hits like Prez, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles and Second Coming, Mark Russell has proved himself to be the master of serial comics satire of…
Faith’s playful interest in magic is considered a harmless quirk among her social set but when a seeming chance coffee shop encounter with the mysterious Poppy leads to a passionate…
Nominated in the 2018 Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Artist category, Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales series (translated by Lada Morozova) has so far run to three books of what…
Centrala are perhaps the UK’s most overlooked indie comics publisher, bringing international work to English-speaking audiences, but notably showcasing experimental and alt graphic narratives from less familiar European traditions of…
Hervé Bourhis turns the tables in this cleverly devised plot in which we are kept on our toes until the very end. Alas paints an alternative reality surrounding the Great…
I’m sure it’s in the post, as they say, but I’ve always been uncommonly jammy with my health. Having lumbered around the earth for half a century now, I’ve never…
If you’re a Broken Frontier reader then you are already well aware of the power of graphic narrative to communicate, educate and inform. Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele’s Gender: A…
‘Family Business’, the first Bitter Root story arc, established the Sangerye family, a monster-hunting clan whose status had diminished over the years. Set in the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance,…
Why not Join the Future for an intriguing look forward and backwards in genre time-space that might say something true about the here and now. #1 out in March. If…
A few weeks ago when we made British Ice our ‘Comic of the Week’ at Broken Frontier we also noted that we have been following the progression of its creator…
From self-published minicomics focusing on a classic age of cinema (including It Girl and Vivacity), to her work for serial comics publishers like DC’s Vertigo imprint and Titan Comics, through…
Fantagraphics’ anthology series Now (subtitled The New Comics Anthology) has gained deserved critical acclaim in its seven-issue life to date. Indeed it was nominated in both our 2017 and 2019…
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