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Go-Man! Vol. 1: Champion of Earth – Hamish Steele Combines Monster-Fighting Heroics with a Layered Story about Life with Autism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2026

Very broadly speaking, the work that we tag for our socially relevant Broken Frontier comics resource lists falls into two camps. There’s the graphic memoir or biography side bringing personal…

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mini kuš! #139: BLJ – Leo Fox’s Philosophical Visual Essay Ponders on the Concept of Infinity Via Super Mario 64 and ‘A Matter of Life and Death’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2026

While other entries in the mini kuš! series can be enjoyed for their aesthetics, narrative or abstraction, ‘BLJ’, #139 in the long-running minicomics series, is one of the most fascinating recent…

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Oracles – Olivia Sullivan Takes the Reader on a Journey of Discovery in this Powerful Piece of Graphic Poetry from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2026

It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…

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All the Cameras in My Room – Michael DeForge Continues to Probe The Darkest Corners of our Collective Consciousness

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 21, 2026

The story that gives this collection its title is also a succinct introduction to what anyone unfamiliar with Michael DeForge can expect. The title of All the Cameras in My…

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We [Palestinians] Are Not Going Away – First-Hand Testimony of the Atrocities in Gaza, Designed by Pleasure Pie and Available Via Little Zine Revolution

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2026

Activism is a key part of the Broken Frontier ethos which is why we have spent so much time on developing our page of Broken Frontier comics resource lists for…

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Very Hungry Women #1 – Daisy Crouch’s Queer Super-Hero Horror Comic Begins with a Gripping First Instalment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2026

As a general rule we usually leave super-heroes to other sites to cover. But there are always exceptions. When we do give space to them at Broken Frontier it’s either…

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Palookaville 25 – Seth Returns to Palookaville and Here Are Some Reasons Why That’s a Great Thing

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 17, 2026

One of the most interesting things a fan of any artist can do is invest time and energy in following the evolution of said artist. When this is done long…

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The Mongoose – Joana Mosi Takes on the Surreality of Grief and Loneliness

  • by Lara Boyle
  • April 16, 2026

I have never read anything quite like Joana Mosi’s quietly powerful new graphic novel The Mongoose, from Pow Pow Press. The book follows a young woman named Julia who lives…

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Elon Musk: American Oligarch – Darryl Cunningham Provides an Outstanding Graphic Biography of a Real-Life Super-Villain

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2026

Daryl Cunningham has a proven track record of communicating extensively researched graphic journalism/biography with a remarkably accessible eloquence. We’ve seen it before in books like Supercrash: How to Hijack the…

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Animan – An English Translation of Anouk Ricard’s Fabulous Creation is Finally Out Via Drawn & Quarterly and Every Page is a Delight

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 15, 2026

Sometime in 1983, Americans were treated to a television series about a superhero called Manimal. It featured a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal he chose, and…

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Action, Before the Ban: The Archival Collection Vol. 1 – The Controversial 1970s British Comic Returns to Print and Proves to Be a Vital Socio-Political Record of its Era

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2026

Back in the Twitter era I posted a few times on the subject of a possible archival collection of 2000 AD that would print compilations of full issue runs from…

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Something Alien Anthology – PJ Fairweather’s New Micropress Offers a Sampling of the Stars in Their Debut Anthology

  • by Andrea Magbual
  • April 13, 2026

The Something Alien Anthology is Don’t Fold Press’s debut comic project, introduced on their Instagram on April 28th, 2025 and fully funded by July 28th. Its Kickstarter states the anthology…

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Romo the Wolfboy – Mysterious Happenings in the Picaresque World of a Victorian Travelling Circus in ILYA’s New Graphic Novel From SelfMadeHero

  • by Harish P. I
  • April 10, 2026

In graphic novel Romo the Wolfboy, veteran artist ILYA takes his readers to the colourful world of a Victorian travelling circus. This is the first in a possible series of…

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Appleguy & Beefwood – Fun, Pithy and Full of Unpretentious Wisdom, Cedar Van Tassel’s Graphic Novel is an Undeniable Gem

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 9, 2026

There’s something oddly amusing about two adult men sitting around and talking about nothing in particular. What they say tends to make perfect sense to them, but not necessarily to…

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Boxes #4 – Mike Armstrong, Eleanor Sikorski, Jules Valera, Emilia McKenzie and Pictii Are Just a Handful of the Names in the Latest Issue of this Essential Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2026

Steven Ingram’s ThirdBear Press continues to provide a vital UK platform for cartoonists with the Boxes anthology, a publication reminiscent of a British small press heyday of similar collections which…

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Was that Normal? – Alex Potts’ Quagmire, to Find Human Connection or to Be

  • by Kay Sohini
  • April 7, 2026

In an unidentified town near London, a crumbling, half-finished edifice, which looks like the base of the Eiffel Tower, scatters its debris near and far, sometimes rather dangerously. We meet…

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2 x Carol Swain – Dark & Golden Bring Two Carol Swain Character Studies of Lives on the Fringe Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 6, 2026

Publisher Dark & Golden’s mission to bring back some of the forgotten gems of UK indie comics has already seen a number of near lost rarities being seen by appreciative…

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Sparrowsong – Alxndra Cook Leans Into Myth and Folklore in Her Latest Gorgeously Illustrated Graphic Novel from Koguchi Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2026

It’s impossible to overestimate just how far Alxndra Cook’s visual storytelling has come since I was first covering her work in zines like Eat Your Fruit!, well over a decade…

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