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Dream Machine – Ky Lawrence Brings Us Mad Scientists, Monkeys and Madness in His Surreal Science Fiction Graphic Novel 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Ky Lawrence graduated from Norwich University of the Arts, he is an animator with an impressive list of highly-stylized self-published comics, as well as contributions to…

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McNab – Adele Pound’s Wordless Comic Shows the Breathtaking Beauty of the Natural World

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Back in college, Adele Pound baffled her fine art tutors by stubbornly painting wildlife instead of whatever was ‘in’. She’s never grown out of it…

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So That’s That Story… Conversations With Mom – Tenli Yavneh is “Just Commenting” in This Hilarious Memoir of Her Mother 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 25, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! At seven pages,  Tenli Yavneh’s So That’s That Story is not the shortest publication ever reviewed on Broken Frontier (The Colossive Cartographies probably hold that…

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Abrupt Transitions: Diary of a Midlife Opsimath – Hoorah for Kristen Haas Curtis and Comics about English Literature Degrees!

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 24, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Hoorah for comics about English Literature degrees – a very niche gap in the market has finally been filled! As someone who absolutely loved studying…

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Will Eisner: A Comics Biography – Steven Weiner and Dan Mazur Pay Fitting Tribute to a Legendary Artist

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 24, 2025

There is a page, midway through this excellent biography, that documents how comics were printed in 1936. It shows how artwork was transferred from paper to copper plates, then mounted…

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My Energy Thief – Mandy Norman’s Light-Hearted Approach to Looking at Long Covid 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mandy Norman is a multi-disciplinary commercial artist living in North London. According to information provided she joined the LDComics Online Monthly meetings during her 2021 recovery…

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Tia and Guthrie – Chie Hosaka’s Sweet Comics Short Provides a Delightful Character Set Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering Tia and Guthrie loosely fits into the romcom category, albeit a succinct one-act one. It’s the story of the relationship…

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A Eye: Lighting Up the Mirror to Racism – Moi Tu’s Remarkable Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Dialogue Poses Difficult Questions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Moi Tu’s A Eye (the title a play on artificial intelligence) is a difficult comic to define. Perhaps that’s because in many ways it’s a…

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Poet – The Creative Process Visually Dissected in Madeleine Burt’s Form-Pushing Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! One of the great joys of this inaugural LDComics Fair has been discovering so much experimental work. Comics that really grasp the potential of the…

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The Ardent – Carl Antonowicz Takes Us on a Journey through a World of Grungy Cynicism

  • by Edward Picot
  • July 22, 2025

The Ardent by Carl Antonowicz, from Fieldmouse Press, is set in an imaginary medieval land. It opens in a monastery which is closing down because its lands and buildings are…

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The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo’s Scrolling Digital Comic is a Work of Experimental Genius

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mereida Fajardo is probably largely known for her tactile comics work; practice the physicality of which is a key ingredient in its presentation. But first…

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Delayed Outing – A Poignant Reflection on Coming Out Later in Life from Toria McCallum

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! I had the pleasure of meeting Toria McCallum at last year’s Pride Comics and Art Festival (PrideCAF), and immediately recognised their cutesy style when I was…

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Falcão – Rayne Booth’s Haunting Character Study Has a Melancholy Truth at its Heart

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Have we already reached three weeks of our LDComics Fair coverage? Today’s first subject of coverage at Broken Frontier is Rayne Booth’s Falcão, a haunting…

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A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done – Jenny Robins Brings Us Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists in this Dreamy Collage Comics Experiment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Jenny Robins has applied the subtitle ‘Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists’ to her LDComics Online Comics Fair offering A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done….

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Erin + Pig – Magical Hijinks Ensue with a Witch and her Familiar in this LDComics Fair Offering from Iliadtea

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Iliadtea is a creator who has been on my radar for quite a while after I had the pleasure of meeting her at last year’s Pride…

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Silver River – Catriona Q. Andrew’s Beautifully Illustrated, Sweeping and Tragic Family Memoir 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Catriona Q. Andrew has been a freelance illustrator for three decades, as well as a speech and language therapist, art educator, and has also created…

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Running Out – Myfanwy Tristram Brings Together the Ephemeral and the Profound in this Existential and Experimental Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 17, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! While the LDComics Online Comics Fair is an international event the large of amount of work from UK-based creators is a reflection of just how rich…

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(Don’t) Go To Law School – Maddy Buck Convinces Herself (and, Her Readers) Law School is Not Boring After All in this Humorous Memoir 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 16, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Maddy Buck’s cartooning career began at the University of Michigan Law School, and her quest to distill large amounts of information into easily digestible comic…

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