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Sugar: Life as a Cat – A Mesmerizingly Beautiful Rendition of the World According to the Cats of Serge Baeken; Eponymous Tomcat Sugar Will Steal Your Heart with His Deadpan Wisdom

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 5, 2018

What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…

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Ghosts, Etc. – Three Very Different Stories by George Wylesol Highlight an Emerging Voice in Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 3, 2018

While one or two of Avery Hill’s big-hitting breakout stars have dominated “the conversation” of late, a few of the publisher’s other titles seem to have slipped under the radar a little….

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Bi the Way – M.J. Wallace’s Personal Account of Coming Out as Bisexual is a Welcoming Journey of Self-Discovery

  • by Holly Raidl
  • April 2, 2018

Bi the Way explores creator M.J. Wallace’s journey of self-discovery regarding her sexuality and how this affected her relationships, sometimes as a result of her own construction. It’s an upbeat…

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Sex Fantasy – Intimacy Isn’t Easy in Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Koyama Press Collection

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 28, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…

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Bobbins – A Retrospective Look at the Webcomics Universe of John Allison

  • by Robin Enrico
  • March 27, 2018

John Allison’s work with in the Scary Go Round universe has been a long-standing high water mark of quality webcomics. Particularly after his shift in the late 2000s to a…

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Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye #1 – Young Animal’s Bewildering but Compelling Re-Imagining of a Forgotten Silver Age Hero Returns

  • by Tony Ingram
  • March 23, 2018

DC’s Young Animal line was set up to try new approaches to storytelling, and last year’s Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye fully embraced that mission statement, resurrecting a near…

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Get Naked – Steven T. Seagle and His Collaborators Get to the Bare Essentials of Body Culture

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 22, 2018

For all his success in mainstream comics and, subsequently, animation (as one of the creators of Ben 10), the comics work I’ll always associate with Steven T. Seagle is It’s…

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Dry County #1 – Autobio Meets Hardboiled in Rich Tommaso’s New Image Comics Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 21, 2018

The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…

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Lemon – Life’s Sour Moments Examined in Kelsey Wroten’s Comics Short

  • by Robin Enrico
  • March 19, 2018

Lemon by Kelsey Wroten is a brief but potent distillation of her abilities as both a cartoonist and a writer. This minicomic from 2016 displays a strong talent for rendering…

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Now #2 – The Fantagraphics Anthology Series Underlines Its Role as a Vital and Informative Portal into the Work of Boundary-Pushing Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST NEW SERIES NOMINEE!  While the US serial comics anthology seems unlikely to enjoy a populist re-emergence in the immediate future – as Dark Horse’s abrupt…

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Talking to Gina – Ottilie Hainsworth’s Tale of Canine Friendship is Funny, Heartfelt, Witty and Devastating in Equal Measure

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2018

When Myriad Editions released Ottilie Hainsworth’s Talking to Gina last year I will admit to the presumption that its subject matter would be somewhat outside the publisher’s usual boundary-pushing use of…

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Livestock – Hannah Berry’s Socio-Political Parable is a Brilliant, Brutally Relevant Final Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AWARD WINNER AND BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD NOMINEE! When 2017 Broken Frontier Award-winning creator Hannah Berry announced last year in an interview with our…

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Too Dark to See – The Otherworldly and the Domestic Converge in Julia Gfrörer’s Dark Minicomic

  • by Robin Enrico
  • March 12, 2018

Julia Gfrörer’s Too Dark to See is a brief supernatural story that poses questions about our cosmic insignificance. In the face of creatures beyond our understanding what are the lives…

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The Wicked + The Divine: 1923 – Gillen and Koch’s Genre-Influenced Murder-Mystery One-Shot Contains a Deeper Meta Commentary

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 12, 2018

As if it’s taken this long for a Gillen and McKelvie joint to take the form of a bona fide murder-mystery story? It’s like when J.K. Rowling did her straight…

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International Aces Centenary Edition – Chris Geary’s Handsomely Rendered Document of Heroism and Humanity, with Really, Really Good Sound Effects

  • by Jenny Robins
  • March 9, 2018

The special Centenary Edition of International Aces is a beautiful white boxed set of 4 volumes, each chronicling the lives of different flying aces from World War I; 14 in…

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The Inking Woman – 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain Celebrated in Myriad’s Essential Reference Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2018

Last year, London’s Cartoon Museum was home to ‘The Inking Woman‘ – undoubtedly one of its most acclaimed exhibitions to date – tracing the history of women cartoonists over the…

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The Beef #1 – A Page-Turning Palette of Radioactive Greens and Blood Reds in the Inimitable Shaky Kane Style

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • March 7, 2018

Richard Starkings, Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane set out to stun with their new comic The Beef: Tainted Love via Image. In the making since 2014, this first of five…

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Someone Please Have Sex with Me – Gina Wynbrandt Negotiates the Complex Space Between Reality and Fantasy in Her 2dcloud Flights of Fancy

  • by Robin Enrico
  • March 5, 2018

Gina Wynbrandt’s collection of magical realist autobiographical comics Someone Please Have Sex with Me from 2dcloud is a unique take on the genre. While the protagonist of her stories is always…

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