Anti-Gone – A Voyage to the Numb Limits of Sex, Drugs and Shopping by Connor Willumsen
Sometimes – maybe even most times – you pick up a comic because you know exactly how it’s going to look, exactly how it’s going to work and exactly how…
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Why Art? – Eleanor Davis Tackles the Big Question of Aesthetics with Acres of Wit and Pathos
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
Loud & Smart – The Humor of Alex Krokus Reflects the Anxiousness of Living in an Era of Uncertainty and Cynicism
The four-panel diary gag strip is a form that has been run into the ground. Much of this has to do with there only being so much that can be…
Crushing – Sophie Burrows Shows Chops and Charm in Her Tale of a Lovelorn Londoner
That spark of attraction can flare up in the most unlikely of circumstances. Just imagine: you’re stood in a comic shop, rainwater sloshing around your leaky brogues, the podcasty bantz…
At the Shore – Tracing the Evolution of Jim Campbell’s Coastal Zombie Horror Comedy
Jim Campbell’s At the Shore is a graphic novel that highlights the changing tides in indie comics from the early part of the 2000s to the present. Much of that…
Tottenham’s Trojan Horse? – Mark Panton and Amanda Lillywhite Provide Dire Warnings About Gentrification in the Name of Football
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
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
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…
Ghosts, Etc. – Three Very Different Stories by George Wylesol Highlight an Emerging Voice in Comics
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….
Bi the Way – M.J. Wallace’s Personal Account of Coming Out as Bisexual is a Welcoming Journey of Self-Discovery
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…
Sex Fantasy – Intimacy Isn’t Easy in Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Koyama Press Collection
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…
Bobbins – A Retrospective Look at the Webcomics Universe of John Allison
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…
Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye #1 – Young Animal’s Bewildering but Compelling Re-Imagining of a Forgotten Silver Age Hero Returns
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…
Get Naked – Steven T. Seagle and His Collaborators Get to the Bare Essentials of Body Culture
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…
Dry County #1 – Autobio Meets Hardboiled in Rich Tommaso’s New Image Comics Offering
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…
Lemon – Life’s Sour Moments Examined in Kelsey Wroten’s Comics Short
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…
Now #2 – The Fantagraphics Anthology Series Underlines Its Role as a Vital and Informative Portal into the Work of Boundary-Pushing Creators
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…
Talking to Gina – Ottilie Hainsworth’s Tale of Canine Friendship is Funny, Heartfelt, Witty and Devastating in Equal Measure
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…
Livestock – Hannah Berry’s Socio-Political Parable is a Brilliant, Brutally Relevant Final Graphic Novel
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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