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The Smythes – A Truly Handsome Collection of Rea Irvin’s 1930s Domestic Comedy Strips from New York Review Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2026

A winner in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards, in the category of Best Collection of Classic Material, The Smythes is a handsome oversized collection of Rea Irvin’s (the New Yorker’s…

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The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke – The Absurdity of Life Shown Through Steve Willis’s Adaptation of ‘Hamlet’, Published by Phoenix Productions 

  • by Gary Usher
  • January 29, 2026

Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…

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For the Record: A Lifetime of Loving Music – David Robertson Guides Us through His Comics Playlist in this Nostalgic Short Strip Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2026

Through his Fred Egg Comics micropublishing venture David Robertson has provided anthology platforms that spotlight other creators and embraced a lo-fi, grassroots style of self-publishing. In the latter case one…

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Hello Sunshine – Keezy Young’s Teen Drama Blends Queer Romance, Explorations of Schizoaffective Disorder, and Horror to Outstanding Effect

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2026

Keezy Young’s win in the Best Artist category in the Broken Frontier Awards this year was all the more noteworthy for the incredibly strong shortlist of names nominated. Young’s first…

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Laser Eye Surgery – Walker Tate Blurs the Boundaries of Reality in this Fantagraphics Underground Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2026

From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…

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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 21, 2026

There are many names throughout literature that are known as ‘the greats’: Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and countless others. And amongst them sits one of the most radical female…

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The Lexicon of Comicana – Mort Walker’s Exploration of the Language of Comics Comes Back to Print Via New York Review Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2026

The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…

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Adieu Birkenau – Ginette Kolinka’s Powerful, Time-Shifting Story of Holocaust Survival from SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2026

What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…

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Colossive Cartographies #68 – Michelle Kent Invites Us to ‘Hit Escape’ and Get Away from Everything

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2026

We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…

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Lotus’ Dream – Spiritual Darkness and Gay Fantasy Counterpoint Each Other in Wilson So’s Collection of Three Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2026

Collecting shortform comics stories together in one package provides an excellent means for self-published creators to showcase their storytelling abilities over multiple themes and approaches. In Lotus’ Dream artist Wilson…

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Gaza in My Phone – Mazen Kerbaj’s Powerful Account of Genocide is a Collection of Defiant Cartooning that Everyone Needs to Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2026

We have covered a lot of comics and cartooning work on the genocide in Gaza over the last year. Some of it has come directly from those living the nightmare….

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How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like It’s Getting Worse – Fluffy is Back: A Tender, Timely Coming-of-Age Twenty Years on from Simone Lia

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 9, 2026

Way back between the years of 2003 and 2005, there was one indie comic in particular that stands out in my memory as something completely distinct. Simone Lia’s Fluffy, published…

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Lavender Clouds: Comics About Neurodivergence and Mental Health – Bex Ollerton’s Collection of Short Strips is Beautifully Eloquent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2026

In my opening 2026 Broken Frontier article I mentioned that this year we wanted to underline our commitment to covering socially relevant comics work with a renewed vigour. That will…

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Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine – An International Community of Palestinian Artists and Their Allies Respond to Events in Gaza

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 5, 2026

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is described as “an anthology of new short comics from an international community of Palestinian creators and their allies that speak to the Palestinian ability…

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The Shadow Out of Time – Another Masterly Lovecraft Adaptation by Gou Tanabe and Dark Horse

  • by Edward Picot
  • December 11, 2025

In the year 1908, Dr Nathaniel Peaslee is delivering a lecture in politics and economics at Miskatonic University, when he suddenly has an attack of some kind, and loses consciousness….

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A Little Step Vol. 1 – Teen Romance with an Aspirational Theme from Mimi Szeto and Nakama Press

  • by Edward Picot
  • December 9, 2025

In broad outline, A Little Step will be familiar to anyone who has come across the Studio Ghibli anime Whisper of the Heart. In Whisper of the Heart a girl…

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I Feel Awful, Thanks – Lara Pickle’s Fantasy Graphic Novel Confronts Themes of Anxiety, Stress, Bullying and Self-Worth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 27, 2025

Comics work centring on mental health awareness can broadly take two paths into communicating its message: a directly autobiographical or biographical route, or by embedding those ideas into fictional narrative….

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Colossive Cartographies #67 – Sheep, Wool and Crafts Are the Basis of Taran Taylor’s ‘Fleece and Fibre’ Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 26, 2025

Another batch of fold-out Colossive Cartographies zines launched a few weeks back ready for the Autumn with the first of these always worthy Colossive Press artist showcases spotlighting the practice…

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