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“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2022

Generally in the preamble to an interview we summarise the topic in hand with a brief overview of creator/project. But in the case of of R.D. Hunter’s Black Boy’s Blues:…

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Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2022

What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez Bring Forgotten Stories to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2022

The winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2021, writer Rebecca Hall and artist Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is not…

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Montana Diary – Whit Taylor’s Engaging Travelogue Explores Issues of Climate Change, Racism and White Privilege

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2022

It’s a marker of the distinctive properties of comics narrative that sometimes so much more can be expressed and communicated with an economy of line than the most detailed artwork…

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LDN – RAMZEE and Company Take Us on a Tour of the Vibrancy and Diversity of a Capital City

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…

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Ode to Keisha – Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar Give Us a Quietly Powerful Tale of Childhood Friendship, Race and Identity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2021

Many of us can no doubt remember that one special friend from our childhood whose presence in our lives became such a vital and important experience that years (or even…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Knock Out! – The True Story of Bisexual Black Boxer Emile Griffith Recounted by Reinhard Kleist and SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2021

There’s a quote from Emile Griffith that is the first thing the reader sees when opening Knock Out!, Reinhard Kleist’s exploration of the life of the bisexual Black boxer whose…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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White All Around – A Flawed But Powerful Tale of the Fight for Education That Has Strong Contemporary Resonance

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 4, 2021

White All Around, translated by Montana Kane from Blanc autour, the bande dessinée by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert, tells the important story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School –…

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The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear – Florian Grosset’s Unforgettable Account of an International Scandal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2021

The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear may seem like an unwieldy title for a book but sometimes getting the point across from the…

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Chad in Amsterdam #1-5 – Chad Bilyeu’s “Misadventures of an Atypical American Living in Amsterdam” Have a Perceptive Pekar-esque Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2021

I feel I’ve used the term Pekar-esque a little too freely at Broken Frontier of late. But in the case of Chad Bilyeu’s Chad in Amsterdam it seems particularly appropriate…

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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History – David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s Comics Biography is a Remarkable and Essential Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2021

Over half a century since the formation of the Black Panther Party – the African American revolutionary party founded in Oakland in 1966 by students Bobbly Seale and Huey P….

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The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town – Robyn Smith Explores the Spaces Where Blackness and Mental Health Converge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2021

The last time we reviewed the work of Robyn Smith at Broken Frontier it was when we covered her collaboration with writer Jamila Rowser on the short comic Wash Day…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Being Black and Working Class – RAMZEE’s Autobio Webcomic Offering is a Succinctly Impactful Piece from the Khidr Comix Lab Platform

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2021

At the end of last year we ran an interview with Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi of Khidr Comix Lab, a new digital micropublishing venture seeking to provide a platform…

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“I Wanted to Fill the Void I Saw in the Representation of More Diverse Characters” – Shangomola Edunjobi on Manga, Process and Developing Your Comics Craft

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 13, 2020

The fifth of our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator interviews today is with Shangomola Edunjobi, a Manga Jiman Competition winner and self-publishing comics artist whose work I first…

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Black Women in History – Charlot Kristensen’s Zine of Illustrated Mini-Biographies is a Perfect Read for UK Black History Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2020

Over the years at Broken Frontier I have, on occasion, chosen to take a step back from pure comics to cover wider graphic narrative work from the creators we feature…

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“I Feel Anthologies Are a Gateway into the Past and Our History as Comic Creators” – Lawrence Lindell Talks about ‘The BAYlies’ Featuring the Work of 22 Bay Area Cartoonists of Color and Queer Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2020

Earlier this year we reviewed Lawrence Lindell’s autobiographical comic From Truth with Truth exploring identity, mental health awareness, Blackness and recovery. Expressively candid, Lindell’s powerfully connective work has been one…

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When Stars Are Scattered – Victoria Jamieson Adapts Omar Mohamed’s Poignant Coming-of-Age Story of Escaping the Somali Civil War and Growing Up in a Refugee Camp

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2020

Comics has proved to be an ideal format for explorations of the refugee crisis over the last few years. From Broken Frontier Award-winning offerings like the Red Cross’s Over Under…

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What We Don’t Talk About – Charlot Kristensen’s Exploration of Racism, Privilege and Interracial Relationships Marks the Emergence of a Major New Voice in Indie Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2020

Kristensen’s vibrant visual characterisation, immersive employment of colour and playful sense of pacing marks her out as a genuinely exciting new emerging talent to watch. Those were my words earlier…

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