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“Criminalization of Marginalized Identity is Something We’ve Seen Grow… in Recent Years” – buttercup on Their Magical Girl Comic ‘UM’ and Portraying the Realities of Queer Black Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2024

With titles like Fizzle, Días De Consuelo and Spiny Orb Weaver, US comics micropublisher and distro Radiator Comics have already established themselves as champions of genuinely indie and socially relevant work….

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Radiator Comics to Publish Vol. 1 of Cosmic Fantasy ‘UM’ by buttercup

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2024

While we gear up for tomorrow’s big Broken Frontier Awards announcement here’s a press release today from the ever excellent Radiator Comics, who will be bringing UM by buttercup to…

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Spiny Orb Weaver #2 and #3 – Drew Lerman, Christopher López, Jamila Rowser & buttercup Provide Another Showcase for the South Florida Comics Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2021

Rounding out the first “season” of Spiny Orb Weaver – the spotlight publication on artists from the South Florida scene – the second and third issues of this Radiator Comics…

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