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Tagged: climate change and the environment

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Drawn to Change the World – 16 Artists Tell the Stories of 16 Youth Climate Activists in Emma Reynolds’ Empowering and Outstanding Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! The most worrying thing about climate change is that we may already be beyond the point of no return in combatting humanity’s greatest existential threat. With vested…

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Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City – Mosco and Hu Introduce Younger Readers to the Natural World Around Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2023

In these times of deep environmental concern comics projects that raise ecological awareness and a love of the natural world among younger readers are vitally important. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature…

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The Last Day of Rain #1 and #2 – Claudia Matosa’s Ecological Sci-Fi Story Projects the Warnings of the Present on the Future

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Back in April at Broken Frontier we ran one of our themed coverage events with a special Earth Day Week of reviews on the site. The material featured…

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Rain – Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot Revisit the Catastrophic Floods of 2015 and Underline that an Ethical Ecological Approach Should Not Be a Prisoner of Privilege and Influence

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…

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Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror – Last Gasp’s Anthology Provides a Fittingly Bleak Collection of Environmental Terror Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Published as a 50th anniversary celebration of Last Gasp, Slow Death Zero takes the name of the underground publisher’s influential alt comics anthology, affixes an additional “numbering”…

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The Effluent Society – Norman Thelwell’s 1971 Collection is a Sad Reminder of How Little Our Attitudes to the Environment Have Changed in 50 Years

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! The idea that concern about the destructive effects of humanity’s interaction with the environment is a relatively recent one is, of course, entirely fallacious in its supposition….

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Junk Rabbit #1 – Jimmie Robinson Takes Us to a Dystopian Future of Trash Mountains and Domed Cities

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 19, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier our Earth Day-themed review coverage has looked at comics and the environment from the perspectives of graphic journalism, biography, anthologies, satire and…

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š! #44 – kuš! comics Go ‘Back to Nature’ as Artists from Five Continents Look at Our Relationship with the Environment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! As regular Broken Frontier readers will know we have been slowly building up a number of socially relevant resource lists of comics material on the site. In…

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Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear – Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung Bring the Subject of Conservation to a Younger Readership

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! While graphic journalism, graphic biography and comics social commentary on environmental issues is both valuable and vital in communicating and dissecting the realities involved another approach is…

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World War 3 Illustrated #52: Frontlines of Repair – From Environmental Disaster and the Pandemic to Community Building and Social Activism, the Acclaimed Left-Wing Comics Anthology Explores Our Approach to Our Broken World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…

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The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World – Our ‘Earth Day Week’ Begins at BF with this Groundbreaking Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! Where does one even begin with attempting to review such a colossal group effort as Dorling Kindersley’s The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save…

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A Day on the River (& Other Stories) – Giorgio Pandiani Tackles Climate Change, Pandemic Denial and Environmental Collapse in this Collection of Allegorical Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2023

Compiling four short stories all, to some degree, with environmental themes at their heart Giorgio Pandiani’s A Day on the River (& Other Stories) is an anthology offering that is…

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The Forest – Jacek Matysiak Takes Us on a Gorgeously Illustrated Trip through Europe’s Woodlands

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2022

We have never been too hung up on rigid definitions of what comics are and are not when it comes to our coverage choices here at Broken Frontier. Whether you…

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Inside Look: Salamanca Blues – Alba Ceide Gives Us an Intimate Insight into Her Creative Process on ‘Salamanca Blues’

  • by Alba Ceide
  • November 4, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! As part of our 20th birthday celebrations we’ve been running a number of creator pieces from our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists past and present…

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“The Lack of Appropriate Response from Governments to Tackle the Climate Crisis Triggered My Thoughts” – Alba Ceide on Her Ecologically-Focussed ‘Earth Blues’ Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 8, 2022

In the first of our series of interviews with Broken Frontier’s 2022 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists I chat today with Spanish artist Alba Ceide, whose ‘Earth Blues’ series of ecologically-focussed…

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Bad Island – Stanley Donwood’s Silent Ecological Narrative Parallels Our Own Descent into Environmental Catastrophe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2022

These are important times to be amplifying work in graphic narrative that explores the topical, the socially conscious, and the immediately relevant. Practice in these areas continues to grow, allowing…

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2022

“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…

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Salamanca Blues Part 1: Sand – Alba Ceide’s Latest Ecological Drama Marks Her First Longer-Form Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2022

With a timely relevance Alba Ceide’s Salamanca Blues Part 1 was recently launched on IndieGoGo, bringing her first longer-form work one step closer to a print edition. Part of Ceide’s…

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