It is not uncommon for us here at Broken Frontier to revisit self-published projects when they are picked up by publishers to provide commentary that both repurposes previous reviews and…
I cannot ever envisage a point where the slightly naughty wordplay of Huda Fahmy’s graphic novel titles will ever get wearisome. The follow-up to Huda F Are You? her most…
It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…
The beauty of comics is that, in terms of connecting with readers on an emotional level, they are such a sophisticated visual storytelling form that sometimes less really is more….
It’s been quite a while since I last chatted with Sabba Khan here at Broken Frontier and, in the intervening years, our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has…
With a title that uses a simple but wonderfully catchy play on words Huda Fahmy’s Huda F Are You? is another collection of the cartoonist’s experiences as an American Muslim…
One of the greatest strengths of comics as a form is its ability to communicate experiences with a profound eloquence in an often concise and deceptively minimalist way. Huda Fahmy’s…
Priya Huq’s debut graphic novel, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab, is a fine example of how the comics form so effectively brings us into the lived experiences…
To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…
We were delighted to see today on Twitter that #ArtMubarak, the hashtag-led social media event aiming to celebrate art from the Muslim community and uplift the voices of Muslim artists from…
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One of the rising stars of the indie comics scene Shazleen Khan has just launched the Kickstarter for volume 3 of the print edition of webcomics series Buuza!!, the much…
One of a crop of outstanding British first-time graphic novels to hit the shelves in 2020, Mongrel by Sayra Begum incorporates autobiographical elements elements to tell the story of Shuna,…
At the end of last year at Broken Frontier we spoke to creators Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi about the books coming from their new micropublishing digital line Khidr Comix…
It’s no secret that online promotion of artists and their practice has taken on a whole new added level of importance since March. Today on Twitter Shazleen Khan (creator of…
Shazleen Khan’s webcomic series Buuza!! gained notable recognition here at Broken Frontier when our readers and team voted it Best Webcomic in our 2019 Awards. Khan’s tale of “found family,…
Sayra Begum’s Mongrel is perhaps an atypical publication to come to us from the celebrated Knockabout Comics, whose reputation was built on titles with a distinctively underground and alt edge….
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Shazleen Khan describes her 2019 Broken Frontier Award-winning webcomic Buuza!! as bring about “found family, diaspora and religion, set in an urban fantasy 90s Middle East and central Asia.” Last…
Having enjoyed her self-published work in the past, I’ve been wanting to give Shazleen Khan’s comics some Broken Frontier space for some time now but have sadly never quite managed…
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