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    Tagged: conundrum press

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    The Unknown – Anna Sommer’s Interlinked Parallel Narratives Make for a Compelling Study of Human Frailties

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 6, 2020

    What makes the characters in Anna Sommer’s The Unknown so compelling is that they are all such flawed and, in some cases, almost broken individuals. Yet such is the subtlety…

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    Nothing to See Here – Howard Chackowicz’s Conundrum Press Collection of Cartoons Ranges from the Uncompromisingly Crude to the Surprisingly Profound

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 3, 2020

    Strictly speaking, Canadian indie artist Howard Chackowicz’s Nothing to See Here isn’t actually comics given that it’s a book of mostly single illustration cartoons. But this Conundrum Press collection of…

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    Wage Slaves – Daria Bogdańska Exposes Immigrant Exploitation in Bold Graphic Memoir from Centrala

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • March 19, 2020

    Wage Slaves brings an audacious openness to some unknown realities: being an immigrant and having very little money, and the ease at which certain employers and institutions can exploit these…

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    Plummet – Experience a Life in Freefall in Sherwin Tjia’s Fantastic Tale of Survival and Human Nature from Conundrum Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 6, 2020

    The lurching feeling in your stomach as you find yourself endlessly falling into a void. It’s a triggering sensation that will have abruptly woken many of us from our slumber…

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    Simon & Louise – Max de Radiguès Explores Teenage Love and Summer Separation in a Beautifully Understated Slice-of-Life Tale

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 28, 2019

    One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…

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    Taxi!: Stories from the Back Seat – Aimée de Jongh’s Collection of Interweaving Encounters with Taxi Drivers Has a Quiet and Compelling Humanity

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 4, 2019

    Some of the most powerful slice-of-life work speaks to us so eloquently not through an overt attempt at ostentatious profoundness but rather because it reveals familiar truths with a quiet…

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    Flem – Rebecca Rosen’s Fever Dream of a Graphic Novel Traces the Course of a Young Life in Crisis

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 9, 2019

    Rebecca Rosen’s Flem is a deliberately challenging comic on a number of levels. It’s a book which asks the reader to interpret and find meaning in its protagonist Julia Maarten’s…

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    On Vinyl – Lorenz Peter’s Ode to Collecting Reminds Us of the Intimate Relationship Between Nostalgia and Melancholy

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 23, 2019

    Almost a sequential art ode to (specifically) vinyl records, and more generally to the joy of collecting and the nostalgia rush it brings, Lorenz Peter’s On Vinyl comes to us courtesy…

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    The Vagabond Valise – Siris Brings the Harsh Realities of the Foster Family System of ’60s/’70s Quebec to Grim Life in an Unforgettable Piece of Autobio Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 1, 2019

    Combining the starkest humour, a line in energetic yet bleak slapstick, and the rawest autobiography, The Vagabond Valise by Siris (published by Conundrum Press) traces the artist’s story from the…

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    Weegee: Serial Photographer – Max de Radiguès and Wauter Mannaert Take Us to 1930s New York in Conundrum Press’s Fascinating Graphic Biography

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 23, 2018

    “Tragedy comes to New Yorkers so naturally…” So says Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, a renowned figure on the 1930s-40s New York press beat in one key sequence in the pages…

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    Norths – An Appealing Circumpolar Family Adventure from Alison McCreesh and Conundrum Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 31, 2018

    A comics travelogue with a markedly different structure from the norm, Alison McCreesh’s Norths from Conundrum Press is both a window into the peculiar realities of living above the 60th…

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    Staff Picks for September 13, 2017 – Spinning, Dalston Monsterzz, Retcon, The Realm and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 12, 2017

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…

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    The Palace of Champions – The Dizzying, Whirling and Claustrophobic Visual Language of Henriette Valium

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 2, 2017

    A long overdue compilation of work from this vital figure in Canadian indie comics. Henriette Valium, aka Patrick Henley, is recognised as one of the most important French-Canadian cartoonists of…

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    Staff Picks for June 8, 2016 – Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy, The Black Dahlia, Midnight of the Soul, Metroland, The Ghosts We Know and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • June 7, 2016

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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    Blackbird – Pierre Maurel’s Tale of Fugitive Zinesters Highlights the Irrepressible Spirit of DIY Culture

    • by Tom Murphy
    • May 27, 2016

    In a scenario that will send shudders through a sizeable chunk of our readership, Pierre Maurel’s graphic novel Blackbird depicts a world in which self-publishing becomes illegal. We’re a broad-minded lot here…

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    Staff Picks for April 27, 2016 – 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, Wet Moon, Blackbird, Cluster and Black Magick

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • April 26, 2016

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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    Staff Picks for September 30, 2015 – Becoming Unbecoming, From Under Mountains, Long Red Hair, 2000 AD and More

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 29, 2015

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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    Staff Picks for September 2, 2015 – The Rabbit, Plutona, Dharma Punks, Prison Island, Sacred Heart and More

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 1, 2015

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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