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“Portrayal of a Person with a Long Term Disability Living Their Life is So Rare” – Jeremy Whitley on ‘Navigating with You’, His Slice-of-Life Graphic Novel Collaboration with Cassio Ribeiro

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • January 10, 2025

Recently named as one of the School Library Journal’s Best Graphic Novels of 2024 writer Jeremy Whitley, artist Cassio Ribeiro and letterer Nikki Foxrobot’s Navigating with You, from Mad Cave’s Maverick…

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Blinded #1 – A Tour-de-Force Showcase for the Letterer’s Craft in Rob Jones and Joe S. Farrar’s Experimental Story of Coming to Terms with Losing Your Sight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2024

Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…

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Comic Art and Zine Fair Organiser’s Accessibility Checklist – New Guide from the Comics Cultural Impact Committee Will Be Available in Print at Thought Bubble

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 8, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! A very important press release today from our friends at the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. For comics event organisers you can now download their Comic Art…

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“Being an Ally Boils Down to Speaking Up When You See Wrongs” – C.K. Carpenter Talks About the Aims and Ethos of the Upcoming ‘unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology’

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • September 17, 2024

Coming to Kickstarter this week the unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology is “a 64-page comic anthology amplifying underrepresented voices in the disability and neurodivergent communities.” Exactly the kind of…

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You’re Just Lazy Vol. 1 – Bee Poole Takes a Multi-Directional Approach to Depicting the Realities of Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2024

From a Broken Frontier perspective Small Press Day is one of the most rewarding days of the year not simply because BF has an organisational role in it, and thus…

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“I Feel Like ‘The Jellyfish’ is the Most Personal Book I’ve Ever Made” — An Interview with Boum on Her Pow Pow Press Graphic Medicine Story

  • by François Vigneault
  • May 1, 2024

The cartoonist Boum (AKA Samantha Leriche-Gionet) has been a key member of the vibrant Montreal comics scene for over a decade. Her slice-of-life webcomic Boumeries, which with great savvy she…

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Colossive Cartographies #52 – Becky Bell’s Short Comic ‘Be Brave’ Combines Graphic Medicine and a Celebration of Family Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2024

Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies have become such a well-regarded series of zines not simply because of the clever ways in which each creator uses the Turkish Map Fold format to…

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“Beauty is Not Only to Be Seen by Our Eyes” – Xiaoyi Hu on Bringing the World of the Visually-Impaired to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! With 2024 bringing our tenth intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to wider recognition we’re looking forward to celebrating…

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Ogi’s Summer Break Vol. 1 – Koikawa Gives Us a Queer Love Story with a Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! One of the more telling claims made by those who object to socially conscious themes in mainstream comics is that manga’s rise in popularity is due in…

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Fire Flowers – Xiaoyi Hu’s Riso Comic Follows a Young Blind Woman’s Walk Around Her Neighbourhood and Treats Us to a Journey of Parallel Perceptions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2023

We talk a lot about the tactile possibilities of self-publishing here at Broken Frontier but Xiaoyi Hu’s comic Fire Flowers adds extra emphasis on that quality (as can be seen…

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Komi Can’t Communicate – Tomohito Oda’s Story About Rejecting the Stigmatization of Disability and Embracing One’s Talent Instead

  • by Anson Leung
  • July 20, 2022

Tomohito Oda’s Komi Can’t Communicate focusses on a boy helping a girl navigate through high school life. It is a friendship story that has the distinct twist of the girl,…

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Coma – Zara Slattery’s Much Anticipated Graphic Memoir Proves to Be a Remarkable Debut Long-Form Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2021

To class the collaborative nature of a comics narrative as “unique” runs the obvious risk of accusations of hyperbole. But Coma, the debut long-form comics work from artist Zara Slattery,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Thud – Mikaël Ross Explores Themes of Developmental Disability, Community and Mortality in a Poignant Tale from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2021

Mikaël Ross’s The Thud takes its inspiration from the real life inclusive German village of Neuerkerode, a location largely populated and run by residents with learning disabilities. Ross spent two…

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There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up – David Biskup Presents “a True Story About Chronic Illness, Disability and Love” in this Exemplary Use of Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 16, 2020

At the East London Comics and Arts Festival in 2019 David Biskup’s There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up won the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award. The prize gives…

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The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott – Zoe Thorogood’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill is a Confident and Accomplished Book from an Important New Voice in UK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2020

I don’t think I have ever known a year quite like 2020 for outstanding graphic novel debuts from UK-based creators. Of course there’s a surrounding sadness to that statement in…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Reverse Flâneur – M. Sabine Rear Explores Contemporary Art and Being Visible as a Blind Woman in Her Ignatz-Nominated Minicomic

  • by Robin Enrico
  • November 15, 2018

Reverse Flâneur by M. Sabine Rear is a travelogue in multiple senses of the word. On one hand it serves as vicarious document of Rear’s time visiting art museums in…

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Mis(h)adra – Iasmin Omar Ata’s Distinctive Take on Graphic Medicine Chronicles a Life Living with Epilepsy

  • by Robin Enrico
  • June 27, 2018

It is always heartening to see a cartoonist at an early stage in their career getting the opportunity to do large-scale paid work as is the case with Iasmin Omar…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain) – Robert Wells Puts the ‘Graphic’ in ‘Graphic Medicine’ in His Bleakly Funny Comics Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2018

It seems appropriate today, given that it’s the deadline day for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, to be giving some time to a book that was shortlisted for…

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