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“I Think There’s Always Going to Be a Negotiation Between Sharing and Oversharing when You Make Autobiographical Work” – Eleanor Crewes On Her Critically Acclaimed ‘The Times I Knew I Was Gay’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2018

Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…

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Staff Picks for April 4, 2018 – Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, The Times I Knew I Was Gay, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 4, 2018

It’s 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 storefront,…

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The Times I Knew I Was Gay – Eleanor Crewes Combines Comics and Illustrated Prose in this Witty and Quietly Poignant Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2018

Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…

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Exclusive Preview: The Times I Knew I Was Gay – Eleanor Crewes’ Acclaimed Autobio Graphic Narrative to Be Published by Good Comics in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2018

Synchronicity. This time last year I was reviewing the original version of The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes – an artist who was new to me at…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Tuesday March 21st with Guest Artists Jamie Coe, Alex Hahn and Eleanor Crewes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2017

It’s D&D time again! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this coming Tuesday March 21st with another fabulous threesome of peerless practitioners of pencilling prowess in Jamie…

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The Times I Knew I Was Gay – Eleanor Crewes’ Reflective Autobio Vignettes Make an Immediate Connection with the Reader

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2017

Eleanor Crewes’ The Times I Knew I Was Gay is probably better classified as a fragmentary graphic narrative than, strictly speaking, a comic. Some of the vignettes here have their…

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