Small Press Spotlight on… Olivia Sullivan
One of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Olivia Sullivan (aka Zen Bucko) first came to prominence on the UK small press scene – as so…
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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Wired Up Wrong Deluxe Version – Rachael Smith Returns to Her Accessible and Touching Comics Exploration of Depression and Anxiety
Creator Rachael Smith (Doctor Who, Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure) has been a long-term fixture here at Broken Frontier over the last few years. We’ve followed her work from…
Self-Care and Vegetables – Rozi Hathaway’s Comics Journal of Recovery
DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! In the time since 2014 that we have been covering the work of Rozi Hathaway here at Broken Frontier her comics have, arguably, become known for…
Mania – Nominally a Comic Book Exploration of the Negative Stigma of Mental Illness from A.L.Ex Studios
The premise of Mania, the series of comics put out by A.L.Ex Studios and soon to number three issues, had promise. Nothing new in the dystopian metropolis, the super-powered renegades, the…
Brain Shoodles – Emily B. Owen’s Zine Exploration of Depression and Mental Health Reminds Us that Anxiety is a Shared Experience
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! It seems particularly appropriate to be covering Emily B. Owen’s zine-style minicomic Brain Shoodles in the week of Small Press Day not just because it…
Time May Change Me – Jayde Perkin Explores Grief and the Bonds of Music in a Poignant Autobio Offering
ELCAF WEEK! “When I said goodbye to my mum and dad at the airport, I had no idea it would be the last time I’d see her with no wires,…
Mental Health Awareness Week – If You Do Just One Thing this Week Why Not Read and Share a Relevant Comic?
Hi, hello and good morning/afternoon! I hope your day finds you well. This week I would to talk to you all about mental health because, as you may already know,…
Comics Resources for Mental Health Awareness Week – From Laura Knetzger to Kim Clements, Rachael Smith to Ravi Thornton and Beyond
This week marks Mental Health Awareness Week with the hashtag for this awareness-raising event already trending here on Twitter over the course of the day. With the arrival and rise…
A Thousand Coloured Castles – Graphic Medicine Meets Twee Middle Class Suburbia in Gareth Brookes’s Darkly Comedic Triumph
MYRIAD WEEK! This re-imagining of twee middle class suburbia, as seen through the fractured lens of a distinctively Brookesian eyeglass, is a visual triumph. There are things we have come…
“I Felt that Comics Could Play Various Roles Within the Theatre of Healthcare” – Ian Williams on Comics as Social Activism and the Birth of Graphic Medicine
MYRIAD WEEK! He’s the gent who gave us the term ‘graphic medicine’ and the original driving force behind the respected website of the same name. He’s also a comics self-publisher…
The Facts of Life – Childlessness and Definitions of Family Examined in Paula Knight’s Myriad Graphic Memoir
MYRIAD WEEK! This is graphic memoir that doesn’t just communicate the issues involved and question the assumptions surrounding them, but crucially also acts as an accessible repository of shared experience…
Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth – Henny Beaumont’s Uncompromising Graphic Memoir on Raising a Daughter with Down’s Syndrome
MYRIAD WEEK! The pure humanity of Hole in the Heart so ably emphasises the inherent joy of the mother-daughter bond. As with yesterday’s first Myriad Week review, Henny Beaumont’s Hole in…
In-Between Days – Teva Harrison Reveals the Truth of Living, With or Without Cancer
Emotionally raw and at times brutally honest, Teva Harrison’s memoir chronicling her life as a metastatic cancer patient is graphic medicine at its finest. A few years ago, my grandfather…
HOAX Our Right to Hope – Ravi Thornton Talks About Tackling Stigma Around Mental Health Issues Via the Cross-Media HOAX Project
In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…
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Seagram – David Biskup’s Pure Visual Storytelling Powerfully Communicates the Experience of Living with PTSD
Graphic medicine with a most distinctive approach to its subject matter, David Biskup’s Seagram interweaves the artist Mark Rothko, and the later vandalism of his Seagram murals, with a tale…
Wired Up Wrong – Rachael Smith’s Accessible Exploration of Mental Health Issues May Be Her Most Important Work to Date
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I can point to any number of reasons to enjoy Rachael Smith’s work – her nuanced characterisation, her expressive cartooning or her authentic use of dialogue, for…
At War with Yourself – A Sensitive Exploration of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from Samuel C. Williams and Singing Dragon
The greatest strength of Samuel C. Williams’s At War with Yourself – another graphic medicine offering from the ever burgeoning Singing Dragon line – is that it tackles a complex…
Embroidered Cancer Comic – Humour in the Face of Adversity in the Latest Graphic Medicine Offering from Singing Dragon
This brief but always touching read brings us into its characters’ world with a warmth and sincerity that belies its fleeting page count. Singing Dragon have been building up a most…
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