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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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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