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Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 3, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…

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“Art Can Serve as a Form of Resistance Long After Its Creators Have Perished” – Dave Maass on Taking the Concentration Camp-Written Opera ‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2024

Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis is one of the most remarkable projects to come out of the Berger Books line at Dark Horse Comics to date. This graphic novel is…

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“I Am Comfortable with My Lack of Faith” – Miriam Katin on the Paperback Edition of ‘We Are on Our Own’, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 28, 2023

It has been a little over 15 years since Hungarian-born American artist Miriam Katin’s award-winning memoir We Are on Our Own (the story of Katin and her mother’s escape from…

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Inside Look: Shame Pudding – Danny Noble Provides a Creator Commentary on Her Acclaimed Graphic Memoir of Jewish Family Life and Eccentric Grandmas

  • by Danny Noble
  • October 24, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In 2015 cartoonist Danny Noble was among the number of our very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme; an initiative that, perhaps…

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Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2022

What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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LDN – RAMZEE and Company Take Us on a Tour of the Vibrancy and Diversity of a Capital City

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…

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Be Gay, Do Comics – “Queer History, Memoir and Satire” in an Outstanding Comics Anthology from The Nib and IDW Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2020

With an Ignatz Award win over the weekend in the category of Outstanding Anthology our review subject today is a timely one. Be Gay, Do Comics celebrates the queer experience…

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“It’s One Thing Telling My Own Misadventures, but Dragging My Family into it Too… that Was Always in the Back of My Mind” – Danny Noble on Her Witty and Touchingly Observed Graphic Memoir ‘Shame Pudding’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2020

Danny Noble’s comics have been extensively featured here since 2014 when we first covered her autobiographical work in the pages of Monday Morning. She was one of our original Broken…

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Shame Pudding – Danny Noble’s Loving Celebration of Jewish Grandmothers is a Beautifully Constructed Mix of Pathos and Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2020

In graphic memoir Shame Pudding, artist Danny Noble takes a markedly different approach to autobiographical comics work than her past practice in this area. Noble, one of Broken Frontier’s first…

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The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland – Carol Isaacs Provides a Haunting Account of Persecution in Mid-Twentieth Century Iraq

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2020

Carol Isaacs, aka The Surreal McCoy, is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Spectator and the Sunday Times. Her debut graphic novel The Wolf of…

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The Book of Sarah – Profound Truths Rest Between the Covers of Sarah Lightman’s Autobiographical Graphic Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2019

To describe Sarah Lightman’s The Book of Sarah as simply autobiography would be to miss the important questions it also poses on identity, belonging and the familial threads that connect…

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Fixed Up #1-3 – A Compelling Catalogue of Romantic Mishaps from South African Creator Ian Norris

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 21, 2014

“The story of one man’s journey from a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy teenager in Cape Town to a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy adult in Oxford”  is how Ian Norris’s autobiographical comic Fixed…

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Fagin the Jew

  • by Evan Henry
  • August 21, 2013

Comics legend Will Eisner’s insightful treatment of Dickensian tropes sheds light on dark issues of prejudice and bigotry. Dark Horse Comics presents a new printing of Will Eisner’s graphic novel…

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