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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2022

“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…

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“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2021

Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…

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The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel’s Book about Physicality Proves to Be Almost Entirely Cerebral

  • by Jenny Robins
  • July 15, 2021

The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…

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‘The Secret to Superhuman Strength’ Cover Reveal – New Alison Bechdel Graphic Memoir to Be Published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in May 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 16, 2021

Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated releases of 2021. Published in the UK this May by Jonathan Cape, the cover to the…

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Dragman – Steven Appleby’s Unique Take on the Super-Hero World is Both Ambitious and Engaging

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 21, 2020

In recent years, Steven Appleby has been heard on occasion to speak two words in particular about what good art should be: ‘ambitious’ and ‘engaging’. Dragman is, of course, both….

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Glass Town – Part Speculative Biography, Part Metafiction, Isabel Greenberg Brings the Brontë Juvenilia to Comics in Her Most Accomplished Work to Date

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2020

Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…

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Flake – Matthew Dooley’s Tale of Warring Ice Cream Men is a Perfect Blend of Absurdism and Humanity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2020

There’s something of the psychogeographical to the opening of Matthew Dooley’s Flake. Dooley, of course, is a Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica short story competition winner and a prolific fixture on the UK…

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A Puff of Smoke – Sarah Lippett’s Touching Memoir of Childhood Illness is a Tribute to Family and Resilience

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 25, 2020

I’m sure it’s in the post, as they say, but I’ve always been uncommonly jammy with my health. Having lumbered around the earth for half a century now, I’ve never…

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Staff Picks for February 5, 2020 – Glass Town, The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time, EC Archives: Psychoanalysis and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 2020

It’s nearly 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 event or digital…

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Staff Picks for October 2, 2019 – Rusty Brown, Kai and the Monkey King, Ruby Falls, Dead Eyes and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 1, 2019

It’s nearly 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 event or digital…

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A Puff of Smoke – An Exhibition of Sarah Lippett’s New Jonathan Cape Graphic Memoir Comes to East London this November

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2019

Three years ago at Broken Frontier I covered Sarah Lippett’s graphic memoir Stan and Nan here; a comics record of the life of the grandfather she never knew and the…

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The Drunken Sailor – Nick Hayes Breathes Life into French Poet and Surrealist Arthur Rimbaud’s Story

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 18, 2019

In 1871, the French poet, surrealist, traveller, soldier, trader, arms dealer, and explorer Arthur Rimbaud wrote a poem called Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat). He was 16 at the…

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Staff Picks for October 31, 2018 – Cassandra Darke, Sex Death Revolution, Through a Life and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 30, 2018

It’s nearly 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 event or digital…

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Livestock – Hannah Berry’s Socio-Political Parable is a Brilliant, Brutally Relevant Final Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AWARD WINNER AND BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD NOMINEE! When 2017 Broken Frontier Award-winning creator Hannah Berry announced last year in an interview with our…

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The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg Returns to the World of Early Earth in a Triumphant Sequel from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2017

Back in 2013 Isabel Greenberg was the winner of the Breakout Talent category in our annual Broken Frontier Awards for her much lauded debut graphic novel The Encyclopedia of Early…

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Staff Picks for May 24, 2017 – Livestock, On the Camino, The Normals, Your Black Friend and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2017

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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“A Good Stick Has Many Possibilities” – Glamping Chat with the Decie Family on Joe Decie’s ‘Collecting Sticks’ from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2017

Glamorous camping? Can there really be such a thing? Joe Decie’s new book Collecting Sticks from Jonathan Cape recounts the Decie family’s “glamping” holiday – camping from the “comfort” of…

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Collecting Sticks – Go Glamping with the Decies in this Autobio/Fantasy Hybrid from Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2017

Collecting Sticks is the perfect showcase offering for the singular talents of this most distinctive practitioners of autobio comics. I will confess to never having heard the term “glamping” before…

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