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The Weight – D+Q Gives Melissa Mendes’s Beautiful Webcomic the Attention It Has Long Deserved

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 9, 2025

A decade or so ago, while speaking about her plan for The Weight, which had yet to be completed, American artist Melissa Mendes spoke of her love of family sagas that spanned generations….

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Cartoonists for Palestine – 60 Comics Creators Respond to the Genocide in Gaza in this Essential Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….

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Staff Picks for May 11, 2016 – Lou, Island, Pop Gun War, A City Inside, The Twilight Children and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 10, 2016

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…

The Weight (Melissa Mendes)

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The Weight #1 and #2 – Melissa Mendes Offers Intimate Comics Storytelling at Its Very Best

  • by Tom Murphy
  • July 2, 2015

In her long-form tale of depression-era childhood, Melissa Mendes draws on her family history to create a rich portrait of a young girl and the confusing, often brutal world around her….

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Lou #1-15

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2013

Melissa Mendes’s Lou follows the adventures of the titular 9-year-old tomboy, her two brothers – the younger John and older Eddie, and an extended cast of friends and family. Published by…

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