Broken Frontier

    Exploring The Comics Universe

    • FacebookFacebook
    • TwitterTwitter
    • RSS FeedRSS Feed
    • Home
    • About
    • Blog
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Resource Lists
    • Contact us
    • Join BF
    • Events
    • Patrons

    Tagged: mental health awareness

    Reviews

    3

    Shape of Sadness – destinationplutoo’s Delightful Comic Explores How We Can Accept the Everyday Realities of Our Own Feelings of Sadness

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 28, 2025

    LDC ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It seems that every time I think we have finished up with our LDC Online Comics Fair coverage for this year that I find one…

    Reviews

    0

    Pieces of Me (Excerpt) – Maia Iotzova Looks at the Structure of a Fractured Mind Through an Exploration of a Mental Breakdown 

    • by Gary Usher
    • July 25, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Maia Iotzova graduated from the University of Guelph, Canada with a BA in Fine Arts, working in the fields of film and comics among others….

    Reviews

    0

    Bird’s Eye View – Online Avian Obsession from Asia Kazub Taken to Horrific Extremes 

    • by Gary Usher
    • July 3, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Asia Kazub is originally from Poland and currently resides in Norfolk, UK. According to their website, they graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in…

    Features

    0

    “I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic Journey

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 23, 2025

    Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…

    Reviews

    0

    Detached Vol. 1-4 – Angela Oddling’s Series Offers a Uniquely Apt Perspective on Mental Health Struggles

    • by Lydia Turner
    • December 20, 2024

    Detached by Angela Oddling, is an ongoing comic series which began in 2018, and first published in 2022, in which Oddling explores her mental health journey, and subsequent diagnosis with…

    Reviews

    0

    Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus

    • by Andy Oliver
    • December 10, 2024

    In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…

    Reviews

    0

    Clay Footed Giants – Mad Cave Studios’ New Tragicomic Asks, “Can We Fix Our Present by Understanding Our Past?”

    • by Lydia Turner
    • November 27, 2024

    Clay Footed Giants from Alain Chevarier and Mark McGuire is a deep, multi-faceted graphic novel, examining family trauma, modern masculinity and parenting. Published by Mad Cave Studios, and marketed as…

    Reviews

    0

    The Scrapbook of Life and Death – Edwardian Oddities and Mental Health Converge in J. Webster Sharp’s Dark Collection of Tales

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 8, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! George Ives’ life, even in synopsis, makes for fascinating reading. Born in 1867 he was a writer, a…

    Reviews

    1

    The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse – Themes of Transness, the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora, Mental Health and the Pandemic Are Covered in this Candid Autobio Offering

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 6, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…

    Reviews

    0

    Everything’s Fine: An Autobiographic Short – Cara Brown’s Hugely Promising Self-Publishing Debut Explores Themes of Finding Your Place in the World

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 29, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s impossible to know with any degree of certainty the degree to which comics like Cara Brown’s Everything’s Fine provide an element of catharsis for their…

    Features

    0

    “I’m Just One Voice in Autism Representation” – Emilia Strilchuk on Neurodivergence and Comics, Mental Health, and Her Graphic Memoir ‘Be Yourself! Oh, Not Like That’

    • by Ellie Egleton
    • October 23, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the international creators whose work you should be looking out for at Thought Bubble this year is Emilia Strilchuk who will be at Harrogate with…

    Reviews

    0

    Look Again – Recovering from Trauma is Thoughtfully Unpacked in Elizabeth A. Trembley’s Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books

    • by Lydia Turner
    • May 31, 2024

    “To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…

    Reviews

    0

    Sunflowers – Keezy Young’s Remarkable and Powerful Account of Living with Bipolar Disorder from Silver Sprocket

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 22, 2024

    There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…

    Reviews

    0

    Plant Daddy – Plants, Gardening and Mental Health Come Together in Neil Watson-Slorance’s Touching Minicomic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 27, 2024

    Comics that deal with grief – especially the kind that comes from losing a close loved one – have long been providing creators with an outlet to process their feelings….

    Reviews

    0

    A Haunted Girl – Issues of Mental Health Awareness Raised in this Supernatural Thriller from Ethan & Naomi Sacks and Marco Lorenzana

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 14, 2024

    While the majority of the comics projects listed on our Broken Frontier Mental Health Awareness Resource List are autobiographical in nature it is important to remember that escapist fiction can…

    Reviews

    0

    Barking – Mental Health and Grief Explored in the Starkest Visual Metaphor in Lucy Sullivan’s Haunting Graphic Novel, Now Republished by Avery Hill

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 28, 2024

    This isn’t something we normally do at Broken Frontier but on this occasion it would feel critically irresponsible not to re-run our review of Lucy Sullivan’s Barking, given the new…

    Reviews

    0

    Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 4, 2024

    10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…

    Reviews

    0

    Complicated Young Man – Tom Philipson’s Experimental Anthology Explores His Mental Health from a Bleakly Humorous Viewpoint

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 3, 2023

    THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Tom Philipson describes his Thought Bubble-debuting collection Complicated Young Man (from CoCo Comics) as “my experimental comics anthology”. At 20-plus pages compiling strips from the last six months…

    • Next Page »
    • Broken Frontier Anthology


      312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
      Limited copies available!
      Buy now
    • Recommended Reads!

      • Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 4 – “So-Called Artificial Intelligence Has Been Crafted in Service to Power”September 10, 2025
      • Cartoonists for Gaza Extra: Sweaty Eyes – Read AJ O’Neill’s Short Comic Story Here at Broken FrontierSeptember 10, 2025
      • Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne HalbertAugust 29, 2025
      • Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BFAugust 27, 2025
      • Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy TristramAugust 27, 2025
    • Home
    • mental health awareness
    • About us

      Broken Frontier is a comic book and graphic novel news site established in 2002. Our international team of staff writers covers quality stories from all corners of the comics universe, with a penchant for independent and creator-owned material.
      Our mission - Join us
    • Recent Posts

      • The Hive Vol. 1 – An Ultra-Violent Thrill-a-Minute Crime Caper from Lieberman, Henderson, Azpiazu and Image Comics
      • Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me – Mimi Pond Makes History Lessons Cool Again With Her D+Q Biography of an Oddly Intriguing Family 
      • Strategies for Survival – Abod Nasser’s Account of Reinventing Life in Gaza in the Midst of Genocide
      • Jessica Farm – Fantagraphics’ Collection of Josh Simmons’ Quarter of a Century Work-in-Progress Story Captures a Unique Experiment in the Form
    • Search

    • Looking for BF content from before the current version of the site? Access it here.
    • Home
    • Blog
    • Columns
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Resource Lists
    • Contact us
    • Patrons
    • FacebookFacebook
    • TwitterTwitter
    • RSS FeedRSS Feed

    © 2002-2015 Broken Frontier - Privacy & Disclaimer