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Laneha House #6 – Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez Cover Mental Health Awareness, Black Lives Matter, and Meta Comic Strips in Their Latest Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2023

In this post-2020 era time can sometimes take on a deceptive quality. That seems to be very much the case sometimes when I check on our coverage of some of…

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Not Quite Almost 10 Years: A Breakup Zine – Edie Woolf’s Minicomic is a Cathartic Tale of Endings and New Beginnings

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2023

Autobiographical work in comics can come from a number of places. On one hand it can be about informing and educating on situations, conditions or experiences. On the other the…

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It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood’s “Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel” Masterpiece is a Triumphant Testament to the Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! To say I am far more interested in Zoe Thorogood’s work when it’s her own pure and unfiltered artistic vision rather than when she’s illustrating someone else’s…

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Arts in Health Charity Re-Live to Publish ‘Coming Home’, an Anthology Focussing on Veterans and Mental Health Featuring the Final Work of Artist Ian Kennedy

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 22, 2022

Mental health awareness issues and veterans are rarely touched on in UK comics (Samuel C. Williams’s At War with Yourself being a notable exception). Welsh Arts in Health charity Re-Live…

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“It’s Been a Genuine Privilege to Hear from Readers about How ‘Barking’ Affected Them” – Lucy Sullivan on Graphic Medicine, Mental Health Awareness and Working on Jeff Lemire’s ‘Black Hammer’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Lucy Sullivan’s debut graphic novel Barking was met with widespread plaudits on its debut a couple of years back. Informed by her own experiences it took a notably…

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2022

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…

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This is How I Disappear – Mirion Malle Creates A Powerful Portrait of Grief, Anger and the Aftermath of Assault

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 11, 2021

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association published a worrying report on the health of millennials in 2019, revealing a 12% increase in major depression amongst that demographic. The data showed…

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

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Mental Goblins – The Intrusive Nature of Anxiety Brought to Life by Dave and Tony Pickering in Extended Metaphorical Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2021

Back in 2020 I took a look at Tony Pickering’s Diabetes: Year One, a very distinctive piece of graphic medicine that could best be described as a collection of graphic…

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20/20 – Annie Huang’s Autobio Account of Mental Health and the Pandemic from Australian Micropublisher Blueprint Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2021

Given that many creators working in autobio talk of the often cathartic experience of processing events in their lives on the comics page it’s hardly surprising that over the last…

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The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town – Robyn Smith Explores the Spaces Where Blackness and Mental Health Converge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2021

The last time we reviewed the work of Robyn Smith at Broken Frontier it was when we covered her collaboration with writer Jamila Rowser on the short comic Wash Day…

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Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale – Marta Selusi’s Whimsical Fantasy Comic Explores the Effects of Anxiety in a World Full of Monsters

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 6, 2021

Marta Selusi’s second graphic novel, Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale tells the story of Shu, a young boy who wakes up one morning to find his mother gone and…

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“Everything Comes Second to Art when it Comes to Communicating These Feelings and Themes” – Nic Mac Talks Comics and Mental Health Awareness, and Social Commentary in Illustration

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2020

I knew waaaaaay back in January 2019, when illustrator Nic Mac was a guest artist at our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw, that I would be including…

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Love on the Isle of Dogs – Jude Cowan Montague’s Graphic Memoir Epitomises the Versatility of the Comic Form in a Vulnerable Reflection on the Intersection of Love and Mental Health

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • September 24, 2020

On the surface, Love on the Isle of Dogs is a story about love that constantly interrogates itself, asking even in the beginning: “What & Who is Love anyway?”. This…

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From Truth with Truth – Lawrence Lindell’s “Kinda a Graphic Memoir” Explores Identity, Mental Health, Blackness and Recovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2020

Described as “Kinda a Graphic Memoir” Lawrence Lindell’s From Truth with Truth works as a visual essay on identity, mental health, Blackness and healing. Lindell adopts an informal, conversational approach…

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Floating – An Immediate and Resonant Study of Feeling Lost from 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Pigeon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

Sometimes brevity can be the most powerful tool in expressing emotion or message. Floating by Pigeon (aka Kamila Król, one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists) is…

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The Black Cloud – Dominique Duong’s Powerfully Expressive and Symbolic Depiction of Depression

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2020

Visual interpretations of depression and anxiety understandably tend to use similar metaphorical standards to express the experience of living with those conditions. That however is never a weakness underlining, as…

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Stand in Your Power – Rachael Smith Runs the Emotional Gamut in Her Heartfelt Yet Witty Account of Surviving a Relationship Break-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2020

Acting as both chronological and thematic sequel to her earlier book Wired Up Wrong, but still entirely accessible as a standalone work, Rachael Smith’s Stand in Your Power explores the…

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