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Keiler Roberts doesn’t dress her autobiographical comics up in the trappings of knowingly contrived storytelling structure. Their relatability lies in their unrepentant honesty and naturalistic composition; in her frankness and…
For those perhaps discovering the work of our 2018 Broken Frontier Breakout Talent Award winner Jayde Perkin (also one of 2018 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘) for the first…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Jayde Perkin’s I’m Not Ready – a short compilation of some of the artist’s autobio comic strips – begins with a prose introduction to the collection that…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Graphic medicine – the term coined by graphic novelist and GP Ian Williams – is one of the strands of comics narrative that has played a vitally…
Earlier this year I spoke to artist Lucy Sullivan here at Broken Frontier about her work-in-progress graphic novel Barking, an allegorical examination of loss and depression (currently crowdfunding through Unbound Books)….
As the rise of graphic medicine has underlined over the last few years, sequential art is a uniquely empathetic medium for expressing the experience of living with mental health issues….
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! One of our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Jayde Perkin’s comics explorations of loss and grief are among some of the most powerful and…
Mental Health Awareness Week has come around again and, just as we did last year, we want to take a very quick moment to showcase just some of the powerful explorations of…
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Back in 2016, when I reviewed the original edition of Wired Up Wrong – Rachael Smith’s account of living with anxiety and depression told via witty vignettes, visual metaphor and…
It seems appropriate today, given that it’s the deadline day for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, to be giving some time to a book that was shortlisted for…
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Mindfulness and well-being have become the comics stock-in-trade for artist Mike Medaglia. A creator whose work brings a considered spirituality to the form, we’ve been covering his output here at…
Over the last year or so, we’ve been following a number of crowdfunding campaigns here at Broken Frontier for the Unbound Books line of graphic novels – beginning with an…
DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! In the time since 2014 that we have been covering the work of Rozi Hathaway here at Broken Frontier her comics have, arguably, become known for…
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Two years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Miseryland by Keiler Roberts and described that self-published book as “autobiographical comics at their absorbing best – frank, blunt and forthright on…
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! It seems particularly appropriate to be covering Emily B. Owen’s zine-style minicomic Brain Shoodles in the week of Small Press Day not just because it…
Hi, hello and good morning/afternoon! I hope your day finds you well. This week I would to talk to you all about mental health because, as you may already know,…
This week marks Mental Health Awareness Week with the hashtag for this awareness-raising event already trending here on Twitter over the course of the day. With the arrival and rise…
MYRIAD WEEK! He’s the gent who gave us the term ‘graphic medicine’ and the original driving force behind the respected website of the same name. He’s also a comics self-publisher…
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