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Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre

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Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre – Verbatim Comics Reportage Brings to Life a Bloody Chapter of Social History

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 16, 2020

If we let it, time will bury everything under dust. For nearly 200 years, that’s what threatened to happen to the terrible events of August 16th 1819, when a peaceful…

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Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict – A Visible and Accessible Exploration of the Human Impact of the Sri Lankan Civil War

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2020

Depicting the devastating culmination of the long-running Sri Lankan Civil War between the government and the independent state-seeking Tamil Tigers (a clash with its origins firmly placed in the days…

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The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped by the People – Wilson and Brown Explore British Working Class History from the 14th Century to the Present Day

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2019

To present an account of British working class history from the 14th century to the present day in around 125 pages and keep it both succinct and accessible, without drifting…

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Staff Picks for September 25, 2019 – Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict, Relics of Youth, Sleepwalking and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 24, 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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Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Speaks About the Power of Graphic Novels to Change Lives – ‘The Many Not the Few’ Launches at the House of Commons

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2019

In my capacity representing Broken Frontier I’ve attended many book launches over the years in venues including shops, museums, bars, galleries and at festivals. But last night was something of…

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Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Reportage Brings Powerful Personal Stories to the Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2019

I first came across the graphic reportage of Olivier Kugler a few years back in the pages of small press “graphic newspaper” Modern Times. Since then Kugler’s evocative portrayal of the…

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A New Jerusalem – The Second World War Comes Home in Benjamin Dickson’s New Internationalist Graphic Novel

  • by Tom Baker
  • February 28, 2019

The further you get from an event, the more the specifics of what happened dissipate into hazy generalities. It’s on turning and looking back at the Second World War from…

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Myriad Week Postscript – Myriad Editions Announce Merger with Independent Non-Profit Media Co-Operative New Internationalist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2017

It was Myriad Week here at Broken Frontier last week – a celebration of Myriad Editions, one of our favourite publisher’s diverse and eclectic back catalogue of graphic fiction, memoir,…

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