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Big Black: Stand at Attica – Archaia’s Retelling of the Story of Frank ‘Big Black’ Smith and the 1971 Attica State Prison Rebellion Feels No Less Timely Today

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • July 27, 2020

Recalling a moment in US history from 1971, the story of Frank ‘Big Black’ Smith and the Attica State Prison rebellion feels no less timely today. A collaboration between Big…

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Biggol #1 – Ioan Morris Spins the Densely Humorous History of a Lost Fantasy TV Classic

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 29, 2020

Way back when, Otto Von Bismarck famously said something along the lines of “laws are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made”. I’ve no doubt…

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Ley Lines #22: Cabra Cabra – Victor Martins Unpacks Some Deep Layers of Internalised and Explicit Prejudice in Supposedly Progressive Literature, with Fun Animal Characters, Time Travel and Comedy Rage

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 27, 2020

Ley Lines, previously covered on Broken Frontier here, gives comic artists “a platform… to directly engage with influences beyond the realm of comics.” It’s a quarterly series put out by…

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Lulu the Sensational …and the Family Secret – Cruelty, Courage, Creativity and Family Secrets that Need Some Unpacking in Helen Blejerman’s Faceless Silent Movie of a Graphic Novel

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 2, 2019

“May God watch over you, and protect you and keep you safe.”  Lulu’s mother “enjoyed watching Gene Kelly dance and sniffing round an old poetry book. She abandoned her acting…

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Tale of the Beast – Tadao Tsuge’s Hardboiled Proletarian Crime Noir Returns to Print Courtesy of Black Hook Press

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • January 23, 2019

On a dark and stormy night in late December, a hooded stranger pulls into one of Tokyo’s struggling dive bars. He convinces its ageing female custodian to give him a…

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The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels’ Seminal Text Brought to the Comics Page by Martin Rowson and SelfMadeHero

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 11, 2018

Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…

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Outburst – Pieter Coudyzer Weaves a Brilliant and Tragic Tale of Isolation and Loneliness

  • by EdieOP
  • June 16, 2017

ELCAF WEEK!  “To get to know yourself… you have to leave others behind.” Outburst tells the story of introvert and isolated protagonist Tom Deleersnyder, a man who we quickly find…

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