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Covers Album: Joe Decie – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Simone Lia & Billy Kiosoglou, Noah Van Sciver & Keeli McCarthy, and Maurice Sendak

  • by Joe Decie
  • June 9, 2021

In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…

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Staff Picks for November 7, 2018 – Fante Bukowski Three, Escape from Bitch Mountain, Piero, Snowbird and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 7, 2018

It’s 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 storefront,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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One Dirty Tree – Noah Van Sciver’s Family Saga Cements His Status as One of the Foremost Cartoonists Working Today

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 3, 2018

The nature of autobiographical comics forces the cartoonist to examine their past and try to assemble meaning from it. Noah Van Sciver in his book One Dirty Tree from Uncivilized…

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Staff Picks for May 10, 2017 – Fante Bukowski Two, Goatherded, Face, Teeter Topple and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 9, 2017

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 or digital storefront, the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for May 18, 2016 – Disquiet, Chum, Future Quest, Mae, Archangel, Tank Girl and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 17, 2016

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 or digital storefront, the…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 22, 2015 – Tim Ginger, Fante Bukowski, Wolf, Power Up and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 21, 2015

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 or digital storefront, the…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 1, 2015 – The Spire, We Stand on Guard, Crickets, Diary Comics and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 30, 2015

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 or digital storefront, the…

The Lizard Laughed by Noah Van Sciver (Oily Comics)

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Broken Frontier Anthology: “Why Do I Draw? I Think it’s About Dumping Out All of My Feelings” – Noah Van Sciver Spills the Beans

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 2, 2015

Noah Van Sciver is one of the brightest stars in the alt-comics world, weaving uncomfortable and intelligent narratives that aren’t afraid to shine a light into some of the darker…

Saint Cole by Ethan Van Sciver (Fantagraphics Books)

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Saint Cole – Another Unblinking Look at the Male Psyche from Noah Van Sciver

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 5, 2015

In Saint Cole, Noah Van Sciver offers another uncomfortable look at what might be going on in the life and noddle of that bloke taking your pizza order. While Charles Forsman might be…

Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics Books)

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for January 28, 2015: Casanova Acedia, Find, Saint Cole, Street Angel, Effigy & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • January 27, 2015

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment – Twenty-Plus Tales of Mortification, Humiliation and Shame from Birdcage Bottom Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2015

Over twenty tales of public humiliation from creators across the indie comics scene make up Birdcage Bottom’s Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment, a collection of shorts detailing those best forgotten…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“I Don’t Hate Your Guts” – 2D Cloud’s Collection of Noah Van Sciver’s Diary Comics Displays an Unlikely Charm Despite Itself

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 1, 2014

It’s been a while since I last covered the work of Noah Van Sciver in this column. On that occasion it was Deep in the Woods – also from the folk…

Youth Is Wasted (Noah Van Sciver; AdHouse Books)

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Youth is Wasted – Noah Van Sciver’s Collection Showcases One of Our Best Neo-Underground Cartoonists

  • by Gabriele Di Fazio
  • July 15, 2014

Noah Van Sciver’s uncool characters revamp the underground tradition of Crumb and company, in a funny and intense collection from AdHouse Books “Noah Van Sciver is a throwback. The kind…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 25, 2014: The Bad Doctor, Youth is Wasted, Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey, Letter 44 & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 24, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

The Lizard Laughed by Noah Van Sciver (Oily Comics)

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The Lizard Laughed – Noah Van Sciver’s Book for Oily Comics is a Polished Little Gem

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 1, 2014

Noah Van Sciver delivers an intense and claustrophobic portrait of a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Oily Comics (the mini-comics vehicle of cartoonist Charles Forsman) may have changed its publishing model of…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Deep in the Woods

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2013

Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…

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