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Tagged: pandemic comics

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My Energy Thief – Mandy Norman’s Light-Hearted Approach to Looking at Long Covid 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mandy Norman is a multi-disciplinary commercial artist living in North London. According to information provided she joined the LDComics Online Monthly meetings during her 2021 recovery…

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Totality – Jeff Lok’s Unique Autobiographical Journey from Fieldmouse Press Rewards Re-Reading

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 13, 2025

Jeff Lok , a Center For Cartoon Studies alum, has self-published humorous work like the solo anthology Gag Rag and co-edited anthologies such as Funny Aminals. Fieldmouse Press and editor…

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Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches – Graphic Mundi and Yazan al-Saadi Present a Collection of Voices from the Middle East on the Fight for Self-Determination

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2025

To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…

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“Comics Are a Realm Where Multiple Dimensions of Time and Space Coexist on a Single Page” – Zhenyi Zheng on Experimenting with the Boundaries of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Zhenyi Zheng is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists whose work particularly caught my…

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The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse – Themes of Transness, the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora, Mental Health and the Pandemic Are Covered in this Candid Autobio Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…

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Adrift on a Painted Sea – Tim Bird’s Beautifully Realised Graphic Memoir Celebrates the Life and Work of His Late Mother Sue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Tim Bird has always been one of the medium’s finest practitioners when it comes to investigating that particular metaphorical crossroads where individual, memory, environment and time…

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Run Ragged – Ableism, the Pandemic and Lycanthropic Metaphor Examined in Axe Marnie’s New Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the privileges of being involved with something like Broken Frontier is the opportunity it provides to comment on how far an artist’s practice has…

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PeePee PooPoo #1 – Caroline Cash Reflects on the Pandemic, Tattoos and Poop Doughnuts in Another Excellent Collection of Slice-of-Life Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2024

Four issues in and Caroline Cash’s PeePee PooPoo finally gets its #1 “first” issue and loses that titular hyphen too. The Broken Frontier Award-winning title from Silver Sprocket continues to…

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Adversary – Blue Delliquanti’s Powerful Tale of a Queer Relationship in the Pandemic is a Challenging and Provocative Read from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Adversary is not a single-read offering. Nor is it a story that you will digest quickly. It’s one of those comics you need to read, reflect on,…

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Mzungu Nusu: The Half Foreigner – Nancy ArtMusic’s Short Comics Cover the Black Lives Matter Protests, the Pandemic and Mixed Race Hair Care

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Last year at Broken Frontier we followed the progress of the Reveal! Awards; an initiative for championing the work of women comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and…

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World War 3 Illustrated #52: Frontlines of Repair – From Environmental Disaster and the Pandemic to Community Building and Social Activism, the Acclaimed Left-Wing Comics Anthology Explores Our Approach to Our Broken World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…

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My Usual Nonsense – Lesley Imgart Effortlessly Moves Between Heavy and Whimsical Subject Matter in Another Collection of Autobiographical Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2023

One of the pleasures of repeat reviewing is being able to observe and appreciate how the practice of individual artists evolves and grows in confidence. My Usual Nonsense is the…

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A Day on the River (& Other Stories) – Giorgio Pandiani Tackles Climate Change, Pandemic Denial and Environmental Collapse in this Collection of Allegorical Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2023

Compiling four short stories all, to some degree, with environmental themes at their heart Giorgio Pandiani’s A Day on the River (& Other Stories) is an anthology offering that is…

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Multimedia Comics Project ‘One for All, All for One’ Seeks to Cut through Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation and Stress the Importance of Immunisation and Vaccines

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 15, 2022

Details below about a new multi-media comics venture looking at the importance of vaccines and immunisation. This is exactly the kind of socially responsible project we like to get behind…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Condo Lady – Elisabeth Belliveau Recounts “Two Quiet Years of Full Stress” in this Pandemic Comics Offering from Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 18, 2022

Part of Conundrum Press’s anniversary ‘Conundrum 25’ series of pocket-sized comics offerings, Elisabeth Belliveau’s Condo Lady is yet another reminder of just how effective graphic narrative has been at communicating…

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Preview: Planet Divoc-91 – The Allegorical, Multimedia, Pandemic Comics Project Comes to Print with Work from Hannah Berry, Rachael Smith, Karrie Fransman, Anand RK and Many More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 7, 2022

Comics responses to the Covid pandemic have been many and varied in their approaches to the crisis, as can be seen in our list of pandemic comics resources here. Today…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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‘Marghera Blues’ and ‘Forehead Blues’ – Alba Ceide’s ‘Earth Blues Series’ Touches on Themes of Environmentalism, Social Inequality and the Pandemic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! One of our 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists, Alba Ceide has been working behind the scenes for some time now on a world-building, shared universe project…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Eke It Out Then Swallow It Whole – More Haunting and Fragile Graphic Poetry from Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Peony Gent’s Eke It Out Then Swallow It Whole exemplifies for me a vital quality of her work; an ability to so intimately connect with the reader and…

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