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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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“There Were Quite a Lot of Intense Reactions, They Pierced My Heart” – Rachael House Talks Reader Feedback, Pandemic Comics, and Feminist and Queer Politics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2022

SLCZF WEEK! Continuing our week of coverage of the South London Comic & Zine Fair today at BF we chat with exhibitor Rachael House whose Resistance Sustenance Protection – a…

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Serious: Through the Fog – The Mayamada Universe Reacts to the Pandemic with an Uplifting Story about Community, Support and Collaboration

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2022

It would be remiss of me to describe “British manga” specialists mayamada as simply a micropublisher. Besides establishing an inter-related comics universe of their own through successful crowdfunding, their wider…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Quarantine Comix: A Memoir of Life in Lockdown – Rachael Smith’s Account of the Early Days of the Pandemic Remains One of the Most Remarkable Achievements in Post-Millennial British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2022

“One of 2020’s most remarkable achievements in comics” was how I described Quarantine Comix, Rachael Smith’s autobiographical series of comic strips a year or two back at Broken Frontier. Originally…

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Monologues of Shite – Emily Cullen Revisits Living Lockdown in the Family Home in Another Worthy Entry in the Pandemic Comics Strand

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2022

It’s endlessly fascinating to see how varied the approaches to pandemic comics have been over the last couple of years. From the earnest and the profound to the metaphorical and…

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Change – Via Love, Loss and the Pandemic, Lesley Imgart’s Latest Comics Collection Looks at How Changing Circumstances Impact Our Lives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2022

Last year’s online Hackney Comic + Zine Fair introduced me to a number of new comics talents whose practice I had yet to encounter. One of those artists was Lesley…

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Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 – Lilly Williams’ Pandemic Journey from Pregnancy to Parenting

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2022

Lilly Williams’ Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 is another reminder, if we needed one, of the breadth of approaches to capturing personal experience over the last two years of…

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mini kuš! #103: Grandad Reg – Clara Heathcock and Patrick Wray Explore Themes of Loss and Acceptance During the Pandemic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2022

Another entry in the vitally important and ever growing area of pandemic comics, Grandad Reg tell a story that is deeply personal and yet, sadly, simultaneously all too recognisable. Issue…

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2022

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…

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Three Comics – Peony Gent’s Latest Collection of Graphic Poetry is the Perfect Introduction to Her Boundary-Pushing Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…

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Lulu’s Flight – Yu-Ching Chiu Provides a Very Different Take on Pandemic Comics with this Charming Canine Adventure

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2021

HCZF MONTH! Over the last 18 months we have seen the emergence of a new sub-genre of graphic medicine in the form of the pandemic comic. So much so that…

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I Was Thinking – Lesley Imgart’s Autobio Compilation is an Impressively Confident Collection with a Lyrical Pacing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2021

HCZF MONTH! One of the joys of events like Hackney Comic + Zine Fair is the opportunity to discover new practice from creators you have not encountered before. I consider…

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mini kuš! #95: Before the Pandemic There Was a Touch Football Tourney – David Collier Takes Us Back to the Days When Our Lives Changed Forever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2021

Once more I find myself remarking on how vitally important the empathetic quality of comics as a form is and will be when it comes to a social record of…

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Memoirs of Metamorphosis – Demitri Vassiliadis Takes Us on a Journey into the Most Obsidian Recesses of the Human Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2021

It would be wrong to describe Demitri Vassiliadis’s Memoirs of Metamorphosis as oblique. Its thematic core is there for the reader to discover for themselves. But it is work that…

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