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Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as Genderqueer

  • by Will Betke-Brunswick
  • January 17, 2023

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and themes…

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Forest Spirit – Jack Smith’s Minicomic Expresses the Experience of Gender Transition Via the Fantasy Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2022

Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…

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“I Just Love a Sense of Place, I Really Can’t Let it Go” – Tillie Walden Talks Psychogeography, Queer Comics, and The Walking Dead’s ‘Clementine’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Some years ago I was chatting with Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller and, as often happens in our conversations, we turned to promising new artists we…

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Super Late Bloomer – Julia Kaye Recounts Her Early Days in Transition in this Immediately Accessible Autobio Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! A couple of years back at Broken Frontier we made a team statement about how where possible we would be looking to prioritise work from or…

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Death Threat – Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee Tackle the Subject of Transphobic Abuse with “a Compelling Act of Resistance”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2022

One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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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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Whisper Me a Love Song Vol. 1-4 – Eku Takeshima’s Realistically Paced Queer Love Story is a Heartwarming Tale

  • by Anson Leung
  • June 30, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Takeshima’s Whisper Me a Love Song, at first glance, appears to be an average high school girl love story that, while being lighthearted and comedic in tone,…

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Killer Queens – Booher, Balboni & Co’s Intergalactic Romp Proves to Be Solid Queer Comics Escapist Fare

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Collecting the recent four-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries, Killer Queens is a snappy, high-speed, intergalactic romp with a queer comics focus. If the title doesn’t give a…

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My Brother’s Husband – Looking Back at Gengoroh Tagame’s Acclaimed Tale of Homophobia, Culture, Identity and Family

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Given that we have been running a number of reviews this month for Pride 2022 it feels appropriate to also give some space to relevant work that…

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Tamlin – Aven Wildsmith Reimagines Scottish Folk Song as Queer Fairy Tale in this Eerily Beautiful Graphic Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Taking a Scottish folk ballad dating back to the sixteenth century as its starting point Aven Wildsmith’s Tamlin, from Knight Errant Press, brings queer romance, mythology and…

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Heartstopper Vol. 1-4 – Alice Oseman’s “Boy Meets Boy” Story Lives Up to the Hype

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Sometimes in comics commentary you can be very aware of work that can only be described as a true publishing phenomenon without having directly experienced it yourself….

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I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 1 & 2 – Okura’s Coming-of-Age Manga is a Funny Yet Touching Tale of the Anxiety of Coming Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Despite social awkwardness being at the heart of each instalment, Okura’s I Think Our Son is Gay is a truly delightful collection of short strips that sits…

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The Girl from the Sea – Molly Knox Ostertag’s YA Queer Romance is a Character-Led Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! As we move ever onwards into this year’s Pride Month it’s important to remember that, while graphic memoirs and graphic biographies exploring the prejudice and challenges faced…

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Archie & Friends: Summer Lovin’ #1 – New Pansexual Character Eliza Han Debuts as the Riverdale Gang Take a Trip to the Funfair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Arguably no publisher has done as much as Arche Comics in the last several years in terms of both taking decades-old iconic characters in radical new directions…

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The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights – Archie Bongiovanni and A. Andrews Take Younger Readers Back to a Pivotal Point in History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! Part of First Second’s History Comics series spotlighting pivotal points in history for younger readers, The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights is an obviously…

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Vault Comics to Make Free Queer Comics Available as Part of Their ‘Unbanned’ Pride Month Initiative

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 6, 2022

Celebrating Pride Month! With Pride Month well and truly with us now US publisher Vault Comics have announced an initiative for free queer comics that we can really get behind…

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Call Me Nathan – Catherine Castro and Quentin Zuttion Chart the Trans Journey from Multiple Perspectives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2022

Unlike many of the books we have covered here at Broken Frontier that deal with the trans experience Call Me Nathan is a semi-fictionalised account of that journey rather than…

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Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2022

What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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