Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…
Telling her own story of growing up during those awkward teenage/univeristy years, Rebecca Burgess’s How to Be Ace offers a unique perspective on the coming-of-age genre through frank discussion of…
In recent years, Steven Appleby has been heard on occasion to speak two words in particular about what good art should be: ‘ambitious’ and ‘engaging’. Dragman is, of course, both….
When I Came Out tells the story of Louise, a middle-aged woman who, as the title suggests, comes out. The book navigates her early life including her first crush, her…
With an Ignatz Award win over the weekend in the category of Outstanding Anthology our review subject today is a timely one. Be Gay, Do Comics celebrates the queer experience…
The Dreams of Queer Utopia combines 13 different takes on the theme, compiled by editor and Finnish comic artist H-P Lehkonen and Paju Ruotsalaine from artists all over the world…
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg aims to provide information about LGBTQ+ identities and labels by explaining some of these numerous identities…
Shazleen Khan’s webcomic series Buuza!! gained notable recognition here at Broken Frontier when our readers and team voted it Best Webcomic in our 2019 Awards. Khan’s tale of “found family,…
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…
Elodie – a character carrying some serious teenage angst – is the way in which Axelle Lenoir transports us to a summer camp in ’90s Canada in the pages of…
The title of Kate Charlesworth’s acclaimed graphic memoir/LGBTQ+ history comes from an old saying that implied the kind of woman who “preferred to wear sensible shoes” may have been, or…
If you’re a Broken Frontier reader then you are already well aware of the power of graphic narrative to communicate, educate and inform. Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele’s Gender: A…
Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…
Mooncakes begins with autumnal tones, coinciding nicely with the weather during the month of its release. The story surrounds Nova Huang, a powerful witch with hearing loss, and her close…
“Not very long ago, to say that someone was the sort of woman who ‘prefers to wear sensible shoes’ could imply that she was a lesbian” Even more recently, Kate Charlesworth’s graphic…
Shout Out is an anthology edited by Andrew Wheeler (assistant editors Joamette Gil and BC Holmes) from TO Comix Press which contains eighteen shorts spanning numerous genres, made by creators…
“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…
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“Sci-fi is way not my usual thing. But look, honestly I just wanted to draw lots of stars. Space is a great excuse to draw stars. And I feel like…
“What I’ve Looked for in My Life is a Way to Just Live in the World” – John Porcellino Talks About His Decades of Minicomics Practice and New Drawn & Quarterly CollectionsFebruary 17, 2021
Thank You, Annie Koyama! – Paying a Broken Frontier Tribute to the Inspirational Koyama PressFebruary 5, 2021
“I Want There to Be Many More Stories About and by These Kinds of Storytellers” – Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi Talk About Khidr Comix Lab, a New Micropublisher Providing a Platform for Black, Brown and Muslim CreatorsDecember 14, 2020
“It’s Ultimately About Courage and Hope and Love and Friendship” – Jenny Robins Talks About the Characters and Themes of Her Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition-Winning ‘Biscuits (assorted)’, Published TodayNovember 12, 2020
Retroflect: The Living Mummy – Supernatural Thrillers with an Oft Overlooked Star of Marvel’s 1970s Horror BoomOctober 30, 2020
