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    Boy Island – Leo Fox Takes Us to an Allegorical Fantasy World as He Again Explores the Realities of the Trans Lived Experience

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 5, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…

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    Florrie: A Football Love Story – Anna Trench Brings Us a Touching Queer Love Story Set in the Early Years of Women’s Football

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 4, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…

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    It Rhymes with Takei – Set to Stun? George Takei’s New Graphic Memoir from Top Shelf Tells a Story of Coming Out Later in Life

    • by Edward Picot
    • June 3, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…

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    Tidal Waves – Homophobia and Cycles of Abuse Explored in Rein Lee’s Unflinching Portrayal of a Toxic Relationship

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 2, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…

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    Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics

    • by Edward Picot
    • May 2, 2025

    The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…

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    Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

    • by Edward Picot
    • April 25, 2025

    Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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    My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two – Emil Ferris Combines Coming-of-Age Story, Murder Mystery and Sequential Experimentation in this Much Anticipated Follow-Up

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 28, 2025

    When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…

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    Belly Full of Heart – A Mushy Amalgamation of Hearts, Romance and Intimacy from Madeline Mouse

    • by Lydia Turner
    • January 29, 2025

    Described as a “comic book ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future”, Belly Full of Heart from Madeline Mouse and Silver Sprocket is exactly the kind…

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    Condoms Part One – Nick Merdasi’s Intriguingly Different Approach to Discussions on Safe Sex and the Gay Community

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 16, 2025

    The first thing the reader will notice about Nick Merdasi’s Condoms is its physicality. Its square paperback format and the plastic “packet” it comes in are designed to mimic the…

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    Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus

    • by Andy Oliver
    • December 10, 2024

    In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…

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    Queer Knights – Three Medieval Romances with an LGBTQ Twist from KitsuneArt, Audrey Molinatti and Atlantisvampir

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 13, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! With a remit to explore “queer love stories in medieval/historical fantasy settings” Queer Knights features three stories; one from KitsuneArt who has featured on a number…

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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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    Queer Ecology: Pigeons – Sarah Maloney Provides Some Lesser Known Facts about Our Avian Friends in this Delightful Minicomic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 5, 2024

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What makes an event like Thought Bubble such a draw for anyone who enjoys the full breadth and depth of the medium is the sheer diversity…

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    The Kid in the Cave – AJ O’Neill Reflects on Queerness, Childhood, Healing and Acceptance in this Minicomic Debut

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 18, 2024

    Comics are a particularly effective medium when it comes to taking an extended visual metaphor and running with it. AJ O’Neill’s The Kid in the Cave is a strong example…

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    There is No Alternative – Ed Firth Provides a Number of Emotionally Charged Vignettes in this Queer Comics Zine

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 6, 2024

    10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the vein of his NP zine (reviewed here at Broken Frontier a few months back) Ed Firth’s new queer comics short…

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    Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank – Eric Orner’s Graphic Biography Tells the Story of One of the US’s First Openly Gay Politicians

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 28, 2024

    PRIDE MONTH 2024! Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank is a graphic biography with an added level of authenticity given that its creator is Eric Orner, the one-time staff…

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    A Potted Trans History – Rowan Frewin’s Zine Recounts the Stories of Trans and Non-Binary Figures through the Ages

    • by Andy Oliver
    • June 27, 2024

    PRIDE MONTH 2024! Across our Pride Month coverage this month at Broken Frontier we have attempted to bring relevant work from every facet of comics publishing to you. From small…

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    Inside Look: Eighty Days – A.C. Esguerra Provides an Exclusive Creator Commentary on Their Alternative History Queer Romance Graphic Novel

    • by A.C. Esguerra
    • June 26, 2024

    PRIDE MONTH 2024! 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…

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