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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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The Power of Welcome: Real-Life Refugee and Migrant Journeys – Ada Jusic Brings Five Testimonies to the Page in this Comics Anthology Aimed at Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2025

It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…

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Hakim’s Odyssey Books 1-3 – Fabien Toulmé Brings the Story of a Syrian Refugee to the Comics Page with Sensitivity and Empathy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2024

We can never have two many comics testaments to the ongoing realities of the refugee crisis. Every time I cover one and add it to our dedicated Broken Frontier resource…

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Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey – From His Early Experiences as a Cuban Refugee to Confronting the Neo-Fascism of the Trump Administration, Edel Rodriguez’s Outstanding Graphic Memoir is a Compelling Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2024

In recent years the unforgettable artwork of Cuban American illustrator Edel Rodriguez has adorned the covers of magazines like Time and Der Spiegel, skewering the unceasing excesses of the Trump…

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Finding Papa – Angela Pham Krans and Thi Bui Provide a Child’s Eye View on the Refugee Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 23, 2024

There’s an undoubtedly nebulous quality to defining what makes a comic a comic that can seem extremely arbitrary on occasion. Writer Angela Pham Krans and artist Thi Bui’s Finding Papa,…

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Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey through the Rwandan Civil War – Gaspard Talmasse and Alice Cyuzuzo Give Us a Child’s Eye View of Reprisal and Atrocity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2023

In 1994, in the aftermath of the Rwandan Civil War, young Alice Cyuzuzo and her family were forced to flee the country and make their way to what was then…

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Our Stories Carried Us Here – Green Card Voices Bring Us a Powerful Sequential Art Antidote to Toxic Media Coverage of Immigration and the Refugee Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2023

The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…

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“Everywhere All Over the World People Are in More and More Fragile Positions” – Dr. Sarah Wishart Talks About EachOther’s ‘Get Out of Detention: A Comic for Immigrant Detainees’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 26, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! When I officially took over the top spot at Broken Frontier in 2017 one of my key aims was to push BF in the direction of…

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6,000 Miles to Freedom: Two Boys and Their Flight from the Taliban – A Timely Reminder of the Realities of the Refugee Crisis from Graphic Mundi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2022

With Refugee Week not long behind us, and with the UK’s morally abhorrent decision to send asylum seekers to Rwanda sadly an actuality rather than a work of dystopian fiction,…

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Inside Look: I Am a Leader of My House – PositiveNegatives’ New Webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim Tells the Stories of Two Rohingya Women in Their Fight for Equality

  • by PositiveNegatives and Fahmida Azim
  • December 21, 2021

“I am a leader of my house” — PositiveNegatives’ new webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim — tells the stories of two Rohingya women in their fight for…

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Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days – Veronica Post Examines the Refugee Crisis from a Markedly Different Perspective

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2021

Described as a fictionalised mash-up of her diaries from 2012-2015, Veronica Post’s travelogue Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days, depicting the 2015 European migrant crisis, is nonetheless based on real events,…

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When Stars Are Scattered – Victoria Jamieson Adapts Omar Mohamed’s Poignant Coming-of-Age Story of Escaping the Somali Civil War and Growing Up in a Refugee Camp

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2020

Comics has proved to be an ideal format for explorations of the refugee crisis over the last few years. From Broken Frontier Award-winning offerings like the Red Cross’s Over Under…

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Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict – A Visible and Accessible Exploration of the Human Impact of the Sri Lankan Civil War

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2020

Depicting the devastating culmination of the long-running Sri Lankan Civil War between the government and the independent state-seeking Tamil Tigers (a clash with its origins firmly placed in the days…

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Broken Frontier Meets PositiveNegatives – Real Stories, Drawn From Life 

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2019

The vitally important work of PositiveNegatives has been spotlighted before here at Broken Frontier but admittedly not nearly enough. Their growing online catalogue of comics and animation explores “contemporary social…

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Escape from Syria – Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche and Mike Freiheit Explore the Refugee Crisis for a Younger Readership

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2019

Earlier this week we looked at the Syrian refugee crisis from a graphic reportage angle when we reviewed Olivier Kugler’s Escaping Wars and Waves – a book of illustrated interviews…

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Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Reportage Brings Powerful Personal Stories to the Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2019

I first came across the graphic reportage of Olivier Kugler a few years back in the pages of small press “graphic newspaper” Modern Times. Since then Kugler’s evocative portrayal of the…

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North Star Fading – The Plight of Eritrean Refugees Highlighted in a PositiveNegatives Infinite Zoom Comic with Art by Karrie Fransman and Voiceover by Lula Mebrahtu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2018

PositiveNegatives is an award-winning non-profit who “produce literary comics, animations and podcasts about contemporary social and human rights issues” and “combine ethnographic research with illustration and photography, adapting personal testimonies…

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Threads: From the Refugee Crisis – Powerful Graphic Journalism from Kate Evans Shines an Uncompromising Spotlight on a Humanitarian Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST GRAPHIC NON-FICTION WINNER! We talk a lot about the many unique ways in which comics – and particularly autobiographical comics – forge an intimate connection…

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