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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Two years ago comic creator Karrie Fransman’s short comic Over Under Sideways Down won the 2014 Broken Frontier Award for Best One-Shot. Published by the Red Cross for Refugee Week,…
It’s an old reviewer’s standby to describe their subject as work that will stay with the reader long after they have put it down. In the case of the emotionally…
Over Under Sideways Down gives a voice to the plight of those whose experiences far too often go unheard. This week has seen a series of events across the UK to…
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of WendyAugust 30, 2021
“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’July 21, 2021
“Where is Evil?” – A Comics Essay by Tony WolfJuly 12, 2021
