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Tagged: refugee week

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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…

Eyecatcher · Features

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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,…

Eyecatcher · Features

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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,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Features

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Game of Life – Karrie Fransman Shares Two New Collaborative Efforts Telling the Moving Stories of Refugees Sharif and Hamed

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2017

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,…

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BF Awards 2014 – Best One-Shot: Over Under Sideways Down by Karrie Fransman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 26, 2014

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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Over Under Sideways Down – Karrie Fransman and the Red Cross Team Up in Refugee Week to Bring Us Ebrahim’s Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2014

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…

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