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Staff Picks for September 11, 2019 – Are You Listening?, Mimi and the Wolves, The ABC of Typography and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 10, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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SelfMadeHero Announce Autumn 2019 Releases – Including New Graphic Biographies on Isadora Duncan and Mozart, and the Conclusion of Rob Davis’s Surreal Trilogy with ‘The Book of Forks’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2019

We’ve reviewed six SelfMadeHero graphic novels this year at Broken Frontier which is rather synchronous as the acclaimed publisher of graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and OGNs have just…

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Cannabis: An American History – Graphic Journalism at Its Most Piercing and Commanding from Box Brown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2019

Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…

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Memoirs of a Book Thief – The Pretensions of 1950s Parisian Literary Society Are Skewered in Tota and Van Hove’s SelfMadeHero Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2019

Daniel Brodin is a man of many facets, few of them admirable. He considers himself a bibliophile but his love of prose is enabled by his practice of pilfering from…

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Tumult – John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Layered and Twisting SelfMadeHero Thriller Keeps the Reader Guessing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2019

When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…

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Blossoms in Autumn – Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Graphic Novel is a Raw, Honest, Poignant and Quite Beautiful Meditation on Love and Ageing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2019

What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…

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Staff Picks for March 20, 2019 – Blossoms in Autumn, Invisible Kingdom, Fran of the Floods and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 19, 2019

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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SelfMadeHero Announce Spring 2019 Releases – Including Books on Guantánamo Bay, Basquiat and America’s Relationship with Cannabis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2019

With an eclectic publishing mix that includes graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and original graphic novels, UK publisher SelfMadeHero’s publishing schedule always demands detailed consideration. Already in 2019 we’ve…

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I Feel Machine – Shaun Tan and Tillie Walden Are Among the Contributors to this Unsettling SelfMadeHero Anthology Exploring the Darker Side of Our Relationship with Technology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2019

Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…

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Wolf – Rachael Ball Examines the Realities of Childhood Bereavement through the Dual Lenses of the Everyday and the Outlandishly Imaginative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2019

Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…

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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie – The Crime Novelist’s Complex World Explored by Martinetti, Lebeau and Franc

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 19, 2018

In late 1926, following an argument with her husband Archie, celebrated crime novelist Agatha Christie’s sudden disappearance caused a media sensation. Having abandoned her car at a quarry she would…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Charmingly Creepy Overlapping Worlds Slip Off Rachael Ball’s Pencil into Your Hands in the Form of Childhood Grief Fable ‘Wolf’ – We Talk to Her about Her New Graphic Novel from SelfMadeHero

  • by Jenny Robins
  • October 30, 2018

Remembering childhood is not unlike remembering a dream, or a story you heard a long time ago, for Rachael Ball it’s all three at once: “When things are mixed up…

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Staff Picks for October 24, 2018 – Wolf, The Books of Magic, Dave McKean: Short Films, Lodger and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 23, 2018

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels’ Seminal Text Brought to the Comics Page by Martin Rowson and SelfMadeHero

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 11, 2018

Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…

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Spinning – Tillie Walden’s Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Memoir is a Masterpiece of Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2018

From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…

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Apollo – Fitch, Baker and Collins Capture Both the Spectacle and the Sheer Humanity of the Moon Landing Via SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2018

SelfMadeHero have been at the forefront of the rise of the graphic biography over the last several years, bringing the worlds of noted figures in literature, music and politics to…

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Out in the Open – Javi Rey Brings Jesús Carrasco’s Novel to Comics in an Atmospheric Adaptation from SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Adapting novels into comics form is a tricky path to navigate. Often such cross-media exercises fall into the trap of attempting to wrap images around the existing prose,…

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Staff Picks for June 6, 2018 – Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Apollo, DeadEndia and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 5, 2018

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…

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