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Progressive Publisher Street Noise Books Announce Spring 2024 Graphic Novels Line-Up

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 28, 2023

The ever relevant Street Noise Books have announced their first books of 2024. Check out the press release below for full details. STREET NOISE BOOKS Presents: Revolution, Disability, Religion, and Mental Health…

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Gay Giant – Gabriel Ebensperger’s Graphic Memoir is a Big, Bold, Loud and Endearingly Honest Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! While Gabriel Ebensperger’s graphic memoir Gay Giant may be focussed on growing up queer back in the 1990s there’s obviously an entire social level that makes it…

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The Last Gay Man on Earth – Ype Driessen Brings Photo Comics to Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…

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Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine – Mohammad Sabaaneh Provides an Award-Winning Account of Imprisonment, Confinement and Interrogation

  • by Jon Aye
  • November 15, 2022

In 2013, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh was detained while crossing the King Hussain checkpoint between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. This wasn’t altogether unexpected, as Sabaaneh has been working…

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Inside Look: Shame Pudding – Danny Noble Provides a Creator Commentary on Her Acclaimed Graphic Memoir of Jewish Family Life and Eccentric Grandmas

  • by Danny Noble
  • October 24, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In 2015 cartoonist Danny Noble was among the number of our very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme; an initiative that, perhaps…

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Queer As All Get Out – Shelby Criswell Brings the Stories of Ten Inspiring But Lesser Known Figures from Queer History to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2022

What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…

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I’m a Wild Seed – Sharon Lee De La Cruz Reconstructs Her Identity as a Queer BIPOC in a Vibrant Debut from Street Noise Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 10th for a Street Noise Books Special with Danny Noble, Woodrow Phoenix and Bishakh Som!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 8, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday December 10th with a Street Noise Books Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir – Bishakh Som’s Exploration of Identity is a Remarkably Layered Graphic Memoir with More than a Hint of the Meta to Its Pages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2020

Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…

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Come Home, Indio – Jim Terry Crafts an Extraordinary Testimony to His Alcoholism and Mixed-Race Heritage

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • October 21, 2020

Jim Terry never understood why his parents drank. “They never seemed happier when drunk”, Terry reflects in his autobiography Come Home, Indio, “just sad or angry. And mean”. Alcohol only…

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“Our Books… Seek to Provide a Platform for the Voices of Marginalized People” – Street Noise Books Publisher Liz Frances on Curating a Range of Graphic Novels with a Radical and Inclusive Vision

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 15, 2020

With a focus on work that champions inclusivity and marginalised voices, new publishers on the indie comics scene Street Noise Books have a line-up of books that represents exactly the…

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“It’s One Thing Telling My Own Misadventures, but Dragging My Family into it Too… that Was Always in the Back of My Mind” – Danny Noble on Her Witty and Touchingly Observed Graphic Memoir ‘Shame Pudding’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2020

Danny Noble’s comics have been extensively featured here since 2014 when we first covered her autobiographical work in the pages of Monday Morning. She was one of our original Broken…

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Shame Pudding – Danny Noble’s Loving Celebration of Jewish Grandmothers is a Beautifully Constructed Mix of Pathos and Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2020

In graphic memoir Shame Pudding, artist Danny Noble takes a markedly different approach to autobiographical comics work than her past practice in this area. Noble, one of Broken Frontier’s first…

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