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Animal Stories – Peter and Maria Hoey Immerse Us Once Again in the Limitless Possibilities of Sequential Art as a Visual Language

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2022

If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…

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Exclusive Preview: The Bend of Luck – Check Out Pages from Peter and Maria Hoey’s New Graphic Novel from Top Shelf

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 15, 2022

The work of Peter and Maria Hoey under Coin-Op banner has had extensive coverage here at Broken Frontier in recent years. The sibling partnership are having something of a high…

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Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator – New Graphic Memoir by Sofia Warren Coming from Top Shelf in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 27, 2022

Described by no less a cartooning legend than Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau as a “beautifully-rendered account of a rookie’s initiation into state politics: an exhilarating baptism of fire, and a…

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Top Shelf to Publish ‘Animal Stories’ by Coin-Op Duo Peter and Maria Hoey this December

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 10, 2021

Broken Frontier Award-nominated creators Peter and Maria Hoey of Coin-Op fame have a new comics anthology collection coming from Top Shelf Productions this December. The duo’s work is very highly…

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The Delicacy – James Albon Takes His Characters on a Dark Fungi-Fuelled Journey of Gastronomic Ambition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2021

There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…

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Camp Spirit – Axelle Lenoir’s LGBTeen Summer Camp Story Returns Us to the Long Summers of our Youth

  • by Holly Raidl
  • April 21, 2020

Elodie – a character carrying some serious teenage angst – is the way in which Axelle Lenoir transports us to a summer camp in ’90s Canada in the pages of…

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British Ice – Owen D. Pomery’s Bleak Thriller Explores the Legacy of Empire and the Devastating Consequences of Colonialism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2020

A few weeks ago when we made British Ice our ‘Comic of the Week’ at Broken Frontier we also noted that we have been following the progression of its creator…

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A Shining Beacon – James Albon’s Fatalistic Parable Captures the Zeitgeist with Disarming Insight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2020

When you live in a world beyond parody then satire is hard. James Albon’s A Shining Beacon, though, is less about exploring a dystopian future as much as extrapolating its…

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Staff Picks for January 8, 2020 – British Ice, Daphne Byrne, Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2020

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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They Called Us Enemy – George Takei Revisits a Shameful Chapter in US History in His Acclaimed Graphic Memoir on Growing Up in a Wartime Internment Camp

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • October 3, 2019

Legendary actor; LGBTQ+ advocate; community activist; social media influencer. As one of the most visible Japanese Americans in the public eye, George Takei has consistently used his platform to draw attention to urgent…

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Preview: British Ice – Owen D. Pomery’s Top Shelf Productions Graphic Novel Now Available for Pre-Order

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2019

We’ve been covering the work of Owen D. Pomery for so long now that our earliest reviews are on the old Broken Frontier site from way back in 2013. We…

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Penny Nichols – Reed, Means and Wiegle’s Top Shelf Graphic Novel Brings Us Together to Laugh in the Face of Horrors Both Real and Imagined

  • by Robin Enrico
  • June 20, 2019

There can be such a joy in making a thing that what you are creating becomes secondary to the act of making it. In the case of Penny Nichols by…

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Staff Picks for July 11, 2018 – A Projection, Memoirs of a Very Stable Genius, Come Again and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 11, 2018

It’s 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 storefront,…

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Coin-Op Comics Anthology 1997-2017 – Top Shelf Productions Celebrates Two Decades of Peter and Maria Hoey’s Entrancing Coin-Op Series

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • June 20, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Anticipating brother-sister duo Pete and Maria Hoey’s attendance at this year’s ELCAF, we took their Coin-Op Comics Anthology for a spin. Spanning twenty years between 1997–2017, the new hardcover compilation via Top…

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Staff Picks for June 13, 2018 – Cloud Hotel, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, By Night and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 12, 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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Staff Picks for January 17, 2018 – The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head, Shadows on the Grave, Strangers in Paradise, Super Powers and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 16, 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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Staff Picks for January 3, 2018 – I Am a Number, Nemo, Inside the Mind of Jamie Hewlett, The Snagglepuss Chronicles and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 3, 2018

It’s 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 storefront,…

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Staff Picks for August 3, 2016 – March, Lady Killer 2, Growing Up in Public, The Adventures of Augusta Wind, Tales to Diminish and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 2, 2016

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 or digital storefront, the…

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