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Low Orbit – A Small Town Coming-of-Age, Coming Out Story from Kazimir Lee and Top Shelf Productions Told Through a Sci-Fi Novel Lens 

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 16, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Kazimir Lee Iskander is a 2008 graduate of the Minnesota College of Art and Design (BFA, Animation), as well as a 2016 graduate of the Center For…

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Treading Water – Rowan Frewin’s Story of Gender Identity and Self-Realisation Spreads a Welcome and Positive Message

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! We’ve reviewed a number of projects featuring Rowan Frewin’s work over the last year and a half here at Broken Frontier, encompassing a number of different formats….

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Boy Island – Leo Fox Takes Us to an Allegorical Fantasy World as He Again Explores the Realities of the Trans Lived Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…

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Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

  • by Edward Picot
  • April 25, 2025

Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse – Themes of Transness, the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora, Mental Health and the Pandemic Are Covered in this Candid Autobio Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…

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A Potted Trans History – Rowan Frewin’s Zine Recounts the Stories of Trans and Non-Binary Figures through the Ages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Across our Pride Month coverage this month at Broken Frontier we have attempted to bring relevant work from every facet of comics publishing to you. From small…

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Adversary – Blue Delliquanti’s Powerful Tale of a Queer Relationship in the Pandemic is a Challenging and Provocative Read from Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Adversary is not a single-read offering. Nor is it a story that you will digest quickly. It’s one of those comics you need to read, reflect on,…

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Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans – A Wave Blue World Light a Beacon of Solidarity for Gender Diverse Kids

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A Wave Blue World have been making something of a name for themselves over the last few years when it comes to LGBTQIA-focussed comics anthology books, including…

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Transitions: A Mother’s Journey – A Different Perspective on the Trans Experience from Élodie Durand and Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…

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Where We Are, Where We SHOULD Be: Shaping a Future for Young Trans People – An Essential Guide Book for Both Trans Youth and Allies, Via Comics Youth

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Sometimes at Broken Frontier we’re happy to bend the rules a little and venture into the realms of zines and DIY culture, or to look at publications…

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Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up – Lewis Hancox’s Second Graphic Memoir is Witty, Raw and Unflinchingly Honest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…

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DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1 – Reintroducing Coagula, DC’s First Trans Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…

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The Out Side – Trans and Non-Binary Stories Brought to the Comics Page in this Inspiring Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! Bringing together the work of 29 trans and non-binary creators The Out Side is an often celebratory collection of stories focussing on themes of gender and identity….

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My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2024

PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…

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Firebugs – Nino Bulling’s Unflinching yet Meditative Look at How Individual Identity and the Politics of Gender Collide

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 20, 2024

“I look at the body as a place that is traversed and shaped by affects.” German writer and artist Nino Bulling said that to journalist Lars von Törne in Der…

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Disorder – Erika Price Employs the Darkest Symbolism and Visual Metaphor to Propel Us Into a Nightmarish Mindscape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! To describe Erika Price’s Disorder as body horror seems woefully inadequate. This collection of short visual essays takes autobiographical comics in new directions, employing the darkest of…

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Gyula Diary – Rowan Frewin’s Diary Comic Blends Travelogue, the Trans Non-Binary Experience, and Reflections on Wellbeing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Our Thought Bubble coverage this year has seen a notable resurgence of the diary comic as a specific focus of autobiographical comics. Rowan Frewin’s Gyula Diary adopts…

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A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick’s Graphic Memoir on Family, Love, Bereavement and Lived Genderqueer Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023! Earlier this year we were privileged at Broken Frontier to run an exclusive creator commentary in our ‘Inside Look’ series on Will Betke-Brunswick’s A Pros and Cons…

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