Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! A couple of years back at Broken Frontier we made a team statement about how where possible we would be looking to prioritise work from or…
One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…
Unlike many of the books we have covered here at Broken Frontier that deal with the trans experience Call Me Nathan is a semi-fictionalised account of that journey rather than…
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…
Comics have proved a particularly adept medium for communicating trans experiences in recent years. So much so that we have been building up a resource list here at Broken Frontier…
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One of the great draws of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ signature anthology š! is that its cross-continental line-up gives us markedly diverse approaches to sequential art storytelling from across the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria is the first comic anthology from Edinburgh-based indie comics publisher Quindrie Press. It Kickstarted in September, making substantially more than…
Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms gets straight into the story, introducing us to all the characters through its high school setting. Annie is academically gifted but brash, which is what…
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Bulgilhan Press are a new micropublisher on the small press scene with a stated aim of “bringing new and experimental comics into the world.” With that as their soundbite mission…
Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele‘s Graphic Guides from Icon Books have already been met with great critical acclaim for their concise and easily digestible account of the intricacies of the…
Girl Haven, by Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter and Joamette Gil, is a fantasy comic mostly focused on the topic of gender. It explores how complicated the idea of gender can be…
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…
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg aims to provide information about LGBTQ+ identities and labels by explaining some of these numerous identities…
Ley Lines, previously covered on Broken Frontier here, gives comic artists “a platform… to directly engage with influences beyond the realm of comics.” It’s a quarterly series put out by…
If you’re a Broken Frontier reader then you are already well aware of the power of graphic narrative to communicate, educate and inform. Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele’s Gender: A…
“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…
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“Sci-fi is way not my usual thing. But look, honestly I just wanted to draw lots of stars. Space is a great excuse to draw stars. And I feel like…
Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!November 4, 2022
“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics PracticeNovember 4, 2022
“It Exists to Perpetually Publish Cool Comics” – Zach Clemente on the Ethos and Philosophy of Bulgilhan PressNovember 4, 2022
Inside Look: Salamanca Blues – Alba Ceide Gives Us an Intimate Insight into Her Creative Process on ‘Salamanca Blues’November 4, 2022
“We Make Art Because We Must. We Make Art to Push Back. We Make Art to Question Authority” – Tony Wolf Introduces His ‘Tales From The Wolf’ Anthology Collecting 15 Years of ComicsNovember 3, 2022
