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Author: Gary Usher

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Heaven is an Afterparty #3 – The Party Never Stops For Joel Newman and Finn Kidd and Their Cast of Characters  

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 12, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Heaven is an Afterparty #1-3 are brought to us by Finn Kidd, a London-based multidisciplinary creator in comics, music, education, and academic studies; and, Los Angeles-based…

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The Scope #1 – Ruth Osgood and J.R. Turvey Deliver a Disorienting Alternate World Dystopia, Published by Dicepool Party Comics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 9, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Dicepool Party Comics grew out of creator J.R. Turvey and friends role-playing sessions and the stories they developed. Due to life circumstances, Turvey turned his talents to…

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Erotech: The Collected Edition – Sean Haines’ Workplace Thriller-Cum-Sex Farce Graced by Brilliantly Retro art by Geoffrey Krawczyk

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 6, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! SHP (Shawn Hainsworth Productions) Comics has released a number of genre comics: Woodstake, Zicky, B.O. Wolf, Sight, The Killing Machine and, debuting at Thought Bubble, Erotech:…

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The Collected Letters of Courier Z Vol. 2 – Nick Bryan’s Science Fiction Anthology with a Conflicted Heroine and Her Annoying A.I. Cat 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 5, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Nick Bryan is a London-based writer who brings a second volume of his lively science fiction anthology, The Collected Letters of Courier Z to this year’s Thought…

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Freshly Grown Gardener #1-3 – Covid-era Garden Allotment Hijinks from Agata Wawryniuk and Robert Sienicki

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 3, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Robert Sienicki was at Thought Bubble last year with his solo title Under Pressure. This year he returns with his wife, Agata Wawryniuk, with the two…

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Everybody’s Happy Nowadays Book One – Professor Raco’s Goth Girl Macabre Mystery Series, Published by Odyssey Comics, is a Great Character Study

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 30, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Professor Raco is the pseudonymous comic book writer and artist of Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, who in real life is a Mexican-American life drawing instructor, author, and…

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Uncle Zaxlor Sampler – Leo Healy and Torgo Wells Introduce New Readers to Their Robot Repair Duo 

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Self-promotion is essential in small press comics, it’s especially nice when creators come up with a clever idea, as well. The Uncle Zaxlor Sampler is a…

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Stardate – The Worst Case Scenario for Interplanetary Dating Shows By Eran Aviram and Aviv Or

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 23, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Our family watches way too many reality shows, and they all seem to shine the worst light on humanity. Stardate by Eran Aviram and Aviv Or…

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The Golden Fish – Fumika’s Antiquarian, Near Future, Quest Short Story is a Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 20, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Fumika is a Japanese artist bringing with them to Thought Bubble a wide range of products graced by their classic illustrative style. Most sought after should…

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Joe’s Comix: Wild Kingdom – Classic Hutchinson Brothers 1980s Mini-Comics Reformatted for the 21st Century from Phoenix Productions

  • by Gary Usher
  • September 10, 2026

Previously at Broken Frontier we covered Steve Willis and Edward Bolman volumes from Tom Fellrath’s Phoenix Masters series, both of which explore absurdity in the extreme with a humorous, all-ages…

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Comet Club – Teenage U.F.O. Hunters Tackle Reality and Life’s Expectations in Yi Yang’s Fantagraphics Debut

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 13, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Yi Yang was born in northeastern China, and moved to Bologna, Italy to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. She published two books there…

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Shock Treatment – EC Comics’ Precursor to Modern Graphic Medicine Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 5, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Graphic Medicine as a genre did not exist in 1955 when Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cast their editorial net wide after their EC horror comics were…

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Medium – Rae Whitlock Examines the Intersection of Reality and the Supernatural, from Comics Blogger Books  

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 16, 2026

Rae Whitlock is a multidisciplinary creator from Richmond, Virginia. She earned a MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Some of her previous self-published…

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Noble Head Funnies – Edward Bolman’s Whimsical Series is Collected by Phoenix Productions

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 27, 2026

Edward Bolman has been self-publishing his own unique brand of droll nonsense since the Seventies. Aside from Tim Corrigan’s C&T Graphics publishing Bolman’s three issue solo series, The Bathing Machine,…

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Hard Core Drugs – sleepyhouse2 Crafts a Horrific Tale of Broken Lives, Addiction and the Strength of Found Family

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 27, 2026

There are scores of talented cartoonists on the Bluesky social media network. sleepyhouse2 from Detroit, Michigan stands out among the crowd with their sometimes haunting posts and colourful serialized comics…

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The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke – The Absurdity of Life Shown Through Steve Willis’s Adaptation of ‘Hamlet’, Published by Phoenix Productions 

  • by Gary Usher
  • January 29, 2026

Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…

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LUX:plorations: A Universe of Research Volume #4 – Science Comics from the University of Luxembourg Delve Into Upcycling, Dyslexia, Neurology and Cancer in an Accessible Format 

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 20, 2025

This is the fourth volume of non-fiction comics put together by a large team at the University of Luxembourg, under the guidance of Nicole Plaschek (Project Manager DESCOM, Faculty of…

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Dead on Arrival – A Truly Unique Take on the Undead in Samanta Batllori’s Original Horror Graphic Novel

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Samanta de la Rosa Batllori is a freelance comic artist from Mexico City, Mexico, who is probably best known in the UK for illustrating H.L. Roberts’…

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