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Broken Frontier Andytorial for February 2026 – Hannah McCann Wins the First Graphic Novel Competition, Comics Events Coverage, and a Plea for More Understanding and Less Entitlement…

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2026

Welcome back to another beginning of the month look at our behind-the-scenes happenings at Broken Frontier. January shot by but, of course, our key posts this month were the results…

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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Talks Small Press Day on the Nth Panel Grid Podcast

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 14, 2024

Unless you have been hiding in a long box for the last month you will already be well aware that it’s Small Press Day on Saturday. Our Andy Oliver, also…

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How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting on February 11th with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2024

After the success of last year’s sessions, Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver (that’s me!) will again be offering a small number of one-to-one Zoom meet-ups with artists nearer the beginning…

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‘Breaking Frontiers: A Small Press Day Exhibition’ Opens at Jam Bookshop in East London this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2023

‘Breaking Frontiers’ is our first Broken Frontier-curated exhibition and it opens at Jam Bookshop in East London ready for Small Press Day this weekend! To get you ready for this…

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The Cartoon Museum Conference 2023 to Feature Guest Speakers Including Posy Simmonds, Shazleen Khan, BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist J Webster Sharp and Our Own Andy Oliver

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 13, 2023

A quick reminder that this year’s Cartoon Museum Conference will be taking place on February 27th at the museum on Wells Street, London. More details are in the event’s press…

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Vote for Broken Frontier in the 2022 Tripwire Awards!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 5, 2022

Broken Frontier celebrates its 20th anniversary later in 2022 so it’s very pleasing to see our work in comics commentary and comics community recognised in this year’s Tripwire Awards with…

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Get a One-Tweet Broken Frontier Review and a Shout-Out for Your Self-Published Comic from our Andy Oliver on Small Press Day 2022 with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2022

There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 13th as we present a hybrid in-person/in-store event. If you’re new to the concept then Small Press…

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Signals from the Hill – Listen to Our Andy Oliver Chatting with Steve Walsh about Broken Frontier’s Work on the Avery Hill Podcast

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 22, 2021

Avery Hill Publishing‘s popular comics podcast Signals from the Hill turned its attention to Broken Frontier’s work recently with AHP’s Steve Walsh chatting to our Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver. Andy talks…

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WIP Comics Podcast Episode 13 – Joe Stone Interviews Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver on BF’s Work and Promoting Your Small Press Comic

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 21, 2020

Comics creator Joe Stone is the man behind the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the London-based WIP Comics group for aspiring creators, and a talented comics artist himself. Indeed, Joe…

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Get a One-Tweet Broken Frontier Review and a Shout-Out for Your Self-Published Comic from our Andy Oliver on Small Press Day 2020 with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 13, 2020

There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 15th as we make the move from the physical environment to the digital world for 2020. If…

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Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards 2019 – This Year’s SICBA Judges Announced as David Bishop, Sinéad Grainger and Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 22, 2019

The Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards return this year for their ninth incarnation with the results to be announced at Glasgow Comic Con on June 28th. The Awards are…

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A View from the Frontier – 2017: Our Broken Frontier Comics Year in Review!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2018

After 2016’s dual publication of the Broken Frontier Anthology and our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook it seemed unlikely that we could top such a banner year. And yet…

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A View from the Frontier – Collaboration, Community, Celebration and Championing… or ‘What You Can Expect from Broken Frontier Going Forward’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2017

“Going forward…” Two largely meaningless words that I nevertheless seem to have been using with alarming regularity in e-mails over the last few weeks. They’ve started far too many communications…

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Forbidden Planet International Blog – BF’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver’s ‘Best of 2016’ Comics Revealed!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 5, 2016

It’s the end of the year again and that means it’s time for our respected colleagues at the Forbidden Planet International blog to ask the assembled masses of the comics…

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Small Press Day 2016 – Looking Back on a Glorious Day Celebrating Self-Publishing, Micropublishing and DIY Culture in the UK and Ireland with the Small Press Day Team

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2016

It was Small Press Day in the UK and Ireland last Saturday and across both countries shops, creators and readers spent the day celebrating an area of comics practice that…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns on Feb 23rd with Guests Fumio Obata, Verity Glass, Sean Azzopardi, Brigid Deacon and Danny Noble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2016

It’s back! The Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on February 23rd at a new venue, upstairs in the famous Coach and Horses pub in Soho’s Greek Street. Last…

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Forbidden Planet International Blog – BF’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver’s ‘Best of 2015’ Comics Revealed!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 10, 2015

It’s the end of the year again and that means it’s time for our respected colleagues at the Forbidden Planet International blog to ask the assembled masses of the comics world to…

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Laydeez Do Comics Announce Special Broken Frontier Edition at Gosh! in January – Rozi Hathaway, Danny Noble and BF’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver Lined Up as Speakers

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2015

Creator Rozi Hathaway has announced on her website today that the first meeting of the London chapter of the popular Laydeez do Comics group (hosted by Wallis Eates and Keara Stewart)…

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