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Wax Ever Grander by Oliver East

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Wax Ever Grander – Oliver East’s New Comic Hums with the Energy of Spontaneous Drawing and Verbal Verve

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 7, 2020

If you’ve got a modicum of sense and taste, and can spare less than a quid a month, you may well have seen these strips develop pretty much day by…

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Staff Picks for March 30, 2016 – The Opportunity, Golem, Godzilla: Oblivion, Take Me Back to Manchester, Power Lines and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 29, 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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The Homesick Truant’s Cumbrian Yarn #1 – Oliver East Cements His Place as One of the True Originals of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2014

In 2013 Oliver East’s Swear Down saw one of our great pioneers of psychogeographical comics narratives add a poignant extra layer to his travelogues in a graphic novel that combined…

From Smoo Comics by Simon Moreton

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Location, Location, Location: Simon Moreton

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 18, 2013

‘Psychogeographical’ is one of the more tiresome and abused cultural buzzwords being chucked around at the moment, but it’s probably not a million miles away from describing the recent work…

From Rolling Stock by Oliver East

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Location, Location, Location: Oliver East

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 11, 2013

Striding out from his home in Manchester, the critically acclaimed artist Oliver East has blazed the trail for ‘landscape comics’ in the UK. As in most narrative media, the vast…

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Swear Down

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2013

Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…

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Comica Festival Comiket April 2013 – A Punter’s Perspective

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2013

There’s never been a better time to renounce the bile-flinging antics of the super-hero-obsessed message board culture, and get out there and experience the true face of the British comics…

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