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Author: Andy Oliver

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Black Matter – Cat Sims Combines the Pop Cultural and the Psychogeographical in this Powerful Piece of Comics Social Commentary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2018

Comics as a medium is one that asks for an extra level of involvement from the reader; not just in terms of interpretation but also in how we interact with…

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Unfinished… 3 Poems by Tom Neely – Silver Sprocket Presents an Intensely Personal and Profoundly Affecting Piece of Experimental Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2018

Comics that push the boundaries of the form, interrogate the potentialities of its unique language and manipulate its singular narrative possibilities define the type of material that we exist to champion here…

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You Don’t Need This – Elizabeth Querstret Poses the Big Philosophical Questions with Her Trademark Whimsical Eccentricity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2018

A collection of personal reflections on consumerism and identity may not sound like subject matter that one would naturally associate with feelgood DIY culture, or that most readers would think…

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“It’s Going to Be My Best Book Yet” – Rachael Smith Talks about Crowdfunding Contemporary Fantasy ‘Isabella & Blodwen’ Via Unbound Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2018

The prolific Rachael Smith is not an artist to rest on her laurels. After last year’s massively lauded Wired Up Wrong – her collection of autobiographical strips on living with…

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Myriad Editions to Publish Olivier Kugler’s Graphic Journalism Depicting the Plight of Syrian Refugees in ‘Escaping Wars and Waves’ in July

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2018

If you were in London at the end of last year you may well have taken the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Olivier Kugler’s graphic reportage at Rich Mix…

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“CECAF, Cartoonists, Comics and Beer… It Will Be Amazing” – Sean Azzopardi Looks Forward to the 2018 Crouch End Comic Arts Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2018

Sean Azzopardi has long been not just a vital fixture of the London small press scene but also one of its most important activists. Having self-published something in the region…

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Koyama Press Announces Fall 2018 Season – Line-Up Includes Books by Michael DeForge, Keiler Roberts, Patrick Kyle and Mickey Zacchilli

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2018

Fresh from their success at the Doug Wright Awards at TCAF, Canadian indie publisher Koyama Press have announced their line-up of books to debut in September. It is, as will…

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Comics Resources for Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – From Rachael Smith to Keiler Roberts, Robert Wells to Lucy Sullivan and Beyond

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2018

Mental Health Awareness Week has come around again and, just as we did last year, we want to take a very quick moment to showcase just some of the powerful explorations of…

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Scene & Hung – David Ziggy Greene’s ‘Private Eye’ Graphic Reportage Featured in New Exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2018

Launching this Friday May 11th at London’s Orbital Comics Times Like These is the second collection of cartoonist (and my esteemed colleague on the Small Press Day organising team) David Ziggy Greene’s…

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Spotlighting the South Asian Women Artists of the Kadak Collective (Part 3) – Exploring the Genesis and Ethos of the Collective and What the Future Holds for Kadak

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2018

Throughout this week at Broken Frontier we have been chatting with and exploring the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective. Over the last two days we’ve…

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Preview: Pinky & Pepper Forever – Ivy Atoms’ Graphic Novel from Silver Sprocket Debuts at TCAF this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2018

We’ve been keeping a close eye on the output of US indie publisher Silver Sprocket this year at Broken Frontier. Their releases have been regular fixtures in our weekly Staff…

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Spotlighting the South Asian Women Artists of the Kadak Collective (Part 2) – Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Aarthi Parthasarathy, Janine Shroff, Pavithra Dikshit and Garima Gupta

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2018

Ths week at Broken Frontier we began a three-part look at the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective; a group that ELCAF-goers may…

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Spotlighting the South Asian Women Artists of the Kadak Collective (Part 1) – Mira Malhotra, Akhila Krishnan and Aindri Chakraborty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2018

My personal highlight of 2016’s East London Comics & Arts Festival was meeting some of the artists who make up the Kadak Collective who were exhibiting at ELCAF as a group for…

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Afterwords – Gareth Brookes Revisits the Worlds of ‘The Black Project’ and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ in this Playfully Dystopian One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2018

When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…

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A View from the Frontier – Important Information for Small Press Day 2018! A Vital Guide to what the SPD Team Needs from You Before the Big Day

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2018

Small Press Day is just two months away on July 7th and the Small Press Day team of founder David Ziggy Greene, the Alternative Press’s Amneet Johal and myself (Andy…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: No Straight Lines – Back this Documentary Account of Four Decades of Queer Comics!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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A View from the Frontier – ‘Sustaining Comics: What the Future Holds’ at London’s Cartoon Museum

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 30, 2018

It’s that time of year when the UK side of the Broken Frontier team start planning for the British festival season and all the accompanying events that BF will be…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Draw the Line, Wash Day, Isabella and Blodwen and The Edge Off

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 27, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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