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Author: Andy Oliver

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The Black Dog of Bouley Bay – Chloe Starling Investigates Phantom Canines in a Minicomic and Zine Package

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! I have indeed noted this before here for our Thought Bubble 2024 celebrations but one of the great joys of following self-publishing comics creators is seeing…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 14th for a Thought Bubble 2024 Special

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 14th for a Thought Bubble…

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The Scrapbook of Life and Death – Edwardian Oddities and Mental Health Converge in J. Webster Sharp’s Dark Collection of Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! George Ives’ life, even in synopsis, makes for fascinating reading. Born in 1867 he was a writer, a…

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Alba Ceide’s Tall Tale – A Delightful Foray into Childhood Imagination in this Tactile, Fold-Out Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Alba Ceide’s Tall Tale is one of the stories you can read in this year’s WIP Comics two-book…

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Secrets of the Majestic – Eerie Toiletary Hijinks Abound in this Comics Anthology Featuring Kieron Gillen, Cecil Castelluci, Sammy Ward, Asa Wheatley and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There can surely be no comics anthology to get review space here at Broken Frontier that has a…

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Colossive Cartographies #59 – Nicola Streeten Provides the Case for Sustainable Farming in ‘Bottom-Up’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Thought Bubble is, of course, a time for discovery and if you have yet to dive into the world of fold-out zines in Colossive Press’s Colossive…

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“If You Have a Story You Can’t Wait to Tell, then Just Start Making It” – Dave Cook Talks the Collected ‘Killtopia’ from Titan and Taking Your First Steps Into Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! When it comes to genre fiction comics Dave Cook is a staple of the UK indie scene. With numerous successful Kickstarter campaigns behind him, and the recent…

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The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse – Themes of Transness, the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora, Mental Health and the Pandemic Are Covered in this Candid Autobio Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…

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Adrift on a Painted Sea – Tim Bird’s Beautifully Realised Graphic Memoir Celebrates the Life and Work of His Late Mother Sue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Tim Bird has always been one of the medium’s finest practitioners when it comes to investigating that particular metaphorical crossroads where individual, memory, environment and time…

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Worms Book the First – Erika Price Brings Gothic Horror to Vatican City in this Intense and Brooding Opener

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 5, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Last year as part of our Thought Bubble coverage here at Broken Frontier I took a detailed look at Erika Price’s Disorder collection of comics. I…

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Queer Ecology: Pigeons – Sarah Maloney Provides Some Lesser Known Facts about Our Avian Friends in this Delightful Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 5, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What makes an event like Thought Bubble such a draw for anyone who enjoys the full breadth and depth of the medium is the sheer diversity…

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In the City Parts One-Three – Karl Christian Krumpholz Takes Us on a Tour of Urban Night Life in this Atmospheric Slice-of-Life Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What first strikes the reader about the opening issue of Karl Christian Krumpholz’s In the City is the immediacy with which he immerses us in the…

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Run Ragged – Ableism, the Pandemic and Lycanthropic Metaphor Examined in Axe Marnie’s New Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the privileges of being involved with something like Broken Frontier is the opportunity it provides to comment on how far an artist’s practice has…

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Help! My Cat is Summoning a Portal to Hell #1 – Kate-Mia White’s Appealing Dark Fantasy Blends the Spooky with the Cute

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Help! My Cat is Summoning a Portal to Hell certainly has the most memorable title of any Thought…

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Avial – Bhavani Bala’s Sound Effects-Led Comic Gives Us Everyday Snapshots of South Asian Lives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Comics that use the form to interweave narratives in ways that only comics can are always going to be high on our list for potential commentary…

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Everything’s Fine: An Autobiographic Short – Cara Brown’s Hugely Promising Self-Publishing Debut Explores Themes of Finding Your Place in the World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s impossible to know with any degree of certainty the degree to which comics like Cara Brown’s Everything’s Fine provide an element of catharsis for their…

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Jacques and the Great Art Theft – Chris Baldie’s Wordless Heist Story is a Masterpiece of Animated Visual Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! I have long put forward the belief here at Broken Frontier that silent storytelling, without the props of dialogue or textual exposition, is one of the…

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“It Was a Transformative Journey” – Shuning Ji Talks About SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Programme and Her Self-Published Comic ‘My Mum is a Wolf’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Shuning Ji first came to prominence as part of SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Programme a couple of years ago. That initiative was designed to champion the work…

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