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Author: Andy Oliver

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Sgt. Chip Charlton and Mister Woofles of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – Heroic Hilarity from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’ Via Jim Medway and Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2017

Sgt. Chip Charlton and Mister Woofles is a book that will genuinely appeal to all generations of comics readers. I’ve made this statement to the point of tedium here at…

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A View from the Frontier – Shining a Grateful Spotlight on Comics’ Vital and Supportive Community Hubs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2017

The self-publishing explosion in comics over the last several years has meant there has never been a better time for new creators to get their work out there and in…

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Broken Frontier is on Instagram! – Follow the Exciting New Comics Voices We Champion with Us on the Photo-Sharing App

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2017

BF filled a noticeable hole in its “social media portfolio” today with a new presence on Instagram. In future, to a lesser degree, we’ll be using the photo-sharing app to give…

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Small Press Inside Look: Glorious Wrestling Alliance – Meet the Colourful Combatants of the GWA as Josh Hicks Examines His Creative Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2017

Josh Hicks’s Glorious Wrestling Alliance came as something of a revelation to me when I reviewed it here last summer. I wasn’t expecting that on finishing this comedic take on those…

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“I’d Love to See Work that Creators Can’t Find a Label For” – Lizzie Kaye Talks Crowdfunding and Curating Unbound’s New Graphic Novels Line

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 8, 2017

With their unique crowdfunding approach to publishing, Unbound have already had a number of very notable success stories including Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant and the Booker Prize-nominated The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. This…

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World in the Forcefield #1 – The Spiritual and the Nihilistic Embrace in Alexander Tucker’s Epic Saga from Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2017

There are graphic narratives that exist to be experienced and absorbed rather than to be read and dissected in a traditional sense. Musician and artist Alexander Tucker’s World in the…

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Royal City #1 – Jeff Lemire’s Ambitious Family Saga from Image Comics is 2017’s Most Impressive Serial Comics Debut so Far

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2017

Lemire’s craft in Royal City is subtle and underplayed but it’s all the more compelling and human for just that reason. Jeff Lemire’s first book as both writer and artist…

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A View from the Frontier – The Bacchanalian Bonhomie of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2017

Emma Rios, Isabel Greenberg, Krent Able, Jade Sarson, Rachael Stott, Gary Northfield, Karrie Fransman, ILYA, Hannah Berry and Joe Decie. That’s merely a small number of the artistic names to…

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Preview: Beast Wagon Finale – The British Comic Award-Nominated Black Comedy Drama Comes to a Ferocious Conclusion in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2017

It was the atmospheric dark comedy that I said “simply begs you to enter its murkily menacing world” on its debut in 2015 and, since then, Owen Michael Johnson, John…

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Gosh! Comics Marks 25 Years of Image Comics with Multi-Creator Panel and Signing Events on March 17th-18th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2017

Jordie Bellaire, Warren Ellis, Eric Stephenson, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Declan Shalvey – that’s a remarkable list of names for the discussion event at London’s Gosh! Comics on the…

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Small Press Inside Look: Last Driver – C.S. Baker Takes Us Behind the Writing Process of His and Shaky Kane’s Post-Apocalyptic Thriller from Dead Canary Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2017

Dead Canary Comics have always had an off-kilter approach to genre comics storytelling – think weird western Reddin, the bizarre escapades of Frog Man or the alt-history of The Fitzroy for examples…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: Matthew Box – “Reading a Comic Where the Writing, the Art, the Coloring, and the Design Are in Perfect Harmony… There’s Nothing Like It”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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The Palace of Champions – The Dizzying, Whirling and Claustrophobic Visual Language of Henriette Valium

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2017

A long overdue compilation of work from this vital figure in Canadian indie comics. Henriette Valium, aka Patrick Henley, is recognised as one of the most important French-Canadian cartoonists of…

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“There Really is No More Direct Route to the Heart” – Myfanwy Tristram Talks ‘Draw the Line’ and the Power of Comics to Effect Positive Change

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2017

“Over 100 artists present positive political actions that anyone can take.” That’s the soundbite that beautifully embodies the Draw the Line project – an idea dreamt up by UK small…

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Foggy Notions – November Garcia’s Wearily Witty Autobio Strips Are a Hic & Hoc Hit

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2017

The latest one-shot from Hic & Hoc Publications, Foggy Notions is a collection of autobiographical shorts from Philippines-based artist November Garcia detailing her episodic misadventures during the several-year period she…

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Kamandi Challenge #1 and #2 – Jack Kirby’s Last Boy on Earth Returns in a Joyous and Ambitious Multi-Creator Romp

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 27, 2017

Engaging, appealing and embodying a welcome sense of sheer fun, Kamandi Challenge may just be the surprise DC hit of 2017. Over thirty years ago, during a period of constant experimentation…

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A View from the Frontier – Two Years of the ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ at Broken Frontier

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 27, 2017

It sneaked up on me unexpectedly this past week. Indeed, had it not been for one of those countless, seemingly hourly, social media reminders about our past online activity I probably…

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Preview: Cosmos & Other Stories – Broken Frontier 2016 Breakout Talent Award Winner Rozi Hathaway to Be Published by Good Comics in March

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2017

Nothing Broken Frontier-related brings me greater pleasure than seeing the “graduates” of our various ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ projects going on to ever bigger and better things. Original 2015…

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