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Author: Andy Oliver

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2dcloud’s Winter Collection on Kickstarter Now – Back Work by Austin English, Andrew Burkholder, Sarah Ferrick and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2016

Ground-breaking and boundary-pushing comics that explore, embrace and exploit every last vestige of the unique possibilities of this wonderful form are what we exist for here at Broken Frontier. The…

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Satirical Strips and Alternate Realities – Revisiting the First Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2016

The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016 took place last night with a bumper batch of guests at our Save Our Souls special. Co-hosted by…

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Save Our Souls #1 – Graphic Reportage Sits Side-by-Side with Written Journalism in David Ziggy Greene’s Promising New Anthology Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2016

Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…

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WASP 2016 Begins Monday February 22nd – Sarah Turner and Francesca Dare Discuss this Year’s Webcomic Artist Swap Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2016

The fourth annual Webcomic Artist Swap Project (WASP) takes place next week Monday February 22nd and continuing until the 28th. An always fun piece of collaborative conjuring the event sees…

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Profiling Sean Azzopardi – From ‘Dark Matters’ to ‘Tracks’, a Look at the Work of One of the Great Stalwarts of the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2016

Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the…

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Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – Danny Noble’s Cover for Our First ‘Six to Watch’ Showcase Revealed!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2016

We’re delighted today at BF to give you a first look at Danny Noble’s striking cover for our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook which features the work of the…

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What’s Your Sign, Girl? – Marnie Galloway, Kevin Budnik, Rick Worley and Cara Bean Star in Robert Kirby’s Astrological Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 16, 2016

Edited by indie comics stalwart Robert Kirby, What’s Your Sign, Girl? gives twelve cartoonists the opportunity to examine their relationships with their sun signs in a selection of short stories that…

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Small Press Day 2016 – A Celebration of Self-Publishing, DIY Culture and Grassroots Comics Announced for July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2016

If you’re an observer of the UK small press scene you will no doubt have noticed the flurry of social media discussions a few weeks back about the possibility of a…

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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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Myriad Editions Announce ‘The Lady Doctor’ by Ian Williams – A Follow-Up Graphic Novel to His Acclaimed ‘The Bad Doctor’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2016

The Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has unleashed some incredibly strong work onto the comics-reading public in recent years including The Black Project by Gareth Brookes (the 2012 winner), Hannah…

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘Off Life’ with Daniel Humphry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2016

Formed in 2012, free street press comics anthology Off Life looked to connect comics with an audience of readers unfamiliar with the potential of the form, and to also give…

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Take It as a Compliment – Twenty Powerful Accounts of Sexual Abuse and Harassment in Maria Stoian’s Remarkable Collective Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2016

Take It as a Compliment is not simply an effective sequential art record of individual experiences. It’s a proclamation that abuse and harassment can happen to anyone, an exercise in…

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A Life in the Day of Tillie Walden – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

A second helping from yesterday’s #hourlycomicday Twitter hashtag fun and games at Broken Frontier today as we compile all of creator-of-the-moment Tillie Walden’s strips. If you missed our earlier collection of Danny Noble’s Hourly…

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A Life in the Day of Danny Noble – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

Yesterday the hashtag #hourlycomicday made its annual trending appearance on Twitter as comics practitioners from all aspects of the medium recorded their exploits and adventures with a comic strip for…

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Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure – Mike Medaglia and Rachael Smith Bring Kathy Hoopmann’s Much-Loved Children’s Book to a New Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2016

Blue Bottle Mystery is not just a solid exercise in taking an already successful work and re-imagining it for a new readership but also an object lesson in how to…

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I Love this Part – Tillie Walden’s Second Major Project is a Comic of Rare, Raw and Precious Beauty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2016

If there was one name that came up again and again at the end of 2015 on the traditional annual ‘Best of’ lists and end-of-year reviews it was that of Tillie…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announces First Releases of 2016 – Includes Books by Tillie Walden, Rachael Smith, Matthew Swan and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2016

What an astonishing year of achievement 2015 was for Avery Hill Publishing. British Comic Awards nominations for EdieOP’s Maleficium and Rachael Smith’s The Rabbit alongside that much deserved BCA win…

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Free Street Press Anthology ‘Off Life’ Opens Submissions for Issue #13

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2016

Since 2012 street press anthology Off Life has been bringing comics to a wider audience through a combination of online delivery and free distribution in print. Its line-up of contributors…

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