And then Emily Was Gone #2
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Author: Andy Oliver
Youthful Attack
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
Dungeon Fun Book One
New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…
It Girl
Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…
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Seasons
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Tales from Scene City #4
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Fever Dreams
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
One Day Only
The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…
Angus & Felix #1
Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…
Comics Are My Rock and Roll: Daniel James Baldwin’s Self-publishing Documentary Needs YOU!
Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…
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The Comix Reader #5
“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” – it’s the tagline, of course, of Gerry Anderson’s cult ‘60s Supermarionation series Stingray but it’s one that could also quite easily…
Comica Festival 2013: Turkey’s Studio Rodeo at the Reframe Exhibition
One of the great joys of London’s Comica Festival is the opportunity it affords for discovering international creators and work that would possibly otherwise pass us by. At the opening night…
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Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small Press
Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
The Etherington Brothers’ YORE! Collection is Coming!
Those mischievous masters of manic mirth the Etherington Brothers have announced on their blog that their previously uncollected 2011 series YORE! (from the pages of the late, lamented The Dandy)…
The Listening Agent
The Listening Agent is another laconic and beautifully understated collection of work from Joe Decie, underlining his undoubted status as one of the most unique creative voices on the current…
The Wolfmen/Fall of the Wolfmen
Accent UK’s lycanthropic noir series has enjoyed cinematic comparisons from the likes of Andy Diggle who described it as “Reservoir Wolves” and Kieron Gillen who summed it up as “Get…
Webcomic Artist Swap Project: WASP Seeks Contributors for 2014!
In the early part of 2013 Tempo Lush’s Richy K. Chandler instigated a rather fun little initiative he called the Webcomic Artist Swap Project (or WASP for short) that saw…
Comics Culture in London: Comica Festival 2013 Kicks off Today!
Comica Festival, that essential strand of autumn comics-related talks, exhibitions and events in London, begins today with the opening of the Reframe: Perspectives on Europe through Comics from Algeria, Turkey…
Broken Frontier Anthology
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