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    Author: Andy Oliver

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    Birdking Vol. 3 – Freedman and CROM’s Fantasy Series is Building Up to an Epic Finale

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 29, 2025

    What works so well about Daniel Freedman and CROM’s Birdking is that it manages to blend the familiar escapist elements of fantasy fiction – quests, kingdoms, warring factions and magic…

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    the bus 3 – Paul Kirchner’s Many Takes on the Daily Commute of a Bus Passenger Provide One of the Finest Testaments to the Pure Language of Comics You Will Ever Read

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 29, 2025

    I have already extolled the virtues of Paul Kirchner’s the bus when I chose it as one of my “Desert Island Comics” for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Between…

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    Boxes #3 – Abs Bailey, KitsuneArt, Millie Strachan and Elliot Hanks Join the Line-Up for the Third Issue of ThirdBear Press’s Anthology Series

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 28, 2025

    Here we are with just a week and a few days from the end of the Kickstarter for ThirdBear Press’s fourth issue of acclaimed comics anthology Boxes and the realisation…

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    Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 1 – “Nothing it Offers Has Any Tangible Value or Originality”

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 28, 2025

    AI “art” is already encroaching on our comics spaces. There have been allegations of its use on well known mainstream properties; popular digital platforms host AI comics regardless; AI art…

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    Shape of Sadness – destinationplutoo’s Delightful Comic Explores How We Can Accept the Everyday Realities of Our Own Feelings of Sadness

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 28, 2025

    LDC ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It seems that every time I think we have finished up with our LDC Online Comics Fair coverage for this year that I find one…

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    Tia and Guthrie – Chie Hosaka’s Sweet Comics Short Provides a Delightful Character Set Piece

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 23, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering Tia and Guthrie loosely fits into the romcom category, albeit a succinct one-act one. It’s the story of the relationship…

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    Rebellion to Publish the ‘Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra: Apex Edition’

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 23, 2025

    News that will no doubt please many with Rebellion informing fans today of the upcoming Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra: Apex Edition. This one looks epic. Rebellion is proud to…

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    A Eye: Lighting Up the Mirror to Racism – Moi Tu’s Remarkable Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Dialogue Poses Difficult Questions

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 23, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Moi Tu’s A Eye (the title a play on artificial intelligence) is a difficult comic to define. Perhaps that’s because in many ways it’s a…

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    Looking Back on Small Press Day 2025 – Probably the Most Well-Received Year in the History of SPD as Small Press Communities Celebrate the Scene Across Six Countries and Two Continents

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 22, 2025

    We were looking for something triumphant for the tenth year of Small Press Day and you certainly delivered! SPD 2025 was very possibly the most enthusiastically received yet with 24…

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    Poet – The Creative Process Visually Dissected in Madeleine Burt’s Form-Pushing Comic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 22, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! One of the great joys of this inaugural LDComics Fair has been discovering so much experimental work. Comics that really grasp the potential of the…

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    The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo’s Scrolling Digital Comic is a Work of Experimental Genius

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 21, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mereida Fajardo is probably largely known for her tactile comics work; practice the physicality of which is a key ingredient in its presentation. But first…

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    Falcão – Rayne Booth’s Haunting Character Study Has a Melancholy Truth at its Heart

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 21, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Have we already reached three weeks of our LDComics Fair coverage? Today’s first subject of coverage at Broken Frontier is Rayne Booth’s Falcão, a haunting…

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    A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done – Jenny Robins Brings Us Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists in this Dreamy Collage Comics Experiment

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 18, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Jenny Robins has applied the subtitle ‘Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists’ to her LDComics Online Comics Fair offering A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done….

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    Running Out – Myfanwy Tristram Brings Together the Ephemeral and the Profound in this Existential and Experimental Offering

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 17, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! While the LDComics Online Comics Fair is an international event the large of amount of work from UK-based creators is a reflection of just how rich…

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    1972 – Rachael Ball’s Autobio Short Will Bring Back Familiar Childhood Experiences

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 16, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! There’s an origin story of sorts to Rachael Ball’s 1972 short comic. The premise of it is based on an exercise given to attendees at her…

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    Shimmer Paths – A Thematically Layered Yet Fun Romp through Fantasy Realms Courtesy of Beastly Worlds

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 15, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…

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    This Land Was Ravaged – Tim Bird Revisits the Devastating Environmental Impact of the Twyford Down Motorway Development

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 14, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Tim Bird’s name has become synonymous with psychogeographical comics whether that be in long-form comics (his study of the ancient woodland that once ran across South-East…

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    Good Day – Zhenyi Zheng Experiments with Form and Structure in a Symbolic Comics Short

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 11, 2025

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Authorial intent and reader inference do not always have to align for a successful comics narrative. Indeed, finding our own truths in work that may…

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