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Author: Andy Oliver

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Memories: Ruins – Sam Hart Takes Us Back to Our Childhoods in this Tale of Family Holidays, Pirates and Angels

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2024

There’s something incredibly evocative about the way Sam Hart’s Memories: Ruins captures a universally recognisable period of our lives with its wistful reflection on childhood. A fusion of autobiography and…

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“I Have Always Been an Advocate for Diversity and Representation” – UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on Bringing Comics to Wider Readerships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 25, 2024

He’s the fifth UK Comics Laureate and also the first person of colour to fill that position, and creator Bobby Joseph is obviously relishing his time in that role! An…

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PeePee PooPoo #1 – Caroline Cash Reflects on the Pandemic, Tattoos and Poop Doughnuts in Another Excellent Collection of Slice-of-Life Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2024

Four issues in and Caroline Cash’s PeePee PooPoo finally gets its #1 “first” issue and loses that titular hyphen too. The Broken Frontier Award-winning title from Silver Sprocket continues to…

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Vote for Broken Frontier for ‘Best Comics-Related Website/Publication’ in the Tripwire Awards 2024

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 23, 2024

Once again we’re delighted to say that Broken Frontier’s work in comics commentary and comics community has been recognised by the Tripwire Awards 2024. Voting is now open until midnight…

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Moe’s in Love with a Manga Character – A Cautionary Tale for Obsessive Comics Fans in Olly Telling’s Debut Horror Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2024

We are all aware that there’s a certain aspect of fandom who can get… let’s say… overly invested in their favourite comics characters. In Moe’s in Love with a Manga…

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The Kid in the Cave – AJ O’Neill Reflects on Queerness, Childhood, Healing and Acceptance in this Minicomic Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2024

Comics are a particularly effective medium when it comes to taking an extended visual metaphor and running with it. AJ O’Neill’s The Kid in the Cave is a strong example…

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You’re Just Lazy Vol. 1 – Bee Poole Takes a Multi-Directional Approach to Depicting the Realities of Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2024

From a Broken Frontier perspective Small Press Day is one of the most rewarding days of the year not simply because BF has an organisational role in it, and thus…

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BUUZA!! Vol. 5 Campaign is Live on Kickstarter – Shazleen Khan’s QPOC Fantasy Series Comes with the Heartiest of Broken Frontier Recommendations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2024

It’s not as if Shazleen Khan needs BF’s help in getting the latest volume of the epic series BUUZA!! to its Kickstarter funding target. But this series, bringing the hugely…

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There is No Alternative – Ed Firth Provides a Number of Emotionally Charged Vignettes in this Queer Comics Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the vein of his NP zine (reviewed here at Broken Frontier a few months back) Ed Firth’s new queer comics short…

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Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard Recapture the Magic of Rogue’s ‘2000 AD’ Glory Days in a Twisting Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2024

It would be impossible to talk about Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard’s Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – the hardcover collection of the recent serialised 2000 AD story – without some…

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“The Simplicity of Black and White Can Deliver a Powerful Visual Impact” – Tinglin Liu on Adapting Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ for Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the fourth of our 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ interviews we chat today with Chinese artist Tinglin Liu about her…

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Gosh! Comics Hosts Our ’10 Years of the Broken Frontier Six to Watch’ Party – Looking Back on a Fabulous Night of Small Press Comics Celebration in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! Creating as many profile-raising opportunities as I can for our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists has become one of the most…

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Boxes #2 – ThirdBear Press’s Impressive Second Anthology Features Work from Kamila Krol and Manon Wright

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! What I continue to find so inspiring about ThirdBear Press’s Boxes is the way in which it blends the finest qualities of…

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Colossive Cartographies #58 – Tal Brosh Contemplates the Poignancy of ‘Loose Ends’ in this Affecting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Earlier this week we took a look at another of the recent releases from the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies range of fold-out…

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The Stranger #1 – Philipson, Patricks and Baker Subvert the Secret Identity Staple of Super-Heroics with an Intriguing Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! When it launched on Kickstarter earlier this year The Stranger – written by 2024 Broken Frontier Six to Watch creator Tom Philipson…

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“I Do Think that Art Elevates Life” – Zoè Delautre Corral Speaks About the Responsibilities of Autobiographical Comics and Her Love of Ink and Graphite

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the third of our interviews with this year’s Broken frontier Six to Watch creators we chat with French-Spanish, UK-based artist Zoè…

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Hotelitor – Josh Hicks Introduces Us to the Luxury Class Defense and Hospitality Unit in this Cleverly Plotted Sci-Fi Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! My first exposure to Josh Hicks’s Hotelitor was as a diagrammatic cutaway print at the Brighton Illustration Fair some years ago. It…

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Jackeline’s Jacket – The Unlimited Imagination of Alba Ceide Prevails in this Wildly Energetic Science Fantasy Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Last year when I reviewed the WIP Comics anthology Change at Broken Frontier I remarked on how Alba Ceide’s story Jackeline’s Jacket…

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