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Author: Andy Oliver

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Big Apple Matinee – A. T. Pratt’s Minicomic Tribute to New York Iconography is a Pop-Up, Foldout, Tactile Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2026

A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…

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Save the Date! – Small Press Day is Back on Saturday July 25th, 2026

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2026

Yes it’s back! Small Press Day is coming on Saturday, July 25th, 2026. Founded by David Ziggy Greene (Private Eye, Scene & Heard, JAM Bookshop), the event’s mission is to…

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London’s Cartoon Museum Turns 20 – Anniversary Programme Revealed Plus a Call for Funding Support in 2026

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2026

Broken Frontier’s relationship with London’s Cartoon Museum goes way back to 2011 and our interview with then director Anita O’Brien. Since then I have had the pleasure of speaking at…

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Mad Villain #1 – Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry’s Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2026

Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) –  the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio…

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This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends – Alexandra Gallant-Lee Explores the Ethics of Our Relationships with Carceral Spaces

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2026

Alexandra Gallant-Lee’s This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends is a zine-style exploration of a subject that is unafraid to ask difficult questions. Using her background in…

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Colossive Cartographies #70 – Patrick Wray Observes as ‘The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs Into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2026

As I’ve said before when reviewing the Colossive Cartographies series there’s sometimes a dilemma as to whether the reader should bring their own interpretation to their fold-out zine narratives or…

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30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide – Mohammad Sabaaneh Brings the Harrowing Stories of Palestinians to the Page in this Broken Frontier Award-Winning Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2026

The winner of the 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction, Mohammad Sabaaneh’s 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide was one four comics offerings on the atrocities in…

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Fantagraphics to Publish R. E. Burke’s ‘Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility’ – Former BF Team Member’s Graphic Memoir to Explore Her Story and Those She Was Incarcerated With

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2026

Announced just before the weekend by Publishers Weekly, Fantagraphics have secured the rights to R. E. Burke’s graphic memoir Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. As long-term Broken Frontier…

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Silent Pictures – Kevin O’Neill’s ‘Feartreland’ and ‘The Balaclava Kid’ Give Us a Final Celebration of a True Comics Genius

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2026

What can one say about the work and influence of the late Kevin O’Neill that has not been said before? As a child growing up during the Golden Age of…

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The Stranger #2 – The Mystery Deepens in Philipson, Patricks and Baker’s Excellent Noir Detective Fiction Series (with a Sprinkling of Super-Heroics)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2026

I probably say it to the point of tedium but on the few occasions that we do review super-hero comics at Broken Frontier it’s because they have something different to…

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The Gallery – Take a Look at Some of the Amazing Art from February’s Two In-Person Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Evenings!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2026

Last year the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – an event that has been running in multiple versions online and in-person since the summer of 2015 –…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial for March 2026 – Comics Socials, New Resource Lists, and Upcoming 2026 Coverage Events at BF Revealed

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2026

And here we are with another monthly look at what we’ve been up to behind the scenes at Broken Frontier. This time around things are going to be a little…

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Cruel Universe Vol. II #7 – Amy Roy and Malachi Ward’s ‘Artificial Insanity’ is a Short-Form Comics Masterpiece and a Damning Indictment of Generative AI Slop

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 26, 2026

Oni Press’s EC Comics revival has been notable not just for bringing non-super-hero genre comics fiction to the fore but for being at the front of a mini resurgence in…

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Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology – Skai Campbell Makes a Plea for the Conservation of the Spiny Mammals in this Anthology Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2026

Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology comes to us via 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell. Its origins lie in the artist’s recent fascination with hedgehogs,…

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Colossive Cartographies #69 – Mel Gale Revisits ‘A Fragile Obsession’ in this 16-Panel Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2026

While the Colossive Cartographies series constantly crosses through illustrative mediums its sixty-ninth issue, ‘A Fragile Obsession’ by Mel Gale, undeniably fits into the category of minicomic. Its 16-panel comic strip…

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The Idris File – Dix’s Tale of Conspiracies and the Supernatural in a 1970s Coastal Town Has a Peculiarly British Eccentricity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2026

Stories about quiet seaside towns with something dark to hide feel almost like a sub-genre of British horror in themselves. Dix’s The Idris File follows the 1970s exploits of teenage…

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The Closing Hour – Armstrong and Biggs Provide Another “Slice of North-Eastern Crime” in a Tense One-Shot Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2026

Billed as “a slice of North-Eastern crime” The Closing Hour is that all too rare thing in one-shot comics genre fiction – a satisfying complete-in-one story that also blends deep…

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Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 – More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2026

Since we reviewed the first issue of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas here last year at BF the comic has gone on to win in the Outstanding Series…

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