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Author: Andy Oliver

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Watch the British Comics Now Video Celebrating the Work of the First TCAF Delegation!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As you no doubt know by now after our interview coverage and, as mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year, six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending…

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“I Love to Walk on the Spectrum Between Explicitness and Obscurity” – Jason Chuang on the Visual Language of Comics and Abstract Takes on Autobio

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! 10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic…

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“I Want to Figure Out How to Make Work that is Useful to Others” – B. Mure on ‘Ismyre’, Allegory and the Realities of World-Building in Fiction

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“If I Make a Comic, People Are More Able to Empathise With What I’m Trying to Communicate” – Bex Ollerton Talks Neurodivergence in Comics and Her Upcoming Projects

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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The Space Between the Trees – Norm Konyu’s Latest Supernatural Story is a Taut, Twisting, Turning Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Norm Konyu comics are designed to unsettle. Not in an outrageously over-the-top or gratuitous way. More in the manner of a narrative…

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The Mirage – Owen Michael Johnson’s Crime Heist Pastiche Reveals Hidden Layers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

It’s been a while since we last had the opportunity to review a comic from the genre-hopping mind of Owen Michael Johnson (Beast Wagon, Reel Love). Over the years Johnson’s…

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“Norse Mythology… It’s Such a Wonderful and Incomplete Beast” – Martin Simpson on His Graphic Novel ‘NORD’ and His Love of Legend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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“I Like Reopening Certain Parts of My Life that Were Challenging” – Clio Isadora on Autobio Comics and Her Avery Hill Graphic Novel ‘Sour Pickles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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Black Josei Press to Go on Indefinite Hiatus in 2025 – Jamila Rowser’s Acclaimed Publishing Endeavour Begins Hiatus Tour 2024

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2024

Sad news last week from the direction of Jamila Rowser and the acclaimed Black Josei Press that the multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher will be going on indefinite hiatus from…

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Comics Cultural Impact Collective 2 – Comics Stakeholders Strike Back on May 7th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2024

Just a reminder that the second meeting of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective is scheduled for the evening of May 7th, 2024. This is such an important initiative with a…

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“I Never Get Sick of Folk Tales and Mythology” – Isabel Greenberg Talks Arthurian Legends, the Brontës and Her Self-Publishing Roots

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2024

BRITISH COMICS NOW! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic Art Festival (TCAF) as part of the British…

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Meat4Burgers: Welcome to Burgertory – Beck Kubrick and Christof Bogacs Transport Us to the Universe’s Most Unsettling Fast Food Franchise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Although we covered the first two print issues of Christof Bogacs and Beck Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers series a while back at Broken Frontier…

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Hakim’s Odyssey Books 1-3 – Fabien Toulmé Brings the Story of a Syrian Refugee to the Comics Page with Sensitivity and Empathy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2024

We can never have two many comics testaments to the ongoing realities of the refugee crisis. Every time I cover one and add it to our dedicated Broken Frontier resource…

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Bludzee – Sloth Comics Presents the Delightfully Absurdist Misadventures of Lewis Trondheim’s Assassin Kitten

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2024

Lewis Trondheim is hardly a name that is unknown outside of his native France but it’s still one that should be far more celebrated in the English-speaking world. Of course…

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Colossive Cartographies #54 – Hayley Gullen Gives Us ‘Hayley’s Guide to Chemo’ in the Latest from the Colossive Press Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2024

‘Hayley’s Guide to Chemo’ is the latest and the fifty-fourth entry in the Colossive Press series Colossive Cartographies; zine-like, fold-out, graphic narratives. Fitting into the graphic medicine area of comics….

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When I Arrived at the Castle – E.M. Carroll’s Intense Character Study is as Hypnotic as it is Terrifying

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2024

This review adapts our original 2019 coverage of E.M. Carroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle when it was first published by Koyama Press. The book is republished this month…

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“Part of My Personal Goal Has Always Been to ‘Keep the Underground Alive’, Whatever That Means” – Rick Altergott on Returning to the World of ‘Doofus’ in ‘Blessed Be’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 11, 2024

If you were a fan of Peter Bagge’s Hate in the 1990s you may well remember the Doofus back-up strips by Rick Altergott that ran for some years in that…

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The Hard Switch – Owen D. Pomery’s Science Fiction Saga Lives Up to Its Intriguingly Allegorical Premise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2024

When it comes to the comics practice of Owen D. Pomery there are certain key thematic examinations one might expect to see in a new release. Dark and quietly intense…

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