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Author: Andy Oliver

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Ant Story – King Louie’s Lab Bring Us the Darkly Funny World of Rory and His Sarcastic Father, Ant Dad

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2022

Coming to us from the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and Dominic Linton, Ant Story is a collection of the comic strips previously presented on Instagram and in…

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Welcoming Steve Walsh into the Broken Frontier Hall of Fame and Celebrating His Incredible Work in Building Comics Community in the UK in the Last Decade

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2022

As promised when we announced the 2021 Broken Frontier Awards results last week at BF today we’re celebrating the comics activism of the latest inductee into our Hall of Fame…

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Framed – Sean Azzopardi Curates a New Comics Exhibition Including Work from Sarah Gordon, Olivia Sullivan and Dan White as He Looks to Make Hull “a Magical Comics City!”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2022

That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…

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Spit Dog – Jamie Kinroy Takes Us to Middle Ages Germany in a Promising Fantasy Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2022

It may be set mostly in the environs of a middle ages kitchen in late fifteenth century Germany but it could be argued that Jamie KInroy’s Spit Dog has social…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2021: Announcing the Winners – Socially Relevant Work is at the Forefront and Steve Walsh is this Year’s Hall of Fame Entrant!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2022

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 18th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Twelve months ago when I wrote the…

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Happy New Year! Looking Forward to 2022 at Broken Frontier

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 31, 2021

As 2022 beckons, a very “Happy New Year!” to all our visitors. It’s been another year full of challenges but we’re looking forward to what the next twelve months in…

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The Complete Johnny Future – A Rare 1960s British Foray into Super-Hero Territory Collected by the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2021

Not all archival comics collections need to be showcases for the best of what the medium can offer in terms of originality and technique. Some can exist solely for nostalgic…

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ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) Announces Hiatus in These Uncertain Times for In-Person Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2021

It might have slipped under the radar in the run-up to the festive season but ELCAF, the East London Comics and Arts Festival, has announced it is officially “on pause”…

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Celebrating 2021 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 28, 2021

It seems hardly possible that this is the tenth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ yearly round-up at Broken Frontier. Way back in 2012 I was…

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Happy Holidays to Our Broken Frontier Community from the BF Team!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 24, 2021

Our final pre-Christmas post this year as, however and whichever way you celebrate, we want to wish our Broken Frontier community the happiest of holidays. This, has, obviously been a…

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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2021 – Celebrating Twelve Months of Inspiring Comics Practice in a Year of Adversity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 23, 2021

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 18th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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Stranger Things Winter Special – Christmas Comes to Hawkins in this Feelgood Celebration of Friendship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 17, 2021

Peculiarly, for a year in which some diverting holiday reading was perhaps more needed than ever, festive comics seem to be few and far between for 2021. One of the…

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Terminus: Rabbit Season, Duck Season, the Collected Strips – Dan White’s Bleakly Humorous Flights of Dark Fantasy Make a Welcome Return to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 14, 2021

On those occasions where I am diverted by dreamy deliberations on how I would spend an ever elusive major lottery win my thoughts are drawn not just to which talented…

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 2 and 3 – Mad Max, the Tower Block A.I. with a Vengeful Personality, Returns in the Final Collections of this Classic Brit Horror Comic Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2021

Of all the Treasury of British Comics reprint collections to have emerged since publisher Rebellion gained ownership of decades of classic UK comics characters a few years back, few have…

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The Trojan Women: A Comic – Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno Bring Euripides to Comics Courtesy of Bloodaxe Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 8, 2021

It has been more years than I care to remember since I last read any Euripides as an A-level student studying Classical Civilisation, so classicist and poet Anne Carson and…

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Laneha House #1-3 – Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez’s Small Press Slice-of-Life Anthology is Eclectic, Experimental and Ever Relevant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 7, 2021

Last year at Broken Frontier we exclusively announced the formation of Laneha House, the small press dedicated to showcasing the work of artists Lawrence Lindell and Breena Nuñez. Previous coverage…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – The History of a Comics Community Success Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 6, 2021

This past weekend I had the pleasure of being one of the speakers at the online LDComics Festival, giving a presentation on the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and…

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“Comics is Where I Live” – Taki Soma on Her Powerful Graphic Memoir ‘Sleeping While Standing’ and the Avery Hill Kickstarter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 3, 2021

Avery Hill’s first ever Kickstarter is now in its final few days. So to give it one last push on our end here at Broken Frontier we’re chatting today with…

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