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Author: Andy Oliver

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Cindy and Biscuit: End of Level – Dan White’s British Small Press Institution Returns with Another Outing for Our Favourite Monster-Hunting Duo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2022

What I have always appreciated about Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit comics is the way in which the artist has constantly shifted his presentational (and as a result his narrative)…

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Dead Girls: Beach Day – Becca Kubrick’s Atmospheric Horror One-Shot is the Work of an Artist with a Growing Buzz Surrounding Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2022

Sometimes the buzz around a new creator or title means events move too fast for even Broken Frontier to keep up. Such is the case with Becca Kubrick’s Dead Girls:…

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Ant Story: Coffee Days – Rory and Richard Return in Another Bleakly Comedic Tale of Father-Son Conflict from King Louie’s Lab

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2022

At the beginning of this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed Ant Story, a collection of brutally funny short strips by the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and…

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Forest Spirit – Jack Smith’s Minicomic Expresses the Experience of Gender Transition Via the Fantasy Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2022

Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 24th for a ‘Crowdfunding Special’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2022

If Twitter survives for another few days then your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 24th…

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Welcome Home – Residents Fight to Save Their Tower Block in Clarrie and Blanche Pope’s Graphic Novel Commentary on the Housing Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2022

Given the current cost-of-living crisis and the UK’s imminent descent into a debilitating, Brexit-influenced recession, a graphic novel that touches on the housing crisis (the only thing we are not…

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Much-Featured Broken Frontier Favourites Rebecca K. Jones and Ed Firth Are Winner and Joint Runner-Up in this Year’s Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Competition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2022

The annual Observer/Faber (formerly the Observer/Cape/Comica) graphic short story competition has given nods in the direction of a number of creators deservedly much-featured at Broken Frontier in recent years, including…

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Voices That Count: A Comics Anthology By Women – Gender Imbalance and Toxic Masculinity Explored in IDW’s Collection of Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2022

Translated from the original Spanish edition, Voices That Count is described by English language publishers IDW as an “anthology [that] dissects what it means to be a woman in today’s…

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April’s Chop to the Top – Morgan Mei’s Fun Fantasy Quest Employs a Musical Accompaniment in this Cross-Media Comics Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Multimedia comics allow us an opportunity to think about how we interpret and interact with the form, giving us extra levels on which to appreciate narrative and…

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Meat4Burgers #1 and #2 – Christof Bogacs and Becca Kubrick Serve Up a Delicious Mystery in this Existential Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! We all like an intriguing premise that immediately grabs us before we even begin reading a comic. Christof Bogacs and Becca Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers certainly accommodates us in…

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WiPXL – WIP Comics’ Giant Newspaper-Style Anthology Features Boundary-Pushing Work from Mike Armstrong, Emily Maher, Mereida Fajardo and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Cliché-ridden as it may sound you can always expect the unexpected when it comes to the WIP Comics group’s annual anthology. WIP is a regular meet-up of…

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It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood’s “Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel” Masterpiece is a Triumphant Testament to the Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! To say I am far more interested in Zoe Thorogood’s work when it’s her own pure and unfiltered artistic vision rather than when she’s illustrating someone else’s…

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Children of the Earth & Sky – Manon Wright’s Debut Comic is a Cleverly Structured and Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Parable

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes you only need the smallest sampling of material to know an artist has both that extra special understanding of the mechanics of comics and also that…

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Pricks – Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan Revisit the World of ‘Purple Hate Balloon’ in Another Caustically Funny Dark Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! For Thought Bubble last year Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan introduced us to the cast of Purple Hate Balloon. In that memorable one-shot they took us to…

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Alex Norris Needs Your Help to Keep ‘Webcomic Name’ Alive! – GoFundMe Launched to Aid Them with Legal Fees in Battle to Protect the Popular ‘Oh No’ Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2022

Hugely popular UK creator Alex Norris has asked for the comics community’s support in a legal battle against a US publishing company attempting to claim ownership of their internet sensation…

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Splat – Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s Warped Comedy Stylings Return in a Second Split Comic Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Last year for Thought Bubble Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley, those two much respected gentlemen of the UK indie comics scene, collaborated on a split format, reversible…

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Peach Fuzz #1 – Anna Readman Takes Us on an Enticing Journey Into Melancholia in this Absolutely Essential Thought Bubble 2022 Purchase

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! When I chose Anna Readman to be one of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ artists in  2019 it was based solely on a few short pieces on…

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All Ghosts: A Slice of the Afterlife – Sammy Ward Takes Us on a Haunted Tour of Life After Death in this Spooky Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes we don’t need the sequential part of sequential art to find whole narrratives bound up in a single image. Sammy Ward’s All Ghosts: A Slice of…

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