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Author: Andy Oliver

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Jessica Farm – Fantagraphics’ Collection of Josh Simmons’ Quarter of a Century Work-in-Progress Story Captures a Unique Experiment in the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2025

The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 4 – “So-Called Artificial Intelligence Has Been Crafted in Service to Power”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2025

We’re back again this week with another set of canvassed opinions from across the worlds of comics on the effects of Generative AI on the form. Here’s our standard intro…

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Thought Bubble Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Guidelines on Reviews Submissions and Possible Interviews as Part of our Annual Celebration of All Things TB!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2025

Just a quick reminder today of the message you will already have received from our chums on the Thought Bubble team. And a couple of quick notes on FAQs and…

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Seeing in the Watery Underworld – Ecological Deliberations from Niki Bañados Who Takes Us on a Trip to the Microscopic World of Stygobites

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2025

Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…

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I ♡ Kill – Monsters, Fantasy and Pointless Bureaucracy All Come Together in April Newton’s Frenetically Funny Comics One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2025

“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…

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Zineapalooza – Party On as the Zinezilla Comics Anthology Returns with Work from Mereida Fajardo, Beastly Worlds, C A Strike, Rein Lee and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2025

With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….

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Broken Frontier Andytorial, September 2025 – Looking Forward to UK Festival Season as Zinezilla, LICAF, Thought Bubble and More Loom Large!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2025

Can it really be September now at Broken Frontier Towers? I somehow seem to be keeping up with these beginning-of-the-month round-ups and previews of activity from us here at BF….

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne Halbert

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2025

And we’re ending up the week with part four of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy Tristram

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2025

We’re back again with part three of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put together…

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mini kus! #131: Animal Denial – Émilie Gleason Looks at Animal Rights, Factory Farming and the Environment in this Memorable Satirical Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2025

Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2025

And today we’re back with part two of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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Toto Bunny Zine #1 and #2 – Kiera Won’s Minicomics Are a Delightful, Fold-Out Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2025

Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…

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Silent Planet – Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2025

I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 1 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2025

This is exactly the kind of initiative we exist to support at Broken Frontier. In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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Rebirth! – Looking Back at Caption Festival’s Return to Oxford After an 8-Year-Hiatus, and its Grand Celebration of UK Indie and Small Press Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2025

When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 3 – “Generative AI is Fundamentally Colonial and Patriarchal”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2025

Welcome to a third look from across our community on the effects of Generative AI on comics. Here’s our standard intro for the series… AI “art” is already encroaching on…

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Blood Doughnut – Will Powers Shows Us the Other Side of Vampire Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2025

“You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 2 – “We May Be Led Down a Creative Bottleneck of Conformity”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2025

And we’re back with round two of our thoughts from across the community on AI and comics. Here’s our standard intro for the series… AI “art” is already encroaching on…

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