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Author: Andy Oliver

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Hitsville UK #6-7 – It’s the End of a Small Press Era as Riordan and Cox’s Eccentric Musical Romp Draws to a Close

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Thought Bubble just wouldn’t be Thought Bubble without the annual entry in John Riordan and Dan Cox’s music industry send-up Hitsville UK. And yet that’s the…

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Sticky Ribs #1 – Dan White’s New Horror Anthology Provides an Enticingly Warped Double Bill of Twisted Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sometimes deadlines exist to be broken. In the run-up to this year’s Thought Bubble we set cut-off dates for review requests but left the door open…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: UGH! Zine – Immerse Yourself in the Wild Imagination of Korinna Mei

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The Thought Bubble previews are coming in thick and fast and here’s another artist whose work we’ve covered before at Broken Frontier who you should be…

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Work – The London Comics ‘Work in Progress’ Group Tackle the Highs and Lows of the World of Employment in an Impressive Anthology Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The value of supportive comics community is vitally important to us here at Broken Frontier sitting, as it does, at the very heart of our mission…

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Retrograde Orbit – Kristyna Baczynski Explores Themes of Identity, Family, Belonging and Home in Her Unforgettable Debut Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! At its heart the very best science fiction isn’t about alien civilisations, space exploration or future tech, it’s work that on a very personal level speaks…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Kels Choo’s Zines and Comics – Take a Look at ‘The Coven of Wellington Woods’, ‘Happy Home’ and ‘Windows’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Another day and another piece of pre-Thought Bubble coverage here at Broken Frontier! This one’s extra exciting for us at BF as today’s subject Kels Choo…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back for a Thought Bubble Special on Thursday September 20th with Guest Artists Ben Sears and Kels Choo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

We’re squeezing in a Thought Bubble Special Edition of our  Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this week! And we have an ace double bill of TB talent on Thursday…

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Preview: A Lone Deer at the End of the World, The Complete Matinee Idol and Bottoms Up! – Catch Birdcage Bottom Books at SPX this Weekend!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 14, 2018

Birdcage Bottom Books are one of our favourite US small press publishers here at Broken Frontier with their output of genuinely indie, experimental and alt comics typifying the kind of…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Nexus Chapter 1 – C Vinter’s New Sci-Fi Series Debuts in Print in Leeds

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! While one of them tries to keep it all together, the other keeps tearing it down. Hyder is doing his best trying to provide for his…

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Endswell #1 – It’s Impossible Not to Feel Invested in the Very Human Drama of Peter Morey’s Family Saga

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! A fictionalised retelling based on real events, Peter Morey’s Endswell is a slice-of-life saga touching on very real concerns about the exploitation of the elderly. Morey may…

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L1MA – A Stunningly Illustrated Peruvian Sci-Fi Saga with an Urban Edge from Gustaffo Vargas

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The most effective science fiction frames itself in terms of reference that we can, on some level, relate to. That may be through parallels to our…

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Stutter – Joe Stone’s Autobiographical Account of Living with a Speech Impediment is Our Thought Bubble Debut Comic of the Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! There is nothing we are more passionate about here at Broken Frontier than being able to point to practice that that makes use of those properties…

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Hallo Spaceboy – Beth Barnett’s Bowie-Inspired Graphic Memoir is a Must-Buy at SPX this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…

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Telepathy Practice – Enter the Enticingly Weird World of Joe Decie in Another Collection of Bizarre Slice-of-Life Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! One of the great joys of Joe Decie’s comics is that they have always sat in their own unique, hard-to-define niche. Where would you place them…

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Preview: smallness – Ashanti Fortson’s Sci-Fi Journey of Discovery Debuts this Weekend at SPX

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

While we’re going to be somewhat Thought Bubble-intensive over the next two weeks at Broken Frontier we mustn’t forget that SPX is coming this weekend with a whole host of…

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Follow Me In – Katriona Chapman’s Mexican Graphic Travelogue is a Beautiful, Devastating and Hauntingly Fragile Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE!  No doubt Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In from Avery Hill Publishing will be broadly classified as a graphic travelogue, part of that burgeoning strand of graphic…

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Spinning – Tillie Walden’s Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Memoir is a Masterpiece of Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2018

From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…

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The Gosh! Comics ‘Reads’ Group Discuss ‘Sabrina’ – Pop Along and Chat about Nick Drnaso’s Booker Prize-Nominated Graphic Novel on September 12th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2018

Broken Frontier readers will be aware that our chums at Gosh! Comics put on a number of regular evening events that reach out to the wider London comics community. We…

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