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“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2025

Described as “a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time”, Acid Box is a multi-creator graphic novel with a difference, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Written by Sara Kenney…

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Safer Places – Kit Anderson’s Collection of Comics Short Stories from Avery Hill is Haunting, Meditative and Quietly Profound

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2025

With the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Second Shift, winding down we’re taking the time to look at Kit Anderson’s first Avery Hill book…

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B. Mure and Kit Anderson in Conversation – The Avery Hill Artists on Creating Visual Fantastical Worlds, ‘Second Shift’ and the ‘Ismyre’ Series

  • by B. Mure and Kit Anderson
  • March 17, 2025

Something a little different today at Broken Frontier as Avery Hill Publishing creators B. Mure and Kit Anderson chat about their work, inspirations and world-building in fiction. Mure you will…

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The Scrapbook of Life and Death – Edwardian Oddities and Mental Health Converge in J. Webster Sharp’s Dark Collection of Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! George Ives’ life, even in synopsis, makes for fascinating reading. Born in 1867 he was a writer, a…

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Adrift on a Painted Sea – Tim Bird’s Beautifully Realised Graphic Memoir Celebrates the Life and Work of His Late Mother Sue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Tim Bird has always been one of the medium’s finest practitioners when it comes to investigating that particular metaphorical crossroads where individual, memory, environment and time…

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Preview: Second Shift – Kit Anderson Returns to Avery Hill Publishing in 2025 with a Sci-Fi Graphic Novel

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 29, 2024

Avery Hill have made their first announcement about their 2025 line-up. Details on Second Shift by Kit Anderson below. FIRST LOOK: Avery Hill Publishing is proud to announce a new…

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“The Sea… Can Reflect Back an Infinite Number of Different Meanings” – Tim Bird Talks About Paying Tribute to His Late Mother in ‘Adrift on a Painted Sea’ from Avery Hill

  • by Katriona Chapman
  • June 6, 2024

If you’ve been following the Avery Hill story since the very beginning you will be aware that artist Tim Bird has been part of their publishing output since the very…

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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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“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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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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Avery Hill Announce Autumn 2024 Line-Up – ‘The Scrapbook of Life and Death’ by J Webster Sharp and ‘Adrift on a Painted Sea’ by Tim Bird

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Avery Hill‘s publishing announcements are always something to look out for and their Autumn line-up for 2024 is no exception. Longstanding AHP…

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“I Want You to Feel My Reaching Out and My Connection to You” – Shelly Bond in Conversation with L. Pidge on Her Sprawling Comics Epic ‘Infinite Wheatpaste’

  • by Shelly Bond
  • April 4, 2024

Currently crowdfunding via Kickstarter (back it here!) Infinite Wheatspace Volume 1: Catalytic Conversions from Avery Hill Publishing compiles the first nine self-published issues of this genre-defying epic series from the…

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Barking – Mental Health and Grief Explored in the Starkest Visual Metaphor in Lucy Sullivan’s Haunting Graphic Novel, Now Republished by Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2024

This isn’t something we normally do at Broken Frontier but on this occasion it would feel critically irresponsible not to re-run our review of Lucy Sullivan’s Barking, given the new…

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Big Ugly – Ellice Weaver’s Second Avery Hill Graphic Novel is an Understated Yet Profound Study of the Sibling Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2023

SLCZF 2023! As I have mentioned before on occasion here at Broken Frontier one of the great privileges of being involved with BF is getting to see work-in-progress months… or…

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“There Are So Many Ways to Tell a Story in Comics” – Nicole Goux on ‘Pet Peeves’, Her First Solo Longer-Form Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2023

Nicole Goux has become something of a semi-regular presence here at Broken Frontier over the last four years. Goux’s collaborations with Dave Baker in Fuck Off Squad, Everyone is Tulip…

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Alone in Space – The Definitive Collection of the Early Work of Tillie Walden, One of the Finest Cartoonists of Our Time

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2023

PRIDE MONTH 2023!  As our reviews go, today’s look at Tillie Walden’s Alone in Space is going to be a slightly different reading experience. This collection of Walden’s first three…

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Pet Peeves – Nicole Goux’s Tale of a Demon Dog is an Evocative Allegory of Aimlessness, Self-Sabotage and the Creative Struggle

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2023

Over the last four years at Broken Frontier we have covered the collaborative work of the Nicole Goux-Dave Baker team on a number of projects, including Fuck Off Squad, Everyone…

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Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis – Tom Humberstone Brings a Forgotten Sporting Legend Back to Life in this Fascinating Graphic Biography

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Over the years, via social media, I had already become acutely aware of UK artist Tom Humberstone’s love for the game of tennis. That passion is embodied…

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