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Donya Todd Arrives at Avery Hill Publishing – Previewing the Wild World of ‘Buttertubs’!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2015

From self-published minicomics, to hardcover collections and kick-ass anthologies, Donya Todd’s work has been a regular fixture in ‘Small Pressganged’ since I first reviewed The Burger Boys back in 2012. It’s…

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Avery Hill Publishing Introduce Major New Talent, Tillie Walden – Read Exclusive Preview Pages from ‘The End of Summer’ Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2015

The first part of Avery Hill Publishing’s exciting schedule of 2015 projects was announced last Friday and, as will come as little surprise to anyone who has been following the…

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Avery Hill Announce 2015 Publishing Plans – New Projects Include Work from Rachael Smith, Donya Todd, Tillie Walden and Daria Hlazatova

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 27, 2015

It was not without reason that plucky South London outfit Avery Hill Publishing were nominated by the Broken Frontier staff alongside the likes of Image Comics, First Second, Boom! and…

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State of the Small Press Nation – Are Higher Quality Printing Opportunities for Self-Publishing Squeezing Out Traditional DIY Small Press Values?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2015

Is the easier availability of high quality printing options for self-publishing having a negative knock-on effect for small press comics work presented in a traditional zine or DIY culture format?…

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Small Press Round-Up, January 2015 – Simon Moreton’s ‘Smoo’ Returns, 2D Cloud’s 2015 Plans, Sequential City Exhibition, Rozi Hathaway’s Self-Publishing Journey & More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2015

Simon Moreton, 2D Cloud, Rozi Hathaway, Impossible Books and more feature in January’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both…

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State of the Small Press Nation – Is the Ever Expanding Number of UK Comics Shows, Festivals and Fairs Sustainable?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2015

Is the rapidly expanding number of UK comics-related shows, fairs and festivals to exhibit at an advantage? Or is this level of growth actually stretching small press creators and their…

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Celebrating 2014: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2015

As has become something of a tradition for the first ‘Small Pressganged’ of the New Year it’s time once again to look back on the self and micropublished material featured in this…

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Grey Area: From the City to the Sea – Tim Bird’s Latest Psychogeographical Ruminations on Memory, History, Landscape and Architecture Prove to Be His Most Striking Work to Date

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2014

The transformation of Avery Hill Publishing from enthusiastic proponents of the DIY culture of self-publishing to one of the UK’s leading boutique publishers is, of course, no secret to anybody who…

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State of the Small Press Nation – Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller on the Challenges of Improving the Infrastructure of UK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2014

Just before Christmas we began a major series of articles here in ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier dealing with the current state of play of small press publishing in the…

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State of the Small Press Nation – Is Self and Micro Comics Publishing in the UK Growing Faster than its Potential Audience? (Part 1)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 15, 2014

For those of us involved in the world of independent British comics – whether directly as creators and publishers or more tangentially as commentators and observers – it’s easy to…

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Maleficium – EdieOP’s First Graphic Novel from Avery Hill Underlines Her Place as One of the Most Exciting and Original New Talents in UK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 5, 2014

One of the true pleasures – no, the ultimate pleasure – of writing a column with a primary mission statement to unearth the real gems of small press and self-published…

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A Quiet Disaster – Alex Potts and Avery Hill Publishing Take Us on a Beguilingly Nihilistic Journey of Non-Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2014

The great appeal of Alex Potts’s A Quiet Disaster is that on the one hand not very much actually occurs and yet, conversely, it’s in that same triviality of happenstance…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 19: Intersect, Wonder Woman, Bimba, Princess Ugg & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • November 18, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 12: Maleficium, Drifter, Deep State, Grindhouse, The Kitchen & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • November 11, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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Grey Area: From the City to the Sea – Tim Bird’s Latest Psychogeographical Offering from Avery Hill Publishing Previewed

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2014

The first two issues of Tim Bird’s Grey Area – psychogeographical comic narratives that are a perfect complement to the work of creators like Oliver East and Simon Moreton –…

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Small Press Spotlight on… EdieOP

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2014

When you cross over to “the sunny side of sinister” with small press artist EdieOP you enter the wicked imagination of a creator whose twisted and gleefully nefarious narratives are…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Simon Moreton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2014

In terms of critical acclaim Simon Moreton’s autobiographical Smoo Comics series has become widely acknowledged as one of the prominent successes of self-publishing on the UK small press scene over…

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Metroland #1 – Ricky Miller and Julia Scheele Are Together in Electric Dreams in Avery Hill’s Time-Jumping Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2014

With its heady mix of music industry drama, time-travel fantasy and borderline psychogeographical undertones, the basic premise of Avery Hill’s Metroland defies easy genre definitions. At its core are two…

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