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Lights, Planets, People! – Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart Remind Us that the Enormity of Outer Space is Dwarfed Only by the Enormity of Our Personal Space

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2021

Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart’s Lights, Planets, People! is a layered book, not just in terms of theme but also in its storytelling structure. Three intertwining narrative strands weave in…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Avery Hill Publishing Spring 2022 Line – Three Top Books to Back from George Wylesol, Taki Soma and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental, community-based or daring uses of the form that we spot…

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Signals from the Hill – Listen to Our Andy Oliver Chatting with Steve Walsh about Broken Frontier’s Work on the Avery Hill Podcast

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 22, 2021

Avery Hill Publishing‘s popular comics podcast Signals from the Hill turned its attention to Broken Frontier’s work recently with AHP’s Steve Walsh chatting to our Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver. Andy talks…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announce 2021 Publishing List – Includes Books from Tillie Walden, Karen Shangguan, Lizzy Stewart & Molly Naylor, B. Mure, Lord Hurk and Clio Isadora

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 15, 2021

Avery Hill Publishing, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award winners for 2020, have announced six books coming this year and it’s another cracking line-up of returning artists and new names. A…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2020: Announcing the Winners – A Huge Year for Zoe Thorogood, Shazleen Khan and Avery Hill Publishing, and Gosh! Comics Are this Year’s Hall of Fame Entrants!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2021

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 17th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Last year in our BF Awards write-up…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 26th for an Avery Hill Publishing Special Featuring Owen D. Pomery, Abs Bailey and Claire Scully

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 24, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday November 26th with an Avery Hill Publishing Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Breakwater – Katriona Chapman Presents a Poignantly Observed Exploration of Friendship and Its Boundaries

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2020

Given how beautifully rendered her pencilled pages are it’s easy to overlook one of the subtler aspects of Katriona Chapman’s storytelling. It’s something that is undoubtedly one of her greatest…

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The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott – Zoe Thorogood’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill is a Confident and Accomplished Book from an Important New Voice in UK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2020

I don’t think I have ever known a year quite like 2020 for outstanding graphic novel debuts from UK-based creators. Of course there’s a surrounding sadness to that statement in…

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Zebedee and the Valentines – Abs Bailey’s Intense, Rewarding and Occasionally Trippy Character Study is a Confident and Affecting Debut Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2020

Zebedee and the Valentines is not the first time 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Abs Bailey has been published by Avery Hill. Two years ago, in the Comic…

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Victory Point – Owen D. Pomery’s Captivating Comic is a Refreshing Release and Reflection on Permanence and Perspective, from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • August 5, 2020

Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…

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The Flood That Did Come – Patrick Wray’s Experimental Tale of “a Little England Drowning in its Own Future Past” is a Wittily Eccentric and Darkly Comedic Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2020

Avery Hill Publishing describe Patrick Wray’s debut graphic novel The Flood That Did Come as being set in “a little England drowning in its own future past” which is a…

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What We Don’t Talk About – Charlot Kristensen’s Exploration of Racism, Privilege and Interracial Relationships Marks the Emergence of a Major New Voice in Indie Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2020

Kristensen’s vibrant visual characterisation, immersive employment of colour and playful sense of pacing marks her out as a genuinely exciting new emerging talent to watch. Those were my words earlier…

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Follow Friday: Abs Bailey – “Bailey’s Pages Toy with Traditional Panel-to-Panel Sequential Storytelling with a Self-Aware Sense of Fun”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2020

Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week in Follow Friday we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves…

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Follow Friday: Tim Bird – “Bird Reminds Us of How Our Own Personal Stories Both Impact on Our Environments and Yet Simultaneously Are Swallowed Up By Them”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2020

Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves far more…

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Preview: The Flood That Did Come – Catch a Video Trailer and Preview Pages from Patrick Wray’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2020

Coming this August in the UK and September in the US, The Flood That Did Come is the debut graphic novel of Patrick Wray. Another cool find by the Avery…

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Mimi and the Wolves Vol. 1 – Alabaster Pizzo’s Epic Fantasy is Replete with Foreshadowing, Foreboding and Exquisite Comics Craft

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 6, 2020

If you’re a regular on the indie comics circuit you may already have been aware of Alabaster Pizzo’s Mimi and the Wolves in its self-published incarnation. Beginning in 2013, Pizzo…

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Preview: Victory Point – Owen D. Pomery’s Second Graphic Novel of 2020 Debuts this Summer from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

Hot on the heels of his recent bleak thriller British Ice from Top Shelf Productions, creator Owen D. Pomery follows up this summer with his second graphic novel Victory Point…

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Preview: Zebedee and the Valentines – Watch a Video Trailer of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Abs Bailey’s New Graphic Novel from Avery Hill Publishing Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 14, 2020

Abs Bailey is one of a number of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists over the years to join the Avery Hill Publishing line-up (alongside such talents as Ellice…

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