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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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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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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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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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Avery Hill Publishing Announce 2020 Publishing List – Includes Books from Owen D. Pomery, Charlot Kristensen, Zoe Thorogood, Patrick Wray, Katriona Chapman and 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Abs Bailey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2019

Multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher Avery Hill have provided us with details of their 2020 publishing schedule and, as you can imagine, it’s a genuinely exciting line-up. Of course, from…

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Inside Look: Swim – Abs Bailey Talks Creative Process and Working in Multiple Media on Her Slice-of-Life One-Shot

  • by Abs Bailey
  • July 16, 2019

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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“I Find it Really Satisfying to Have a Medium that’s so Visual and Accessible” – ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Barbawk on Making Her Way into the UK Small Press Comics Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2019

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Abs Bailey, aka Barbawk, is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ and also a contributor to Comic Book Slumber Party’s anarchic fantasy…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday April 24th with Guest Artists Barbawk, Shazleen Khan and Molley May

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2019

The fourth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is imminent! And once again we have a tiptop trio of small press artists on Wednesday April 24th joining us…

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Beyond Death – From Drunken Solo Singing to ABBA to Quieter Moments of Introspection, Barbawk Reminds Us that Breaking Up is Never Easy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2019

Described as a collection of “short comics made in the aftermath of a break-up” Beyond Death is a minicomic offering from Barbawk (aka Abi Bailey), one of our 2019 Broken…

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Swim – Barbawk Invites Us to Face Our Own Fears in a Beautiful Piece of Anthropomorphic Slice-of-Life Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2019

Last Autumn when I reviewed the latest Comic Book Slumber Party anthology Escape from Bitch Mountain, published by Avery Hill Publishing, there were a couple of artists in that collaborative…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2019 – Spotlighting the Work of Aleesha Nandhra, Anna Readman, Barbawk, Joe Stone, Laurel Pettitt and Olivia Sualdea

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2019

It’s that time of year again when we showcase the work of six up-and-coming artists as part of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ initiative – half a…

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Escape from Bitch Mountain – Greasy and Comic Book Slumber Party Return in Another Raucously Diverting Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 12, 2018

With a Jenn Woodall cover that evokes fond childhood memories of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books and the excitement that the illusion of narrative control had on our younger selves,…

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