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2000 AD Takes a Swipe at Trump’s Wall with New Cover – Long- Running UK Weekly Continues Its Tradition of Political Satire and Social Commentary

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2019

Those of us who grew up on venerable British weekly comic 2000 AD in the late 1970s and early ’80s can attest to its importance in opening up our minds…

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“I Do Try and Create a Rhythm to the Pages and a Poetic Feel to the Comics” – Tim Bird on ‘The Great North Wood’ and Exploring Themes of Place, Time and Memory

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! With a poetic, haunting line in the psychogeographical, Tim Bird has established himself as one of the most original voices in UK indie comics over the last several…

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Staff Picks for January 10, 2018 – Mister Miracle, Satellite Falling, Paradiso, The Limbo Lounge and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 9, 2018

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

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Grey Area: This Island Earth – One of the Best Series that 2000 AD Has Produced in the Last Decade is Collected by Rebellion this Month

  • by Tony Ingram
  • January 5, 2018

Dan Abnett has never met a pun he disliked, and the title of this series is one of his best. Grey Area is both a place where alien visitors to…

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Small Press Inside Look – British Comic Award-Winning Creator Tim Bird Guides Us through the Psychogeography of ‘Grey Area’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2017

After Tim Bird’s much deserved 2015 British Comic Award win for Grey Area: From the City to the Sea, anticipation was high for this fourth issue of his psychogeographical musings. Bird’s work…

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Grey Area: Our Town – Place, Time and Memories Converge in Tim Bird’s Latest Offering from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 28, 2016

The intersection between place, time and memory has been an integral part of Tim Bird’s Grey Area series from Avery Hill Publishing over the last few years. In Grey Area:…

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Staff Picks for September 28, 2016 – Grey Area: Our Town, 2000 AD, Hilda and the Stone Forest, Frostbite and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 27, 2016

It’s nearly 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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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Autumn 2016 Schedule – Previews of Books by Tim Bird, Steve Tillotson and Tillie Walden

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 22, 2016

We seem to say this on a six-month cycle here at Broken Frontier but what a year it’s been, once again, for micropublishers Avery Hill. Their 2016 line-up to date has…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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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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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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Avery Hill Publishing – The ‘Small Pressganged’ Story So Far! Meet the Team at the AHP Summer Party at London’s Orbital Comics this Friday

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2014

Four eagerly anticipated titles from British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing officially launch at London’s Orbital Comics this week on Friday 11th July. Those making it to Newport Street are promised an…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Avery Hill Publishing – the Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2014

Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…

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Grey Area #2: The Old Straight Track

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2013

Tim Bird’s Grey Area is a comic that pushes environment to the forefront, making geographical locations its central characters and replacing traditional plotting with a flowing journey of contemplative reflection….

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Grey Area #1: While the City Sleeps – Tim Bird Uses Architecture and Environment to Reflect Nocturnal Mood and Emotion

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2013

Published by Avery Hill, whose anthology Reads! I reviewed here on ‘Small Pressganged’ last year, Tim Bird’s Grey Area #1 is a sequential art tour of London’s streets, thoroughfares and hidden corners at night. Three…

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