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Tiny Pencil: The Cosmic Issue – TP Goes Astral as Gareth Brookes, Alexis Deacon, Kim Clements and Jun Cen Contribute to a Graphite Sci-Fi Extravaganza

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! While the latest issue of graphite arts anthology Tiny Pencil was a long time in coming, this fifth edition – a sci-fi spectacular with many of the darker overtones…

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Parsley Girl: Carrots – Another Riotous Misadventure for Matthew Swan’s Fun Fantasy Heroine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2016

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announces First Releases of 2016 – Includes Books by Tillie Walden, Rachael Smith, Matthew Swan and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2016

What an astonishing year of achievement 2015 was for Avery Hill Publishing. British Comic Awards nominations for EdieOP’s Maleficium and Rachael Smith’s The Rabbit alongside that much deserved BCA win…

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Parsley Girl – Pure Escapist Fantasy Fun from the Ever Imaginative Cartooning Mind of Matthew Swan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of whimsical UK small press fantasy, Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl loosely sits somewhere between Colin Bell and Neil Slorance’s Dungeon Fun and Adam Vian’s Long Lost…

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