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    Metroland #4 – Miller and Scheele’s Contemporary Fantasy Mixes Music and Time Travel in a Revelatory Finale to the First Arc

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 28, 2019

    “There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…

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    “2017 Was Our Experimental Album” – Avery Hill Publishing Talk About an Award-Winning Year, Their Acclaimed Line-Up of Creative Talent and What We Can Look Forward to in 2018

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 7, 2018

    BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER!  There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…

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    Avery Hill Publishing Announce Schedule for 2018 – Including Books from Tillie Walden, Katriona Chapman, Tim Bird, Luke Healy, Seekan Hui and Ricky Miller & Julia Scheele

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 30, 2017

    What a year it’s been for Avery Hill Publishing. From the Ignatz-nominated Comic Book Slumber Party Deep Space Canine anthology to Something City, the hugely acclaimed debut graphic novel of Ellice…

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    Small Press Spotlight on… B. Mure

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 24, 2017

    B. Mure is a creator who has maintained a steady presence on the UK small press circuit over the last few years with both their own self-published comics titles and…

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    Small Press Inside Look: Metroland – Ricky Miller Talks About Avery Hill’s Time-Travelling Music Epic and His Collaboration with Julia Scheele

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 6, 2017

    Metroland has a very special place in Avery Hill Publishing history. It’s a link back to the South London outfit’s early days when the now Ignatz-winning and Eisner-nominated publisher were…

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    Staff Picks for June 8, 2016 – Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy, The Black Dahlia, Midnight of the Soul, Metroland, The Ghosts We Know and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • June 7, 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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    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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    Small Press Spotlight on… Avery Hill Publishing – the Editorial Team

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 7, 2014

    British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing are no longer the new kids on the small press block. In 2013 their comics output expanded rapidly. Critically acclaimed books like Jazz Greenhill’s The…

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    Reads #4 – Volume 1 of Avery Hill’s Showcase Anthology Comes to an Eclectic End

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 18, 2014

    Over the last few years Avery Hill’s Reads has served as the micropublisher’s showcase comic; a self-styled shop front featuring an ever eclectic mix of genres and approaches to the…

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