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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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Artificial Flowers – Take Another Touching Journey of Self-Discovery in Rachael Smith’s Latest Character-Led Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2016

As Rachael Smith’s graphic novel and comics portfolio begins to build up into a significant body of work, a sense of growing narrative cohesion has also become apparent. One of…

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Buttertubs – Donya Todd’s Typically Idiosyncratic Fantasy with Attitude Comes to Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2016

There can be few experiences in comics quite as delightfully, deliciously and dizzyingly bizarre as a Donya Todd offering. From her self-published The Burger Boys to Death & the Girls…

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The End of Summer – An Astonishingly Confident Debut Graphic Novel from Remarkable New Talent Tillie Walden

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2015

I have been particularly fortunate in the years that I have been writing ‘Small Pressganged’ here at Broken Frontier to be able to not just cover a number of astonishing new…

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The Rabbit – Rachael Smith’s Tenderly Observed Yet Grotesquely Surreal Coming of Age Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2015

With her debut graphic novel House Party released to great critical acclaim last year, and British Comic Awards recognition via a nomination in the Emerging Talent category, 2014 was a…

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Between the Billboards & The Authoring of Architecture – Owen D. Pomery’s Brooding Tale of Isolation Collected by Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 3, 2015

Originally self-published as a six-part series, Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards tells the story of James Ebner who voluntarily removes himself from society to live a solitary existence ensconced in…

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The Manly Boys and Comely Girls Annuals – Gareth Brookes and Steve Tillotson’s Period Parodies Hit the Satirical Target

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2015

Straddling the worlds of comics and illustrated satire The Manly Boys and Comely Girls Annuals – Gareth Brookes and Steve Tillotson’s double pack of parody publications – have their origins in a previously…

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Swear Jar – Avery Hill Publishing Collect the Emotionally Resonant Comics of Abe Christie

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2015

In terms of shared philosophy there’s a reason why micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing get the level of coverage they do at Broken Frontier. In the same way that ‘Small Pressganged’…

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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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Maleficium – EdieOP’s First Graphic Novel from Avery Hill Underlines Her Place as One of the Most Exciting and Original New Talents in UK Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 5, 2014

One of the true pleasures – no, the ultimate pleasure – of writing a column with a primary mission statement to unearth the real gems of small press and self-published…

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A Quiet Disaster – Alex Potts and Avery Hill Publishing Take Us on a Beguilingly Nihilistic Journey of Non-Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2014

The great appeal of Alex Potts’s A Quiet Disaster is that on the one hand not very much actually occurs and yet, conversely, it’s in that same triviality of happenstance…

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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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Days – The Haunting Minimalism of Simon Moreton’s ‘Smoo Comics’ Collected by Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2014

“Quite simply, he is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics.” That soundbite, adorning the back cover of Simon Moreton’s Days –…

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The Beginner’s Guide to Being Outside – Gill Hatcher’s Journey of Discovery in the Scottish Highlands is an All-Ages Tour de Force

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2014

Gill Hatcher’s role in the Team Girl Comic anthology, and the comics community that has evolved from that collective, have been covered here at Broken Frontier a number of times…

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Seasons

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…

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