When it comes to the comics practice of Owen D. Pomery there are certain key thematic examinations one might expect to see in a new release. Dark and quietly intense…
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…
Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…
Hot on the heels of his recent bleak thriller British Ice from Top Shelf Productions, creator Owen D. Pomery follows up this summer with his second graphic novel Victory Point…
A few weeks ago when we made British Ice our ‘Comic of the Week’ at Broken Frontier we also noted that we have been following the progression of its creator…
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 event or digital…
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…
We’ve been covering the work of Owen D. Pomery for so long now that our earliest reviews are on the old Broken Frontier site from way back in 2013. We…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Comics are often just one strand of the artistic practice of the creators we cover at Broken Frontier, especially in the case of those in the self-publishing and…
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“To all who wander lost and take sick solace in the plight of others.” Those ominous words open Owen D. Pomery’s latest comic The Victory Motel – debuting this weekend…
When you get as many small press books submitted for review as I do then it’s inevitable that sometimes more than the odd title will slip through the cracks, only…
Christmas is coming! And with the end-of-year celebrations imminent I asked some of the small press artists we’ve featured in this column in the last year or two to share…
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There are two standard approaches to the concept of the comics anthology and both have experienced conflicting fortunes in recent years. While the one-shot anthology compilation of complete, “told in one…
CELEBRATING BCZF! When editor Mark Beechill first launched Foxhole he did so with the tagline ‘Arts, Culture, Writing’ foremost in his mind but he’s the first to admit that approach…
One of acclaimed micropublisher (and Broken Frontier 2014 Award nominees in the Best Publisher category) Avery Hill’s most overlooked projects, the anthology Reads is a wonderfully eclectic collection of complete stories and serials…
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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…
If last week’s first impressive list of 2015 books coming from Avery Hill Publishing wasn’t enough for you then the micropublisher have followed up with a second announcement of projects…
The Beast Wagon Kickstarter, Julia Scheele’s new fashion illustration blog, John Paul Kamath’s Graveyard Orbit #2 launch and more feature in March’s round-up of what the great and the good…
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