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So Buttons #11 – Jonathan Baylis’s Amiably Raconteurial Autobio Includes Contributions from B. Mure, Phil Elliott and Maria & Peter Hoey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 23, 2021

To describe Jonathan Baylis’s autobio work as Pekar-esque only goes so far in communicating his approach to this area of comics practice. So Buttons #11 is a short anthology collection…

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Malty Heave #2 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Return with a Second Horror-Themed Edition of the Parody Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2020

Fondly sending up a certain decades-old bastion of fantasy magazine publishing (the clue is in the anagrammatical title) Robert Wells and Phil Elliott’s Malty Heave makes a welcome end-of-year return…

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Department of the Peculiar Goes POP! #1 – The UK’s Unlikeliest Super-Team Returns Courtesy of Rol Hirst and Robert Wells

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2020

While artist Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack ( & Brain) and Malty Heave) may be more familiar to Broken Frontier readers, his collaborative partner on Department of the Peculiar…

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Malty Heave #1 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Re-Imagine ‘Heavy Metal’ with a Satirical Edge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2019

Walking a fine line between cutting satire and fond parody, Malty Heave is a one-shot, tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi special collaboration between Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain)) and Phil Elliott;…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Island, ES*EF, Testimony and Secret Prison 8: Glut Magazine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 6, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

In HIs Cups: Collected Tales from Gimbley (Phil Elliott)

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In His Cups: Collected Tales from Gimbley – Raise a Glass to Phil Elliott, One of the Godfathers of British Small Press Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • September 24, 2014

This neat little collection offers a showcase of Phil Elliott’s Tales from Gimbley – the core work of one of British small press comics’ early giants. Phil Elliott plays such a…

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