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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Wired Up Wrong Deluxe Version – Rachael Smith Returns to Her Accessible and Touching Comics Exploration of Depression and Anxiety

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 2, 2017

Creator Rachael Smith (Doctor Who, Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure) has been a long-term fixture here at Broken Frontier over the last few years. We’ve followed her work from…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Rachael Smith (Revisited)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 5, 2017

Rachael Smith has become one of this column’s core group of regularly featured creators since I first reviewed her short comic I Am Fire nearly four years ago here. Since…

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A Life in the Day of Rachael Smith – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2017

Last week saw the annual return of the #hourlycomicday hashtag to Twitter as comics artists spent the day capturing the events of their respective February 1sts in comic strips portraying each hour…

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Celebrating 2016: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2017

Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…

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Thought Bubble Small Press Debut Picks Day 4 – Comics from Rachael Smith, Kate-mia White, Shaky Kane and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 3, 2016

It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up until…

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Wired Up Wrong – Rachael Smith’s Accessible Exploration of Mental Health Issues May Be Her Most Important Work to Date

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2016

Debuting at Thought Bubble! I can point to any number of reasons to enjoy Rachael Smith’s work – her nuanced characterisation, her expressive cartooning or her authentic use of dialogue, for…

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure – Mike Medaglia and Rachael Smith Bring Kathy Hoopmann’s Much-Loved Children’s Book to a New Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2016

Blue Bottle Mystery is not just a solid exercise in taking an already successful work and re-imagining it for a new readership but also an object lesson in how to…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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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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Celebrating 2015: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2016

We’re a little later than usual this year with my annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up; a yearly feature celebrating the diversity and rude health of the…

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Exclusive Preview: Bess – Take a Look at Some Teaser Images from British Comic Awards-Nominated Rachael Smith’s Upcoming Webcomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2015

It’s been a busy year for Rachael Smith. Most notably, of course, that’s due to her second graphic novel The Rabbit being published by Avery Hill Publishing to critical acclaim…

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Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox – The Power of Positive Change Celebrated in Richy K. Chandler’s Inspiring Multi-Creator Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 29, 2015

CELEBRATING BCZF! Comics and community. It’s something we’ve spoken about a lot in this column in 2015 whether it be in terms of graphic memoirist Wallis Eates’s outreach work taking…

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Small Press Inside Look: The Rabbit – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Critically Acclaimed Graphic Novel from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2015

It’s been something of a Rachael Smith celebration over the last two weeks here at Broken Frontier as her second graphic novel The Rabbit from Avery Hill Publishing launched to great…

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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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Small Press Spotlight on… Rachael Smith

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2015

In 2014 Rachael Smith‘s debut graphic novel House Party propelled her unforgettably into the collective consciousness of the larger UK comics community. The rave reviews for her tale of a trio…

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Not a New Wave – Julia Scheele, Jess Milton and Rachael Smith Are the Star Turns in this Sleater-Kinney Tribute from One Beat Zines

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 21, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s zine-making collective/distro One Beat Zines burst onto the small press scene at the end of last year with their well-received multi-creator…

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Avery Hill Announce 2015 Publishing Plans – New Projects Include Work from Rachael Smith, Donya Todd, Tillie Walden and Daria Hlazatova

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 27, 2015

It was not without reason that plucky South London outfit Avery Hill Publishing were nominated by the Broken Frontier staff alongside the likes of Image Comics, First Second, Boom! and…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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State of the Small Press Nation – Are Higher Quality Printing Opportunities for Self-Publishing Squeezing Out Traditional DIY Small Press Values?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2015

Is the easier availability of high quality printing options for self-publishing having a negative knock-on effect for small press comics work presented in a traditional zine or DIY culture format?…

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