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Comedy Women in Print Prize Announces Longlists for Its 2020 Awards Including the ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ Category

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2020

The Comedy Women in Print Prize has announced its longlists today, including the artists and projects in the new ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ category (in association with LDComics) which also covers…

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Stand in Your Power – Rachael Smith Runs the Emotional Gamut in Her Heartfelt Yet Witty Account of Surviving a Relationship Break-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2020

Acting as both chronological and thematic sequel to her earlier book Wired Up Wrong, but still entirely accessible as a standalone work, Rachael Smith’s Stand in Your Power explores the…

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Thought Bubble Anthology 2019 – The Annual Festival Anthology Makes a Welcome Return Mixing New Talent with Established Creators Including Luke Pearson, Rachael Smith, Jock and Tula Lotay

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…

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“It’s Going to Be My Best Book Yet” – Rachael Smith Talks about Crowdfunding Contemporary Fantasy ‘Isabella & Blodwen’ Via Unbound Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2018

The prolific Rachael Smith is not an artist to rest on her laurels. After last year’s massively lauded Wired Up Wrong – her collection of autobiographical strips on living with…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Draw the Line, Wash Day, Isabella and Blodwen and The Edge Off

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 27, 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…

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“It Was a Book I Think I Simply Had to Make” – Rachael Smith Talks about ‘Wired Up Wrong’, Living with Depression and Anxiety, and the Power of Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2018

Back in 2016, when I reviewed the original edition of Wired Up Wrong – Rachael Smith’s account of living with anxiety and depression told via witty vignettes, visual metaphor and…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: KOOKIE Magazine – Original Rachael Smith Comic Strip to Debut in this Inspirational New Magazine for Pre-Teen Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 23, 2017

With Rachael Smith’s successful Kickstarter for a deluxe version of her Wired Up Wrong having smashed its target not long after launching here’s another crowdfunding campaign that includes work by the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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