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“There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER! There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…
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What a year it’s been for Avery Hill Publishing. From the Ignatz-nominated Comic Book Slumber Party Deep Space Canine anthology to Something City, the hugely acclaimed debut graphic novel of Ellice…
Today at Broken Frontier we welcome back Ricky Miller (below right with Avery Hill’s David White and Rachael Smith) – Co-Publisher of the acclaimed Avery Hill Publishing – to give…
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…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
World Book Day is celebrating its 20th year in the UK today. For two decades it has revered the wonder of stories and illustrations; a day where readers of all ages can…
Metroland has a very special place in Avery Hill Publishing history. It’s a link back to the South London outfit’s early days when the now Ignatz-winning and Eisner-nominated publisher were…
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Can it really be five years ago today that we launched ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with a stated mission to “unearth the gems of the small press” and a promise…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
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…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
From have-a-go heroes of the DIY culture arena to one of the UK’s most respected indie comics publishers, Avery Hill Publishing have come a long way since I first reviewed…
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…
Just before Christmas we began a major series of articles here in ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier dealing with the current state of play of small press publishing in the…
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…
In the two years since I first reviewed their flagship anthology title Reads, Avery Hill Publishing have gone from relatively unknown proponents of the DIY culture of comics creation to…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Four eagerly anticipated titles from British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing officially launch at London’s Orbital Comics this week on Friday 11th July. Those making it to Newport Street are promised an…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing are no longer the new kids on the small press block. In 2013 their comics output expanded rapidly. Critically acclaimed books like Jazz Greenhill’s The…
“This Process Turned Me into a Better Cartoonist” – Theo Ellsworth on His Adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Secret Life’ for Drawn & QuarterlyOctober 18, 2021
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!September 30, 2021
“We Try to Remain as True as Possible to the Original Work” – Digital Publisher Europe Comics on Bringing the Very Best of European Comics Practice to Wider AudiencesSeptember 21, 2021
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
