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Living with the Living #1 – John Lynott and Shane Melisse Bring Us a New Supernatural Sitcom Comic Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…

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Skate Knight – Shane Melisse Takes Us on a Road Knight Side Quest in this High Energy Supernatural Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There’s a dynamism and an energy to the work of Shane Melisse that has become ever more pronounced over the last few…

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Blobby Horror – The Polka-Dotted Hellspawn of Crinkley Bottom Remembered in this Creepy Anthology from Frisson Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There have been a number of comics anthologies over the years that have focussed on fondly remembered pop cultural icons of yesteryear….

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What If… UK Small Press Creators Worked on DC Characters? – 12 Comics/Artist Match-Ups We’d All Like to See!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2022

A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…

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Framed – Sean Azzopardi Curates a New Comics Exhibition Including Work from Sarah Gordon, Olivia Sullivan and Dan White as He Looks to Make Hull “a Magical Comics City!”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2022

That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…

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“I Literally Just Create what I Feel Like” – Shane Melisse on Working in Multiple Genres and Participating in the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2021

Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 22nd with Guest Artists Simon Russell, Ria Grix and Shane Melisse

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 20, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 22nd with a terrific trio of titanic talent…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2021 – Spotlighting the Work of Alxndra Cook, Hannah Carwardine, Mereida Fajardo, Mollie Ray, Norm Konyu and Shane Melisse

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2021

As redundant an observation as it is to make, 2020 was a challenging year for the UK comics self-publishing community. In a time of continuing uncertainty, and with real world…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 12th with Guest Artists Katriona Chapman and Shane Melisse

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 10, 2020

The nights are drawing in so what better way to cheer yourself up as winter approaches than to join in our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink…

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The Last Kaiju – A Stunningly Illustrated Homage and Eco-Fable from Tobias Hamilton, Shane Melisse and Ishan Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2020

A loving homage to the Japanese Kaiju mega-monster genre of science fantasy, Tobias Hamilton and Shane Melisse’s The Last Kaiju (published by the Ishan Comics imprint) nevertheless manages to surpass…

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They’re Coming Down the Stairs – Bananas in Pyjamas Prove to Be the Most Chilling Sight for Halloween in Shane Melisse’s Comedy Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! It’s Halloween and Megan is trick or treating with her younger siblings Andy and Luna, with the three of them showing varying degrees of enthusiasm for the…

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Shane Faced: True Made Up Stories – Shane Melisse’s Amiable Autobio Strips Pop with Energy and Colour

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Shane Melisse’s profile on the London small press scene is inextricably linked with his place as part of the Backwards Burd collective; a collaborative group of creators…

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The Knight – Not All is as it Seems in Shane Melisse’s Supernatural Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2017

A member of the long-running small press collective Backwards Burd, Shane Melisse is a regular face on the London small press circuit. His projects have included Joel and his contributions…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Tuesday November 21st with Guest Artists Shane Melisse, Matthew Pettit and Lucia Soto

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 16, 2017

It’s time for our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year on Tuesday November 21st as we’re joined for the final festivities of the year by Shane Melisse,…

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F*ck You! Kitty Jenkins – Backwards Burd Take Us on an Eccentric Spiritual Romp in Their First Long-Form Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2015

Backwards Burd have been establishing themselves as a small press collective with a noticeably irreverent and off-the-wall approach to comics for a while now. Last summer I reviewed Petty Beach…

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