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Small Press Inside Look: Glorious Wrestling Alliance – Meet the Colourful Combatants of the GWA as Josh Hicks Examines His Creative Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2017

Josh Hicks’s Glorious Wrestling Alliance came as something of a revelation to me when I reviewed it here last summer. I wasn’t expecting that on finishing this comedic take on those…

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Small Press Inside Look: Last Driver – C.S. Baker Takes Us Behind the Writing Process of His and Shaky Kane’s Post-Apocalyptic Thriller from Dead Canary Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2017

Dead Canary Comics have always had an off-kilter approach to genre comics storytelling – think weird western Reddin, the bizarre escapades of Frog Man or the alt-history of The Fitzroy for examples…

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Small Press Inside Look: Patt Kelley – From ‘Scout’ to ‘Fedor’ the Utterly Bizarre and the Profoundly Human Converge in Kelley’s Ever Distinctive Oeuvre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2017

In Patt Kelley’s strange but oddly recognisable worlds the convergence of the everyday and the utterly bizarre cis a regular occurrence. His work has an eerie quality that is both…

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Small Press Inside Look: 50 – Sean Azzopardi Marks a Very Special Anniversary in His Upcoming Autobio Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 15, 2017

Sean Azzopardi is one of those vital and essential mainstays of the UK small press whose constant presence has given a reassuring sense of continuity to British comics self-publishing for as…

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Small Press Inside Look: Metroland – Ricky Miller Talks About Avery Hill’s Time-Travelling Music Epic and His Collaboration with Julia Scheele

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2017

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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Small Press Inside Look – British Comic Award-Winning Creator Tim Bird Guides Us through the Psychogeography of ‘Grey Area’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2017

After Tim Bird’s much deserved 2015 British Comic Award win for Grey Area: From the City to the Sea, anticipation was high for this fourth issue of his psychogeographical musings. Bird’s work…

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Small Press Inside Look: Untitled Ape’s Epic Adventure – Steven Tillotson’s Creator Commentary on His Much Anticipated Thought Bubble Debut Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2016

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Steven Tillotson’s Untitled Ape’s Epic Adventure is, without a doubt, one of the books I’ve been most eagerly anticipating this year. Tillotson was an Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica…

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Small Press Inside Look – Katriona Chapman Explores the Autobiographical World of Her ‘Katzine’ Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2016

It was a pleasure to see Katriona Chapman’s profile rise as significantly and deservedly as it did in 2015. Her self-published autobiographical series Katzine gained widespread critical acclaim, and her…

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Small Press Inside Look – Elizabeth Querstret Discusses Her Diary Comics, ‘Walks with Lulu’ and ‘Zoological’, and Provides BF with an Exclusive Peek at Her New Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2016

Elizabeth Querstret’s approach to autobiographical comics ranges from work that positively embraces the ideals of DIY culture (like her regularly updated diary webcomics) to more sedately paced narratives in the…

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Small Press Inside Look – Alice Urbino on Her Self-Published Series ‘Dimension’ and Her Graphic Medicine Comics Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 15, 2015

Alice Urbino‘s powerful use of visual metaphor in comics to explore mood and state of mind so captured my imagination when I reviewed her self-published series Dimension that she immediately…

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Small Press Inside Look – Jess Milton Discusses Her Creative Process on Her Comic Projects ‘Jason’, ‘The Flying Ship’ and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 22, 2015

With her flowing visuals, ever inventive layouts and a chameleon-like ability to adapt her style to any number of genres, Jess Milton was always going to be a certainty for…

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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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Small Press Inside Look – A Creators’ Commentary on Avery Hill’s Acclaimed Anthology ‘Reads’ by Ricky Miller, EdieOP, Eleni Kalorkoti, Tim Bird, Owen D. Pomery and Luke Halsall

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2015

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…

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Small Press Inside Look – Danny Noble on Bringing Alan and Ollie to Life, the Slacker Comedy of ‘Monday Morning’ and Designing Album Covers for The Meow Meows

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2015

The last time Danny Noble – one of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – spoke to me at Broken Frontier (in this interview in March)…

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Small Press Inside Look – Rozi Hathaway Discusses Her Work on ‘The Red Road’, ‘HOAX Psychosis Blues’ and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2015

Rozi Hathaway first came to prominence in 2014 as one of the artists involved in Ravi Thornton’s acclaimed graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues, alongside the likes of Bryan Talbot, Karrie…

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