THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Tim Bird has always been one of the medium’s finest practitioners when it comes to investigating that particular metaphorical crossroads where individual, memory, environment and time…
If you’ve been following the Avery Hill story since the very beginning you will be aware that artist Tim Bird has been part of their publishing output since the very…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Avery Hill‘s publishing announcements are always something to look out for and their Autumn line-up for 2024 is no exception. Longstanding AHP…
Ah those wistful childhood days when summers felt like a lifetime, the wider world was an adventure waiting to happen, and we felt forever safe in the welcoming cocoon of…
After a depressing week of reports surrounding a big convention’s recent shocking treatment of indie comic artists some better news this week with the announcement of a new event for…
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It’s hardly the most astute of observations to make that the major part of artist Tim Bird’s comics output has focused on the inter-relationship of place and memories, whether that…
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As mentioned the last time I looked at the Colossive Cartographies from Colossive Press, this tactile series of one-shot art objects took its inspiration from Colossive co-publisher Tom Murphy’s toying…
Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves far more…
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British Comic Award-winning artist Tim Bird’s exploration of the interconnections between location, time and memory have ensured his work – from short minicomics like Asleep in the Back through to…
Re-iterating what I said last week at Broken Frontier – when we chose Asleep in the Back as our ‘Comic of the Week‘ – Tim Bird’s practice has come a…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! With a poetic, haunting line in the psychogeographical, Tim Bird has established himself as one of the most original voices in UK indie comics over the last several…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! ‘Psychogeography’ is one of those words that burned and sparkled like a roman candle for a while but has now gone on to signify a certain kind of literary…
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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…
Since 2014 Dirty Rotten Comics have been bringing us some of the most exciting new voices in UK comics and putting them side-by-side with acclaimed and established artists while also…
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…
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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The intersection between place, time and memory has been an integral part of Tim Bird’s Grey Area series from Avery Hill Publishing over the last few years. In Grey Area:…
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