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Follow Friday: Tim Bird – “Bird Reminds Us of How Our Own Personal Stories Both Impact on Our Environments and Yet Simultaneously Are Swallowed Up By Them”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2020

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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Midwinter (1982-1998) – Tim Bird Evokes Memories and a Sense of Shared Experience in His Quiet Reflection on the Winter Solstice and Pop Culture

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2020

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…

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Asleep in the Back – Childhood Memories and the Soothing Hum of the Motorway in Tim Bird’s Hauntingly Poignant New One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2019

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…

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“I Do Try and Create a Rhythm to the Pages and a Poetic Feel to the Comics” – Tim Bird on ‘The Great North Wood’ and Exploring Themes of Place, Time and Memory

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2018

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…

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The Great North Wood – Tim Bird Brings a Little Magic Back to the Hills of South London

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 14, 2018

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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“2017 Was Our Experimental Album” – Avery Hill Publishing Talk About an Award-Winning Year, Their Acclaimed Line-Up of Creative Talent and What We Can Look Forward to in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2018

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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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Schedule for 2018 – Including Books from Tillie Walden, Katriona Chapman, Tim Bird, Luke Healy, Seekan Hui and Ricky Miller & Julia Scheele

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2017

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…

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Dirty Rotten Comics #10 – Celebrating Ten Issues of Throwaway Press’s Pivotal Small Press Anthology in Colourful Style!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2017

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…

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Reads Vol.2, #4 – From Alfred Hitchcock to Ice Cream Horror, Avery Hill Publishing’s Anthology Series Concludes in Style

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 11, 2017

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…

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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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Grey Area: Our Town – Place, Time and Memories Converge in Tim Bird’s Latest Offering from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 28, 2016

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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Thought Bubble Small Press Debut Picks Day 2 – Comics from Lucie Ebrey, One Beat Zines, Dan White and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 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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Small Press Spotlight on… Good Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2016

They’re the newest micropublishing kids on the block but the fine folk at Good Comics all have proven track records in the comics and zine worlds. This weekend’s Bristol Comic and…

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Dead Singers Society Volume 2 – Good Comics’ Tribute Anthology to Departed Vocalists Includes Work from Danny Noble, Wallis Eates, Rica March and Rozi Hathaway

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2016

Back in the early 1980s Altered Images memorably sang about the forgotten fate of ‘Dead Pop Stars’ reaching out from beyond the grave to implore fans to remember their one-time…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Autumn 2016 Schedule – Previews of Books by Tim Bird, Steve Tillotson and Tillie Walden

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 22, 2016

We seem to say this on a six-month cycle here at Broken Frontier but what a year it’s been, once again, for micropublishers Avery Hill. Their 2016 line-up to date has…

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Reads Vol.2, #2 and #3 – From the Drunken Exploits of ‘The Megatherium Club’ to the Bizarre Imagination of EdieOP, Avery Hill’s Anthology Series is a Proven Winner

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2016

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…

Triborough Bridge (Alexander Rothman), from Over the Line

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Over the Line – An Accessible, Stimulating and Inspiring Introduction to Poetry Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 5, 2015

This enlightening little book offers some interesting thoughts on an increasingly visible strand of comics work, and presents a selection of fresh and stimulating work that isn’t afraid to step beyond formal…

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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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