Colossive Cartographies #53 – Wallis Eates Reflects on Life as a Carer in ‘Budgie Steps’
It has been a few years since we last reviewed comics work by Wallis Eates at Broken Frontier though, as can be seen by the list of tagged posts here,…
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“Creating Women is a Celebration of Brilliance and Diversity” – Rachel A. Davis and Amy Galloway on the New Comics Video Interview Series Debuting this Month
Announced last month here at Broken Frontier, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut later this month and one that will include a number of interviewees…
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Wings: A Prison Odyssey – Victoria Anderson and Wallis Eates Give Candid Voice to the Stories of Prison Inmates
The anthology Wings: A Prison Odyssey – collecting the personal stories of inmates at a London men’s prison in a variety of mediums – was the product of a project…
Wings and Oranges – The Art of Broken Frontier-Award Nominated Creator Wallis Eates to Be Featured in New Exhibition at the Lexi Cinema, London
Self-publisher Wallis Eates is an artist who will be very familiar to long-time Broken Frontier readers. Her autobio comics and zines have been reviewed multiple times at BF with her…
Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Wings – Victoria Anderson and Wallis Eates Present the True Stories of Prisoners in Prose, Illustration and Comics
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
Memory, Connectivity and Living with Brain Injury – Wallis Eates Talks about the Responsibilities of Her New Graphic Narrative ‘Like an Orange’
There are many comics crowdfunding projects out there worthy of attention for reasons of craft, aesthetics or narrative. And then there are those that need to happen for reasons beyond the…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Tuesday October 24th with Guest Artists Peony Gent, Wallis Eates and Chloe Elise Dennis
We’re at that point in the month again when we look forward to another guest-artist filled D&D and this one has a particularly BF flavour with three artists who have…
Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Like an Orange – Wallis Eates Introduces Her New Collaborative Comics Work Focusing on Brain Injury Survivors and Their Artistic Practice
My admiration for the work of Wallis Eates began back in 2014 when I was a judge for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. Eates was shortlisted for her graphic memoir…
The Inking Woman: Wallis Eates – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum
“I first went to The Cartoon Museum before I got into doing comics, whilst having a secret plan to give it a shot. That I’m now in an exhibition there…
A View from the Frontier – Getting Back to the Grassroots at DIY Cultures Fair 2017
“When I was making my early work zines were probably more important to me than comics, and exposure to the politics, aesthetics and DIY ethos of zine-making had a huge…
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Fleeting Faces – More Meditative Zine Reflections on the Lives that Touch Our Own from Wallis Eates
“Liz was one of the neighbours in our block of flats. She lived on the other side of the fifth floor. She had one eye. My mum somehow got the…
“There Really is No More Direct Route to the Heart” – Myfanwy Tristram Talks ‘Draw the Line’ and the Power of Comics to Effect Positive Change
“Over 100 artists present positive political actions that anyone can take.” That’s the soundbite that beautifully embodies the Draw the Line project – an idea dreamt up by UK small…
Draw the Line – 100 Artists Including Dave McKean, Karrie Fransman, Roger Langridge, Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Unite to Change the World with Positive Political Action
One of the great pleasures of being involved in comics commentary is that you can be aware of exciting projects going on in the background long before they’re announced to…
The International Girl Gang Hit Angoulême! – Wallis Eates, Megan Byrd and Hannah K. Chapman on the 2017 Festival Experience
As public relations crises go, the publicity surrounding the 2016 Angoulême Festival‘s failure to include a single woman creator on its prestigious Grand Prix award shortlist was something of a benchmark moment. One…
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Dead Singers Society Volume 3 – Another Top Good Comics Collection of Comics Tributes from Wallis Eates, Sammy Borras, Tim Bird and Company
They may be one of the newest micropublishing crews in town but Good Comics are quickly building up a reputation as a publishing platform for some of the best up-and-coming talents on…
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Celebrating 2016: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…
November: The Revelation – Competition Winner Unmasked and a Creator’s Commentary from Artist Wallis Eates
Earlier this month at Broken Frontier we ran the collected version of Broken Frontier Award-nominated artist Wallis Eates’s #30DaysComics November. A vast, sprawling visual metaphor, ‘November’ was something of a departure…
30 Days of Comics – Collecting the Powerful Visual Metaphor of ‘November’ by Wallis Eates
November always sees a flurry of artists taking part in the #30dayscomics challenge and – just as we did earlier in the year when we collected the #hourlycomicday strips of…
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