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If Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine had been a 1970s Marvel comic it would have had the words “Because you demanded it!” slapped all across its cover. As…
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I will come back to this point towards the end of this review but for all its bizarre situations, colourful characters and surreal sequences of events there’s something very human…
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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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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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With Eisner nominations, Ignatz wins and, of course, that Broken Frontier Awards triumph in the our Breakout Talent category, it can hardly be said that Tillie Walden’s comics output has…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
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As Rachael Smith’s graphic novel and comics portfolio begins to build up into a significant body of work, a sense of growing narrative cohesion has also become apparent. One of…
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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…
There can be few experiences in comics quite as delightfully, deliciously and dizzyingly bizarre as a Donya Todd offering. From her self-published The Burger Boys to Death & the Girls…
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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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If there was one name that came up again and again at the end of 2015 on the traditional annual ‘Best of’ lists and end-of-year reviews it was that of Tillie…
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From have-a-go heroes of the DIY culture arena to one of the UK’s most respected indie comics publishers, Avery Hill Publishing have come a long way since I first reviewed…
CELEBRATING BCZF! A chance encounter and a bond formed. One woman’s relationship with her canine companion provides a cathartic escape from the rigours of daily life… If you’re a fan…
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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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I have been particularly fortunate in the years that I have been writing ‘Small Pressganged’ here at Broken Frontier to be able to not just cover a number of astonishing new…
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With her debut graphic novel House Party released to great critical acclaim last year, and British Comic Awards recognition via a nomination in the Emerging Talent category, 2014 was a…
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In 2014 Rachael Smith‘s debut graphic novel House Party propelled her unforgettably into the collective consciousness of the larger UK comics community. The rave reviews for her tale of a trio…
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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