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Author: Andy Oliver

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It Comes in Waves – Bruna Martini’s Fragile and Haunting Meditation on Motherhood and Loss from ThirdBear Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 21, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Steven Ingram’s ThirdBear Press has become synonymous with its signature anthology series Boxes. A publication which continues to platform emerging and established names in the UK…

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The Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club – Bill Tuckey and Francisco de la Mora’s Story of SEND Kids and Found Family is a Beautiful and Inspirational Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 21, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! It’s undoubtedly one of the feelgood graphic novels to have been released in the last twelve months or so but to frame Bill Tuckey and Francisco…

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds to Be Published by Fantagraphics and Ediciones La Cúpula in 2027

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2026

Congratulations are in order to 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds whose delightful fantasy comics Fox Flight Market Night and Shimmer Paths have been picked up…

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“There Have Been So Many Highlights!” – Publisher Andy Brown on 30 Years of Conundrum Press, Discovering Unique Voices in Comics, and the Realities of Arts Funding in Canada

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier we inducted Canadian publisher Conundrum Press into our Hall of Fame as part of our annual BF Awards. A much deserved…

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“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic Process

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Shri Gunasekara is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators and there’s something neatly cyclical about interviewing as part of our Thought Bubble…

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Horiorror: A Greek Folk Horror Comics Anthology – Chilling Tales of Bucolic Terror in this Moody Short Story Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! We all know the drill with comics anthologies – firstly they give creators an opportunity to hone their short storytelling skills of course. But on the…

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Welcome to Thought Bubble Month 2026 at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2026

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Welcome to our celebration of all things TB for 2026! (Yes I’m aware that sentence can be interpreted somewhat differently based on those two initials…) This…

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Long Covid Superheroes!: A Comic Made By Kids Living with Long Covid – Zhenyi Zheng and Alice Urbino Bring the Stories of Young People to the Comics Page with an Inspirational Flourish

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 16, 2026

Community projects in comics are something we are always very keen to get behind here at Broken Frontier. We do style ourselves as a “community hub” after all. One such…

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Thought Bubble Memories – We Want Your Favourite Stories from 20 Years of Thought Bubble to Run at Broken Frontier in November!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 12, 2026

So… in the lead-up to Thought Bubble Month beginning next Monday at BF it’s going to be another quiet week of posting here on the site as we beaver away…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial for October 2026 – The Extended BF Family Hit the Lakes, More on Thought Bubble Month, and an Apology for Some Downtime…

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 7, 2026

I am more than a little late with this month’s edition of our (sometimes) regular look behind-the-scenes at Broken Frontier. And, as you’ll no doubt have noticed, we have been…

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The Flesh of the World – Kristina Stipetic’s Experimental Sci-Fi Has Deeper Philosophical Layers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 29, 2026

A couple of years back at Broken Frontier I reviewed  Kristina Stipetic’s bumper-sized collection Positive Worlds, Negative Spaces. A huge collection of work originally created between 2010 and 2024, it…

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Broken Frontier at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival – The ‘Six to Watch’ Come to LICAF Plus BF-Related Events Over the Festival Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2026

It’s the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival this coming weekend (October 2nd-4th) and we have a big Broken Frontier presence over the festival weekend! From the stars of our respected…

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All the Living – Roman Muradov’s Tale of Loneliness, Existential Angst and Living with Your Own Ghost is a Memorably Eerie Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 21, 2026

You know a full-length graphic novel has caught the imagination of readers when it goes back to print in the same year it was published. Roman Muradov’s All the Living,…

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The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics 1977-1978 – A Forgotten Part of Marvel History Collected by Clover Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 18, 2026

For readers who were picking up Spider-Man comics in the 1970s but never saw the more ephemeral newspaper strips Clover Press’s The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics will be like…

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“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2026

Two years ago queer comics fair inQ! debuted in London to heavy footfall and the most buzzing atmosphere possible for a first-time event. This month, across the weekend of September…

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Oni Press/EC Comics Give Us Another Fear-Filled Festive Season with ‘Shiver Suspenstories 3’ #1 in December

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2026

More horror-filled holiday hijinks are coming from Oni Press and EC Comics this Christmas… ‘Tis the Season for Terror! EC Comics’ Haunting Holiday Tradition Returns in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 3 #1…

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Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights – More Standout Graphic Journalism from Tom Humberstone

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 15, 2026

Tom Humberstone’s Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights is not simply representative of his graphic journalism. It’s also a fine example of how…

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Archie #1 – Oni’s Relaunch Beautifully Captures the Spirit of Archie’s World with an Appeal for New and Old Readers Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 14, 2026

Less reboot or even reimagining and more business as usual, the new Oni Press incarnation of everyone’s favourite red-headed teenager debuted this month with Archie #1. If you were worrying…

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