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Thank you for your interest in Broken Frontier! Check out our contact details and team bios below.

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For press releases, previews, solicitations and scoops.

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For review requests, digital or hard copies. If you want to send hard copies to a particular staff member, please contact us for details. Due to the international whereabouts of our staff, we don’t list a public mailing address. Since we receive multiple review requests daily, we cannot cover or reply to all requests. We do, however, share requests that fit within our coverage area across the team and cover as much material as possible. All coverage requests need to come via e-mail. We do not look at social media DMs for coverage requests.

If you’re a self-publisher or small presser please read our article on getting coverage for your comic here for advice on how to pitch your review request. Review submissions are accepted on the understanding that coverage can be critical as well as positive, and that reviews will become a permanent archived resource on Broken Frontier recording the landscape of the indie comics community of the time.

If requesting review coverage please either ensure there are at least 2-3 pages of your comic available online for use in the review, or alternatively send us 2-3 pages as an e-mail attachment. We can no longer accept review requests if there are no interior pages supplied to illustrate our coverage of your work.

We do not review comics using generative AI “art” or the work of any creator using AI “art” in their practice. We operate a zero tolerance policy towards any form of generative AI. To speed up consideration for coverage we ask anyone submitting comics for review to confirm they are 100% free of gen AI with the statement “No generative AI was used in the creation of this comic” within the body of the text of their review request e-mail.

If your comics event or convention has a history of Harry Potter-related programming please confirm that this will no longer be the case going forwards with the statement “This event will not include any programming related to JK Rowling” within the e-mail to which your press release is attached.

Broken Frontier is an inclusive platform seeking to celebrate the diversity of the medium and those who work in it. We do not accept review submissions from anyone who is either involved in, or who associates with those involved in, comics hate groups.

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For staff applications and writing submissions. Please read our further information on joing the BF team here before applying.

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Staff

Editorial

Andy Oliver
Editor-in-Chief
andyoliver@brokenfrontier.com – Bluesky @andywpoliver.bsky.social Instagram @andywpoliver

Andy is BF’s Editor-in-Chief, site owner and its resident specialist on small press, self-published and alt comics. He has been a member of the British Comic Awards Committee, was a past judge for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition and the SICBA Awards, and has nominated for the Arts Foundation Awards.

He is a co-organiser of Small Press Day, the editor of the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook, and a regular chair/guest on panels on the UK comics circuit. Andy also oversees Broken Frontier’s annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ mentoring initiative. He is a member of the Comics Research Hub at the University of the Arts London.

Read Andy’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Lydia Turner
Managing Editor
Bluesky @lydiaturner97.bsky.social

Lydia is an MA English Literature graduate, with a career in children’s book publishing. She previously wrote reviews for Pipedream Comics, and since 2023 now writes features and reviews for Broken Frontier. Most recently, her review of The Dancing Plague was published in The Comics Courier, and she also had the pleasure of co-organising and chairing some panels at Small Press Day 2025, of which she is also a co-organiser. Her comic niches tend to be horror or super cutesy!

Read Lydia’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Current Staff Writers

Lindsay Pereira
Features and Reviews

Lindsay Pereira is a Toronto-based journalist, columnist, editor and digital strategist for global media and publishing houses. He is co-editor of Women’s Voices, an anthology of nineteenth and early twentieth century Indian writing in English (OUP, 2002). Lindsay writes about the arts, obsesses over literature and music, and works to pay for tickets to Tori Amos concerts.

Read Lindsay’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Gary Usher
Reviews

My first ignominious foray into comics criticism was a letter printed in The Comics Journal #132 (1989) under the heading “From the Mouth of Usher”, it’s all been a slow crawl upward since then.

Currently, besides reviews for BF, I also write reviews and features for Colin Blanchette’s Canon Zine and Die With Your Mask On, as well as my Trigger Warnings blog featuring the occasional issue-by-issue analysis of The Comics Journal. As a 56 year old Yank from Iowa, I’m just buried in comics trying to be oblivious to the surrounding chaos.

Read Gary’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Edward Picot
Reviews
Instagram @edward_picot

Edward Picot is a writer, artist and critic with a long-standing interest in the alternative arts. From 2002-11 he ran a site called The Hyperliterature Exchange, devoted to new media literature. He has published reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, The PN Review and Furtherfield, amongst others, and his PhD thesis on Landscape Poetry, ‘Outcasts from Eden’, was published by the Liverpool University Press in 1997. He has also self-published creative work in numerous different genres and media, including animations, videos, poetry, video-poems, plays, short stories, novels and picture books. In recent years he has published three comic books about an evil genius frog called Frog-o-Mighty, and a short graphic ghost story called The Ghost Toy. His website can be found here.

Read Edward’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Swati Nair
Reviews
Instagram @tsundoku_samurai

Swati Nair is a Dublin-based writer and editor with a lifelong love for words. She holds a Master’s in English Literature and has contributed reviews for the Asian Review of Books, The Seattle Review of Books, and other publications. She has also edited an anthology of true crime stories.

Outside of writing and reading, Swati is happiest when surrounded by music and movies, or exploring new places. And at home, you’ll often find her experimenting in the kitchen or caring for her plants.

Read Swati’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Kay Sohini
Reviews
Bluesky @kaysohini.bsky.social Instagram @kaysohini

Kay Sohini is an Asian American writer and artist based in New York. She holds a PhD in English from Stony Brook University, where her research focused on Graphic Medicine. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Nib, and Inside Higher Ed, amongst others. Her debut book, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, which grapples with the promises and pitfalls of New York from an immigrant perspective, was published in 2025 by Jonathan Cape.

She is currently working on a comic cookbook for Ten Speed Graphic, a picture book for Kokila, and a graphic novel for Abrams.

Read Kay’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Andrea Magbual
Reviews

Andrea Magbual (aka Andri, Dri, and somehow Ramon) is wondering how much comics and art events coverage it takes until she becomes “the best to ever do it”.

Broken Frontier hosts some of her first professional work, and she’s eager to keep expanding her review portfolio.

Webcomics and Sunday newspaper-esque gag comics are where her heart lies, if her heart isn’t beating too fast from running up and down an artist alley.

Read Andrea’s articles here at Broken Frontier

Harish. P. I
Reviews
Instagram @conscientious_reflections

Harish is a mechanical engineer and an avid reader from India with a sustained interest in contemporary literature. A fan of superhero comics since childhood, he discovered the true power of graphic novels after reading Maus by Art Spiegelman.

He’s been blogging since 2007 and publishes regularly on his Substack. His reviews have appeared on online platforms such as The Wise Owl and in print journals including Thodayam, published by the Kerala Fine Arts Society.

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Lara Boyle
Reviews and Features
Instagram @laraboylewrites

Lara Boyle holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she studied autobiographical comics and made a graphic memoir. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her comics journalism has appeared in Solrad Literary Magazine for Comics and The Southern Review of Books. Her comics have appeared in Atlantis Magazine. She’s probably making comics.