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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, stuff like this is lovely to hear about!

Small Press Fair at @travellingmanuk.bsky.social Travelling Man Newcastle this Sunday, October 19th – The Paper Jam Comics Collective @paperjamcc.bsky.social Lead a Day of Self-Publishing Magic.

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Small Press Fair at Travelling Man Newcastle this Sunday, October 19th - The Paper Jam Comics Collective Lead a Day of Self-Publishing Magic – Broken Frontier

Yay! Another small press comics event. This weekend get to the Paper Jam Collective's Travelling Man Newcastle fair.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1h

Just remembered a dream I had last night where I was tabling at a major new London comic con and was located in the “Cancel Pigs” Hall. I didn’t have anything to sell so was charging £100 for people to have photos taken of themselves wearing the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Hat.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 2h

So cool to hear about this! So many small press comics events springing up around the country now and it's just lovely to see. If you're in Newcastle on Sunday give this your support.

Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, stuff like this is lovely to hear about!

Small Press Fair at @travellingmanuk.bsky.social Travelling Man Newcastle this Sunday, October 19th – The Paper Jam Comics Collective @paperjamcc.bsky.social Lead a Day of Self-Publishing Magic.

www.brokenfrontier.com/travelling-m...

Small Press Fair at Travelling Man Newcastle this Sunday, October 19th - The Paper Jam Comics Collective Lead a Day of Self-Publishing Magic – Broken Frontier

Yay! Another small press comics event. This weekend get to the Paper Jam Collective's Travelling Man Newcastle fair.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 3h

Starring @caraashji.bsky.social @mike-armstrong.com @domduongart.bsky.social and @shanefaced.bsky.social. And a man with a really annoying silly voice. #BF6toWatch

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 3h

Just a reminder that you can watch the Broken Frontier Six to Watch panel at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social here on YouTube. I'm not going to watch it because there's a bloke with a really annoying silly voice on it. Can't be me though because I sound nothing like that www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF8...

Broken Frontier: Six To Watch REVISITED @Caption 2025

YouTube video by Andrew Luke

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

Hey hey #portfolioday
I’m Amalas and I’m open for cover work.
I love to draw urban scenes and human connections found between concrete and steel, sprinkled with some nostalgia

[email protected]
cara.app/amalasrosa
azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa

Book cover for the YA book ICEBREAKER by A.L. Graziadei showing the two male main protagonist facing each other and holding onto each others collar.

Digital art of my original characters Aran and Tao as young adults out at night in their local nyc neighborhood kissing. Tao sits on a bicycle and Aran bends down slightly to kiss him.

Mock cover of Suzanne Samin and my upcoming graphic novel. The title still r wads Fear Of Falling but we changed it now to Wherever I’m With You.

The cover shows a brick house fall and Aran and Tao sitting on the rooftop, their legs dangling down the edge, and in big letters underneath them it reads “fear of falling”

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as young teenagers on a hot summer day walking down the streets in their local nyc neighborhood and playing around with a basketball.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 7h

As ever, there are some great-looking books here. SelfMadeHero are consistently excellent in their curation.

Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 9h

News! SelfMadeHero’s Spring 2026 Publishing Schedule Announced – Includes New Books from ILYA, Barbara Yelin, Myfanwy Tristram and Kay Medaglia. @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/selfmadehero...

SelfMadeHero's Spring 2026 Publishing Schedule Announced - Includes New Books from ILYA, Barbara Yelin, Myfanwy Tristram and Kay Medaglia – Broken Frontier

All the books on the SelfMadeHero Spring 2026 schedule revealed here including work from Yelin, Medaglia, ILYA and Tristram.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 7h

THE FINAL DCAF OF THE YEAR!

30th of November, The Complex

Don't miss out on that @dublincomicarts.bsky.social goodness, so plan now!

Poster by Maria Pareja

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 7h

Just checking our Thought Bubble spreadsheet and one of the team is assigned to your book for review so you're okay on that front. Hurrah.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 7h

Haha. Not about you! :-) Review/interview requests are different. We don't need press releases for those. This is more about requests for coverage of events. We get soooo many requests with no press release. And they often miss out because I don't have the time to write an entire article myself.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 8h

Give this all the promotional support you can, folks! Fantastic initiative currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 8h

This is so important!

News! Rebecca Hall, Creator of ‘Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts’, Announces Wake Productions, an AfroFuturist Education Project Based in the Black Radical Tradition.

www.brokenfrontier.com/rebecca-hall...

Rebecca Hall, Creator of 'Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts', Announces Wake Productions, an AfroFuturist Education Project Based in the Black Radical Tradition – Broken Frontier

Rebecca Hall's 'Wake Productions, an AfroFuturist Education Project Based in the Black Radical Tradition' is crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 8h

Something new for 2026 at BF: no press release, no coverage. After Dec you *have* to send a press release with accompanying images. I just don't have the time on top of everything else to "make a story out of this".

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to write your own press releases!

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently my hotel at Thought Bubble is haunted. Insert your own joke here.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

Hashtag evergreen.

Old Facebook status post saying:

"Looking forward to catching up with you at the festival."
[Narrator voice]: He didn't catch up with any of them at the festival.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

I was on the selection committee for this and what a cool crew of creators this is! #BritishComicsNow

downthetubes.net/british-comi...

British Comics Now Delegation heads to Brussels

LICAF is Brussels bound, promoting British comics

downthetubes.net

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure if this is controversial or not but I find graphic novel/comics reviews with zero accompanying images from the interiors absolutely pointless.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

Hashtag evergreen.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 1d

Review! Sleepless Planet – Maureen Burdock Presents Insomnia as a Symptom of Capitalism, Via Graphic Mundi.
www.brokenfrontier.com/sleepless-pl...
Review by @edwardpicot.bsky.social

Sleepless Planet - Maureen Burdock Presents Insomnia as a Symptom of Capitalism, Via Graphic Mundi – Broken Frontier

Maureen Burdock's 'Sleepless Planet' is published by Graphic Mundi and looks at the issues surrounding insomnia.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 2d

Going to try and shake off my post-Covid weariness on Sunday to get along to this. If you have anything to chat about in regards to #ThoughtBubble coverage and you want to grab me this might be the moment.

Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2d

News! Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th. www.brokenfrontier.com/goblin-marke...

Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th – Broken Frontier

Details on exhibitors and events at the Goblin Market small press comics fair at Stanley Arts in South London.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Olivia Sullivan @zebko.bsky.social · 1d

Previews of panels of a short comic written and commissioned by ToyNotes

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

I was on the selection committee for this and what a cool crew of creators this is! #BritishComicsNow

downthetubes.net/british-comi...

British Comics Now Delegation heads to Brussels

LICAF is Brussels bound, promoting British comics

downthetubes.net

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

(Also nobody is more aware than I am that a tiny number of publishers do not make this easy for us, themselves or their creators by making zero interior pages available online!)

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure if this is controversial or not but I find graphic novel/comics reviews with zero accompanying images from the interiors absolutely pointless.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 2d

Today, courtesy of an eBay seller, I have finally seen what the free poster in 1970s Marvel UK weekly comics THE TITANS #1 actually looks like and I have to say it's pretty cool.

1970s Marvel UK reprint comic THE TITANS #1.

The free poster from THE TITANS #1 featuring many Marvel Universe characters.

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Alison Sampson A-21 MCM London Artist Alley @alisonsampson.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Alison, an artist and sometimes writer from London, UK, and I draw comics, book covers and editorial. Can't show you the sequentials I'm drawing right now but I'm open for covers (especially books), comic writing and to discuss the next thing.

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