Andy Oliver
@andywpoliver.bsky.social
Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, small press champion, Small Press Day co-organiser, multiple comics awards judge and recreational nihilist. He/Him. (Art by Francesca Cassavetti).
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Andy Oliver
@andywpoliver.bsky.social
· Jul 1
Saying it again. You do *not* have to be the most accomplished artist in the world to make an excellent comic that speaks to people and communicates your truths.
My current commuting reading is the memoirs of a 17th/18th century actor and it’s maybe not the most absorbing thing I’ve ever picked up…
February 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
My current commuting reading is the memoirs of a 17th/18th century actor and it’s maybe not the most absorbing thing I’ve ever picked up…
Reposted by Andy Oliver
Self-published, experimental comics I haven’t reviewed at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social that you think we should have covered? Key word “experimental”.
February 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Self-published, experimental comics I haven’t reviewed at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social that you think we should have covered? Key word “experimental”.
Reposted by Andy Oliver
Don't forget the Romo the Wolfboy launch party with ILYA is tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th at London's @goshcomics.bsky.social. Published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social'
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Romo the WolfBoy Launch Party With ILYA
We're thrilled to welcome the wonderful ILYA to the shop celebrating the release of Romo the WolfBoy! ILYA will be joining us on Thursday 19th February 2026, from 7-9pm. Here's what publisher SelfMade...
goshlondon.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Don't forget the Romo the Wolfboy launch party with ILYA is tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th at London's @goshcomics.bsky.social. Published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social'
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Reposted by Andy Oliver
Review! Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 – More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series.
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 - More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series – Broken Fron...
Broken Frontier's Andy Oliver looks at the second and third issues of Sanika Phawde's acclaimed 'Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Review! Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 – More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series.
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
With the news that Oni Press are to reprint AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE here's my 2013 review of the first issue of the zombies-invade-Riverdale series at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/afterlife-wi... Ahh... I've been doing this a long time.
Afterlife with Archie #1 – Broken Frontier
One careless moment, one dreadful accident, and one terrible, misguided decision. Dominoes begin to topple in a chain of cause and effect that will change the lives of the residents...
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
With the news that Oni Press are to reprint AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE here's my 2013 review of the first issue of the zombies-invade-Riverdale series at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/afterlife-wi... Ahh... I've been doing this a long time.
Reposted by Andy Oliver
Don't forget that the Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair is this Saturday, 21 February 21st, 12.00pm to 4.30pm.
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair
Come join us at Brixton Library for a celebration of creativity and community through local and establised zines, comics, small press and more. We'll have over 20 stalls on the day including:BITS maga...
www.lambeth.gov.uk
February 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Don't forget that the Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair is this Saturday, 21 February 21st, 12.00pm to 4.30pm.
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
Reposted by Andy Oliver
The Quindrie Comic Fund will open for submissions in May! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details and sign up to be notified when submissions open here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉
February 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The Quindrie Comic Fund will open for submissions in May! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details and sign up to be notified when submissions open here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉
Reposted by Andy Oliver
News! Fantagraphics to Publish New Investigative Graphic Journalism on the Plight of Displaced Palestinians in Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s ‘Requiem for Gaza’. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/fantagraphic...
Fantagraphics to Publish New Investigative Graphic Journalism on the Plight of Displaced Palestinians in Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's 'Requiem for Gaza' – Broken Frontier
New work exploring the horrors of the genocide in Gaza is coming in 'Requiem for Gaza' by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
News! Fantagraphics to Publish New Investigative Graphic Journalism on the Plight of Displaced Palestinians in Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s ‘Requiem for Gaza’. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/fantagraphic...
Amazing stuff! #comicscommunity
The Quindrie Comic Fund will open for submissions in May! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details and sign up to be notified when submissions open here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉
February 18, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Amazing stuff! #comicscommunity
I keep stumbling into my least favourite new phrase "synthetic comics" online and I find myself paraphrasing Betjeman's 'Slough' in my head every time:
"Synthetic fruit, synthetic meat, synthetic milk, synthetic beans,
Synthetic minds, synthetic breath."
"Synthetic fruit, synthetic meat, synthetic milk, synthetic beans,
Synthetic minds, synthetic breath."
February 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I keep stumbling into my least favourite new phrase "synthetic comics" online and I find myself paraphrasing Betjeman's 'Slough' in my head every time:
"Synthetic fruit, synthetic meat, synthetic milk, synthetic beans,
Synthetic minds, synthetic breath."
"Synthetic fruit, synthetic meat, synthetic milk, synthetic beans,
Synthetic minds, synthetic breath."
Reposted by Andy Oliver
Send us all your anti-gen AI comics for review. Definitely among the top priority stuff for coverage!
Review! Brains – In the Shadow of the Threat of AI, Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com Celebrates True Creativity and What It is to Be Human. www.brokenfrontier.com/brains-galla...
Brains - In the Shadow of the Threat of AI, Alexandra Gallant-Lee Celebrates True Creativity and What It is to Be Human – Broken Frontier
'Brains' is Alexandra Gallant-Lee's "love letter to the brain" in a comics celebration of creativity over AI plagiarism.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Send us all your anti-gen AI comics for review. Definitely among the top priority stuff for coverage!
If you're sleeping on Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas you're frankly missing out on some of the very best autobio comics currently out there.
Review! Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 – More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series.
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
www.brokenfrontier.com/wedding-juic...
Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #2 and #3 - More Beautifully Illustrated Work as Sanika Phawde Returns to Anecdotal Tales of Indian Wedding Planning in the Ignatz Award-Winning Series – Broken Fron...
Broken Frontier's Andy Oliver looks at the second and third issues of Sanika Phawde's acclaimed 'Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM
If you're sleeping on Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas you're frankly missing out on some of the very best autobio comics currently out there.
Don't forget the Romo the Wolfboy launch party with ILYA is tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th at London's @goshcomics.bsky.social. Published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social'
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Romo the WolfBoy Launch Party With ILYA
We're thrilled to welcome the wonderful ILYA to the shop celebrating the release of Romo the WolfBoy! ILYA will be joining us on Thursday 19th February 2026, from 7-9pm. Here's what publisher SelfMade...
goshlondon.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Don't forget the Romo the Wolfboy launch party with ILYA is tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th at London's @goshcomics.bsky.social. Published by @selfmadehero.bsky.social'
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
Don't forget that the Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair is this Saturday, 21 February 21st, 12.00pm to 4.30pm.
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair
Come join us at Brixton Library for a celebration of creativity and community through local and establised zines, comics, small press and more. We'll have over 20 stalls on the day including:BITS maga...
www.lambeth.gov.uk
February 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Don't forget that the Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair is this Saturday, 21 February 21st, 12.00pm to 4.30pm.
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/brixt...
Self-published, experimental comics I haven’t reviewed at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social that you think we should have covered? Key word “experimental”.
February 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Self-published, experimental comics I haven’t reviewed at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social that you think we should have covered? Key word “experimental”.
Reposted by Andy Oliver
This petition has already passed the minimum 10,000 signatures (12,124 at the time of reposting). And has of course been met with the usual bullshit response we’ve come to expect from this government 😒.
Deadline is June 19th. Like OP said “something is always better than nothing”. Come on UK people!
Deadline is June 19th. Like OP said “something is always better than nothing”. Come on UK people!
Not sure these things really have much impact but doing something is always better than doing nothing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Ban the use of AI for image, video and audio creation
Legislate to ban the AI generation of images, videos and audio to protect the British public from misinformation, harmful and harassing content, and to protect jobs in the creative sectors.
petition.parliament.uk
February 18, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This petition has already passed the minimum 10,000 signatures (12,124 at the time of reposting). And has of course been met with the usual bullshit response we’ve come to expect from this government 😒.
Deadline is June 19th. Like OP said “something is always better than nothing”. Come on UK people!
Deadline is June 19th. Like OP said “something is always better than nothing”. Come on UK people!
Reposted by Andy Oliver
In non “burn all generative AI to the ground and salt the earth afterwards” news today we have a very good website here at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social if you like comics commentary and your interests are much broader than super-heroes. www.brokenfrontier.com Give it a go. You’ll like it.
Broken Frontier - Exploring The Comics Universe
Broken Frontier is a comic book and graphic novel news site with a penchant for independent and creator-owned material.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In non “burn all generative AI to the ground and salt the earth afterwards” news today we have a very good website here at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social if you like comics commentary and your interests are much broader than super-heroes. www.brokenfrontier.com Give it a go. You’ll like it.
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This looks so cool. Get down there this month and support some amazing artists.
Happy Lunar New Year!
This is my contribution to the fire horse exhibition starting tonight at Mori Homemade cafe by Caledonian Road overground station.
It will be on for a month and you can purchase a limited risograph print, only 20 available of each illustration.
This is my contribution to the fire horse exhibition starting tonight at Mori Homemade cafe by Caledonian Road overground station.
It will be on for a month and you can purchase a limited risograph print, only 20 available of each illustration.
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
This looks so cool. Get down there this month and support some amazing artists.
”How about you give marks out of ten out the end of all your reviews?”
How about we don’t.
How about we don’t.
February 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
”How about you give marks out of ten out the end of all your reviews?”
How about we don’t.
How about we don’t.
In non “burn all generative AI to the ground and salt the earth afterwards” news today we have a very good website here at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social if you like comics commentary and your interests are much broader than super-heroes. www.brokenfrontier.com Give it a go. You’ll like it.
Broken Frontier - Exploring The Comics Universe
Broken Frontier is a comic book and graphic novel news site with a penchant for independent and creator-owned material.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In non “burn all generative AI to the ground and salt the earth afterwards” news today we have a very good website here at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social if you like comics commentary and your interests are much broader than super-heroes. www.brokenfrontier.com Give it a go. You’ll like it.
Reposted by Andy Oliver
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
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Creatives who use AI to replace the work of other creatives are class traitors without souls. You are not entitled to have things just because you want them, especially when those things you want put other people in the poorhouse. I'd rather die.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Creatives who use AI to replace the work of other creatives are class traitors without souls. You are not entitled to have things just because you want them, especially when those things you want put other people in the poorhouse. I'd rather die.
Reposted by Andy Oliver
AI is obviously an utterly destructive thing, but holy shit today my rage towards it is especially hot.
It has ruined so, so SO much. And what do we actually have to show for it? What have we, as a society, gained that has made it worthwhile for what we're losing, and losing more of every day?
It has ruined so, so SO much. And what do we actually have to show for it? What have we, as a society, gained that has made it worthwhile for what we're losing, and losing more of every day?
February 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
AI is obviously an utterly destructive thing, but holy shit today my rage towards it is especially hot.
It has ruined so, so SO much. And what do we actually have to show for it? What have we, as a society, gained that has made it worthwhile for what we're losing, and losing more of every day?
It has ruined so, so SO much. And what do we actually have to show for it? What have we, as a society, gained that has made it worthwhile for what we're losing, and losing more of every day?
Reposted by Andy Oliver
. @kickstarter.com we STRONGLY object to the suspension of @comicsworkshop.bsky.social's Young In Iran campaign. SAW is a vital community resource for in comics community. This anthology is bringing important voices to a wider audience. Shame on you, Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/saw...
Young in Iran (Suspended)
A collection of 32 personal and emotional memoir comics by Gen Z comic creators in Iran.
www.kickstarter.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
. @kickstarter.com we STRONGLY object to the suspension of @comicsworkshop.bsky.social's Young In Iran campaign. SAW is a vital community resource for in comics community. This anthology is bringing important voices to a wider audience. Shame on you, Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/saw...