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.
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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.
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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?
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. @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...
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Bear with us just a little bit longer... We were going to announce #SmallPressDay 2026 for the same w/e as last year this week but have just discovered something else major has been scheduled for that weekend. So we're replanning and will get a new date to you all ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
February 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bear with us just a little bit longer... We were going to announce #SmallPressDay 2026 for the same w/e as last year this week but have just discovered something else major has been scheduled for that weekend. So we're replanning and will get a new date to you all ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
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News! Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com and Tiny Onion @readtinyonion.bsky.social to Publish ‘Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology’ this June Featuring Work from James Tynion IV, Jadzia Axelrod, Lilah Sturges, Tate Brombal and Many More. www.brokenfrontier.com/monsters-in-...
Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion to Publish 'Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology' this June Featuring Work from James Tynion IV, Jadzia Axelrod, Lilah Sturges, Tate Brombal and Many More – Broken Fron...
Coming ready for Pride Month 2026 'Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology' will be published by Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:56 PM
News! Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com and Tiny Onion @readtinyonion.bsky.social to Publish ‘Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology’ this June Featuring Work from James Tynion IV, Jadzia Axelrod, Lilah Sturges, Tate Brombal and Many More. www.brokenfrontier.com/monsters-in-...
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New additions include comics-related workshops and exhibitions. Let us know about your event and we’ll add it in.
More events added to the Broken Frontier Events Page today. www.brokenfrontier.com/events-compe...
Events – Broken Frontier
Please get in touch with our Andy Oliver here if you have a UK and Ireland community-based comics event or initiative you’d like to have listed on this page. (Please...
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 AM
New additions include comics-related workshops and exhibitions. Let us know about your event and we’ll add it in.
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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 12:56 PM
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...
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I imagine they’ll be calling this latest morbid monstrosity “synthetic family” or something.
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I imagine they’ll be calling this latest morbid monstrosity “synthetic family” or something.
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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.
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With the latest TALES FROM THE QUARANTINE nonsense on people's minds it's important to remember how our supportive community came together in the wake of the #TFTQ debacle. From our 2024 series.
www.brokenfrontier.com/tales-from-t...
www.brokenfrontier.com/tales-from-t...
“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: An Exploration of the Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Kickstarter, Part 3 – How the Comics Community Pulled Together in the Wake of TFTQ – Broken Frontier
In part 3 of our look at the history of the as yet unfulfilled 'Tales from the Quarantine' Kickstarter the focus is on community initiatives.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM
With the latest TALES FROM THE QUARANTINE nonsense on people's minds it's important to remember how our supportive community came together in the wake of the #TFTQ debacle. From our 2024 series.
www.brokenfrontier.com/tales-from-t...
www.brokenfrontier.com/tales-from-t...
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I imagine they’ll be calling this latest morbid monstrosity “synthetic family” or something.
Meta has patented AI that can run a dead person's account, continuing to post and chat on their behalf
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
It can message and video call by replicating a user's online behavior using their past data
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I imagine they’ll be calling this latest morbid monstrosity “synthetic family” or something.
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.
New additions include comics-related workshops and exhibitions. Let us know about your event and we’ll add it in.
More events added to the Broken Frontier Events Page today. www.brokenfrontier.com/events-compe...
Events – Broken Frontier
Please get in touch with our Andy Oliver here if you have a UK and Ireland community-based comics event or initiative you’d like to have listed on this page. (Please...
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 AM
New additions include comics-related workshops and exhibitions. Let us know about your event and we’ll add it in.
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It's always lovely to be able to use BF as a platform for pushing events across the community. Check out our galley of art from the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse exhibition in London. It's gorgeous!
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for Next Month in London – Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF Six to Watch Artists @shanefaced.bsky.social @rein-lee.bsky.social @domduongart.bsky.social @zdelautre.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/lunar-new-ye...
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for the Next Month in London - Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF 'Six to Watch' Artists Shane Melisse, Rein Lee, Dom...
Lots of art from the 'Lunar Year of the Fire Horse' exhibition at London's Mori Cafe this month on show here!
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
It's always lovely to be able to use BF as a platform for pushing events across the community. Check out our galley of art from the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse exhibition in London. It's gorgeous!
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This was a very cool interview we ran a coupla months back.
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’.
www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversati...
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’.
www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversati...
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections 'Pastimes' and 'Fruit Salad' – Broken Frontier
François Vigneault with Pascal Girard and Cathon about their work in comics and their new books from Pow Pow Press.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This was a very cool interview we ran a coupla months back.
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’.
www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversati...
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’.
www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversati...
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More events added to the Broken Frontier Events Page today. www.brokenfrontier.com/events-compe...
Events – Broken Frontier
Please get in touch with our Andy Oliver here if you have a UK and Ireland community-based comics event or initiative you’d like to have listed on this page. (Please...
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
More events added to the Broken Frontier Events Page today. www.brokenfrontier.com/events-compe...
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News! Kasey Iris Deals with Themes of Love, Loss and Hope in ‘Ghoul’, Coming in May from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social.
www.brokenfrontier.com/ghoul-top-sh...
www.brokenfrontier.com/ghoul-top-sh...
Kasey Iris Deals with Themes of Love, Loss and Hope in 'Ghoul', Coming in May from Top Shelf – Broken Frontier
Top Shelf Productions Takes a Gothic Twist on the Imaginary Friend with 'Ghoul' by Kasey Iris, coming this year in May.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
News! Kasey Iris Deals with Themes of Love, Loss and Hope in ‘Ghoul’, Coming in May from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social.
www.brokenfrontier.com/ghoul-top-sh...
www.brokenfrontier.com/ghoul-top-sh...
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This is one of my favourite @brokenfrontier.bsky.social interviews we've done over the last couple of years. A chat from 2024 with Jim Festante and James Asmus on SURVIVAL STREET: THE RADICAL LEFT.
1500 words of me nodding my head in agreement.
www.brokenfrontier.com/survival-str...
1500 words of me nodding my head in agreement.
www.brokenfrontier.com/survival-str...
"It’s… Not a Great Feeling When Reality Outpaces Satire" - Jim Festante and James Asmus on the Social Commentary of 'Survival Street: The Radical Left' – Broken Frontier
Writers James Asmus and Jim Festante chat about their follow-up miniseries 'Survival Street: The Radical Left' from Dark Horse.
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
This is one of my favourite @brokenfrontier.bsky.social interviews we've done over the last couple of years. A chat from 2024 with Jim Festante and James Asmus on SURVIVAL STREET: THE RADICAL LEFT.
1500 words of me nodding my head in agreement.
www.brokenfrontier.com/survival-str...
1500 words of me nodding my head in agreement.
www.brokenfrontier.com/survival-str...
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My Aliens/Predator rewatch has got to AVP: REQUIEM and that isn't simply a terrible film it's also a really gratuitous and unpleasant one too.
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
My Aliens/Predator rewatch has got to AVP: REQUIEM and that isn't simply a terrible film it's also a really gratuitous and unpleasant one too.
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Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for Next Month in London – Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF Six to Watch Artists @shanefaced.bsky.social @rein-lee.bsky.social @domduongart.bsky.social @zdelautre.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/lunar-new-ye...
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for the Next Month in London - Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF 'Six to Watch' Artists Shane Melisse, Rein Lee, Dom...
Lots of art from the 'Lunar Year of the Fire Horse' exhibition at London's Mori Cafe this month on show here!
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for Next Month in London – Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF Six to Watch Artists @shanefaced.bsky.social @rein-lee.bsky.social @domduongart.bsky.social @zdelautre.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/lunar-new-ye...
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Just completely misread a news headline on the BBC site as saying "sex-energy minister" and not "ex-energy minister"...
February 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Just completely misread a news headline on the BBC site as saying "sex-energy minister" and not "ex-energy minister"...
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Remembering the 1990s UK "You Wouldn't Steal a..." anti-piracy ad today with fondness.
Needs a refresh for the 2020s with a "You wouldn't steal an artist's creativity, hard work and intellectual property."
Though, sadly, too many people today happily would...
#NoAIArt
Needs a refresh for the 2020s with a "You wouldn't steal an artist's creativity, hard work and intellectual property."
Though, sadly, too many people today happily would...
#NoAIArt
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Remembering the 1990s UK "You Wouldn't Steal a..." anti-piracy ad today with fondness.
Needs a refresh for the 2020s with a "You wouldn't steal an artist's creativity, hard work and intellectual property."
Though, sadly, too many people today happily would...
#NoAIArt
Needs a refresh for the 2020s with a "You wouldn't steal an artist's creativity, hard work and intellectual property."
Though, sadly, too many people today happily would...
#NoAIArt
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Thank you so so much for this @andywpoliver.bsky.social 🙌😊🫶 honestly everyone’s prints are so beautiful! ✨ I’m honoured 🥹
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for Next Month in London – Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF Six to Watch Artists @shanefaced.bsky.social @rein-lee.bsky.social @domduongart.bsky.social @zdelautre.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/lunar-new-ye...
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for the Next Month in London - Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF 'Six to Watch' Artists Shane Melisse, Rein Lee, Dom...
Lots of art from the 'Lunar Year of the Fire Horse' exhibition at London's Mori Cafe this month on show here!
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Thank you so so much for this @andywpoliver.bsky.social 🙌😊🫶 honestly everyone’s prints are so beautiful! ✨ I’m honoured 🥹
It's always lovely to be able to use BF as a platform for pushing events across the community. Check out our galley of art from the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse exhibition in London. It's gorgeous!
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for Next Month in London – Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF Six to Watch Artists @shanefaced.bsky.social @rein-lee.bsky.social @domduongart.bsky.social @zdelautre.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/lunar-new-ye...
Mori Handmade & Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse Exhibition Runs for the Next Month in London - Check Out Our Preview Gallery Including Work from BF 'Six to Watch' Artists Shane Melisse, Rein Lee, Dom...
Lots of art from the 'Lunar Year of the Fire Horse' exhibition at London's Mori Cafe this month on show here!
www.brokenfrontier.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
It's always lovely to be able to use BF as a platform for pushing events across the community. Check out our galley of art from the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse exhibition in London. It's gorgeous!