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Today I learnt that when you're teaching an information literacy class the phrase "journal tools" is very easily misheard. Might avoid that one in future.

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...covering anything small press at Broken Frontier that isn't TB-related over the next six-plus weeks. Get back to us after that and we'll be able to look at things with fresh eyes. Sorry!

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Chances of anyone affected seeing this are minimal I guess but we can only try. Self-publishers... if you're not at Thought Bubble I suggest holding off on comics review submissions until after. They're just going to get lost in the TB crush right now and we can't feasibly work on...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

Some #BF6toWatch brilliance in this!

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Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17h

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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And my third event at LICAF this weekend... I'll be moderating the 'Inspirational Comics on Neurodiversity & Disability' panel on Saturday afternoon speaking to Gemma Plum, Francisco de la Mora and @zaraslattery.bsky.social. That's a great line-up and some awesome books. licaf.co.uk/festival/eve...

Inspirational Comics on Neurodiversity & Disability

LICAF will return to Kendal 2nd to 4th October 2026. Featuring the Maestro Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Just sent an e-mail from my outlook account cc-ing in my BF one to a publisher as BF e-mails were bouncing back and they needed an address to send print comps to. Outlook has only gone and inserted Google Map links into every line of my address without me knowing. Which looks super effing creepy.

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Today I learnt that when you're teaching an information literacy class the phrase "journal tools" is very easily misheard. Might avoid that one in future.

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Inspirational Comics on Neurodiversity & Disability

LICAF will return to Kendal 2nd to 4th October 2026. Featuring the Maestro Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Film and TV writers persistently referring to the BBC as a "company" really need to get their act together.

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On Saturday morning at LICAF I will also be talking to Finnish comics creator Petteri Tikkanen and Swedish graphic novelist Bim Eriksson about their work while they take part in a live drawing event. I have never done anything like this before so it's going to be interesting!

Screen shot from the LICAF programme of Andy's second event at the festival with Petteri Tikkanen and Bim Eriksson.

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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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I'm really looking forward to LICAF this weekend, and talking more about poetry comics. Come and say hi! licaf.co.uk/festival/eve...

Chrissy Williams - An Introduction to Poetry Comics

LICAF will return to Kendal 2nd to 4th October 2026. Featuring the Maestro Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everywhere I look lately a cis-Male comic creator is announcing a female-led project whilst my timelines are flooded with accounts of SA, both adult & minor, and I’ve never been more aware of living in a Patriarchal society.

A man walks down a road surrounded by metal fencing. A bare foot steps into panel behind him. Graffiti on the fence reads “ I don’t believe in nothing”

Taken from the comic SHELTER: Early Doors created by Lucy Sullivan
https://lucysullivanuk.com/

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 29/09/2026

It's 47 years to the day since #CPFC went top of the league and Mum danced round our garden in celebration. It's a scene recounted at the start of our #zine, Glad All Over - which is yours for £5 at bit.ly/gladalloverzine. £1 from every copy goes to St Christopher's hospice in memory of Mum ❤️💙

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"They all wanted a piece of me..." My annual posting of these two panels from MAN OF STEEL because this is my inbox during Autumn UK comics festival season. Ha!

A dejected Clark Kent saying to Pa Kent "They wanted a piece of me Pa. They all wanted a piece of me..." from MAN OF STEEL. Art by Byrne and Giordano.

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A year ago today in conversation with the legendary @sxbond.bsky.social in the Old Laundry Theatre at LICAF. That was a lovely event to be a part of!

Andy chatting with Shelly in the theatre as the audience looks on.

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Anyway, I'm doing a ton of stuff at LICAF this year. But more importantly there's a list here of some very talented #BF6toWatch artists who will be tabling and you should buy all their comics. Because I said so.

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After this panel, I went to speak to Simonson & told her how much my youngest loves Power Pack. She has a genetic disorder & reading was among many things she struggle with. But PP was the first thing she got excited to read & she still loves them. Even took a PP book to the hospital last month. 1/2

Three Power Pack posters signed by Simonson & June Brigman.

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Been streaming the entire run of BYKER GROVE and got to a halfway point where genial youth worker Geoff has a confederate flag on his desk. I’m grudgingly willing to believe that in the UK in the 90s showrunners may not have got the implications but prob as well he was killed off in the next season…

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Broken Frontier was, of course, born in Belgium 24 years ago so it seems particularly fitting that I'll be part of the 'Belgian Comics Now' strand of programming at LICAF this year. I will be in conversation with Belgian graphic novelist Joris Mertens on Saturday morning. licaf.co.uk/festival/eve...

LICAF will return to Kendal 2nd to 4th October 2026. Featuring the Maestro Bill Sienkiewicz.

The Art of Joris Mertens

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LICAF will return to Kendal 2nd to 4th October 2026. Featuring the Maestro Bill Sienkiewicz.

The Art of Joris Mertens

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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That way we don’t have the embarrassing thing of me asking who you are when I should almost certainly know. Or me doing the whole trying to blag it in the vague hope you’ll allude to something that will give me that bingo moment of recognition.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With the big UK comics events coming up across the Autumn just the friendliest of reminders that even if we’ve spoken in person before introducing yourself with your name really helps. I meet 100s of people every year. Plus I’m older than some realise and I forget names and faces now very easily!

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owl goes for a walk by ed stockham

OWL GOES FOR A WALK by Ed Stockham. One of my all-time fave small press comics. Reviewed it many years ago here: www.brokenfrontier.com/ed-stockham-... Still seems to be available digitally here: edstockham.itch.io/owl-goes-for... it’s magic!

edstockham.itch.io

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kuš! @kushkomikss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently we're not able to ship our books to Germany, but Zane Zlemeša will bring a big selection of our books to the Hamburg Comic Festival this weekend! komikss.lv/events/

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