#matt boyce

Gypsy Hill Comic Fair – Small Press Creators Gather at South London’s Beer Rebellion on October 1st for a Compact Comics Festival!

It’s certainly going to be the snuggest comics festival of the Autumn UK comics calendar but it’s still brimming with awesome artistic talent. Sandwiched between Thought Bubble and the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair is South London’s Gypsy Hill Comic Fair, the brainchild of the splendid Matt Boyce whose Radioactive Future Mutant we reviewed here recently at Broken Frontier. Held at Beer Rebellion –…

Radioactive Future Mutant – Irradiated Pints All Round in Matt Boyce’s Post-Apocalyptic Slacker Comedy

A few months back we reported on ‘It’s Going to Be Okay‘, an exhibition of the work of cartoonist Matt Boyce at Beer Rebellion in London’s Gypsy Hill (above) at which attendees got to see not just work from the artist’s existing catalogue but also had the opportunity to look forward at a new creation – Radioactive Future Mutant. The comic’s quietly philosophical observer from a post-apocalyptic…

The BF Bulletin Board – Exhibitions from Matt Boyce and Sean Azzopardi, DIY Cultures Fair, Tiny Mart, Rebecca Bagley at Gosh’s FCBD and More!

Welcome to the Broken Frontier Bulletin Board, a new semi-regular round-up of comics-related events, panels, exhibitions, shows and fairs designed to give our readers inspiration for extra-curricular activities of a sequential art-related nature. We’re starting with a listing of some of South of England happenings but we encourage our readers to let us know about similar indie comics events from…

It’s Going to Be Okay – Matt Boyce’s Economical Visual Clarity Communicates Complex Emotional Themes

The greatest strength of Matt Boyce’s comics is his instinctive ability for conveying complex emotional states with the most economical visual clarity. That was a point I made a couple of years back at BF when I looked at his comic Everything here saying, similarly, “while much of the work here may seem unassuming to the eye, Boyce has a sophisticated understanding of the communicative power of…