Signals From The Hill #37 – Warren Bernard on A City Inside

This month we talk to Warren Bernard, the Executive Director of SPX, all about the importance of that show and it’s related activities such as the Ignatz Awards, the Graphic Novel Gift Program and building the SPX Collection in the Library of Congress in Washington. We also talk about Warren’s appreciation of Tillie’s work and his role in the production of Alone In Space.

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Signals From The Hill #36 – Gina Gagliano On I Love This Part

This month we’re joined by Gina Gagliano, the Publishing Director of Random House Graphic and someone who worked in the Marketing department at First Second as Tillie Walden released books like Spinning and Are You Listening? with them. We talk to Gina about her discovering the work of Tillie Walden and Tillie’s development in her early books as well as Gina’s wider life and work in comics.

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Signals From The Hill #35 – Ricky Miller on The End of Summer

This month we talk to Ricky Miller all about how Tillie Walden came to work with Avery Hill Publishing and the impact of her debut book, The End of Summer, on the wider comics industry and the direction of Avery Hill as an ongoing concern.

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Signals From The Hill #34 – 2019-2021 Comics Laureate Hannah Berry

This month we talk to Hannah Berry, fresh from her stint as Comics Laureate for the UK.We discuss the work that Hannah did in the role, focusing particularly on the massive survey taken of comics creators and what that revealed.

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Signals From The Hill #33 – Andy Oliver from Broken Frontier

This month we talk to Andy Oliver from Broken Frontier about the expansive scope of the site and the many related projects that Broken Frontier organise and support.

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Signals From The Hill #32 – 2020 Recap & 2021 Preview

This month we gather the Avery Hill team together to chat about some of our favourite comics, books, TV shows and sculpture from 2020 and look forward to the new books we’ll be bringing out in 2021.

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Signals From The Hill #31 – Katriona Chapman

This month we talk to Katriona Chapman about Follow Me In and Breakwater, the two books she has put together with Avery Hill. We also talk about drawing upon life experience in creating art, Kat’s wonderful use of colour and light in her work and how she gains inspiration from her fellow Avery Hill creators.

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Signals From The Hill #30 – Patrick Wray

This month we talk to Patrick Wray all about his creative life and the process of putting together The Flood That Did Come, his recent release through Avery Hill Publishing.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from ‘Against’ by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

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Signals From The Hill #29 – Charlot Kristensen

A monthly stroll through the world of Avery Hill Publishing, featuring the latest news on releases and offers and interviews with creators and other comics folk.

This month we talk to Charlot Kristensen about her life as a creative, the comic scene in Ireland and the process of putting together What We Don’t Talk About, her new book from Avery Hill Publishing .

Our theme tune is an excerpt from ‘Against’ by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

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