So that was Fantagraphics at 50! Month at Broken Frontier… We managed to post 34 reviews, interviews and exclusive previews across August to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Fantagraphics and,…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In our final interview and article for our Fanta month of 50th anniversary celebrations here at Broken Frontier we talk today with Yudori about her graphic novel series…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s been fifteen years since Fantagraphics first published a collection of the first four stories of Jacques Tardi’s adventuring anti-hero. To celebrate the character’s 50th anniversary (some…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Fantagraphics describe Roberta Gregory’s Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken as collecting “one of the most influential, feminist comics series.” Presenting the character’s life for the…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1 has had a lot of attention already this month at Broken Frontier with…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! When I interviewed creator Raquelle Jac about Bimbo Agitprop earlier this month at Broken Frontier I described it as one of my books of the year. This…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The title Lost Marvels may be something of a misnomer (forgotten, obscure, rare… yes… lost? Not so much) but Fantagraphics’ reprint series of some of the hidden…
One final Comics Cultural Impact Collective online roundtable meeting for the moment with a Scottish Comics Roundtable coming in September. There’s an incredible evolving small press and indie scene in…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Reading a book as raw and candid as Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish the reader can’t help but ask themself the question of whether this truly singular approach…
Gloria Ladson-Billings’ The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children was first published in the ‘90s. Its analysis of how the culturally relevant practice of eight teachers achieved outstanding results…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Such are the quirks and whims of serial comics publishing that Fantagraphics’ recent issue #3 of Donald Duck is also #391 in legacy terms. Much like IDW’s…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In retrospect there’s an added layer of poignancy to writer Salomé Parent-Rachdi and artist Deloupy’s Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! From the Fantagraphics Underground line, Charlie: Charles Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World may be unwieldy in title but it’s breezily charming in delivery. At 32…
Sports comics. Once a great genre staple of the British comic industry but now something of a publishing footnote. They’re not entirely unknown in indie and alt circles either –…
Fresh from her first ever panel event at Caption Festival at the beginning of the month, 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Daisy Crouch has launched the Kickstarter campaign…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Blending documented fact and speculative fiction Marcelo D’Salete’s Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom is a meticulously researched re-creation of the story of…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Raquelle Jac’s long-form comics debut, Bimbo Agitprop, debuted this month from Fantagraphics and, for what it’s worth, it’s already one of my books of the year. It’s…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Working conditions and fair recompense for comics creators is a subject that feels, unfortunately, eternally relevant and never-changing (in anything but a superficial degree.) Joe D’Esposito’s The…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
