FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Yi Yang was born in northeastern China, and moved to Bologna, Italy to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. She published two books there…
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…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Our month of Fanta-stic (see what we did there?) anniversary coverage continues today with another exclusive to Broken Frontier preview. Take a look at interiors from Leah…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week with a Summer Special edition and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with…
Perhaps it may seem a little strange for me to be writing some form of report on a two-day programming-driven festival that I was only at for day one. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The mention of WW II most often summons up images of the Holocaust. It’s easy to find narratives, both fiction and non-fiction, centreed around US experiences of…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Years in the making, Joe D’Esposito’s The Outsider comes to us next month from Fantagraphics detailing the life, career and struggles of the legendary EC Comics artist…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The added advantage of being able to run exclusive previews, beyond sharing them with potential new audience,s is that we get to pencil projects into the “must-buy”…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we reported that cartoonist Peter Kuper (Ruins, Spy Vs. Spy, World War III Illustrated) had been announced as a 2026 Pulitzer…
Affordability equals accessibility. Excellent news today from the direction of Rebellion about Judge Dredd: Compact Crimes, a new series of reprint volumes at a very sweet price point. Judge Dredd:…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! There’s something about Katriona Chapman’s The Pass that reminds the reader of the structure of a stage play. It’s a nuanced character study to start with. But…
While Rebellion has been hugely active in recent years bringing vintage comics back to print via its Treasury of British Comics line similar projects from DC Thomson have been much…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Graphic Medicine as a genre did not exist in 1955 when Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cast their editorial net wide after their EC horror comics were…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca (The House, The Lighthouse) is a true master of the form, and a Broken Frontier Award-winning creator back in 2019. Coming later this year…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In the first of our spotlight interviews for our celebratory Fantagraphics month at Broken Frontier we chat with cartoonist Jesse Moynihan about the epic Forming, first published…
So… it’s Caption Festival (or Pirate Caption to give it its official theme) in Oxford this coming weekend and if you love small press comics and community programming this is…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The 1920s in occupied Korea saw the beginning of Japan’s bunka seiji, or cultural policy. Behind a veneer of modern progress, Koreans were allowed more freedom of…
“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
