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Less reboot or even reimagining and more business as usual, the new Oni Press incarnation of everyone’s favourite red-headed teenager debuted this month with Archie #1. If you were worrying…
This summer’s ARC Festival was a triumph not just in terms of showcasing indie and experimental work, or the new discoveries we all may have made there, but also for…
Previously at Broken Frontier we covered Steve Willis and Edward Bolman volumes from Tom Fellrath’s Phoenix Masters series, both of which explore absurdity in the extreme with a humorous, all-ages…
Few creators’ work has instantly grabbed my attention in the last couple of years as Keezy Young’s has. Their short comic Sunflowers, about living with bipolar disorder was an exceptional…
Mereida Fajardo and Marcy Fraser’s Zinezilla festival has become a welcome spiritual successor to the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair and now also occupies the same space as its geographical…
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! 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…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! As part of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics, we’re highlighting their most revolutionary, their most out there, their most individual graphic novels of the last…
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! If you’re not familiar with the wonder that is Katie Skelly, let me take you back to 2020. Yes, there was COVID. But there was also a…
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…
“In the earliest days of the Earth, before recorded history, two powerful gods laid claim to the world… Ghraagg’Endah, the bestial avatar of Chaos…[and] Thuuna, goddess of creation and control”….
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 –…
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…
“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
