Few novels have as daunting a reputation as James Joyce’s Ulysses. An evocation of a single day in the life of Dublin (16th June 1904), focusing on the personal odysseys…
Something is certainly growing out of control in the first issue of Wildfire, by Matt Hawkins and Linda Sejic. But I’m not sure it’s just genetically modified dandelions… Wildfire, written…
A solitary discarded glove is a melancholy sight as it poignantly lies forever separated from the defining duality of its functional life partner. But that same sense of sadness we…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Moving on from diary comics to fiction, Julie Delporte uses her dazzling, spontaneous art to take us inside the head of a troubled young woman. French-born, Montreal-based artist Julie Delporte…
From an obscure horror webcomic, to a massively successful crowdfunding campaign, to a forthcoming graphic novel starring one of the most beloved children’s characters of all time – in the…
Prince Aric faces his biggest threat to date when the Hunters arrive on Earth to destroy the X-O Manowar armour. But despite their violent and destructive approach, Robert Venditti’s script begs…
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In the ongoing epic of the life of Dredd, Case Files #7 is a quiet but remarkably solid collection that switches from straight action to smart satire at the snap of…
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Billing itself as the UK’s “first graphic newspaper since the Titanic sank” Modern Times is an intriguing new project overseen by a three-woman team of Royal College of Art students….
It comes from Italy, but the new biannual anthology Under Dark Weird Fantasy Grounds (edited by Michele Nitri) could come from hell or from the centre of the earth, as the comics by…
The success of Batman ’66 continues to build as Bruce Wayne once again shares the stage with Britt Reid, in Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman and Ty Templeton’s joyful tribute to one…
What Trees #1 lacks in high-octane ‘alien invasion’ action, it more than makes up for in global perspective and the promise of thematic depth. As I’ve written before, I’ve been an…
In 2012 cross-media creator Ravi Thornton made an immediate impact on the world of comics with the dark and layered fantasy The Tale of Brin & Bent and Minno Marylebone,…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Dustship Glory, set in the Canadian dustbowl of the 1930s, might lack the narrative pyrotechnics of Look Straight Ahead, but it’s a compelling character study delivered by a supremely confident storyteller….
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Acclaimed for his focus on the working classes, comic creator Baru has created such blue-collar masterpieces as L’autoroute du soleil and Bonne Année. However, he remains criminally below the radar in the Anglophone…
Maybe the first Sci-Fi Special in 18 years was meant to act as a gateway drug to 2000 AD (and the Megazine) but unfortunately for The Mighty Tharg, it seems that this time around the…
Tackling the subject of Female Genital Mutilation through the medium of comics, San Francisco-based artist Maureen Burdock’s Mumbi & the Long Run is the fourth story in her series 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
