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! 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…
There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…
Is this really the first of what are meant to be 40 volumes? Is Cornelius an iconic comic that has been around longer than most of us? Has the anthropomorphic…
Translated by the fantastic Andrea Rosenberg (of Ocultos and Totem acclaim), Mothballs from Sole Otero and Fantagraphics is set in Buenos Aires in the year 2001. The gorgeous Argentinian landscape…
Believed to have great spiritual significance, a totem is a sacred object, often an emblem for a connected group of people. It also serves as the title for Laura Pérez’s…
“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
