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Fantagraphics Announces New Imprint – Takumigraphics to Celebrate the Art and Craft of East Asian Comics in 2026

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 30, 2025

Fantagraphics are 50 next year and they’re already making some very cool announcements for that anniversary. Details and preview images below for new imprint Takumigraphics. NEW FROM FANTAGRAPHICS: TAKUMIGRAPHICS Ever…

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Jessica Farm – Fantagraphics’ Collection of Josh Simmons’ Quarter of a Century Work-in-Progress Story Captures a Unique Experiment in the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2025

The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…

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Night Terror – Grisly, Whimsical and Sinister Dreams from John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 11, 2025

A viscous, elongated creature with the body of a large crow, the skull of a man, and a gaping mouth full to the brim of sharp teeth shrieks down at…

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Raging Clouds – Yudori Confronts Patriarchy with a Story of Resilience, Friendship and Freedom

  • by Swati Nair
  • September 8, 2025

The act of invention is rarely just about machines or ideas. It’s also about survival and resilience, and finding ways to imagine freedom when the world insists on restraint. In…

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Preview: Tales of Paranoia – First New Robert Crumb Comic in 23 Years to Usher in Fantagraphics’ 50th Anniversary

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 6, 2025

Fantagraphics’ 50th anniversary is coming and Robert Crumb’s Tales of Paranoia is heralding it in… TALES OF PARANOIA FANTAGRAPHICS PRESENTS THE FIRST NEW COMIC BY ROBERT CRUMB IN 23 YEARS!…

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Goes Like This – An Eccentric New Compendium of Jordan Crane’s Comics from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 23, 2025

Having previously reviewed Jordan Crane’s Keeping Two for Pipedream Comics, I was thrilled to see an exciting new collection of his works being published at Fantagraphics this year. For the…

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Preview: Roy #1 – Fantagraphics to Publish a New Collaboration from Gilbert and Natalia Hernandez

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 13, 2025

Check out this tasty preview of Roy #1 coming from Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez and Natalia Hernandez this August… FANTAGRAPHICS TO PUBLISH ROY #1 BY GILBERT AND NATALIA HERNANDEZ FANTAGRAPHICS PRESENTS…

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Baby Blue – Bim Eriksson’s Dystopian Graphic Novel, the Swedish Underground in Translation from Fantagraphics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 4, 2025

There is a burgeoning alternative comics scene in Sweden that Fantagraphics Books and translator Melissa Bowers have been bringing to English-speaking audiences over the last seven years. It includes Erik…

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Preview: Witchcraft – Sole Otero’s Follow-Up to ‘Mothballs’ is Coming from Fantagraphics Books in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 26, 2025

Witchcraft is Sole Otero’s new book which Fantagraphics have announced will be published in the Autumn. Check out our Lydia Turner’s review of Otero’s 2024 graphic novel Mothballs here at…

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Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund – Celebrating the Life and Legacy of One of America’s First Female Cartoonists

  • by Lydia Turner
  • March 6, 2025

One thing you should know about me is I can never resist a beautifully illustrated coffee table book. So, when a stunning new collection was released from Fantagraphics late last…

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War on Gaza – Joe Sacco’s Commentary on Events in Gaza Demands We Do Not Look the Other Way and Instead Confront the Horrors that Surround Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2025

As the cartoonist behind Palestine, unquestionably a seminal piece of graphic journalism, and its follow-up Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco’s commentary on the genocide in Gaza over the last year…

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two – Emil Ferris Combines Coming-of-Age Story, Murder Mystery and Sequential Experimentation in this Much Anticipated Follow-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2025

When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…

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Raised by Ghosts – Briana Loewinsohn Reflects on a Lonely Childhood in this Graphic Memoir from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • February 14, 2025

From the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, Briana Loewinsohn, comes a brand new coming-of-age biography, based on Loewinsohn’s experience of high school: Raised by Ghosts. Also published by Fantagraphics,…

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Cutting Season – Discover the Achingly Beautiful in the Bleakly Grotesque in Bhanu Pratap’s Collection from Fantagraphics Underground

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2025

I first discovered Bhanu Pratap’s work back in the pages of Fantagraphics’ NOW anthology. As all the best anthologies are, NOW has always been an excellent introductory point to exciting…

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Nightmare Factory – John Kenn Mortensen’s Melodic Wordplay is Just as Nuanced as His Illustrations in this New Picture Book from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 9, 2024

A pale drummer boy mindlessly plays on as a candle drips wax over his head. A grimy man cocks his trumpet like a gun, the canister on his back ready…

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Mothballs – Sole Otero’s Vivid Family Saga Highlights the Impact of Generational Trauma

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 2, 2024

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…

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Kommix – Charles Burns Asks Us to Consider 80 Comics Covers that Never Were in this Haunting Fantagraphics Release

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2024

There’s a certain irony in the way a collection of imaginary comics covers can evoke such evocative feelings of nostalgia considering that, obviously, they never existed in the first place….

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Ocultos – Dance Between Dreams and Reality in New Cosmic Mysteries from Laura Pérez and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 10, 2024

Earlier this year, I had the joy of reading and reviewing Laura Pérez’s first English-translated graphic novel, Totem. With an overlying feeling of uncanniness, and a focus on the spiritual…

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