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Charlie: Charles Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World – Steven Brower and Seymour Chwast Give Us a Spotlight Tour of the Little Tramp’s Life and Times

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2026

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…

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Exclusive Preview: Nirvana is Here – New Contemporary Crime Thriller by Mikael Ross to Be Published by Fantagraphics in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 17, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Time for another celebratory exclusive preview courtesy of Fantagraphics and today it’s the turn of Mikael Ross for his new book Nirvana is Here, translated by Nika…

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Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom – Marcelo D’Salete’s Powerful Account of a Dark Period in Brazil’s History

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 17, 2026

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…

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Exclusive Preview: The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion – Shintaro Kago’s Alternate History Saga is Coming from Fantagraphics in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 14, 2026

FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s time for another exclusive preview today at BF as part of our Fantagraphics celebrations. Today’s it’s the turn of Shintaro Kago’s The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion…

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Comet Club – Teenage U.F.O. Hunters Tackle Reality and Life’s Expectations in Yi Yang’s Fantagraphics Debut

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 13, 2026

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…

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The Outsider – Joe D’Esposito’s Graphic Biography of EC Artist Bernie Krigstein Tackles Themes that Are as Relevant Today as They Were in the Artist’s Lifetime

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2026

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…

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Exclusive Preview: Identical – Take an Advance Look at Leah Hayes’s Sci-Fi Tale of Motherhood, Identity and AI

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2026

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…

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On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1 – Marina Lisa Komiya Explores Love and Identity in Post-War Japan 

  • by Swati Nair
  • August 10, 2026

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…

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“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics Artist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2026

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…

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Exclusive Preview: Bedford Street – Ross Murray’s Altman-esque, Darkly Comic Graphic Novel is Published by Fantagraphics in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 6, 2026

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”…

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Wish We Weren’t Here: Postcards from the Apocalypse – Peter Kuper’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist Book Reminds Us of How the World is Burning Around Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 6, 2026

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…

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The Pass – The Hustle and Bustle of Restaurant Life Sits at the Centre of Katriona Chapman’s Rich Character Study from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2026

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…

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Shock Treatment – EC Comics’ Precursor to Modern Graphic Medicine Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Gary Usher
  • August 5, 2026

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…

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Exclusive Preview: The Abyss of Oblivion – Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa Explore the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 4, 2026

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…

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“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a Half

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2026

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…

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Lovers of the Empire Vol. 1 – Yudori Draws a Tender Portrait of Romance in Colonial Korea

  • by Swati Nair
  • August 3, 2026

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…

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“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Back in 2020 Henry McCausland’s breakout work, Eight-Lane Runaways from Fantagraphics, caught our attention so much at BF that it earned the artist a nomination in the…

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I, René Tardi, P.O.W. Vol. 1-3 – Jacques Tardi Chronicles Memory and Survival After World War II

  • by Swati Nair
  • May 28, 2026

How do you tell a story that has already been told many times? How do you tell a story that at times seems stuck in time because the past, present,…

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