The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1 features 14-year-old Riad, an aspiring artist and a self-proclaimed loser, whose seemingly ordinary life…
As a child, I devoured books about heroes who went on great adventures. I was the weird kid who spent more lunches than I cared to admit in the library,…
Congratulations to cartoonist Peter Kuper (World War III Illustrated, Spy Vs. Spy, Ruins) on his Pulitzer nomination, announced today by Fantagraphics in the press release below. PETER KUPER IS A…
Announced just before the weekend by Publishers Weekly, Fantagraphics have secured the rights to R. E. Burke’s graphic memoir Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. As long-term Broken Frontier…
Stories about quiet seaside towns with something dark to hide feel almost like a sub-genre of British horror in themselves. Dix’s The Idris File follows the 1970s exploits of teenage…
In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago burst onto the comic scene with his English debut: Dementia 21 (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), a collection of absurdist short stories. Reminiscent of…
We’ve seen some powerful comics work centring on the atrocities in Gaza over the last couple of years. You can discover more of it via our Palestine comics resource list…
From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
The copywriter for the online catalogue listing of Justin Gradin’s sophomore graphic novel, Pageant, certainly doesn’t do him any favors by comparing him to legendary transgressive cartoonists: Gary Panter, Gary…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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
