FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s been fifteen years since Fantagraphics first published a collection of the first four stories of Jacques Tardi’s adventuring anti-hero. To celebrate the character’s 50th anniversary (some…
PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Fantagraphics describe Roberta Gregory’s Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken as collecting “one of the most influential, feminist comics series.” Presenting the character’s life for the…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1 has had a lot of attention already this month at Broken Frontier with…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Our final exclusive preview today for our August celebrations of Fantagraphics’ 50th birthday. Bringing both translated work and classic comics from yesteryear to new readerships are two…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! When I interviewed creator Raquelle Jac about Bimbo Agitprop earlier this month at Broken Frontier I described it as one of my books of the year. This…
One of a small number of micropublishers in the UK and Ireland still putting out anthology titles with regularity, Limit Break Comics have announced the crowdfunding campaign for their latest…
London’s queer comic fair inQ! returns at the end of September with double the days and double the exhibitors. The firest edition of this in 2024 was an amazing day…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Heading into the weekend with our penultimate exclusive preview of our celebratory Fantagraphics month and this time it’s from The Mess, the much anticipated new graphic novel…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Katie Skelly’s Heaven focuses on the tantalising mystery of a strip club that seems to appear and disappear at will. As the story unfolds, its focus shifts…
Marvel continue to license out their classic back catalogue to other publishers like Dark Horse, Fantagraphics and Clover Press but it’s leading to some interesting approaches including the upcoming The…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The title Lost Marvels may be something of a misnomer (forgotten, obscure, rare… yes… lost? Not so much) but Fantagraphics’ reprint series of some of the hidden…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! At the beginning of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics at Broken Frontier this past month we interviewed Jesse Moynihan about his epic saga Forming. Jesse…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! As part of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics, we’re highlighting their most revolutionary, their most out there, their most individual graphic novels of the last…
One final Comics Cultural Impact Collective online roundtable meeting for the moment with a Scottish Comics Roundtable coming in September. There’s an incredible evolving small press and indie scene in…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Reading a book as raw and candid as Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish the reader can’t help but ask themself the question of whether this truly singular approach…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! A couple of weeks ago at Broken Frontier our Swati Nair reviewed the first volume of Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
Gloria Ladson-Billings’ The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children was first published in the ‘90s. Its analysis of how the culturally relevant practice of eight teachers achieved outstanding results…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! If you’re not familiar with the wonder that is Katie Skelly, let me take you back to 2020. Yes, there was COVID. But there was also a…
“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
“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 ArtistAugust 7, 2026
