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The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded
With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term "antifa" has been co-opted by the right to falsely describe far-left political extremism and even terrorism. But the role played by antifa movements in fighting fascism and racism around the world remains as relevant and important as ever.
For this expanded edition, Gord Hill adds new material depicting more recent flashpoints of fascist activity, including the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, the murderous spree by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, the infamous 2022 Canadian convoy protests, and Islamophobic and anti-migrant sentiment in a growing number of fascist governments in Europe. At the same time, Hill depicts the important work being done by anti-fascist individuals and organizations to combat this worrisome trend, made all the more crucial by Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Powerful and inspiring, The Antifa Comic Book is an important reminder of fascism in our midst and what can be done to stop it.
The book includes a new foreword by Mark Bray, historian and author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term "antifa" has been co-opted by the right to falsely describe far-left political extremism and even terrorism. But the role played by antifa movements in fighting fascism and racism around the world remains as relevant and important as ever.
For this expanded edition, Gord Hill adds new material depicting more recent flashpoints of fascist activity, including the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, the murderous spree by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, the infamous 2022 Canadian convoy protests, and Islamophobic and anti-migrant sentiment in a growing number of fascist governments in Europe. At the same time, Hill depicts the important work being done by anti-fascist individuals and organizations to combat this worrisome trend, made all the more crucial by Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Powerful and inspiring, The Antifa Comic Book is an important reminder of fascism in our midst and what can be done to stop it.
The book includes a new foreword by Mark Bray, historian and author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
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168 pages, Paperback
Published September 2, 2025
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October 25, 2025
Lecture déprimante mais essentielle qui nous démontre que l'histoire se répète constamment et qu'il faut rester vigilant
May 23, 2025
This nonfiction comic book, written and illustrated by the Indigenous author Gord Hill, succinctly covers the history of fascist and anti-fascist movements from the early 1900s to today. This sweeping story depicts the fascist history of a multitude of countries including Italy, Germany, Spain, the U.K., Greece, Russia, France, Ukraine, Syria, Sweeden, the U.S., Canada, Norway and Israel. Hill uses classic comic book style images and bold colors to support concise factual text bubbles. There is no dialogue in The Antifa Comic Book, and without the illustrations the book would read similarly to a textbook. The story is comprehensive in its scope but only provides brief summaries of most of its included events. There were several times I read a single page, or even a single textbox, and though that its contents could be expanded into a whole book. This book is easily browsable, with most chapters being short and to the point. Hill does candidly depict fascist symbols and rhetoric in this comic book, and many of the events included are gritty and violent. Overall, this timely issue-oriented book uses the engaging and colorful medium of comic books to introduce readers to historical and current fascistic and anti-fascistic movements.
Thanks to Edelweiss and Arsenal Pulp Press for providing me with an ARC!
Thanks to Edelweiss and Arsenal Pulp Press for providing me with an ARC!
November 30, 2025
Rating: 5* of five
The Publisher Says: With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term "antifa" has been co-opted by the right to falsely describe far-left political extremism and even terrorism. But the role played by antifa movements in fighting fascism and racism around the world remains as relevant and important as ever.
For this expanded edition, Gord Hill adds new material depicting more recent flashpoints of fascist activity, including the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, the murderous spree by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, the infamous 2022 Canadian convoy protests, and Islamophobic and anti-migrant sentiment in a growing number of fascist governments in Europe. At the same time, Hill depicts the important work being done by anti-fascist individuals and organizations to combat this worrisome trend, made all the more crucial by Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Powerful and inspiring, The Antifa Comic Book is an important reminder of fascism in our midst and what can be done to stop it.
The book includes a new foreword by Mark Bray, historian and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: If you're wondering why this graphic novel's appearing here, welcome! You must be a first-time visitor. This is not a safe space for fascists or their silent supporters. You will be offended, and not accidentally. Do not complain, you've been warned, and have the option...nay, encouragement...to leave any time. More than your kind offer to the decent people you're victimizing for whatever it is you hate so much.
So, everyone else, this is a graphic novel/history of the horrors the fucking fascists enact in pursuit of their disgusting, evil goal of immiserating people their tiny brains and smaller souls hate with fury and passion. It is meant to summon the answering, opposite...oppositional...fury and passion in you.
What's the point of this, I can hear people in my circle ask. It is easy to get numbed by the onslaught of awful these scum are unleashing. "They", to use the paranoid tense, are busy undoing generations of progress as fast and as hard as they can. Court orders say cease and desist? Ignore them! People hate your agenda? So what, do it anyway, we've got the Army.
In a coup, there is no neutrality. Yes, it's hard. It's scary. It's not fair. Your other option is silent, supine submission.
If that's not okay with you, you'll need some emotional support. Sometimes the best way to get that is to read...even read outside your usual genre or medium preferences. I was heartened by reading this book because it got past my text-reader's prejudices. my "I can handle anything words can say" conviction by putting it in images.
It's a valuable thing to have, to give to someone you know who's flagging...support is a wonderful gift to give and to receive.
The Publisher Says: With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa Comic Book was heralded for its searing imagery documenting the history of fascism and anti-fascist movements over the last century. In the years since its publication, the term "antifa" has been co-opted by the right to falsely describe far-left political extremism and even terrorism. But the role played by antifa movements in fighting fascism and racism around the world remains as relevant and important as ever.
For this expanded edition, Gord Hill adds new material depicting more recent flashpoints of fascist activity, including the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, the murderous spree by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, the infamous 2022 Canadian convoy protests, and Islamophobic and anti-migrant sentiment in a growing number of fascist governments in Europe. At the same time, Hill depicts the important work being done by anti-fascist individuals and organizations to combat this worrisome trend, made all the more crucial by Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Powerful and inspiring, The Antifa Comic Book is an important reminder of fascism in our midst and what can be done to stop it.
The book includes a new foreword by Mark Bray, historian and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.
My Review: If you're wondering why this graphic novel's appearing here, welcome! You must be a first-time visitor. This is not a safe space for fascists or their silent supporters. You will be offended, and not accidentally. Do not complain, you've been warned, and have the option...nay, encouragement...to leave any time. More than your kind offer to the decent people you're victimizing for whatever it is you hate so much.
So, everyone else, this is a graphic novel/history of the horrors the fucking fascists enact in pursuit of their disgusting, evil goal of immiserating people their tiny brains and smaller souls hate with fury and passion. It is meant to summon the answering, opposite...oppositional...fury and passion in you.
What's the point of this, I can hear people in my circle ask. It is easy to get numbed by the onslaught of awful these scum are unleashing. "They", to use the paranoid tense, are busy undoing generations of progress as fast and as hard as they can. Court orders say cease and desist? Ignore them! People hate your agenda? So what, do it anyway, we've got the Army.
In a coup, there is no neutrality. Yes, it's hard. It's scary. It's not fair. Your other option is silent, supine submission.
If that's not okay with you, you'll need some emotional support. Sometimes the best way to get that is to read...even read outside your usual genre or medium preferences. I was heartened by reading this book because it got past my text-reader's prejudices. my "I can handle anything words can say" conviction by putting it in images.
It's a valuable thing to have, to give to someone you know who's flagging...support is a wonderful gift to give and to receive.
September 30, 2025
The Antifa Comic Book by Gord Hill is an excellent introduction to the histories of both fascism and antifascism.
It is a graphic representation so it isn't an extremely detailed account, but it is pretty comprehensive in addressing the rise, fall, and subsequent rise of fascism as well as the corresponding path of antifascism. Many people have very limited ideas of what fascism is and how it has developed over time and an in-depth account would be a larger volume by far, even without being a graphic representation. That would keep many people from reading it if all they wanted was a brief explanation and understanding. This makes getting the big picture much easier while offering plenty of names, dates, events, and organizations for readers to pursue areas that interest them.
Yes, there is violence involved. Fascism by nature is violent and that violence sometimes has to be met with violence. One can reasonably argue that some retaliations have gone too far, that is certainly something everyone should think about. How much is too much? Both how much is too much to take before retaliating and how much is too much in response. If you see someone lamenting that the poor fascists are being constantly stabbed or shot, then that person has just shown you where they stand: with fascism. Those occurrences have largely been in response to fascist violence, so to skip the instigating violence and complain about the response must mean the instigating violence is okay to that person.
I would recommend this to those who just want a historical outline of both, from here they can decide whether they want to know more and direct their attention toward what they think is important. I also think this would be fun to use as a group guide to further learning, whether as a course outline for a formal course or a guide for a group of people who want to learn and debate the topic(s) informally.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.
It is a graphic representation so it isn't an extremely detailed account, but it is pretty comprehensive in addressing the rise, fall, and subsequent rise of fascism as well as the corresponding path of antifascism. Many people have very limited ideas of what fascism is and how it has developed over time and an in-depth account would be a larger volume by far, even without being a graphic representation. That would keep many people from reading it if all they wanted was a brief explanation and understanding. This makes getting the big picture much easier while offering plenty of names, dates, events, and organizations for readers to pursue areas that interest them.
Yes, there is violence involved. Fascism by nature is violent and that violence sometimes has to be met with violence. One can reasonably argue that some retaliations have gone too far, that is certainly something everyone should think about. How much is too much? Both how much is too much to take before retaliating and how much is too much in response. If you see someone lamenting that the poor fascists are being constantly stabbed or shot, then that person has just shown you where they stand: with fascism. Those occurrences have largely been in response to fascist violence, so to skip the instigating violence and complain about the response must mean the instigating violence is okay to that person.
I would recommend this to those who just want a historical outline of both, from here they can decide whether they want to know more and direct their attention toward what they think is important. I also think this would be fun to use as a group guide to further learning, whether as a course outline for a formal course or a guide for a group of people who want to learn and debate the topic(s) informally.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.
December 10, 2025
Super informative yet surprisingly dense for a comic book. The illustrations conveyed the proper tone (not a very fun one) but still did a great job. Very approachable book to help radicalize your niece nephew or child.
October 13, 2025
I wish the cult members would be able to read this without getting angry…
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