THE ANTIFA COMIC BOOK: Revised and Expanded (2nd Edition, Revised) builds on the success of the first edition

THE ANTIFA COMIC BOOK: Revised and Expanded (2nd Edition, Revised)
GORD HILL (Introduction by Mark Bray)
Arsenal Pulp Press (non-affiliate Bookshop.org link)
$21.95 paperback, available now

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.