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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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Published September 2, 2025
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February 21, 2026
The first edition of Gord Hill's 2025 The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded was published in 2018 under the title of The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements (and no, I have not read said first edition, but that I am definitely planning to do so as soon as I am able to obtain a copy, not only for reading interest, but equally so because I also want to peruse both editions to compare as well as to contrast).
So after reading The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded, I am indeed totally ecstatic (but in a painful kind of way, since for me and in my not at all humble opinion Fascism, as any kind of ultra right wing radical extremism is of course also something inherently evil, is something totally horrid and inhumane) that in the 2025 edition, how in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Hill has aside from the presented textually and illustratively factual (in other words true) details of the sordidly putrid history of Fascism, of showcasing Fascism (as well as its mirror image Nazism) past and present (on a global scale) equally included Anders Breivik's July 2011 Nazi inspired massacre in Norway (although I do kind of wish that Gord Hill would equally point out in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded that many in particular nasty AMERICAN right-wing commentators in fact massively blamed Breivik's crimes not on him and on Neo-Nazi, on Fascist philosophy but on Islam as well as on Socialism, that Hill should definitely be naming and singling out in particular Robert Spencer and Pam Geller for their hatemongering), Elon Musk doing his decidedly and deliberately Nazi salute during Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, the February 2022 offensively despicable occupation of the capital city of Canada, of downtown Ottawa by radically deranged and fucked-up Fascism loving anti vaxxers and Covid deniers as well as (and major major kudos to Gord Hill regarding this) the domestic TERRORIST January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by right wing flag-waving morons too stupid to know and unwilling to accept that the Republicans LOST the 2020 US election fair and square (as well as painfully showing in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Fascist, in other words racist attacks on mosques and synagogues, the vile murder by vehicle of a London Ontario Muslin family by some nineteen year old "disaffected" and rage-filled pathetic WASP man-child and so on and so on and so on unfortunately). Oh and yes, yes, yes, I do both adore and appreciate how every image Hill provides of Donald Trump in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded really does to my eyes closely resemble Adolf Hitler (and in particular regarding Trump's stage presence and his mannerisms) and that he also is not afraid of specifically pointing out that today's Israel is hugely Fascist and that the current Israeli government is colonial, racist and absolutely horrid in EVERY WAY (and by the way, being critical of Israel is not anti Semitic either and that many of Gord Hill's text and images in and throughout The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded in fact absolutely and totally condemn anti Semitism both now and in the past).
Now with The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded (and more than likely with the 2018 first edition as well), Hill (who is a First Nations author, illustrator, member of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation and lives in Northern British Columbia), he is truly and in my opinion a master of taking complex political theories and showcasing this (both through his words and equally so through his artwork) in an accessible way that is never intimidating, that is both visually and also textually engaging (and enlightening without using information dropping and thus both suitable and also recommendable for readers from about the age of twelve or so onwards and with no upper age limit for The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded either). And making use of a political cartoon type style, with a striking colour palette and panel arrangement, each section of The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded fits the unique part of Fascism ands its history being discussed (and that Gord Hill also really pulls readers right into The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded as well, so that we feel that we are not just reading about Fascism and the battle against Fascism, but are actually also participating in that very fight ourselves). Five stars for Hill's combination of text and images, although I will (albeit a bit guiltily) be lowering my rating for The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded to four stars since I really do wish that Gord Hill would also include a list of anti-Fascism books and websites for further reading, research and study.
Finally, if I were teaching politics, social studies or 20th/21st century history at the high school or at the college/university level, I would definitely be using The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded in the classroom (and in particular at the post-secondary level, the book would also be required reading and with no exceptions or exemptions granted either). However, I do realise that The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded and Hill's take regarding politics, economics and the like is rather one-sided, so I would be using books on radical Communism and the like as well (but that I would definitely be teaching from The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded and would also actively and publicly rebel if told not to, if The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded were banned and/or censored and in particular if said censorship invaded and then poisoned post secondary education).
And edited to add with regard to Gord Hill's claim in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded that the pretty exponential rise and proliferation of violent white supremacist right-wing philosophy, of radically horrid Fascism in the former East Germany has been mostly due to West Germany having annexed East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, well, although I do think Hill's assessment is a bit simplistic here and does not really take into consideration the forty years of total collectivism East Germany had to endure post WWII (going from vile and disgusting Nazism straight on to very extreme Stalinism, going from one absolute dictatorship straight on to another and indeed totally similar absolute dictatorship at least politically speaking), since East Germany was in fact (and in my opinion) pretty well completely taken over and often also hugely disrespected by West Germany, the USA, the UK etc. during and post 1991 (and that German chancellor Helmut Kohl also quite thoughtlessly relentlessly pushed for a very rapid reunification because he arrogantly wanted to be known and to be honoured for this), I kind of do think how maybe Gord Hill using the term "annexation" for the reunification of East and West Germany in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded to a point fits and is also kind of justified as well (and especially since very very many East Germans felt this way and indeed very very often still do so).
So after reading The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded, I am indeed totally ecstatic (but in a painful kind of way, since for me and in my not at all humble opinion Fascism, as any kind of ultra right wing radical extremism is of course also something inherently evil, is something totally horrid and inhumane) that in the 2025 edition, how in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Hill has aside from the presented textually and illustratively factual (in other words true) details of the sordidly putrid history of Fascism, of showcasing Fascism (as well as its mirror image Nazism) past and present (on a global scale) equally included Anders Breivik's July 2011 Nazi inspired massacre in Norway (although I do kind of wish that Gord Hill would equally point out in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded that many in particular nasty AMERICAN right-wing commentators in fact massively blamed Breivik's crimes not on him and on Neo-Nazi, on Fascist philosophy but on Islam as well as on Socialism, that Hill should definitely be naming and singling out in particular Robert Spencer and Pam Geller for their hatemongering), Elon Musk doing his decidedly and deliberately Nazi salute during Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, the February 2022 offensively despicable occupation of the capital city of Canada, of downtown Ottawa by radically deranged and fucked-up Fascism loving anti vaxxers and Covid deniers as well as (and major major kudos to Gord Hill regarding this) the domestic TERRORIST January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by right wing flag-waving morons too stupid to know and unwilling to accept that the Republicans LOST the 2020 US election fair and square (as well as painfully showing in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Fascist, in other words racist attacks on mosques and synagogues, the vile murder by vehicle of a London Ontario Muslin family by some nineteen year old "disaffected" and rage-filled pathetic WASP man-child and so on and so on and so on unfortunately). Oh and yes, yes, yes, I do both adore and appreciate how every image Hill provides of Donald Trump in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded really does to my eyes closely resemble Adolf Hitler (and in particular regarding Trump's stage presence and his mannerisms) and that he also is not afraid of specifically pointing out that today's Israel is hugely Fascist and that the current Israeli government is colonial, racist and absolutely horrid in EVERY WAY (and by the way, being critical of Israel is not anti Semitic either and that many of Gord Hill's text and images in and throughout The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded in fact absolutely and totally condemn anti Semitism both now and in the past).
Now with The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded (and more than likely with the 2018 first edition as well), Hill (who is a First Nations author, illustrator, member of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation and lives in Northern British Columbia), he is truly and in my opinion a master of taking complex political theories and showcasing this (both through his words and equally so through his artwork) in an accessible way that is never intimidating, that is both visually and also textually engaging (and enlightening without using information dropping and thus both suitable and also recommendable for readers from about the age of twelve or so onwards and with no upper age limit for The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded either). And making use of a political cartoon type style, with a striking colour palette and panel arrangement, each section of The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded fits the unique part of Fascism ands its history being discussed (and that Gord Hill also really pulls readers right into The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded as well, so that we feel that we are not just reading about Fascism and the battle against Fascism, but are actually also participating in that very fight ourselves). Five stars for Hill's combination of text and images, although I will (albeit a bit guiltily) be lowering my rating for The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded to four stars since I really do wish that Gord Hill would also include a list of anti-Fascism books and websites for further reading, research and study.
Finally, if I were teaching politics, social studies or 20th/21st century history at the high school or at the college/university level, I would definitely be using The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded in the classroom (and in particular at the post-secondary level, the book would also be required reading and with no exceptions or exemptions granted either). However, I do realise that The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded and Hill's take regarding politics, economics and the like is rather one-sided, so I would be using books on radical Communism and the like as well (but that I would definitely be teaching from The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded and would also actively and publicly rebel if told not to, if The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded were banned and/or censored and in particular if said censorship invaded and then poisoned post secondary education).
And edited to add with regard to Gord Hill's claim in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded that the pretty exponential rise and proliferation of violent white supremacist right-wing philosophy, of radically horrid Fascism in the former East Germany has been mostly due to West Germany having annexed East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, well, although I do think Hill's assessment is a bit simplistic here and does not really take into consideration the forty years of total collectivism East Germany had to endure post WWII (going from vile and disgusting Nazism straight on to very extreme Stalinism, going from one absolute dictatorship straight on to another and indeed totally similar absolute dictatorship at least politically speaking), since East Germany was in fact (and in my opinion) pretty well completely taken over and often also hugely disrespected by West Germany, the USA, the UK etc. during and post 1991 (and that German chancellor Helmut Kohl also quite thoughtlessly relentlessly pushed for a very rapid reunification because he arrogantly wanted to be known and to be honoured for this), I kind of do think how maybe Gord Hill using the term "annexation" for the reunification of East and West Germany in The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded to a point fits and is also kind of justified as well (and especially since very very many East Germans felt this way and indeed very very often still do so).
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!
October 13, 2025
I wish the cult members would be able to read this without getting angry…
October 25, 2025
Lecture déprimante mais essentielle qui nous démontre que l'histoire se répète constamment et qu'il faut rester vigilant
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.
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.
February 13, 2026
Fascism and capitalism are far more intertwined than I ever knew. Fascism is in every country, always, around the world, and the only thing keeping it down, is people that care.
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