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The Editors | June 26, 2026

Today we are pleased to bring you an excerpt of Raquelle Jac's debut graphic novel, Bimbo Agitprop. The 360-page book, published by Fantagraphics, will be available in stores on Aug. 4 for $34.99. Here's the publisher's description of the comic:

In the tradition of Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Phoebe Gloeckner, a remarkable debut graphic novel that wields art like a knife to organize, agitate, and dismantle the predatory systems that immiserate us all.

Bimbo Agitprop captures the reality of growing up in West Texas in the early 21st century, through Satanic Panics, Y2K, a recession, abusive parents, shitty men, identity-centric politics, and woke/anti-woke pendulum swings. Reflective of the author’s era (born in the late 1990s) of hyperindividualist over-sharing of late 2010s internet, while being firmly grounded in the unfiltered, handmade, radically anti-establishment art of the 1960s underground comix, Raquelle Jac keeps her wounds fresh and open to both remember the past and protect herself in the future. At turns explicit, hilarious, profane, and defiant, Bimbo Agitprop is both an act of self-preservation and a call to arms.

Jac boldly embraces frivolity, “bimboism,” comedy, memory, and storytelling to interrogate reality in the 2020s, ping-ponging among relationships, psychedelic trips, good sex, bad sex, romance, and trauma. Her dense, obsessive pages read like a manifesto, announcing the arrival of a remarkable new voice in comics.