{"id":33735,"date":"2025-10-22T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/?p=33735"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:14:54","slug":"glaad-award-winning-fence-returns-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/glaad-award-winning-fence-returns-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD Award Winning Fence Returns In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH debuts in a double-sized one-shot!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 22, 2025) <\/strong>\u2013  New York Times bestselling writer C.S. Pacat and lauded artist Johanna the Mad return to the high-stakes world of Fence <\/em>with FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH<\/strong>, the next chapter in the Fence<\/em> saga!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King\u2019s Row fencing team has successfully made it to the quarterfinals, which puts them one step closer to their goal of beating Exton!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Aiden, as usual, has started to check out, and worse\u2014no one\u2019s even surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Harvard figure out how to keep Aiden\u2019s head in the game before the team falls apart? Or will they be faced with the difficult choice to press on to victory without him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH #1 <\/strong>will be available in comic shops January 7, 2026. It is available for pre-order at your local comic shop<\/a>. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including Kindle, iBooks, and Google Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH #1<\/strong> features a main cover by series artist Johanna the Mad and variants by Sina Grace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH <\/strong>is the latest release from BOOM! Studios\u2019 award-winning BOOM! Box imprint, home to groundbreaking original series such as Lumberjanes<\/em> by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Gus Allen, and ND Stevenson; Juliet Takes a Breath<\/em> by Gabby Rivera and Celia Moscote; Giant Days<\/em> by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin; Mamo<\/em> by Sas Milledge; Save Yourself!<\/em> by Bones Leopard and Kelly and Nichole Matthews; Specter Inspectors <\/em>by Bowen McCurdy and Kaitlyn Musto; The Last Witch <\/em>by Conor McCreery and V.V. Glass; Ghosted in LA<\/em> by Sina Grace and Siobhan Keenan; The Avant-Guards<\/em> by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes; Fence<\/em> by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad; Goldie Vance<\/em>by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams; Hollow<\/em>by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, and Berenice Nelle; Getting Dizzy<\/em> by Shea Fontana and Celia Moscote; and the educational series Seen: True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For continuing news on FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH <\/strong>comic books and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to boom-studios.com<\/a> and follow @boomstudios<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About C.S. Pacat: <\/strong>C.S. Pacat is the New York Times and USA-Today best-selling author of Dark Rise<\/em>, the Captive Prince <\/em>trilogy, and the GLAAD-nominated graphic novels Fence<\/em>, as well as a writer for DC Comics<\/em>. Educated at the University of Melbourne, C.S. Pacat has since lived in a number of cities, including Tokyo and Perugia, and currently resides and writes in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Johanna the Mad: <\/strong>Johanna The Mad is a comic book artist and illustrator from Mexico. Thanks to growing a social media following, she turned into a freelance artist and has worked with publishers like BOOM! Studios and Little Brown. Find her social links at https:\/\/linktr.ee\/johannathemad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH debuts in a double-sized one-shot! LOS ANGELES, CA (October 22, 2025) \u2013  New York Times bestselling writer C.S. Pacat and lauded artist Johanna the Mad return to the high-stakes world of Fence with FENCE BREAKTHROUGH: QUARTER CLASH, the next chapter in the Fence saga! The King\u2019s Row fencing team has successfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":33736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[257,277],"class_list":["post-33735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boom","tag-lgbtqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33740,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33735\/revisions\/33740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}