Editing Firebugs (graphic novel) (section)

== Reception ==
''Firebugs'' won the [[37th Lambda Literary Awards|2025 Lambda Literary Award]] for [[Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction|Transgender Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2025 Winners |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2025-winners/ |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=[[Lambda Literary]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

''Firebugs'' was on ''[[The New York Times]]'s'' list of best graphic novels for 2024, which concluded that "the book's images are a collection of little miracles".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thielman |first=Sam |date=6 December 2024 |title=The Best Graphic Novels of 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/books/review/best-graphic-novels-comics-2024.html |access-date=2026-03-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ''[[Library Journal]]''<nowiki/>'s starred review by Tom Batten labeled the novel a "tender, probing exploration of queer identity in a world seemingly on the verge of collapse, brought to life with warmth and grace by Bulling’s [...] exceptionally fluid, emotionally evocative linework."<ref name=":3" /> 

''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' said "Bulling’s script is more meditative than propulsive, but its depiction of melancholia—the way a crisis of identity can feel both significant and infinitesimal in the face of actual apocalypse—is often moving."<ref name=":0" /> Alexandra Sweny, for ''The Montreal Review of Books,'' praised the novel's "moments of subtle attention to the natural world [...] Careful symbolism is woven throughout."<ref name=":2" /> Lindsay Pereira, for ''[[Broken Frontier]],'' noted that "this is a book that requires multiple readings because there is so much one can take away from it [...] There is beauty here, but it is never obvious."<ref name=":4" />