diff --git a/quartz/components/Comments.tsx b/quartz/components/Comments.tsx
index 9c734fd1b..91f83fc55 100644
--- a/quartz/components/Comments.tsx
+++ b/quartz/components/Comments.tsx
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ function boolToStringBool(b: boolean): string {
 export default ((opts: Options) => {
   const Comments: QuartzComponent = ({ displayClass, fileData, cfg }: QuartzComponentProps) => {
     // check if comments should be displayed according to frontmatter
-    if ((opts.respectFrontmatter ?? false) && !(fileData.frontmatter?.comments ?? false)) {
+    const commentsFlag: boolean =
+      fileData.frontmatter?.comments === true || fileData.frontmatter?.comments === "true"
+    if ((opts.respectFrontmatter ?? false) && !commentsFlag) {
       return null
     }
 
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts
index 2e599aa0e..cf3880eff 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ declare module "vfile" {
         lang: string
         enableToc: string
         cssclasses: string[]
+        comments: boolean | string
       }>
   }
 }