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Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…
Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…
The premise of Jesse Lonergan’s Hedra is, in isolation, a straightforward one. After nuclear war devastates the Earth, one lone astronaut wins a lottery that will see them embark on…
What could compel Claire Fauvel, a French illustrator and animator, to create a 220-page graphic biography of Phoolan Devi, arguably India’s most famous dacoit? A question like this would never…
Comics has proved to be an ideal format for explorations of the refugee crisis over the last few years. From Broken Frontier Award-winning offerings like the Red Cross’s Over Under…
Upgrade Soul is a thought-provoking science fiction comic about Hank and Molly Nonnar, an elderly couple who are deciding how to be remembered by the world; and how they can…
Recalling a moment in US history from 1971, the story of Frank ‘Big Black’ Smith and the Attica State Prison rebellion feels no less timely today. A collaboration between Big…
Fights, Joel Christian Gill’s often bruising memoir, pretty much starts with his nightmarish earliest memory. The scared young Joel, dragged along by his mother after her release from prison, sees…
In his letter at the end of That Texas Blood #1, writer Chris Condon admits that this story was originally intended as a movie, but no one was willing to…
In The Nixie of the Mill-Pond and Other European Stories a range of Iron Circus artists tackle classic folk tales in fresh and freaky ways, appropriate for children, if they’re…
Between 2014 and 2017, Image Comics’s Nailbiter took the thriller genre to harrowing new heights of terror. The plot centers around what makes someone a serial killer and explores the small town…
Way back when, Otto Von Bismarck famously said something along the lines of “laws are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made”. I’ve no doubt…
In We Served the People, Emei Burell shares her stories of her mother, Yuan, growing up in China during a time when childhoods were being interrupted by the Cultural Revolution….
With a hybrid approach that fuses elements of traditional comics storytelling with illustrated children’s books, Joel Christian Gill’s Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride is an inspirational short story. It…
Sayra Begum’s Mongrel is perhaps an atypical publication to come to us from the celebrated Knockabout Comics, whose reputation was built on titles with a distinctively underground and alt edge….
Dr. Love Wave and the Experiments is a genre-crashing comic bursting with aliens, music and psychedelic weirdness, with a side helping of meta Silver Age-style super-heroics thrown in for good…
When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…
Thomas Von Steinaecker and Barbara Yelin interweave moments from the life of Gerda, an elderly lady in a care home, who dedicates the majority of her present to wandering through…
