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In It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be, Lizzy Stewart shows us in her gentle, raw way, how beautiful and foolish we look, trying to live our lives with…
A stranger rides on horseback through haunted woods and towns in search of a missing boy, presumably his own son. He wears a bicorne hat and moves like a silver-screen…
One of the joys of following the publishing output of as eclectic a publisher as Conundrum Press has been discovering not just new voices from the North American scene but…
White All Around, translated by Montana Kane from Blanc autour, the bande dessinée by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert, tells the important story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School –…
To class the collaborative nature of a comics narrative as “unique” runs the obvious risk of accusations of hyperbole. But Coma, the debut long-form comics work from artist Zara Slattery,…
Celestia, the latest graphic narrative from Manuele Fior, immerses readers in a vast and ethereal dreamscape of the future, where complex interpersonal dynamics are one of many aspects to simultaneously…
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear may seem like an unwieldy title for a book but sometimes getting the point across from the…
Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary may have been overshadowed by that little irritant called Covid-19, but it didn’t stop Germany and a bunch of other countries in the Western hemisphere from…
There is a simple but effective trick that Will McPhail deploys whenever Nick Moss, the 20-something protagonist of his debut graphic novel, In., opens up to the world around him….
To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…
The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…
Many things happen in Ray Fawkes’ ambitious, experimental montage comic One Line – roughly 7 generations are presented 18 times over – but the core is conveyed by the silent,…
It would be very easy when talking about Tom Woodman and Rupert Smissen’s graphic novel Future to prioritise describing it in terms of its complex and inventive science fiction elements….
Vinyl #1 starts off with lots of blood and gore and ends with the promise of more to come in 12-Gauge Comics’ new original story about a serial killer with…
Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…
Smithers&Wing is a LGBT+ mystery fantasy story surrounding the disappearance of Catriona, a high school student whose absence is brought to our main protagonists Flora Smithers and August Wing by…
There’s almost always an element of doubt that creeps into the mind of a reader looking through the work of Pascal Girard. It is a healthy kind of doubt; one…
It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
