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Americana (And the Art of Getting Over It.) – Nobrow Presents Luke Healy’s Passionate and Conflicted Ode to a Colossal Continent and a Convoluted Ideal

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • February 3, 2020

Americana is an undeniably passionate and sincere reflection on both the physical and metaphorical America – the country, the culture and the ideal. Luke Healy’s masterful graphic memoir tells the…

Constantly by GG (Koyama Press)

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Constantly – GG Brings Control and Artistry to Her Intimate Vignette of Anxiety from Koyama Press

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 3, 2020

As we all know, comics is a medium of infinite possibilities. And as a long-overdue openness about mental health has become increasingly prevalent, it’s no surprise that creators have used…

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Akissi: More Tales of Mischief – The West African School Girl Returns for More Misadventures in Abouet and Sapin’s Joyous All-Ages Masterpiece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2020

Written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Mathieu Sapin, the second volume of the popular French comics Akissi stories from Flying Eye Books is another delightful collection of short strips…

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Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict – A Visible and Accessible Exploration of the Human Impact of the Sri Lankan Civil War

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2020

Depicting the devastating culmination of the long-running Sri Lankan Civil War between the government and the independent state-seeking Tamil Tigers (a clash with its origins firmly placed in the days…

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A Shining Beacon – James Albon’s Fatalistic Parable Captures the Zeitgeist with Disarming Insight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2020

When you live in a world beyond parody then satire is hard. James Albon’s A Shining Beacon, though, is less about exploring a dystopian future as much as extrapolating its…

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The Clock #1 – Weaponized Cancer Becomes a Chilling Reality in Hawkins and Doran’s Top Cow Thriller

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • January 27, 2020

Writer Matt Hawkins (COO of Top Cow, Think Tank) has transformed a smoldering curiosity about the possibilities of weaponizing cancer into a chillingly plausible comic where that science-based catastrophe becomes…

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Hellboy Winter Special 2019 – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year in the Mignolaverse

  • by Arbaz M. Khan
  • January 23, 2020

Hellboy has always excelled in its ability to be an epic that embodies narrative elasticity. With this fourth instalment in its Winter Specials, the Hellboy series displays how it can…

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In Search of Lost Time Book Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower – Stéphane Heuet Makes Marcel Proust Cool Again

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 23, 2020

À La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) ranks up there, with War and Peace and Don Quixote, a classic that everyone appears to have an opinion…

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Best of 2000 AD #1 – Rebellion’s Retrospective Series Provides an Excellent and Accessibly Priced Entry Point to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2020

The very title Best of 2000 AD was by (subjective) definition always going to be a divisive one. Rebellion’s new 12-issue series debuts this April, retaining the anthology format of…

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Ken Reid’s World-Wide Weirdies – Another Macabre Collection from the Oddball Imagination of a True British Comics Genius, Courtesy of the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

After years of a puzzling lack of Ken Reid reprint volumes we’ve been spoilt for collections over the last few years with the Treasury of British Comics giving us both…

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Machine Gun Wizards #1-4 — Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä Bring the Magic to Eliot Ness and the Untouchables

  • by Moe Abbas
  • January 8, 2020

While Gangster yarns may be dying out in the world of cinema (see The Irishman), Dark Horse’s Machine Gun Wizards continues the age-old comics tradition of mashing up the crime…

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Mikel – SelfMadeHero Bring Together Mark Bellido and Judith Vanistendael in this Profound Semi-Autobiographical Work Detailing an Aspiring Writer’s Relentless Search for His Story

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 6, 2020

From the outset, Mikel interweaves two stories together: a man’s longing to become a writer, and the story he eventually ends up telling, of a man putting his family and…

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Just Beyond: The Scare School – R.L. Stine’s Creepy Tale for Younger Readers Features Energetic Visuals from Kelly and Nichole Matthews

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 27, 2019

From R.L. Stine, the author behind the phenomenon that is children’s horror book series Goosebumps, comes this series of eerily creepy tales for younger readers that promises to take them…

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The Pits of Hell – Breakdown Press Collect the Raw, Visceral and Ever Vital Work of Alternative Mangaka Ebisu Yoshikazu

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 19, 2019

“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…

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The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped by the People – Wilson and Brown Explore British Working Class History from the 14th Century to the Present Day

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2019

To present an account of British working class history from the 14th century to the present day in around 125 pages and keep it both succinct and accessible, without drifting…

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The House – A Study of the Complex Relationships of Family and the Ties that Bind in Paco Roca’s Outstanding New Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2019

A few years back Paco Roca’s graphic novel Wrinkles was understandably acclaimed for its bittersweet portrayal of later life. It would go on to become an animated film, with voice…

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Are You Listening? – Tillie Walden Takes Us on a Journey Where the Relationship Between Perception and Reality is Cloaked in Powerfully Resonant Metaphor

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 2, 2019

Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…

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Simon & Louise – Max de Radiguès Explores Teenage Love and Summer Separation in a Beautifully Understated Slice-of-Life Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2019

One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…

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