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5,000 km Per Second – Manuele Fior’s Angoulême Winner Lifts the Lid on Time, Distance and Relationships

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 11, 2016

5,000 km Per Second, Manuele Fior’s delicate Angoulême-winning graphic novel, is a beautifully executed look at what time does to our hopes and our relationships. Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson, who died in…

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Irmina – Barbara Yelin’s Compelling Study of a “Normal German” Asks Painful Questions about Choices and Complicity

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 1, 2016

Irmina, Barbara Yelin’s award-winning graphic novel, is a paradoxically beautiful and unsettling piece of work that avoids all the obvious choices to ponder how an independently minded young woman can…

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All My Ghosts – Jeremy Massie Paints a Bittersweet Portrait of a Small Town in Decline

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 30, 2016

Well-crafted and emotionally stirring, All My Ghosts, Jeremy Massie’s fictional account of a town and a protagonist left behind by the rest of the world, is a work of rare…

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Una the Blade – Steve LeCouilliard Recasts the Classic Barbarian Heroine as the Ultimate Working Mom

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 28, 2016

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye – Sonny Liew’s Biography of an Artist and a Nation is a Comics Tour de Force

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 24, 2016

Sonny Liew’s presentation of the life and work of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, an overlooked (fictional) Singaporean cartoonist, is a stunning amalgamation of history, politics, character and art. The name Charlie…

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Goldtiger – Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton Uncover High Adventure and Creative Lunacy in a Lost 1960s Classic

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 17, 2016

A chance encounter at the Malta Comic Con led artist Jimmy Broxton to the lost newspaper adventure strip Goldtiger – a classic document of 1960s comics. But that was only the…

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Turncoat #1 – Under New Management: Creator-Owned Sci-fi Thriller Reveals Humankind’s Next Chapter

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 16, 2016

This hard-boiled futuristic thriller from rising star creators Alex Paknadel and Artyom Trakhanov stands out from a recent glut of sci-fi epics thanks to a smart, original premise and fresh,…

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Patience – Daniel Clowes Returns in Triumph to the Mess of Human Relationships

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 10, 2016

One of the most eagerly awaited books of 2016, Daniel Clowes’ Patience is a velvet glove of a time-travel thriller cast in the iron of exquisitely depicted human turmoil. Daniel…

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The Discipline #1 – Sexual Mythology 101: Milligan and Fernandez Give Readers a Crash Course in the Transformative Power of Sex

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 4, 2016

Provocative and disturbing, this stylish dark fantasy by Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernandez creates its own erotically charged mythology, scouring away the polished veneer of appropriate behaviour adorning intimate human…

Reddin (Dead Canary Comics)

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Reddin – A Legendary Friendship Turns Bloody in this Rip-Roaring Tribute to the Old West

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 3, 2016

More than just a simple genre mash-up fusing familiar horror and classic western conceits, the story of Reddin explores the archetypal frontier concept of the “pardner”, in the relationship of…

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The Red Shoes and Other Tales – Metaphrog Re-Imagine Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale to Eerie Effect

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2016

A striking showcase for the talents of the Metaphrog team this is an all-ages book that is, nonetheless, unafraid to confront some of the harsher realities of life with an…

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The Listening Post #1 – Stephen Goodall Moves His Mysterious Island Confidently from Webcomic to Print

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 26, 2016

In The Listening Post, Stephen Goodall expands the mysterious world of his Institute of Marine Research webcomics with an intriguing, atmospheric opening issue. As you might have gathered, we get a…

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Mezolith – An Insightful Exploration of the Power of Stories against the Wonder of Britain’s Ancient Past

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 25, 2016

An enthralling journey to an epoch in which stories permeated every aspect of life, Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s epic tale of Poika of the Kansa tribe is modern myth-making…

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Snowfall #1 – Harris and Morazzo Reunite for a Frightening New Tale of Climate Crashes and Eco-Terrorism

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 19, 2016

Stylish, socially relevant, and loaded with action, this debut issue from Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo launches a timely thriller that is as much a cautionary tale as it is a…

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Cruising Through the Louvre – David Prudhomme’s Masterful Use of Colour and Form Illuminates the Hidden Secrets of the World-Famous Museum

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 18, 2016

The latest entry in NBM Publishing’s partnership with the Louvre, David Prudhomme’s sumptuous graphic survey of the hordes of tourists and art lovers crowding the illustrious museum takes people-watching to…

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Hax – Lale Westvind Sends an Intense Psychedelic Postcard from a Traumatised World

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 12, 2016

In Hax, from Breakdown Press, artist Lale Westvind uses an powerful visual style to evoke a woman’s journey through a broken landscape. Hax, by New York-based artist Lale Westvind, hums with the…

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Take It as a Compliment – Twenty Powerful Accounts of Sexual Abuse and Harassment in Maria Stoian’s Remarkable Collective Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2016

Take It as a Compliment is not simply an effective sequential art record of individual experiences. It’s a proclamation that abuse and harassment can happen to anyone, an exercise in…

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Mirror #1 – Through the Looking Glass of Ríos and Lim’s Animal Fantasy

  • by Paul Mirek
  • February 5, 2016

Emma Ríos and Hwei Lim’s Mirror invites us into a fully realized world where the fantastical has become mundane. Humanity has quite literally harnessed the stuff of legend to its…

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