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French Comics Genius Baru Delivers a Stunningly Violent and Amoral Adaptation of Canicule, Vautrin’s Crime Novel

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 3, 2014

Acclaimed for his focus on the working classes, comic creator Baru has created such blue-collar masterpieces as L’autoroute du soleil and Bonne Année. However, he remains criminally below the radar in the Anglophone…

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Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2013

Soaring Penguin Press’s exquisite repackaging of this extraordinary reinterpretation of the timeless children’s favourite is undoubtedly one of the most essential graphic novel collections of the year. London, 1887, and…

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