One thing you should know about me is I can never resist a beautifully illustrated coffee table book. So, when a stunning new collection was released from Fantagraphics late last…
As the cartoonist behind Palestine, unquestionably a seminal piece of graphic journalism, and its follow-up Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco’s commentary on the genocide in Gaza over the last year…
When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…
From the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, Briana Loewinsohn, comes a brand new coming-of-age biography, based on Loewinsohn’s experience of high school: Raised by Ghosts. Also published by Fantagraphics,…
I first discovered Bhanu Pratap’s work back in the pages of Fantagraphics’ NOW anthology. As all the best anthologies are, NOW has always been an excellent introductory point to exciting…
A pale drummer boy mindlessly plays on as a candle drips wax over his head. A grimy man cocks his trumpet like a gun, the canister on his back ready…
Translated by the fantastic Andrea Rosenberg (of Ocultos and Totem acclaim), Mothballs from Sole Otero and Fantagraphics is set in Buenos Aires in the year 2001. The gorgeous Argentinian landscape…
There’s a certain irony in the way a collection of imaginary comics covers can evoke such evocative feelings of nostalgia considering that, obviously, they never existed in the first place….
Earlier this year, I had the joy of reading and reviewing Laura Pérez’s first English-translated graphic novel, Totem. With an overlying feeling of uncanniness, and a focus on the spiritual…
Shocking, thrilling and intriguing, Beth Hetland’s Tender, a psychological thriller from Fantagraphics, erupted onto the comics scene earlier this year, both startling and delighting horror lovers, and cementing Hetland as…
When Fantagraphics teased us with the unexpected return of Peter Bagge’s Hate series back in February for many it will have undoubtedly been one of the comics announcements of the…
Perhaps now more than ever, the right to vote and have our voice heard is at the forefront of many people’s minds. It’s so important that we remember the drastic…
The cover of Beth Hetland’s Tender from Fantagraphics is exactly the kind of artwork a reader wants to see before diving into a psychological thriller. In stark yellow, pink and…
Mia Oberländer’s debut graphic novel Anna has already made its mark despite only being published this year: Awarded the Berthold Leibinger Foundation’s Comic Book Award, the German Youth Literature Award…
Vivid in glossy hardback, my first thought when looking at the cover of Daughters of Snow and Cinders was awe. The cover is an absolute work of art. A traveller…
If you were a fan of Peter Bagge’s Hate in the 1990s you may well remember the Doofus back-up strips by Rick Altergott that ran for some years in that…
“Joe Matt at his Joe Mattiest” probably says all we need to know about the posthumous release of the final issue of his acclaimed Peepshow series. Full details, courtesy of…
Believed to have great spiritual significance, a totem is a sacred object, often an emblem for a connected group of people. It also serves as the title for Laura Pérez’s…
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