Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…
Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…
What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…
New York Review Comics’ output deserves significantly more acclaim given their capacity for bringing forgotten or unknown gems of comics publishing to new readerships. The splendidly titled Masters of the…
Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…
While cartoonist Syd Hoff (1912-2002) is best known for his celebrated children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur, and syndicated newspaper strips like Tuffy and Laugh It Off, there’s a strand…
We are in something of a renaissance period when it comes to archival collections of socially relevant work like Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End from New…
New York Review Comics – the New York Review of Books’ sequential art imprint – have been doing vital work in introducing new readers to some long out-of-print classic material…
Holding the hardcover edition of The Labyrinth in 2019 is a special feeling for a number of reasons. For a start, it shouldn’t even be here, given that it will…
As recently as the not-actually-that-long-ago pre-internet days, comics were a perilously ephemeral form – especially in the short-run circles of the small press. With no way to keep a comic…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
