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, comics event or digital…
We’ve reviewed six SelfMadeHero graphic novels this year at Broken Frontier which is rather synchronous as the acclaimed publisher of graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and OGNs have just…
Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…
Daniel Brodin is a man of many facets, few of them admirable. He considers himself a bibliophile but his love of prose is enabled by his practice of pilfering from…
When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…
What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…
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, comics event or digital…
With an eclectic publishing mix that includes graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and original graphic novels, UK publisher SelfMadeHero’s publishing schedule always demands detailed consideration. Already in 2019 we’ve…
Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…
Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…
In late 1926, following an argument with her husband Archie, celebrated crime novelist Agatha Christie’s sudden disappearance caused a media sensation. Having abandoned her car at a quarry she would…
Remembering childhood is not unlike remembering a dream, or a story you heard a long time ago, for Rachael Ball it’s all three at once: “When things are mixed up…
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, comics event or digital…
Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…
From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…
SelfMadeHero have been at the forefront of the rise of the graphic biography over the last several years, bringing the worlds of noted figures in literature, music and politics to…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Adapting novels into comics form is a tricky path to navigate. Often such cross-media exercises fall into the trap of attempting to wrap images around the existing prose,…
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, comics events or digital…
“Colour is All About Contrast (or Lack of It)” – An Interview with Brecht Evens on His Latest Work from Drawn & QuarterlyJune 18, 2021
“The Central Conflict in Any Artist’s Life is Inherently Compromise” – Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Talk About ‘Everyone Is Tulip’ from Dark Horse ComicsJune 11, 2021
“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+QMay 31, 2021
“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & QuarterlyMay 24, 2021
“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in LockdownMay 19, 2021
