A Different Kind of Disturbia – Rob Davis on His New Graphic Novel, ‘The Motherless Oven’
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “I hate it when a book feels it has to sidle up to me all pally, nudging me and pointing out the attractions. A 10-year-old could…
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The Motherless Oven – A Graphic Novel from Rob Davis that Shines, Disturbs, Questions, and Rocks!
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Rob Davis offers a soul-searching black and white masterpiece of dysfunction and fulfillment. With credits such as “How I Built My Father,” “My Family and Other…
The Cigar That Fell in Love with a Pipe – David Camus and Nick Abadzis Conjure up an Unorthodox Love Story, with Tobacco
Quirky, unusual and delightfully inventive, The Cigar That Fell in Love with a Pipe, an enchanting and ultimately tragic story by David Camus and Nick Abadzis, weaves together two romances – one…
Celeste – An Ambitious Mystical Journey That Gets a Little Lost Along the Way
INJ Culbard’s debut solo book looks as beautiful as you’d expect, but it’s a puzzle that never offers a satisfactory solution. When I was falling into comics back in the early…
Van Gogh’s biography as graphic novel
Press Release Vincent Van Gogh is arguably one of the world’s most popular artists and a man who led a turbulent, tragic life in pursuit of his dreams. During his…
Vincent – Barbara Stok and SelfMadeHero Investigate Tortured Genius Vincent Van Gogh
The phrase ‘tortured artist’ perhaps suits none better than Vincent Van Gogh, and this graphic novel is a testament to that fact. Have you ever wanted to be able to…
Best Book win for The Nao Of Brown
Glyn Dillon’s critically acclaimed graphic novel, THE NAO OF BROWN, has won the Best Book prize at this year’s British Comic Awards at Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds, which ended…
Room for Love
Room for Love is no conventional, sweet and cheerful, happy-ending love story. It’s a painful, sometimes bitter, account of the unlikely collision of two people’s lives told with sincere authenticity…
‘The Gigantic Beard that was Evil’ Wins 9th Art Award at Edinburgh International Book Festival
At the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon the winner of Graphic Scotland’s inaugural 9th Art Award for the best full-length English language graphic novel of the last year was…
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Rembrandt and the Price of Genius
By focusing on his entourage, Typex delivers a stunning psychological inside look into the 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt. After studying Rembrandt for over 3 years, dutch comics artist Typex…
SelfMadeHero at Edinburgh Book Festival 2013
Press Release SelfMadeHero, UK’s award-winning independent publisher, is attending this year’s 30th Edinburgh International Book Festival with a number of its top British creators taking part in the newly created graphic…
Preview: The Castle
SelfMadeHero has provided BF with a preview of its adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Castle, available now in finer comic shops and bookstores. For the 170th anniversary of his birth,…
Formidable! – Looking Back on BD & Comics Passion 2013
Since its debut in the autumn of 2011, the BD & Comics Passion festival at London’s Institut français has rapidly become an essential – even obligatory – date for the diary in our…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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