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From Germany to Belgium, we take a look at two recent releases, by up-and-coming alt talent Jan Soeken and Judith Vanistendael, who already has two books released in English. Friends…
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…
A tormented couple’s personal struggles take on cosmic proportions in Ruins, a significant new work from master cartoonist Peter Kuper. With both technical proficiency and emotional accuracy, Kuper presents an…
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…
A compelling distillation of the character study that is at the true heart of Hugo’s novel. Mention Victor Hugo’s 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs to a mainstream comics fan…
Mark Stafford has built up a reputation in UK comics in recent years for visual storytelling that is eerily macabre in tone and atmosphere. A frequent collaborator with David Hine on…
The Sculptor, Scott McCloud’s return from comics theory to narrative, has been greeted with something approaching the city-stopping ticker-tape welcomes once accorded to returning astronauts. However, for all its ambition and achievement, McCloud’s…
Scott McCloud has secured his legacy in the comic book world through his books on the theory and craft of our medium: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comic and Making Comics. He also wrote…
Alienation; the relentless oppression of modern life; the sense that we’re trapped like lab rats in a vast, nightmarish and illogical system in which we can never truly comprehend any…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
