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On Eagle’s Wings:The British Comics Boom 1950-1969
When Britain was a world powerhouse of comics publishing, commissioning national & international illustrators. More...
Posted: July 16, 2012
PG Tips No. 36:New Graphic Novels
Press reviews of recent releases by Karrie Fransman, Mary & Bryan Talbot, Nye Wright and Simone Lia. More...
Posted: July 8, 2012
Joumana Medelj:Lebanon's First Superheroine
Meet the Beirut-based creator of Malaak, a distinctly local superheroine and the first of her kind in Lebanon. More...
Posted: July 1, 2012
Frederik Peeters:The Uncertainty Principle
This versatile Swiss graphic novelist sidesteps formulas to keep surprising himself as much as his readers. More...
Posted: June 24, 2012
Kapow! 2012:A Report
The key to Kapow!'s success is pulling in punters who may not be avid comic readers already. More...
Posted: June 17, 2012
PG Previews:August 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 10, 2012
Posy Simmonds:Essentially English
Her first career-spanning retrospective opens at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre. More...
Posted: June 3, 2012
Mark Beyer:More Disturbing Evenings
After sixteen years, Beyer makes a surprise return to Amy & Jordan, his signature avatars. More...
Posted: May 27, 2012
PG Previews:July 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 20, 2012
London Super Comic Convention:A First-Year Report
A rare example of a mass-appeal comics expo without a movie-star or other media celebrities in sight. More...
Posted: May 9, 2012
Napoli Comicon:Diabolik, Moebius, Moore & More
The 14th Comicon in Naples made some bold changes which heralded significant growth for the years ahead. More...
Posted: May 6, 2012
Max:Panoptica 1973-2011
The worlds of Disney and Lovecraft collide in the amazing comics of Spain's Max. More...
Posted: May 1, 2012
PG Previews:June 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 22, 2012
Tom Gauld:Goliath and Other Giants
Gauld's comics often play with contrasts in scale, between people, objects and ideas. More...
Posted: April 15, 2012
Robert Crumb:Interview
On the eve of his first major museum retrospective in Paris, Crumb looks back and looks ahead. More...
Posted: April 8, 2012
Morgenstadt 2050:Stories from Today & Tomorrow
Berlin comics group Moga Mobo join Asian artists to explore sustainability issues in the cities of today and the future. More...
Posted: April 1, 2012
PG Previews:May 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 26, 2012
British Comics:75 Years of Fun & Thrills
The ten much-loved figures on these stamps have had an enduring appeal to their original readership. More...
Posted: March 16, 2012
Arvon Foundation:Graphic Novel Courses
Katie Greene and Paula Knight reveal how attending these intensive courses has enriched their comics. More...
Posted: March 11, 2012
39th Angoulême International Comics Festival:A Short Report
The French festival provides a four-day tour de force at the cutting edge of comics. More...
Posted: March 4, 2012
PG Previews:April 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 26, 2012
Luke Pearson:Dull Ache
Pearson's comics invite us to notice what goes unnoticed, the bizarre behind the banal. More...
Posted: February 19, 2012
PG Tips -The Best of 2011:An International Perspective
Friends from around the world select their choices of the very best local comics of 2011. More...
Posted: February 11, 2012
British Comics:A Cultural History
British comics is a vast landscape which any single volume would struggle to map out fully. More...
Posted: February 5, 2012
PG Previews:March 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 31, 2012
Current Comics In The Middle East:No Laughing Matter
One measure of the freedom of expression in any society is how outspoken its cartoonists are allowed to be. More...
Posted: January 22, 2012
Zeina Abirached:A Game for Swallows
She is still haunted by her birthplace, Beirut, which is as much a character as a location in her graphic narratives. More...
Posted: January 15, 2012
Grzegorz Rosinski:Thorgal
With sales in the millions, it's a highly successful and original hybrid of adventure, mythology and science fiction. More...
Posted: January 1, 2012
PG Previews:February 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 26, 2011
Joe Sacco:From Witness To Historian
How have his narrative techniques and personal motivations evolved in his reportage comics? More...
Posted: December 18, 2011
PG Previews:January 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 4, 2011
Art Spiegelman:MetaMaus
A guided tour through the layers of thinking, practice, references and emotions behind his enigmatic mask. More...
Posted: November 27, 2011
Charles Burns:Almost Inhuman
His is a black and white world, much more black than white, saturated with the darkness of the soul. More...
Posted: November 20, 2011
David B.:The Armour Of The Night
For him the ritual of drawing holds a special power through his life. More...
Posted: November 13, 2011
Savage Pencil & Chris Long:Battle Of The Eyes
The 1980s British 'ideologically insane' post-punk art-gang reforms as a duo. More...
Posted: November 7, 2011
PG Previews:December 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 30, 2011
Dr. Chris Murray:Comics Studies In The UK
From festivals to the first MLitt, Dundee is at the heart of the progress of comics within the UK educational field. More...
Posted: October 23, 2011
Neal Fox & Les Coleman:How To Make It In The Art Business
Their caricatures skewer celebrities, the gigantism of puffed-up public art, inflated egos and budgets. More...
Posted: October 16, 2011
Great British Comics Now:21st Century Comics
Despite some rumours to the contrary, British comics are enjoying rude health and vital diversity. More...
Posted: October 9, 2011
Dave Gibbons:Visions Of The Future
An interview with the Watchmen co-creator & star guest at BD & Comics Passion this weekend. More...
Posted: October 4, 2011
1001 Comics:You Must Read Before You Die
Paul Gravett explains the motivation behind his gigantic new 960-page guide to comics. More...
Posted: October 1, 2011
PG Previews:November 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 25, 2011
Reinhard Kleist:Cuba & Castro
Asked by his publishers to visit any country he liked to create an illustrated travelogue, Kleist chose Cuba. More...
Posted: September 17, 2011
9/11:The Past & The Future
Joe Sacco and David B address the issues raised by the terrorist attacks on America. More...
Posted: September 11, 2011
PG Tips No. 35:In Times of Love and War
Moments become transfixed in memory, freeze-framed like a panel in a comic, always there to return to. More...
Posted: September 4, 2011
Anthony Earnshaw:The Imp of Surrealism
The Wokker strip has lost none of its essentially Northern English absurdist delirium. More...
Posted: August 28, 2011
PG Previews:October 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 22, 2011
Marjane Satrapi:The Power Of Memory
She relates with great humanity and humour growing up in Tehran under the Islamic regime. More...
Posted: August 14, 2011
Comics & Conflicts:Comics Go To War
A conference and activities day explore how comics represent the experience of war and conflict. More...
Posted: August 9, 2011
Alan Moore:Storyteller
Of the many stories he has told, his ongoing odyssey of self-creation is almost certainly the most fantastical. More...
Posted: July 31, 2011
Grant Morrison:Supergods
Morrison takes a detached perspective on the legal travesties inflicted upon the creators of Superman. More...
Posted: July 24, 2011
PG Previews:September 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 17, 2011
Comics Culture in Yugoslavia:World-Class Innovators & Remarkable Visionaries
This new book really blows the lid off of a treasure chest brimming with a cornucopia of gems More...
Posted: July 10, 2011
SVK:Tricks Of The Eye
The use of perceptual magic tricks in comics is not quite as revolutionary as you might think. More...
Posted: July 3, 2011
PG Previews:August 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 26, 2011
Jerry Moriarty:Jerry Loves Jazz
He has secretly turned memories of his father into subtle pictures of middle America. More...
Posted: June 19, 2011
Winshluss:Unhappily Ever After
The French underground cartoonist and film-maker unleashes his wicked, warped humour. More...
Posted: June 12, 2011
Kapow! Comic Con:Multi-Media Crossover Appeal
This new London convention drew over 5,100 visitors with a canny mix of TV, film and games related celebrities. More...
Posted: June 5, 2011
PG Previews:July 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 29, 2011
PG Tips No. 34:Obvious Impostures
Graphic novelists bring their idiosyncratic vision and personal perspective to adapt pre-existing texts into comics. More...
Posted: May 22, 2011
Finnish Comics Annual 2011:The Finnish Line
How do today's Finnish comics really compare to the output of other nations? More...
Posted: May 15, 2011
Jon McNaught:Printing Comics
McNaught is making his name as one of Britain's most sophisticated poets in comics. More...
Posted: May 8, 2011
Street Angel:Unpredictable, Unstoppable & Unforgettable
Prepare to enjoy a condensed, intense, hugely enjoyable mash-up of pop-culture tributes. More...
Posted: May 1, 2011
PG Previews:June 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 24, 2011
Lorenzo Mattotti:The Magic & Music Of Comics
His revolutionary album Fires set the medium ablaze with possibility and poetry. More...
Posted: April 17, 2011
Renée French:Micrographica
No matter how odd or disturbing her drawings, there is always a beauty to her ethereal draughtsmanship. More...
Posted: April 10, 2011
Angoulême 2011:The Biggest & Best Comics Festival In The World
The San Diego Comicon pales next to Angoulême's quarter of a million visitors. More...
Posted: April 3, 2011
PG Previews:May 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 27, 2011
Jean Van Hamme:XIII
A conspiracy thriller with gripping narratives, compelling characterisation and a complex, unpredictable plot. More...
Posted: March 20, 2011
Javier Mariscal:Los Garriris
His next film project and exhibition reunite him with his talismanic cartoon critters Los Garriris. More...
Posted: March 13, 2011
Milo Manara:Italian Comics Maestro
This Italian artist and author is one of the world's greatest illustrators of sensuous females in comics. More...
Posted: March 6, 2011
PG Previews:April 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 27, 2011
William Goldsmith:Vignettes Of Ystov
He imagines a bleak but whimsical East European metropolis named Ystov and its eccentric citizens. More...
Posted: February 20, 2011
PG Tips - Best Of 2010:An International Perspective - Part 3
Even more friends from around the world select their choices of the very best local comics of 2010. More...
Posted: February 13, 2011
PG Tips - The Best Of 2010:An International Perspective - Part 2
More friends from around the world select their choices of the very best local comics of 2010. More...
Posted: February 6, 2011
George Luks:A Comics Pioneer
Largely sidelined by the art world, Luks has not fared a great deal better at the hands of most comics historians. More...
Posted: January 30, 2011
PG Tips - The Best Of 2010:An International Perspective - Part 1
Friends from around the world select their choices of the very best local comics of 2010. More...
Posted: January 23, 2011
PG Previews:March 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 16, 2011
Moebius & Jean Giraud:Leading a Double Life - Part 2
Two of France's geniuses of contemporary comics are in fact one man. More...
Posted: January 9, 2011
PG Tips - The Best Of 2010:Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue
A year end review of the best comics, graphic novels and manga of 2010. More...
Posted: January 2, 2011
PG Tips No. 33:After Tintin & The Little Prince...
A number of current graphic novels literally let us see inside another person's head. More...
Posted: December 26, 2010
Moebius & Jean Giraud:Leading A Double-Life - Part 1
From sci-fi fantasies to gritty westerns, welcome to the incredible double life of France's comics geniuses. More...
Posted: December 19, 2010
Mustashrik:Smoke Outside Please
Like his comics and art, Mustashrik comfortably bestrides multiple media and cross-cultural influences. More...
Posted: December 12, 2010
PG Previews:February 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 5, 2010
Great British Comics Now:Part 3
A review of recent British comics to co-incide with the events at the 2010 Comica Festival. More...
Posted: November 29, 2010
A Graphic Cosmogony:In The Beginning...
Two-dozen cartoonist-shamans devise their own creation myths to explain how we all got here. More...
Posted: November 21, 2010
John Russell:Vermillion Vortex
Addressing the visual-verbal interplays of comics, Russell has developed an arresting short 'drawn film'. More...
Posted: November 14, 2010
PG Previews:January 2011
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 7, 2010
Great British Comics Now:Part 2
Explore today's homegrown, hand-crafted, human-scale, heartfelt comics 'Made in Britain'. More...
Posted: November 2, 2010
That’s Novel:Lifting Comics From The Page!
Surveying today's innovators in the comics medium with a special emphasis on the British-based cutting edge. More...
Posted: October 24, 2010
Indian Comics:A Visual Renaissance
Several interesting trends have been emerging in recent years in Indian comics. More...
Posted: October 18, 2010
PG Previews:December 2010
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 10, 2010
From Iky Mo To Lord Horror:Representations Of Jews In British Comics
How have representations of Jewish characters in British comics changed over the years? More...
Posted: October 3, 2010
Manga Impact:How Manga Reinvented Comics
For the 5th Anniversary of this site, an essay on how manga continues to enrich the medium today. More...
Posted: September 26, 2010
Adam Dant:Doctor London
Dant's drawings, as seen in Hypercomics, are puzzles layered with apocryphal theories and arcane references. More...
Posted: September 19, 2010
PG Previews:November 2010
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 12, 2010
Hypercomics:The Shapes Of Comics To Come
Hypercomics push against the traditional constraints of the printed comics page. More...
Posted: September 5, 2010
VIZ:Rude Britannia
Although no longer selling over a million copies an issue, Viz remains as funny and merciless as ever. More...
Posted: August 29, 2010
PG Previews:October 2010
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 22, 2010
PG Tips No. 32:Graphic Novel Reviews
Paul Gravett reviews the very best of the latest graphic novel releases. More...
Posted: August 15, 2010
