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Jaime Hernandez:Breaking Every Rule
His Love & Rockets readers have grown up with his characters, like much-loved friends, even family. More...
Posted: December 8, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews February 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 1, 2013
Howard Hardiman:The Lengths
The Lengths takes us inside the hearts, minds & bodies of the world’s oldest profession. More...
Posted: November 25, 2013
Sofiane Belaskri:Reframe - Comics from Algeria
Many young Algerians long to escape to Europe. Belaskri understands them, because he used to be one of them. More...
Posted: November 18, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Preview January 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 11, 2013
Comics Art:The 21st Century Medium
Paul Gravett introduces previews from & reviews of his new book from Tate Publishing & Yale University Press. More...
Posted: November 4, 2013
Chihoi:Hong Kong Alternative Comics
His comics are fruits of modest means, self-taught draughtsmanship and meditative patience. More...
Posted: October 29, 2013
Michael Deforge:The Awe and The Awfulness
Deforge wants his whole world filled with a prickly, hostile energy vibrating beneath the surface. More...
Posted: October 21, 2013
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean:Violent Cases
Something special was being nurtured here, a writer-artist alchemy that has continued to deepen and diversify. More...
Posted: October 14, 2013
Interview: Enki Bilal:The End of A World
An attuned observer of global tensions who applies his visions fluidly between comics, films, paintings & other media. More...
Posted: October 6, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews December 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 28, 2013
Marc-Antoine Mathieu:Prisoner of Dreams
Few have experimented as fiendishly with comics as this French genius in his Kafka-esqe nightmares. More...
Posted: September 23, 2013
Isabel Greenberg:The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
In her playful yet wise debut graphic novel, Isabel Greenberg rewrites humankind’s origins and myths. More...
Posted: September 16, 2013
Katsuhiro Otomo:Post-Apocalypse Now
The manga & anime visionary behind Akira returns with a short film, an exhibition & plans for new comics. More...
Posted: September 7, 2013
PG Previews:November 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 31, 2013
Graphic Justice:The Emerging Field of Comics & Legal Studies
An interview with Thom Giddens on his first symposium exploring the intersection of comics and the law. More...
Posted: August 27, 2013
1001 Comics:Going Global
How has the best-selling guide changed as it is published in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Czech? More...
Posted: August 18, 2013
Gareth Brookes:The Black Project
Dark, funny & sad, Brookes' debut anatomises a boy's secret crafting of artificial girlfriends from found objects. More...
Posted: August 11, 2013
Interview: Julie Tait:Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Its first edition is audaciously ambitious & its director brims over with vivacity & vision. More...
Posted: August 5, 2013
PG Previews:October 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 27, 2013
Frames of Mind:Reflections on Medicine in Comics
Audio, images & clips from my Keynote Overview for the 2013 Brighton Graphic Medicine Conference. More...
Posted: July 21, 2013
The 9th Art Award:The Best in Graphic Literature
Graphic Scotland invites nominations & support for the world's best graphic novel in English of the year. More...
Posted: July 14, 2013
PG Previews:September 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 7, 2013
Stripped at Edinburgh Book Festival:A New Programme & Award
Edinburgh celebrates comics & graphic novels in style this August with a packed programme & new award. More...
Posted: July 1, 2013
Marion Fayolle:Piecing It Together
Tensions between desire or despair, joy or jealousy, possession or freedom, haunt her fragments of life and love. More...
Posted: June 24, 2013
Enki Bilal:Haunted by the Future
To understand him and his oeuvre means understanding the history he’s lived through, and lives with still. More...
Posted: June 16, 2013
PG Previews:August 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 10, 2013
Sequential - A New Graphic Novel App:Interview with Russell Willis
A game-changing iPad app delivers the gold standard of digital graphic novels and not a superhero in sight. More...
Posted: May 28, 2013
BD & Comics Passion:Something To Suit Every Passion
This third annual long weekender invites you to explore the very finest in British and French graphic novels. More...
Posted: May 19, 2013
Crime Does Not Pay:America’s First & Greatest Crime Comic
Crime definitely does pay in the tussle between devilish Mr. Crime and angelic Officer Common Sense. More...
Posted: May 12, 2013
Sarah Lightman:The Book of Sarah
Not every autobiographical comics artist is driven to create their own private book from the Bible. More...
Posted: May 4, 2013
PG Previews:July 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 28, 2013
PG Previews:June 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 22, 2013
Margaret Thatcher in British Comics:Lest We Forget
How did Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Eddie Campbell, Raymond Briggs & others portray The Iron Lady in their comics? More...
Posted: April 14, 2013
François Schuiten:Architect of the Fantastic
Schuiten constructs his Obscure Cities along utopian ideals but taken to thought-provoking extremes. More...
Posted: April 7, 2013
Angoulême 2013:A Report
Two British creators scooped prizes at this year's 40th Angoulême International Comics Festival... More...
Posted: March 31, 2013
PG Previews:May 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 24, 2013
The Principality of Lichtenstein:From 'WHAAM!' to 'WHAAT?'
Ironic recontextualisation or clumsy plagiarism? Dave Gibbons, Brian Bolland & Rian Hughes query Lichtenstein's legacy. More...
Posted: March 17, 2013
Warren & Gary Pleece:Montague Terrace
Darkly humorous tales of a crumbling Thirties apartment block and its diverse occupants. More...
Posted: March 10, 2013
Let Me Feel Your Finger First:Ontologically Anxious Organism
Like a twisted but unified universe, fresh members keep joining this dysfunctional, discomforting 'Familienalbum'. More...
Posted: March 3, 2013
PG Previews:April 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 23, 2013
Adventures in Comics 3:The Great Tree
Local, national & international creators respond to this theme with extraordinary diversity & originality. More...
Posted: February 17, 2013
Frederik Peeters:Pachyderme
Extraordinary comics result from Peeters' improvised writing pictures & drawing words directly onto the page. More...
Posted: February 9, 2013
Will Morris:The Silver Darlings
Morris's confident debut is an understated, social-realist evocation of a once bustling industry, now all but vanished. More...
Posted: February 2, 2013
PG Tips - Best of 2012:An International Perspective
"There's lots of world out there." Global correspondents reveal their Best Comics of 2012 from their own countries. More...
Posted: January 27, 2013
Remembering Les Coleman:A Tribute
A tribute to a liberated and liberating author & artist, thinker & creator, and a good friend. More...
Posted: January 20, 2013
PG Previews:March 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 19, 2013
PG Tips - Best of 2012:The End of Literature?
Paul Gravett picks his three best graphic novels published in Britain and other 'Bests' in his Year in Review. More...
Posted: January 13, 2013
Nina Bunjevac:Making Comics & Making Peace
Born in Canada, raised in Yugoslavia, Bunjevac uses comics to confront her issues about her father's death. More...
Posted: January 6, 2013
Diabolik & Fumetti Neri:The Italian Comics Connection
Fifty years ago, Diabolik pushed against stifling censorship to pave the way for a boom in adult comics in Italy. More...
Posted: December 30, 2012
Sergio Toppi:Master of the Impossible
A tribute to this Italian creator, the most influential comics visionary you may never have heard of. More...
Posted: December 22, 2012
PG Previews:February 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 15, 2012
John Miers:Score and Script
An interview with Miers about his comics experiment & exhibition involving 23 top British cartoonists. More...
Posted: December 6, 2012
Awards Season:Audrey Spiry's En Silence
Some exciting choices and curious omissions for the best graphic novels of the year in Britain and France. More...
Posted: December 1, 2012
PG Previews:January 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 25, 2012
Jordi Bernet:Black Ink, Black Humour
This virtuoso Spanish artist, famed for his gangster classic Torpedo, is being discovered on DC’s Jonah Hex. More...
Posted: November 18, 2012
Hannah Berry:Refreshing Parts Literature Can't Reach
Confounding expectations is her forte, from her murder-mystery debut Britten & Brülightly to the chilling new Adamtine. More...
Posted: November 11, 2012
Line Hoven:Love Looks Away
From Germany, a daughter’s attempt to document how her parents grew up, met & married, all in scraperboard. More...
Posted: November 4, 2012
Comica Festival 2012:Putting Comics First!
Aline & Robert Crumb top the bill at this year's 9th & most ambitious London International Comics Festival yet. More...
Posted: October 28, 2012
PG Previews:December 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 21, 2012
Chris Ware:Building Stories
When is a book more like a game? When it's a graphic novel that comes inside a boardgame-sized box. More...
Posted: October 14, 2012
Asterix the Briton:Anglicising the Gallic Warrior
How Goscinny & Uderzo's French hero first crossed the Channel to Britain as Little Fred & Beric the Brit. More...
Posted: October 7, 2012
Seal Of Approval:The History Of The Comics Code
It is too easy to blame the Comics Code as the single cause of the decline of American comic books. More...
Posted: September 30, 2012
PG Previews:November 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 23, 2012
Milo Manara & Federico Fellini:Stories Without End
The overlapping worlds of two of Italy’s greatest maestros of their respective artforms, comics and film. More...
Posted: September 14, 2012
Amruta Patil:Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean
India's first woman graphic novelist discusses her latest book reinterpreting tales from the Mahabharata epic. More...
Posted: September 6, 2012
Amruta Patil:India's First Female Graphic Novelist
Her debut graphic novel details the life of a young, deeply introverted, queer woman in India. More...
Posted: September 4, 2012
Glyn Dillon:The Nao of Brown
First review, interview & exclusive extra strip about this remarkable debut graphic novel. More...
Posted: August 30, 2012
PG Previews:October 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 26, 2012
Pushwagner:Soft City in Milton Keynes
The Norwegian artist's lost masterpiece is being rediscovered in book form and a one-man touring exhibition. More...
Posted: August 17, 2012
Shaun Tan:Strangers in Strange Lands
Fasten your wingnuts, you're in for a bumpy ride when you enter his weird and wondrous worlds. More...
Posted: August 17, 2012
Forbidden Adventures:Herbie, Hughes, Highsmith & The History of ACG
The innovative American Comics Group was home to some surprising characters and creators. More...
Posted: August 12, 2012
Alice:Loves Little Lesions
Disturbing evocations of disturbed childhoods overrun Simon Henwood's experimental 1990's UK anthology. More...
Posted: August 5, 2012
Rewriting Comics History:Changing Perspectives
The history of the comics medium is not yet fully researched and written, with many figures and events being overlooked. More...
Posted: July 29, 2012
PG Previews:September 2012
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 22, 2012
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
