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Top 26 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: October 2026
Posted: October 22, 2026
We’ve got an overpacked Pandora’s Box of pictorial splendours this month, as you’ll discover below. Still, I wanted to single out especially Paul B. Rainey’s third outing, his first entirely new, not previously published in the UK or serialised online, and he’s made a switch this time to very British almost-autobiography from his traumatising school years, but given the sort of twisted reboot he’s become renowned for. And yes, I knew Paul before he was Hollywood-bound famous! This and plenty more await your discovery here…
Top 16 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: September 2026
Posted: September 24, 2026
It’s not every month that you get a new book from Oscar-winner Shaun Tan, hailed and honoured for The Arrival as well as his animation, so his Hometown is eagerly awaited by me and many others. See what other current and upcoming titles have piqued my interest here…
Top 12 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: August 2026
Posted: August 9, 2026
Among this month’a notable gems, these two debuts stand out to me for confronting the realities of AIDS in the 1980s and atomisation in the 21st century in all their complexes and complexities. Emil Wilson and Raquelle Jac show how the play between pictures and words in comics can pinpoint and dissect. Check these two and my other PG Tips presented here…!
Top Ten Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: July 2026
Posted: July 15, 2026
This July 4th the USA celebrates its semiquincentennial anniversary of its founding in 1776. To mark this landmark, maverick aesthete and superb mimic of classic comics styles, R. Sikoryak, adapts the Declarations of Independence and of Emancipation into comics form. This title features among my discoveries about forthcoming fresh publications, listed and linked by A to Z here. Enjoy your America 250 Day and your never-ending explorations!
Top 14 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: June 2026
Posted: May 25, 2026
Plenty of tempting choices this month, but two stand out for me especially. In a deep documentary evocation, Tillie Walden brings vividly to life the love and daily experiences shared by two lesbian women in early American history. And Minetaro Mochizuki transforms a Japanese literary gem into a present-day portrait of complex relationships and responsibilities in his inimitable hybrid style of Charles Burns meets gekiga. Both of these and plenty of other debut books are listed for you here on my website - enjoy!
Top 12 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2026
Posted: April 25, 2026
The long-awaited return and conclusion of Riad Sattouf’s ambitious autobiographical opus is something of a miracle. Read about this and my other updated PG Tips right here!
Top 21 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: April 2026
Posted: March 29, 2026
I’ve singled out for my PG Tips British graphic novelist Lizzy Stewart’s latest and longest project, an arresting ensemble character study. Read about this and my other recommendations here…
Top 12 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2026
Posted: February 7, 2026
British cartoonist Joff Winterhart is a true favourite of mine. Some years ago, he came a close second in the annual Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comics Graphic Short Story Prize. Still, although he didn’t quite win, his cartooning wit and empathetic characters led to his being commissioned to make his debut graphic novel at Cape, Days of Bagnold Summer. His second book was not difficult, but if anything Driving Short Distances was better still. So I can’t wait to read his third, out very soon… Check out Dear Historian and more here…
Top 7 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: February 2026
Posted: January 16, 2026
I’m continuing to round up, and update, my PG Tips columns for you in this atomised publishing system, so I can bring to light what I feel are the most interesting, diverse titles out now or soon. I interviewed Barbara Yelin at the Comix Creatrix exhibition at The House of Illustration in London in 2016 when her first English edition came out from SelfMadeHero. A decade after, her latest is one of the stand-outs for February. More discoveries await below and as more releases get confirmed and scheduled right here…
Top 6 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: January 2026
Posted: December 7, 2025
Let me be perhaps the first to wish you a splendiferous New Year for 2026! Looking ahead at exciting upcoming comics has become a bit more challenging, following the demise after decades of Diamond Comics Distributors’ phone directory-sized advanced catalogue Previews. The US company’s ongoing trauma is in one way lessened by knowing that luckily the separate, profitable UK branch of Diamond has been bought out by its employees and should be resuming business shortly.
Meantime, I’ll share here my gleanings for you from online researches, bearing in mind actual publication dates are liable to slip or change. I will be adding to and amending these, as further details and dates of titles come to light… Explore them here…
