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Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2025
Posted: March 28, 2025
Comics never cease to surprise me, in their stories and their storytelling, month after month as I survey upcoming titles. Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson have investigated and illustrated an extraordinary slice of art history in The Woman with Fifty Faces, which I can’t wait to discover. Read all about this and my other personal selections for you here…
Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2025
Posted: March 2, 2025
I last met Alison Bechdel at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere, where she was completing a residency working on her new graphic novel. And now it’s about to come out, a sparkling gem of autofictional satire and surely among this year’s best. Read about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 42 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2025
Posted: February 12, 2025
The things we can do with words and pictures! In these remarkable times for the medium, comics creators can respond with searing clarity to our immediate, turbulent present and also reveal their complex backgrounds and personal traumas. Check out my 42 upcoming recommended releases here…
Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2025
Posted: December 28, 2024
One year draws to a close, and the next one is gearing up. Anders Nilsen has been self-publishing his Tongues for several years and next March these chapters get compiled into book form as he always intended them. Read about this and my two dozen other stupendous suggestions for your 2025 reading pleasure right here…
Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2025
Posted: December 5, 2024
Personally, as the co-editor and co-publisher of Paul B. Rainey’s enthralling first graphic novel, published first some years ago in a limited hardcover by Escape Books, I’m thrilled that it is getting the paperback edition it so deserves next year and can reach many more readers. Read more about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2025
Posted: October 27, 2024
Our hopeful next New Year of 2025 is already arriving and will bring the release of these choice narratives in pictures with/without words. Kay Sohini’s debut is much-anticipated, not only by me, as she applies her ever-growing finesse to her personal story of moving to the Big Apple. Read about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: December 2024
Posted: October 1, 2024
Two epic classics of manga are finally making their way into English in extra-long volumes. The sensei Shirato Sanpei (1932-2021) is one of the most significant authors of Japanese comics and The Legend of Kamui from the Sixties is his most meaningful masterwork, uncompromisingly empathetic and politically charged. Read about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: November 2024
Posted: August 25, 2024
The word ‘robot’ was coined in 1920 by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. which premiered in 1921. In its initial sense, a robot was not our modern definition of a metallic, mechanised substitute for a human being, but an artificially-created factory labourer who never needed to eat, sleep or be paid, the perfect workforce to maximise profits. Over a century later, the original play remains sharply relevant and Kateřina Čupová‘s graphic novelisation of it brilliantly captures the urgency of its themes to our present day. This and other PG Tips await your discernment here…
Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2024
Posted: August 1, 2024
Years in the conjuring, a grimoire of a grand finale tops off Alan Moore’s exceptional contributions to the comics medium, in the guise of an accessible, practical Guide to Magic, conspired with a coterie of collaborators. Discover this and thirty more wonders wending their way to you here…
Top 45 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2024
Posted: July 9, 2024
This really is an exceptional month, as my PG Tips hit 45 titles in total. And heading them up has to be Charles Burns’ alluring psychodrama, premiered in three volumes in France and now finally translated in one tome. Read about this and my other hand-picked highlights awaiting your delectation here…
