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Top 7 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga: December 2025
Posted: October 14, 2025
Fewer new titles get released during the festive month of December, but this select band of my personal picks are well worth checking out, like Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas’s fantastical yet topical collaboration. Read about this and further suggested books here…
Top 21 Graphic Novels. Comics & Manga: November 2025
Posted: September 7, 2025
It’s not every month (or year or decade even!) that you get an all-new new title from R. Crumb, his first fresh, complete, solo-author, old-school underground comic in over two decades. This also includes the final Dirty Laundry story, scripted but sadly not co-drawn by his wife, the late, massively missed Aline Kominsky. Check this out and more from my personal sections here on this website…
Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2025
Posted: August 7, 2025
“Read for difference.” This was some concise but provocative advice I recently read, summing up the value of reading outside the familiar, outside comfort zones and genres formulas. I think it’s an idea worth considering and I hope each month my recommended short(-ish) shortlist of new titles stimulates you to explore and expand your horizons. After all, comics are about pretty much everything and anything… like this deep, daring fable by acclaimed Argentinian creator Sole Otero… Read about this and many more here on my website...
Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2025
Posted: July 6, 2025
The return of Simone Lia’s adorable Fluffy tops the bill for me and comes at a perfect time when we especially need her wit and philosophical depth. Find out more about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 22 Graphic Novel, Comics & Manga: August 2025
Posted: May 26, 2025
Is it just me or have you also noticed how graphic novels are getting more and more lengthy? Several titles this month top 200 pages, and not just bumper compilations of previously published material, but whole brand new works that have required bold ambition and true commitment. Among my PG Tips for August is Mimi Pond’s labour of literary love about England’s ever-fascinating Mitford Sisters, a delightful treat whether you’re one of their admirers or new to their wild ways… Read about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2025
Posted: May 4, 2025
Good to have you back as we explore another bountiful batch of forthcoming international comics in print and in English. This month they range across genres, themes, styles and origins. I’m especially pleased that Saga de Xam, one of the pivotal missing masterpieces of the 1960s revolution in bandes dessinées is finally arriving in English after nearly 60 years. The others range from biographies of a Tudor Queen, Walt Disney and his brother and sequential art genius Will Eisner to memoirs, manga, a massive BD best-seller for kids and much more besides. Find out about them all here…
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…
