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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…
Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: August 2024
Posted: June 1, 2024
As the latest comics releases confirm, the form of graphic memoir is constantly experimenting and expanding in subjects and approaches. Among this month’s entries are British transmasculine creator Leo Fox’s fantastical allegory about finding his true self against the odds. Read about this and more of my recommendations for August 2024 here…
Top 34 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2024
Posted: May 5, 2024
It’s been quite a while since the Polish-born, London-based artist-author Andrzej Klimowski released one of his haunting, visually-driven narratives, so his return with Edifice is a thrilling stand-out for me this month, not-to-be-missed. Read about this and my other suggested titles here…
Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2024
Posted: March 30, 2024
With their roots deep into the past, the legends, myths and monsters from the Caribbean, and from Singapore and Malaysia, still retain their original power in their fresh retellings today in comics form. Read more about these and my other suggestions of upcoming titles to add to your comics library here…
Top 27 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2024
Posted: February 25, 2024
Among my PG Tips, this French best-seller conveys clearly the issues and urgency of our escalating climate crisis. Read more about this and the other upcoming titles I’ve picked out for you here…
