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Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2024
Posted: February 3, 2024
Take a look through these titles coming out in a couple of months. Surely one of the year’s most anticipated graphic novels is the epic conclusion of Emis Ferris’s acclaimed two-parter. Read more about this and my other 31 PG Tips this month here…
Top 37 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2024
Posted: December 31, 2023
It’s time to explore extraordinary month of upcoming releases, due from March 2024 onwards. My Top PG Tip is Tessa Hulls’ audacious and fastidious family history, Feeding Ghosts. Read more about this and my other suggestions here…
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2024
Posted: December 1, 2023
I’m leading off this month with a highly anticipated manga masterpiece in English, which I’ve already been stunned by in its French editions from Le Lézard Noir. Kazuo Umezz goes beyond even his horrific sublime in this portentous portrait of an evolving machine sentience and intelligence. You’re invited to find out more about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2024
Posted: October 23, 2023
My highest recommendations go to Igort’s profoundly moving reportage adapted from the first-hand accounts he received via telephone of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Read more about this and my other PG Tips here…
Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: December 2023
Posted: October 7, 2023
Guido Buzzelli was one of the very first European comics artists I ever met, at the Salon du Livre in Paris around 1982 on my first BD-buying expedition. I told him I’d discovered his work in copies of Charlie Mensuel stocked by The European Bookshop, off Regent Street in London, and he kindly drew me a little sketch. So I am delightfully surprised to find his feverishly idiosyncratic solo comics arriving in English. Learn more about this and my other end-of-2023 PG Tips here…
Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: November 2023
Posted: September 20, 2023
Powerful stories can be powerfully told through the skilful, captivating blending of words and pictures. This month’s selection of my PG Tips ranges far and wide in subjects and styles, contexts and contents. Proof positive that there’s nothing comics creators cannot express fulfillingly and daringly in this medium today. Explore and engage and enjoy! Read about them here…
Top 44 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2023
Posted: August 16, 2023
It’s a bumper pre-Christmas month. Forty-four is a record number of new titles I’m recommending for your consideration. Read about them all here…
Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2023
Posted: July 2, 2023
I’m especially pleased this month to discover that this poignant graphic biography from Taiwan, originally titled The Boy from Formosa, is coming out in English. Read more about this and my other recommended titles here…
Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: August 2023
Posted: June 17, 2023
There are plenty of classy, substantial offerings on the horizon this month, led by two graphic novels where ‘The Big Apple’ is more than merely their locale or backdrop. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki back together for a wide-eyed, 400+-page exploration of New York, while Julian Voloj and Andreas Gefe take us close to the ‘heart’ of their view of the city… You can find out more about these and 31 other recommended titles right here…
Top 21 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2023
Posted: May 6, 2023
The Naked Tree, an acclaimed Korean literary masterpiece adapted by an acclaimed Korean manhwa-author, transcends ‘graphic novelisation’ to bring this contemporary novel to a new and wider readership. Learn more about this and my other recommended upcoming treats of sequential art here…
