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Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: November 2021
Posted: September 3, 2021
Sometimes, out of the blue, a completely unknown, utterly idiosyncratic cartoonist-storyteller surfaces and gets discovered and into print. Emil Ferris was one such example, her unique voice a revelation filling My Favorite Thing is Monsters. Now Gary Groth at Fantagraphics Books is publishing the debut opus of another mature comics ingenue, the 54-year-old Pole, Pier Dola. You have been warned… Read about this and my other 29 recommended upcoming releases here…
Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2021
Posted: August 20, 2021
Given the mounting urgency of these times of climate crisis, Rewriting Extinction has been able to pull together a formidable line-up of contributors to this species-saving benefit anthology. Read about this and my other PG Tips being released from this coming October here…
Top 35 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2021
Posted: July 9, 2021
Singapore’s triple Eisner Ward-winning graphic novelist Sonny Liew heads my top PG Tips this month, as he joins forces with writer Cherian George on Red Lines, their urgent interrogation of what lies behind the censorship of cartoons and cartoonists, both past and unfortunately also very present. Read about this and my other suggested new titles here…
Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: August 2021
Posted: June 18, 2021
I know it seems like I say this almost every month, but this month’s smorgasbord of top-quality, individualistic titles is a pretty dazzling one. A Man’s Skin arrives, already loaded with awards, a gem of a fable by the late, much-lamented bande dessinée writer Hubert. Read about this and my other recommended reads here…
Best Comics of 2020: An International Perspective Part 3
Posted: June 8, 2021
To continue and complete our global comics survey, here is Part 3 of the Year in Review exploring the Best Comics of 2020 from an International Perspective: read it here…
Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2021
Posted: May 18, 2021
Hello and welcome. I have selected two dozen books coming into print from this July, or thereafter. Read about them here…
Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2021
Posted: April 11, 2021
The creators of this global medium can continue to surprise us, as you can see in my pick of the most exciting, interesting titles due out in June. Read about my recommendations here…
Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2021
Posted: March 11, 2021
George Orwell once famously commented: ‘Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.’ These thoughts may echo through the graphic memoirs of an individual’s fraught childhoods or of whole families across generations. Guy Delisle and Glenn Head are both courageously frank about their early experiences - read about these and other forthcoming comics here…
Best of 2020: An International Perspective Part 2
Posted: March 2, 2021
Welcome to Part 2 of this Year in Review exploring the Best Comics of 2020 from an International Perspective. Read my correspondents’ reviews here…
Best Comics of 2020: An International Perspective Part 1
Posted: February 9, 2021
So once again, my team of international correspondents, connoisseurs of the 9th Art, have generously shared their reviews of the locally-produced titles that impressed them the most. Read the first reports here… - more to follow…
