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Top 40 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2021
Posted: February 3, 2021
Spring is springy and full of bounce as a bumper bundle of fresh releases of and about comics head our way starting from April 2021. These are just a few I’ve picked out as my top recommendations but there’s plenty more to whet your appetite. Enjoy browsing my PG Tips here…
Graphic Novel Reviews
Posted: January 4, 2021
The graphic novel is one area of publishing that is thriving. Interest in this field is reflected in three very different recent graphic novels. One of the roots of the modern graphic novel, or extended comics in a book format, can be found a century ago in the flourishing of wordless, purely visual narratives. Read my three reviews for Jewish Renaissance Magazine here…
Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2021
Posted: December 30, 2020
As this unprecedented year lurches to its end and the world’s crisis continues, it’s a good time at least to look ahead with some hope of at least an improved 2021 and to some spirited, inspiring comics, created despite everything all over the world – works we can look forward to reading in these times. Read about my latest PG Tips, due on sale from March 2021 onwards, here
Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2021
Posted: November 23, 2020
Perhaps now more than ever, it’s helpful to have some good things to look forward to, and that includes good comics. Among these twenty-something hand-picked releases forthcoming from February 2021, let me single out a few for your special attention. Read about them all here…
Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2021
Posted: October 25, 2020
The New Year of 2021 is getting closer every day, let’s hope it’s a better year for everyone. Looking ahead, publisher Silver Sprocket releases three progressive titles this coming January, including two anthologies, one focussed on the stories, history and politics of abortion. Read about this and my other PG Tips which I recommend to you here…
Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: December 2020
Posted: October 17, 2020
The oeuvre of one of the most outstanding modern masters of manga, the sadly late Jiro Taniguchi, is being sensitively curated and translated into English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon and this new intimate family story ranks very high from his long career. Read about this and other forthcoming manga, graphic novels and comicshere on this website…
Alexander Tucker: Into The Forcefield
Posted: October 2, 2020
Here’s an update of this 2016 Article and Interview to coincide with Tucker’s latest self-published title. Read about it here…
Steven Appleby: Dragman
Posted: September 25, 2020
To celebrate my Website’s 15th Birthday today, here is my TLS review of Steven Appleby’s graphic novel debut - read it here….
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: November 2020
Posted: August 26, 2020
I find reality-based graphic novels can give us an intimate way to become absorbed in strangers’ experiences and emotions, and sometimes see our own reflected in them. Read my latest PG Tips for new releases due from November 2020 onwards here…
Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2020
Posted: July 28, 2020
Through these extraordinarily tumultuous, saddening, challenging times, somehow, through it all, writers, artists, publishers and printers are continuing to bring new comics into this world. Here are the highpoints which I’ve picked from titles due to arrive from October or, of course, maybe somewhat later - you can read about them here…
