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Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2020
Posted: June 20, 2020
Good to have you back, thanks for joining me on my more-or-less monthly exploration of what I think look like the most intriguing and compelling comics on the near horizon. Read about Trots and Bonnie and my other PG Trips here…
Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2020
Posted: May 28, 2020
Welcome back to a different world in extraordinary and trying times. The need for art and for comics as solace, self-expression, questioning and challenging, as places for individual voices and ideas from the personal to the political, remains fundamental and essential, perhaps even more so now. These hand-picked new titles are on their way in July or the months that follow soon after, to shops online and perhaps also reopened. First up, Owen D. Pomeroy and Andi Watson are among the British creators with strong new books I recommend you check out. Read about them both and others here…
Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2020
Posted: March 25, 2020
I have been following and cherishing Anne Opotowksy’s The Walled City Trilogy since it kicked off, so I am especially anticipating this concluding third epic episode. This is just one of twenty-five personally selected PG Tips to be released from June 2020 onwards, subject to shifting circumstances of course. Read about them all here… Happy Comics-Reading!
Best Comics of 2018: An International Perspective
Posted: March 21, 2020
It’s never too late to discover great comics from around the world, which you might otherwise never hear about! My correspondents from Argentina, Poland, Portugal and Singapore recommend their picks of the Best of the Year here…
Top 38 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2020
Posted: February 28, 2020
The return to our bookshelves of comics journalist extraordinaire Joe Sacco with a searing reportage about the indigenous Dene Nation in North America is one highlight of the latest range of new release coming up from May 2020. This is just one of 38 upcoming releases which I have selected for your consideration, read all about them here….
Best Comics of 2019: An International Perspective Part 2
Posted: February 22, 2020
Let’s continue exploring the planet in search of the most exciting, interesting comics published last year. Here are more reports from my International Correspondents and Connoisseurs. We kick of Part 2 with Adrian Kinnaird’s choices from New Zealand - read about there here…
Best Comics of 2019: An International Perspective Part 1
Posted: February 10, 2020
It’s that time again to invite my International Correspondents, expert connoisseurs across the planet to recommend to you their favourite comics and graphic novels created and (in most cases) also published in each country they know well during last year. Read all about them here…
Top 36 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2020
Posted: February 5, 2020
Autobiographical comics can take us to exceptional places, physical and mental, which we might never experience ourselves. Drawn by the hand and the heart, these singular, first-person intimacies allow us to see and feel the world through different eyes. Mongrel, the outstanding and pertinent debut of British Muslim author Sayra Begum, takes us behind closed doors and deep into the spiritual turmoil dividing a family. Read more about this and other great upcoming comics here…
Tobias Tak: In Tribute
Posted: January 12, 2020
The doubly gifted Dutch artist Tobias Tak expressed himself through dance and art, the two combining in his comics as a perfect partnership of motion and rhythm. We sadly lost Tobias on Tuesday January 7th 2020. In tribute I have posted his ArtReview 2-page Lorca comic from 2017, alongside an expanded version of the article I wrote to introduce it. This Wednesday January 15th there will be a leave-taking ceremony for him in Amsterdam. Read about Tobias Tak here…
Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2020
Posted: December 29, 2019
Now it’s not every month of the year that you get the first major graphic novel from British cartoonist extraordinaire Steven Appleby about a superhero who gets his powers from putting on women’s clothing. You can read more about this and my other PG Tips here…
