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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…
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…
