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Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2022
Posted: December 29, 2021
I invite you to take a browse through the upcoming comics titles in Engish heading our way in March or shortly thereafter. It’s been a long time coming, but Jordan Crane’s heart-rending, heart-lifting book stands out as a major highlight. Read about this and others here….
Top 7 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2022
Posted: December 11, 2021
February 2022 brings a noticeably smaller crop of fresh releases, but here are the stand-outs that caught my eye, originating from Australia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden - read about them here…
Top 17 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2022
Posted: November 13, 2021
As we enter 2022, manga take the lead, from a bold new ecological allegory by Eldo Yoshimzu to the first English edition of a prime psychodrama by Japan’s ‘God of Manga’, Osamu Tezuka. Read about these and my other PG Tips here…
WANG Ning: ‘My Only Child’
Posted: October 20, 2021
My Only Child is an anthology of four graphic short stories about the personal, familial and social impact of China’s One-Child Policy. The stories are written by Chinese author, editor, agent and promoter WANG Ning. Read my interview with him here…
Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: December 2021
Posted: October 2, 2021
Rising young Lebanese graphic novelist Noémie and her brave, beautiful account of her life-changing illness leads my highlights for near-future new titles, arriving from this December. Read about this and more on my website here…
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…
