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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…
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….
