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Top 40 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2019
Posted: July 19, 2019
Our cup of comics truly overfloweth this month, possibly the most PG Tips I’ve ever selected - forty in all - in one of these listings. Major creators are releasing major works. Marion Fayolle tops my recommendations, joined by Chris Ware and the first episode of Craig Thompson’s 12-issue ‘maxi-series’. Read the rest of my suggested titles here…
CONTEST OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMICS FESTIVAL BELGRADE 2019
Posted: July 13, 2019
Announcing the Call for Entries to the 2019 edition of the CONTEST OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMICS FESTIVAL BELGRADE.
Application Deadline: AUGUST 15th, 2019
Address: SKC Happy Gallery, SALON STRIPA, Kralja Milana 48, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Propositions and Rules:
Participants are not age-limited
HIGH QUALITY COPIES ONLY, up to 4 pages, will be accepted. Works have to be sent via post office (e-mails excluded). Along with their work, participants are also required to send a filled APPLICATION FORM for the International Comics Festival Contest 2019 that can be downloaded HERE
Required language: English
Submitted entries can be previously published
Theme, style, technique and genre are free-choice
Page numbers should be written on the back of each page
Submitted entries will be reviewed for official awards, sponsors’ prizes and the festival exhibition.
(Works that propagate racial, religious, nationalistic, political, personal or any other form of intolerance; express hate, insult, bad language or in any other way disdain individuals, organizations, notions or entities; have propaganda of activities and ideologies related to legal entities, organizations, associations, movements, terrorist and extremist groups; contain pornographic content, will not be taken into consideration.)
Awards & Prizes:
Grand prix of the Festival (includes 1000 €)
Awards for the best traditional style comic, the best alternative comic, the best script and the best graphics
Special jury award for inventiveness
Awards in the category up to 15 years of age: Young Lion special award (the best entry in the category), Special jury award for the best idea, Special jury award for maturity and imagination
Special jury award for the youngest author
Sponsors’ prizes
Additional information:
http://www.salonstripaskc.rs
http://www.facebook.com/comicsfest
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Top 21 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: August 2019
Posted: June 2, 2019
Month after month, hundreds of new comics arrive on the English-language market, and it’s my pleasure and privilege to scour through them to find some intriguing, exciting, surprising suggestions for your consideration. Top of my list for August 2019 is Kevin Huizenga’s involving dual portraits of a married couple’s outer and inner lives in The River at Night. And these two highly praised and promising French bandes dessinées arriving in translation take the time to explore the ramifications of abuse and grief. Take a look at the new titles I have found for you this month…
Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2019
Posted: May 5, 2019
For me the stand-out UK highlight for this July has to be Kate Charlesworth’s highly anticipated Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, in which she vividly recreates the often hidden history of lesbians in Britain from 1950 to the present. In sensitive wash illustrations, she evokes formative experiences of growing up in the North and the gradual realisation that she was ‘different’. And from the USA, we are being spoilt this year with not one but two graphic novels by Love & Rockets co-auteur Jaime Hernandez, crafting with real devotion some of the most compelling contemporary characters not just in comics, but in any medium. Read about these and my other PG Tips here…
Top 34 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2019
Posted: May 2, 2019
More rich pickings this June when it comes to English-language comics, kicking off from Europe with a piercingly honest confessional by Ulli List (above) and an anthology of warped fantasies by the Bouncer team of Jodorowsky and Boucq (below). Read about all 34 of my latest PG Tips here…
Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2019
Posted: March 2, 2019
The past may be forgiven but should never be forgotten. Graphic memoirs of injustices come to the fore this month - from Japanese internment camps during America’s war years, to Korean women’s suffering at the hand of Japanese invaders, from Brazil’s 16th century kingdom of runaway slave to the Manchester massacre of Peterloo, 200 years ago this year. Thirty recommended new titles are previewed here for your reading pleasure…
Top 19 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2019
Posted: February 4, 2019
It’s always a pleasure to discover fresh voices in comics, and this month is no exception with the debut of Ebony Flowers and first-time translations of graphic novels by the Italians Alessandro Tota and Davide Reviati. There’s also the welcome return of Lewis Trondheim, partnered with Stéphane Oiry on their new contemporary London detective, and of Japan’s Junji Ito and American webcomics wonder Emily Carroll with their latest marrow-chilling terrors… Read about these and more of my PG Tips for titles due out from April 2019 here…
Top 18 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2019
Posted: January 8, 2019
What’s coming out in March? Torn from today’s headlines, documentary-style comics like Guantánamo Kid and A Fire Story can get us closer to the individuals affected by the turbulent present we are living through today, to bring a deeper understanding and empathy.
Originally from Mexico and South Korea respectively, Inés Estrada and Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom create graphic novels which can help us connect with their distinctive worldviews and experiences, while Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh explore love and passion in a couple’s so-called twilight years, proving there are no rules about age.
And this month also brings the culmination of Seth’s rich and meditative Clyde Fans and the latest book by Jaime Hernandez, two North American geniuses at the top of their game. Explore and enjoy my recommended PG Tips here…
Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2019
Posted: December 3, 2018
For my PG Trips due to be published from February 2019, the French are truly dominating the line-up, from their 19th century pioneer Cham, in a milestone collection of his seminal works annotated by expert historian David Kunzle, to several remarkable modern-day bandes dessinées translated into English…
While on the American front, the country’s great songsmiths are celebrated in Lomax and Tales of the Music Makers, and Bloom from Panetta & Ganucheau promises a tender, slow-burning tale of young gay romance. Month-by-month, this ever-growing library of graphic novels really does offer that perfect comic for everyone… check out all my latest suggestions here…
Top 18 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2019
Posted: November 11, 2018
Let me be perhaps the first person to wish you a Happy New Year, as I survey the new comics publications due to come into stores next January. The graphic novels New Life, The Scar and Off Season grapple with contemporary realities with rare perception… While two late, great virtuosos of comics art - America’s Alex Toth and Italy’s Sergio Toppi - reveal their geniuses in new collections. These are just of few of my strong suggestions for titles to look forward to in this imminent year of 2019… Read my latest PG Tips here…
