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Best Comics, Graphic Novels and Manga Coming July 2015
Posted: May 2, 2015
Poetry Is Useless and Pain Is Really Strange! Those are the titles of two of this July’s upcoming comics for your consideration on this Free Comic Book Day! Spain makes a flourish this month too with intriguing books by Joan CornellĂ , Santiago Garcia and Max de Radigues, as does Israel with the Hanuka twins and Boaz Lavie on their ravishing graphic novel The Divine. Lots more to explore here, so here’s hoping you find some titles special to you which you can look forward to. To pick one this month, I’ve plumped for Island, the bold project of Brandon Graham and Emma Rios at Image, a ‘comic magazine for comics’ offering 112 oversized original colour pages for the insane price of only $7.99. I have a soft spot for creator-driven/friendly anthologies and Island comes with that tingle, a bit like it’s 1974 all over again when the first MĂ©tal Hurlant was about to turn French comics upside down. As these latest PG Tips show, that revolution has not slowed down since and shows no signs of doing so soon… Read my latest column here…
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