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Young Witches
By Francisco Solano López &Barreiro (Eros Comic/Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-56097-202-0 This book is intended to excite adults whilst simultaneously making them laugh, think, and hopefully feel...
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The Co-operative Revolution – A Graphic Novel
By Polyp, with Paul Monaghan, Rachel Vorburg-Rugh, Gillian Lonergan, Ed May and Ian Nixon (New Internationalist on behalf of the Co-operative Group) ISBN: 978-1-906523-19-0 You might not be aware of...
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You’ll Never Know Book 3: Soldier’s Heart
By C. Tyler (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-588-8 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: an ideal example of Art for Our Sake… 10/10 In 2009 illustrator, educator, performer and occasional...
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Monkeywanger – the Crimes of Oscar Dirlewanger (Special Edition)
By Peeler Watt Ph.D., illustrated by MIND, Jahn Fermindoza & Red Ink studios ISBN: 978-1-47928-230-2 As any long-time reader will attest, I’m a huge advocate of doing it yourself when it comes to...
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Usagi Yojimbo book 1: (The Ronin)
By Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-59582-362-5 978-0-93019-335-5 (2005 edition) One of the very best and most adaptable survivors of the 1980s black and white comicbook explosion/implosion...
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Hellraisers – a Graphic Biography
By Robert Sellers & JAKe (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-906838-36-2 I’m a sucker for comics biographies, and when I saw this superbly engaging and imaginative one on the shelves of my local library I...
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Asterix and the Roman Agent
By Goscinny & Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge (Brockhampton/Knight Books) ISBN: 0-340-20285-8 This is another one purely for driven nostalgics, consumed collectors and...
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Age of Reptiles Omnibus volume 1
By Ricardo Delgado (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-59582-683-1 There’s an irresistible, nigh-visceral appeal to dinosaurs. Most of us variously and haphazardly evolved hairless apes seem to be mesmerically...
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Usagi Yojimbo book 2: Samurai
By Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-0-93019-338-1 Usagi Yojimbo (which translates as “rabbit bodyguard”) first appeared as a background character in Stan Sakai’s anthropomorphic comedy The...
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Usagi Yojimbo Book 3: The Wanderer’s Road
By Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-56097-009-5 Usagi Yojimbo (literally “rabbit bodyguard”) premiered as a lowly background character in Stan Sakai’s anthropomorphic comedy The Adventures of...
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Usagi Yojimbo Book 4: The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy
By Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-56097-063-7 Usagi Yojimbo (literally “rabbit bodyguard”) premiered as a background character in Stan Sakai’s anthropomorphic comedy The Adventures of Nilson...
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Wolfsmund volume 1
By Mitsuhisa Kuji, translated by Ko Ransom (Vertical) ISBN: 978-193565475-9 All I can glean regarding pseudonymous woman of mystery Mitsuhisa Kuji is that she has worked as assistant to both Kentaro...
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Persia Blues volume 1: Leaving Home
By Dara Naraghi & Brent Bowman (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-706-5 We do it for fame, we do it for fortune (or at least to pay bills), we do it for fun but all of us primarily make comics...
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Usagi Yojimbo Book 5: Lone Goat and Kid
By Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-56097-088-0 The wandering rabbit bodyguard Miyamoto Usagi began as a background character in Stan Sakai’s anthropomorphic comedy The Adventures of...
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Papyrus volume 1: The Rameses’ Revenge
By Lucien De Geiter, translated by Luke Spear (Cinebooks) ISBN: 978-1- 905460-35-9 British and European Comics have always been keener on historical strips than our American cousins, and the...
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Papyrus volume 2: Imhotep’s Transformation
By Lucien De Geiter, coloured by Colette De Geiter & translated by Luke Spear (Cinebooks) ISBN: 978-1- 905460-50-2 Once you get a certain taste in your mind you just can’t stop – well I can’t – so...
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Pompeii
By Frank Santoro (Picturebox) ISBN: 978-1-939799-10-4 A short while ago I carped on about America not producing many historically flavoured comic strips and, as if by condemnatory return, this lovely...
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Fight the Power – a Visual History of Protest Among the English Speaking Peoples
By Seán Michael Wilson, Benjamin Dickson, Hunt Emerson, John Spelling, Adam Pasion with additional cartoon by Polyp (New Internationalist) ISBN: 978-1-78026-122-5 Politics is composed of and utilised...
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Black is the Color
By Julia Gfrörer (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-717-8 There’s never been a better time to find dark and imaginative horror comics tales and the genre has seldom been better represented than...
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Paul Robeson for Beginners
By Paul Von Blum, illustrated by Elizabeth Von Notias & Ramsess (For Beginners) ISBN: 978-1-934389-81-2 The For Beginners series of books are heavily illustrated text primers: accessible graphic...
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