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Comanche volume 1: Red Dust
By Hermann & Greg, translated by Montana Kane (Europe Comics) No ISBN. ASIN: B000O15YBK Welcome to another Wild West Wednesday with an self-indulgent peek at a favourite book I first read way back...
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King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King – The Special Edition
By Ho Che Anderson (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-310-1 (HB) There are books to read, books you should read – and some perhaps, more controversially, that you shouldn’t – and there are...
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Bob Marley in Comics
By Gaets & Sophie Blitman, illustrated by Olivier Desvaux, Ammo, Didier Millotte, Tanguy Pietri, Matthieu Beaulieu, Jena, Efix, Domas, Simon Léturgie, Sarah Williamson, Cyrille Brégère, Julien...
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The Bluecoats volume 2: The Navy Blues
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-905460-82-3 (Album PB) The mythology of the American West has never been better loved or more honourably treated...
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Civil War Adventure volume 1
By Chuck Dixon & Gary Kwapisz with Esteve Polls, Enrique Villagran, Silvestre & Erik Burnham and various (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-48679-509-6 (TPB) From its earliest...
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Ghetto Brother – Warrior to Peacemaker
By Julian Voloj & Claudia Ahlering (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-56163-948-9 (TPB) In I971 New York City was a broken, dirty metropolis increasingly divided by top-down, enforced gentrification. From the end...
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Blackjack: Second Bite of the Cobra
By Alex Simmons & Joe Bennett (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-79852-3 (TPB) Here in the west nearly 150 years of popular publishing – and its spin-off art forms film, radio, TV...
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Obscura
By Luke Cartwright & Lukasz Wnuczek (Marcosia) ISBN:978-1-64764-746-9 (HB) We haven’t looked at a really engrossing horror yarn for simply ages, so it’s a good thing that this stunning dose of...
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Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery (New Edition/10th Anniversary Edition)
By Mat Johnson & Warren Pleece, with Clem Robbins (Berger Books/Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-50670-564-4 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-50670-591-0 What’s prejudice? How does bigotry and that unthinking fear and...
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Paul Robeson for Beginners
By Paul Von Blum, illustrated by Elizabeth Von Notias & Ramses (For Beginners) ISBN: 978-1-934389-81-2 (PB) The For Beginners book series produces heavily illustrated text primers: graphic...
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Muhammad Ali
By Sybille Titeux de la Croix & Amazing Améziane, translated by Nicole Seguin-Morris for Studio Cutie (Dark Horse Books) ISBN: 978-1-50670-318-3 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-63008-899-6 Fuelled largely by...
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Phoolan Devi: Rebel Queen
By Claire Fauvel, translated by Montana Kane (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-68112-251-9 (HB) Born in 1988, award-winning graphic novelist Claire Fauvel (À la recherche d’Alvaro Dolor; Sur les pas de Teresa,...
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Marada the She-Wolf
By Chris Claremont & John Bolton (Titan Books) ISBN: 987-0-85768-632-9 (HB) (TPB) Scantily clad hot chicks swinging swords have been a staple of fantasy comics from their very inception. It’s a...
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Asterix Omnibus volume 1: Asterix the Gaul; Asterix and the Golden Sickle;...
By René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge (Orion) ISBN: 978-0-75289-154-5(HB) 978-1-44400-423-6(TPB) I’ve just heard the sad news about Albert Uderzo, who...
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An Age of Reptiles Omnibus volume 1
By Ricardo Delgado with colours by James Sinclair & Jim Campbell (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-59582-683-1 (TPB) As we’re confronted with the prospect of our own extinction-level event – yes, that’s...
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Giant
By Mikaël, translated by Matt Maden (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-253-3 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-254-0 As a purported land of promises and untapped opportunity, America has always fascinated storytellers –...
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Papyrus volume 3: Tutankhamun, the Assassinated Pharaoh
By Lucien De Geiter, coloured by G. Vloeberghs & translated by Luke Spear (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-90546-084-7 (Album PB) British and European comics have always been happier with historical strips...
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Showcase Presents The Unknown Soldier volume 1
By Joe Kubert, Bob Haney, Robert Kanigher, Archie Goodwin, Frank Robbins, David Michelinie, Irv Novick, Dan Spiegle, Doug Wildey, Jack Sparling, Gerry Talaoc & various (DC Comics) ISBN:...
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Goliath
By Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly) ISBN: 978-1-77046-065-2(HB) 978-1-77046-299-1(TPB) Everybody knows the story of David and Goliath. Big, mean evil guy at the head of an oppressive army terrorising...
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The Case of Alan Turing
By Eric Liberge & Arnaud Delalande, translated by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp Press) ISBN: 978-1-55152-650-8 (HB Album) After decades of cruel injustice and crushing, sidelining silence, British...
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