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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
By Jim Ottaviani & Leland Purvis (Abrams ComicArts) ISBN: 978-1-4197-1893-9 (HB) 978-1-4197-3645-2 (TPB) Like every persecuted grouping of humanity, the LGBTQ community have far too many martyrs,...
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Liebestrasse
By Greg Lockard, Tim Fish, Héctor Barros, Lucas Gattoni (Greg Lockard/ComiXology Originals) No ISBN: digital only. I’m ending our salute to Gay Pride and LGBTQ publishing with a little something that...
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Zorro in Old California
By Nedaud & Carlo Marcello (Eclipse Books) ISBN: 978-0-91303-513-9 (HB) 978-0-91303-512-2 (Album PB) Here’s a fabulous old classic that’s still generally available, but which really needs to...
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The Scorpion volume 1: The Devil’s Mark
By Stephen Desberg & Enrico Marini, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-905460-62-5 (Album PB) We in the English-speaking world will have to work long and hard to come anywhere...
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Papyrus volume 4: The Evil Mummies
By Lucien De Geiter, coloured by Georges Vloeberghs & translated by Luke Spear (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-027-6 (Album PB) Papyrus is the masterfully evocative magnum opus of Belgian cartoonist...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance of the World
By Marwan Kahil & Ariel Vittori, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-259-5 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-260-1 Some people are simply so famous that everybody thinks they already know all...
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The Bluecoats volume 3: The Skyriders
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-014-6 (Album PB) The glamour of the American Experience has fascinated Europeans virtually since the actual...
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Willie Nelson: A Graphic History
By T.J. Kirsch, Coşkun Kuzgun, Jeremy Massie, Håvard S. Johansen, Jesse Lonergan, Jason Pittman, J.T. Yost,Adam Walmsley & various (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-262-5 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-263-2 I...
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Comanche volume 2: Warriors of Despair
By Hermann & Greg, translated by Montana Kane (Europe Comics) No ISBN. Digital only edition Welcome to another Wild West Wednesday with a self-indulgent peek at a favourite book I first read way...
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Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians
By Ricardo Delgado with colours by Ryan Hill & Jim Campbell (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-820-8 (TPB) eISBN: 978-63008-360-1 As we’re confronted with the prospect of our own extinction-level...
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Papyrus volume 5: The Anger of the Great Sphinx
By Lucien De Geiter: colours by Georges Vloeberghs & translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-115-0 (Album PB) Papyrus is the rapturously beguiling masterwork of Belgian cartoonist...
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The Bluecoats volume 4: The Greenhorn
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-014-6 (Album PB) The modern myths and legends of the filmic American West have fascinated Europeans...
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Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula
By Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colón (Plume/Penguin Group USA) ISBN: 978-1-59463-058-3 (HB) 978-0-452-29675-2 (PB) Here’s a handy “heads-up” Horrible History hint if you’re looking for something to set...
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Cinebook Recounts the Battle of Britain
By Bernard Asso, illustrated by Francis Bergése with colours by Frédéric Bergése: translated by Luke Spear(Cinebook) ISBN: 978-84918-025-2 (Album PB) Originally titled Le Bataille d’Angleterre and...
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Maids
By Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-68396-368-4 (HB) Sorry for the brief interruption. Disease and deadlines are things you just don’t dick with… With Halloween pretty much on hold this...
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“21”: The Story of Roberto Clemente
By Wilfred Santiago (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-56097-892-3 (HB) 978-1-60699-775-8 (PB) I’m not a big fan of American Sports, favouring the ease and simplicity of our own gentle pastimes such as...
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Corpse Talk: Dead Good Storytellers
By Adam & Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books) ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78845-125-3 (PB) The educational power of comic strips has been long understood and acknowledged: if you can make the material...
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Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1970s-1981
By Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-60699-690-4 (PB) Comics is an all-encompassing narrative medium and – even after 40-plus years in the game – I’m still amazed and delighted at innovative ways...
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The Broadcast
By Eric Hobbs & Noel Tuazon (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-590-0 (PB) When you read that as many as one million Americans were fooled into hysterical panic by Orson Welles’ now-legendary...
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Nat Turner
By Kyle Baker (Abrams) ISBN: 978-0-8109-9535-2 (TPB) Nat Turner was a prophet rebel and freedom fighter who died for what he believed. As instigator and leader of a brutal, bloody and short slave...
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