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Run for It – Stories of Slaves who Fought for their Freedom
By Marcelo D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-68396-049-2 (HB) Art historian Professor Marcelo D’Salete was born in 1979 and is one of Brazil’s most respected...
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The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales)
By Nathan Hale (Abrams/Amulet Books) ISBN: 978-0-4197-1536-5 (HB) Author/cartoonist Nathan Hale has a famous namesake and has been riffing on him, with great effect, for over half a decade now. I...
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March Book One
By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions) ISBN: 978-1-60309-383-5 (HB) 978-1-60309-300-2 (PB) It’s a lazy cop-out but honestly, some books just need to be read. March is...
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A Journal of my Father
By Jiro Taniguchi translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian with Chitoku Teshima (Fanfare-Ponent Mon) ISBN: 978-1-91209-743-2 (HB) Unless you’re a dedicated fan of manga, you probably haven’t heard of...
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The Magical History Tour volume 1: The Great Pyramid
By Fabrice Erre &Sylvain Savoia translated by Joseph Laredo (Papercutz) ISBN: 978-1-54580-633-3 (HB) Here’s the first instalment of a superb European export designed to make history even more...
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Marie Antoinette: Phantom Queen
By Rodolphe & Annie Goetzinger, translated by Peter Russella (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-029-4 (HB) As I’m perpetually reiterating, just like so much European art and culture, French language comics...
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Queen Margot volume 1: The Age of Innocence
By Olivier Cadic, François Gheysens & Juliette Derenne, coloured by Sophie Barroux: translated by Luke Spears(Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-90546-010-6 (Album PB) Although not so well known in Britain as...
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Women Discoverers: 20 Top Women in Science
By Marie Moinard & Christelle Pecout, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-270-0 (Album HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-271-7 Comics and graphic novels have an inconceivable power to deliver...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
By Mannie Murphy (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-68396-410-0 (HB) How does memory work? Are your recollections neatly sorted and filed away: dry, dusty documents effortlessly relating time, place,...
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Papyrus volume 6: The Amulet of the Great Pyramid
By Lucien De Geiter, coloured by B. Swysen: translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-240-9 (Album PB) Papyrus is the astoundingly addictive magnum opus of Belgian cartoonist Lucien...
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Yakari and the White Buffalo (volume 2)
By Derib & Job, translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-90546-004-5 (Album PB) Children’s magazine Le Crapaud à lunettes was founded in 1964 by Swiss journalist André Jobin who then...
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Michael Jackson in Comics
By Céka, illustrated by Patrick Lacan, Filippo Neri & Piero Ruggeri, JGSB, Laurent Houssin, Lu-K, Guillaume Griffon, Sarah Williamson, BiG ToF, Nikopek & Lou, Vox, Domas, Clément Baloup,...
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The Stringer
By Ted Rall & Pablo Callejo (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-272-4 (Album HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-273-1 How many times have you heard it? “Print is dead”, “there’s no money in news” and other crass...
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
By Fermín Solís, translated by Lawrence Schimel (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-910593-84-4 (PB) The places and moments where great art intersects with mundane reality have always made for great...
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The Dancing Plague
By Gareth Brookes (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-910593-98-1 (PB) Plagues, disasters and mysteries are, quite understandably, on everyone’s minds at the moment. What’s become clear over the last year is...
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Championess
By Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas, Amanda Perez Puentes, & various (Legendary Comics) ISBN: 978-1-68116-076-4 (TPB) Legendary Comics (a print adjunct of Legendary Pictures – responsible for the...
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Nanjing: The Burning City
By Ethan Young (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-752-2 (HB) 978-1-50671-085-3 (TPB) Ethan Young comes from New York City, the youngest of three boys born to Chinese immigrant parents. Following studies...
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Orwell
By Pierre Christin & Sébastien Verdier, with André Juillard, Olivier Balez, Manu Larcenet, Blutch, Isabelle Merlet, Juanjo Guarnido, Enki Bilal & more: translated by Edward Gauvin...
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They Called Us Enemy
By George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steve Scott & Harmony Becker (Top Shelf) ISBN: 978-1-603094-50-4 (TPB) 978-1-603094-70-2 (Expanded HB) eISBN 978-1-684067-51-0 Graphic biographies are a...
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Trent volume 2: The Kid
By Rodolphe & Léo with colour by Marie-Paul Alluard, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-374-1 (Album PB) European comics audiences have long been fascinated with the...
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