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Love Me Please – The Story of Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
By Nicolas Finet, Christopher & Degreff: translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-681122-76-2 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-681122-77-9 The list of people who lived hard, died young and changed the world...
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War Stories Volume Two
By Garth Ennis, with David Lloyd, Cam Kennedy, Carlos Ezquerra, Gary Erskine & various (Avatar Press) ISBN 978-1-59291-241-4 (TPB) Garth Ennis understands the point of war stories. He knows...
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Knock Out! – The True Story of Emile Griffith
By Reinhard Kleist, translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-91059-386-8 (TPB) Fairness and Justice are human constructs that afford many opportunities to prove that the universe works...
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Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant volume 13: 1961-1962
By Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-925-7 (HB) Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur premiered on Sunday February 13th 1937: a fabulous rainbow-colour weekly peek into a world...
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Deitch’s Pictorama
By Kim, Simon & Seth Kallen Deitch (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-560979-52-4 (TPB) There may be something to this DNA stuff. Eugene Merril “Gene” Deitch (August 8th 1924-April 16th 2020) was a...
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Putin’s Russia – The Rise of a Dictator
By Darryl Cunningham (Myriad Editions) ISBN: 978-1-912408-91-7 (TPB) Artist and journalist Darryl Cunningham was born in 1960, lived a pretty British life (didn’t we all back then?) and graduated from...
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Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy
By Nathan Hale (Abrams/Amulet Books) ISBN: 978-0-4197-0396-6 (HB) Author/cartoonist Nathan Hale has a famous namesake and has been riffing on him, with great effect, for nearly a decade now. I don’t...
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Chicago – A Comix Memoir
By Glenn Head (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-878-6 (HB) One of the things comics can do better than almost any other medium is autobiography. Words are immensely potent, but when wed to the...
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U.S.S. Stevens – The Collected Stories
By Sam Glanzman (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-80158-2 (HB) To the shame and detriment of the entire comics industry, for most of his career Sam Glanzman was one of the...
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The Chagos Betrayal – How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear
By Florian Grosset (Myriad Editions) ISBN: 978-1-912408-67-2 (TPB) eISBN 978-1-912408-93-1 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Because Knowledge is Power and Shame is a Weapon… 9/10 Words wedded to...
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White Death
By Robbie Morrison & Charlie Adlard (Image Comics) ISBN: 978-1-632151-42-1 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Unmissable and Unforgettable… 9/10 More than a century after the conflict...
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The Bluecoats volume 10: The Blues in Black and White
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-341-3 (Album PB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Read Some Pictures: It’ll Last Longer… 8/10 The...
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Comics Ad Men
By Many & various, written and compiled by Steven Brower (Fantagraphics Underground Press) ISBN: 978-1-68396-307-3 (TPB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Catalogue of Cartoon Nostalgia… 8/10...
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Usagi Yojimbo Origins volume 1: Samurai
By Stan Sakai, with colours by Ronda Pattison (IDW) ISBN: 978-1-68405-740-5 eISBN: 978-1-68406-955-2 One of the very best and most adaptable survivors of the 1980s black-&-white comics...
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Django, Hand on Fire: The Great Django Reinhardt
By Salva Rubio & Efa, translated by Matt Madden (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-287-8 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-288-5 Publisher NBM’s line of European-originated biographies never fails to delight, and this...
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Rosa Parks
By Mariapoala Pesce & Matteo Mancini, translated by Nanette McGuiness (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-291-5 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-292-2 It must be quite hard to say something new – or even get under the...
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Trent volume 3: When the Lamps are Lit
By Rodolphe & Léo with colour by Marie-Paule Alluard, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-836-4 (Album PB) I’m thinking about relationships and romance at the moment, and...
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A Love for the Ages
By Florence Cestac & Daniel Pennac translated by Edward Gauvin (Europe Comics ) No ISBN: 978-1-910395-63-9 (digital edition) A writer and an artist go into a restaurant. They make comics for a...
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White Rapids
By Pascal Blanchet, translated by Helge Dascher (Drawn & Quarterly) ISBN: 978-1-897299-24-1 (Album PB) A fascinating moment in relatively recent social history was brought magically to life in...
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Siegfried: Dragon Slayer
By Mark Allard-Will, Jasmine Redford & various (Renegade Arts Entertainment) ISBN: 978-1-98975-413-9 (TPB/Digital edition) There are many heroic stories, but precious few that grow beyond their...
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