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The Bluecoats volume 11: Cossack Circus
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-383-3 (Album PB/Digital edition) Devised by Louis “Salvé” Salvérius & Raoul Cauvin – who scripted...
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Yakari and Nanabozho
By Derib & Job, coloured by Dominque and translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1849181778 (Album PB/Digital edition) Children’s magazine Le Crapaud à lunettes was founded in 1964 by...
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The Set-Up
By Joseph Moncure March illustrated by Erik Kriek (Korero Press) ISBN: 978-1-91274-008-6 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-91274-012-3 I’ve never understood boxing as a sport. Where I come from, you don’t hit people...
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Lone Wolf & Cub volume 4: The Bell Warden
By Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, translated by Dana Lewis (Dark Horse Manga) ISBN: 978-1-56971-505-5 (TPB/digital edition) Best known in the West as Lone Wolf and Cub, the epic Samurai saga...
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Jonah Hex volume 3: Origins
By Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Jordi Bernet, and others (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-84576-629-0 (TPB/Digital edition) The Western is an odd genre that can be sub-divided into two discrete halves: the...
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Days of Sand
By Aimée De Jongh, translated by Christopher Bradley (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-04-1 (HB) Certain eras and locales constantly resonate with both narrative consumers and creators. The...
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Bootblack
By Mikaël, translated by Matt Maden (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-296-0 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-297-7 Certain eras and locales perennially resonate with both entertainment consumers and story creators....
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The Boxer – the True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft
By Reinhardt Kleist; translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-906838-77-5 (TPB/Digital edition) Multi-award-winning German illustrator, designer, author, cartoonist and comics maker...
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Georgia O’Keeffe
By María Herreros; translated by Lawrence Schimel (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-05-8 (TPB/Digital edition) Georgia Totto O’Keeffe entered the world in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15th 1887,...
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Hitchcock: Master of Suspense
By Noël Simsolo & Dominique Hé, translated by Matt Maden (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-296-0 (HB) eISBN: 978-168112-289-2 Graphic biography is now a mainstay of graphic novel publishing: so much so that...
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Lucky Luke volume 20: The Oklahoma Land Rush
By Morris & Goscinny, translated by Luke Spear (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-008-5 (PB Album/Digital edition) Doughty, dashing and dependable cowboy champion Lucky Luke is a rangy, implacably...
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Green Mansion volumes 1 & 2: Assassins and Gentleman & The Inconvenience of...
By Bodart & Vehlmann, translated by Elaine Kemp and Luke Spear (Cinebook Expresso) ISBN: 978-1-905460-53-3 (vol. 1 Album PB) 978-1-905460-64-9 (vol. 2 Album PB) Shared preconceptions are a...
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Trent volume 4: The Valley of Fear
By Rodolphe & Léo, coloured by Marie-Paule Alluard, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-394-9 (Album PB/Digital edition) Continental audiences have an abiding fascination...
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David Bowie in Comics
By Thierry Lamy & Nicolas Finet; illustrated by Bast, Martin Trystam, Thomas Gilbert, Marcello Quintanilha, Christelle Pécout, Jérémie Royer, Nicolas Pitz, Monsieur Iou, Christopher, Claire...
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Bluecoats volume 12: The David
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-849184-30-4 (Album PB/Digital edition) Devised by Louis “Salvé” Salvérius & Raoul Cauvin – who scripted...
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
By Robert Tressell; adapted by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-910593-92-9 (TPB/Digital edition) Born in Dublin to unfavourable circumstances, Robert Croker – AKA Robert...
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Lonesome volume 1: The Preacher’s Trail
By Yves Swolfs, coloured by Julie Swolfs; translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-80044-000-5 (Album PB/Digital edition) In comics, Western skies are at their most moody and iconic when...
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The Lighthouse
By Paco Roca, translated by Jeff Whitman (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-056-0 (HB/Digital edition) Francisco Martínez Roca was born in Valencia in 1969: a time when Franco’s fascist regime still controlled...
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The Bible
By Sheldon Mayer & Nestor Redondo, with Joe Kubert (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3425-6 (HB/Digital edition) I first reviewed this material back in 2008, even though it didn’t really qualify as a...
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Joe and Azat
By Jesse Lonergan (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-570-2 (TPB) I’m writing this well in advance of publication, with the British media resolutely awash with the worst of all possible candidates for a...
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