Fists Raised – 10 Stories of Sports Star Activism
By Chloé Célérien & Karim Nedjari translated by Peter Russella (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-303-5 (HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-304-2 Having just recently endured the most nauseating and crass example of...
View ArticleBluecoats: The Dirty Five
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-80044-004-3 (Album PB/Digital edition) Devised by Louis “Salvé” Salvérius & Raoul Cauvin – who scripted...
View ArticleLone Wolf volume 5: Black Wind
By Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, translated by Dana Lewis (Dark Horse Manga) ISBN: 978-1-56971-506-8 (TPB/digital edition) Best known in the West as Lone Wolf and Cub, the vast Samurai saga created...
View ArticleTrent volume 5: Wild Bill
By Rodolphe & Léo, coloured by Marie-Paule Alluard, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-395-6 (Album PB/Digital edition) Continental audiences adore the mythologised...
View ArticleIrmina
By Barbara Yelin; translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-13-3 (TPB/Digital edition) Award-winning German illustrator, cartoonist and comics maker Barbara Yelin (Le Visiteur, Le...
View ArticleLucky Luke volume 21 The 20th Cavalry
By Morris & Goscinny, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-016-0 (PB Album/Digital edition) Doughty, dashing and dependable cowboy “good guy” Lucky Luke is a rangy,...
View ArticleRepresent!
By Christian Cooper, Jesse J. Holland, Regine Sawyer, Nadira Jamerson, Tara Roberts, Dominike “Domo” Stanton, Onyekachi Akalonu, N. Steven Harris, Justin Ellis, Frederick Joseph, Gabe Eltaeb, Dan...
View ArticlePaul Robeson for Beginners
By Paul Von Blum, illustrated by Elizabeth Von Notias & Ramsess (For Beginners) ISBN: 978-1-934389-81-2 (PB/Digital edition) For Beginners books are heavily-illustrated text primers: accessible...
View ArticleInvisible Men – The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books
By Ken Quattro, and featuring material by Adolphus Barreaux Gripon, Elmer Cecil Stoner, Robert Savon Pious, Jay Paul Jackson, Owen Charles Middleton, Elton Clay Fox & George Dewey Lipscomb,...
View ArticleSax Rohmer’s Dope
Adapted by Trina Robbins from the novel by Sax Rohmer (It’s Alive/IDW) ISBN: 978-1-63140-957-8 (HB/Digital edition) The 1980s were a hugely fertile time for American comics-creators. An entire new...
View ArticleThe Provocative Collette
By Annie Goetzinger, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-170-3 (HB) Publisher NBM struck pure gold with their line of European-created contemporary arts histories and dramatized graphic...
View ArticleFruit of Knowledge – The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy
By Liv Strömquist, translated by Melissa Bowers (Virago) ISBN: 978-0-349-01072-4 (B/Digital edition) We’re going to be using grown-up words today and there’s stuff discussed and depicted here that...
View ArticleKIKI de Montparnasse
By Catel & Bocquet, translated by Nora Mahoney (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-90683-825-6 (TPB/Digital edition) Like all art students in the 1970s and early 1980s I fell in love with Surrealism and...
View ArticleCorpse Talk: Groundbreaking Women
By Adam & Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-910989-60-9(Digest PB) The educational power of comic strips has been long understood and acknowledged: if you can make the material...
View ArticleDark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow (Will Murray Pulp History Series)
By Will Murray, illustrated by Frank Hamilton, Rick Roe, Colton Worley, Joe DeVito & various (Odyssey Publications) ISBN: 979-8-36971-672-4 (PB/Digital edition) In the early 1930s, just as the...
View ArticleSophie’s World – A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy: Volume 1:...
By Jostein Gaarder, adapted by Vincent Zabus & Nicoby, colours by Philippe Ory with Bruno Tatti; translated by Edward Gauvin (DC Comics) ISBN: ?978-1-91422-411-9 (TPB/Digital edition) It has long...
View ArticleI Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
By Gina Siciliano (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: ?978-1-68396-211-3 (HB/Digital edition) A denizen of Seattle, Gina Siciliano studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art and has worked as a musician and...
View ArticleA Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II
By Rick Geary (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-907-6 (Digest HB) Master cartoonist Rick Geary is a unique presence in both comics and true crime literature. His compelling forensic dissections – in...
View ArticleQueen in Comics
By Emmanuel Marie (narrative) & Sophie Blitman (articles); illustrated by Bast, Riccardo Randazzo, Céline Olive, Antonio Campofredano, Samuel Wambre, Julien Huggonard-Bert, Lauriane Rérolle,...
View ArticleCorpse Talk: Queens & Kings and Other Royal Rotters
By Adam & Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-78845-032-4 (PB) The educational power of comic strips has been long understood and acknowledged: if you can make material memorably...
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