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Usagi Yojimbo book 11: Seasons
By Stan Sakai (Dark Horse Comics) ISBN: 978-1-56971-375-8 Usagi Yojimbo first appeared in Stan Sakai’s The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy, in 1984’s furry ‘n’ fuzzy folk-fest Albedo...
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped – the graphic novel
Adapted by Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy (Waverley Books) ISBN: 978-1-902407-38-8 Practically as soon as comicbooks were invented, high-minded enterprising souls were using the new medium to get...
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Civil War Adventure
By Chuck Dixon & Gary Kwapisz, with Esteve Polls, Enrique Villagran, Silvestre & Erik Burnham (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-79509-6 From its earliest inception,...
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Usagi Yojimbo: Senso
By Stan Sakai (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-709-6 One of the very best and most adaptable survivors of the 1980s black-&-white comicbook explosion/implosion is a truly bizarre and wonderful...
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – the...
Adapted by Alan Grant & Cam Kennedy (Waverley Books) ISBN: 978-1-902407-44-9 As part of the celebrations for Edinburgh’s selection in 2004 as the first UNESCO City of Literature, Scottish comics...
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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 Papyrus is the astoundingly addictive magnum opus of Belgian cartoonist Lucien de...
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Ghetto Brother – Warrior to Peacemaker
By Julian Voloj & Claudia Ahlering (NBM/Comics/Lit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-948-9 How’s your modern history? What about your familiarity with the development of contemporary music? Before you answer you...
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Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984
By Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-60699-848-9 Another year gone and at long last another spectacularly barnstorming, award-winning comicstrip history lesson from proudly self-confessed Hip Hop...
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Nanjing: the Burning City
By Ethan Young (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-752-2 Ethan Young comes from New York City, born the youngest of three boys to Chinese immigrant parents. Following studies at the School of Visual Arts...
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Long John Silver volume III: The Emerald Maze
By Xavier Dorison & Mathieu Lauffray, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-105-1 British and European comics have always been far more comfortable with period-piece strips...
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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 The modern myths and legends of the filmic American West have fascinated Europeans virtually since...
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Queen Margot volume 1: The Age of Innocence
By Olivier Cadic, François Gheysens & Juliette Derenne, coloured by Sophie Barroux and translated by Luke Spears (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-90546-010-6 Although not so well known in Britain as his...
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The Super Summer Holiday Annual (No. 1)
By various (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.) No ISBN: It took the British a very long time to get the hang of American-style superheroes – just ask any old UK-based fan about Tri-Man,...
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Blackhawk Album #1
By Dick Dillin, Chuck Cuidera, Jack Kirby, Sheldon Moldoff, George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Nick Cardy, Frank Frazetta, Bill Ely, Bob Brown & various (Strato Publications) No ISBN: Here’s another...
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Paleo: the Complete Collection
By Jim Lawson, with Stephen R. Bissette, Peter Laird & various (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-80356-2 It’s a rare hominid that hates dinosaurs. Sure, the occasional chimpanzee...
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Long John Silver volume 4: Guiana-Capac
By Xavier Dorison & Mathieu Lauffray, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-175-4 British and European comics have always been far more comfortable with period-piece strips...
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Iznogoud and the Jigsaw Turk
By Goscinny & Tabary, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-209-6 For the greater part of his far-too-short lifetime René Goscinny (1926-1977) was one of the most prolific...
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Persia Blues volume 2: Love and War
By Dara Naraghi & Brent Bowman (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-977-9 All creative people are a little bit chained to their art-form, and Iranian ex-pat Dara Naraghi far more so than most. As...
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
By Jim Ottaviani & Leland Purvis (Abrams ComicArts) ISBN: 978-1-4197-1893-9 After decades of cruel injustice and crushing, sidelining silence, British mathematician Alan Turing – one of the...
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The Louvre Collection: Cruising Through the Louvre
By David Prudhomme translated by Joe Johnson (NBM ComicsLit/Louvre: Musée du Louvre Éditions) ISBN: 978-1-56163-841-3 Some years ago the Louvre Museum in Paris began an intriguing and immensely...
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