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The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans
By Rick Geary (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-56163-179-6 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Cutting Edge Crime and a Ripping Holiday Read… 8/10 For decades he toiled as an Underground cartoonist and freelance...
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Day of Wrath
By Wayne Vansant (Caliber) ISBN: 978-0-98363-077-7 Comics creators have a strong history of treating war stories right, and none more so that those who’ve actually served in combat. Wayne Vansant was...
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Follow Me In
By Katriona Chapman (Avery Hill Publishing) ISBN: 978-1-910395-38-7 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: The Perfect Holiday Getaway… 10/10 I read a lot of graphic novels. Some are awful, many...
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The Beatles in Comics
By Michels Mabel, Gaet’s, Lu-K, Vox, Anne-Sophie Servantie, Ludivine Stock, Amandine Puntous, Romuald Gleyse, Julien Lamanda, Efix, Pierre Braillon, Ben Lebègue, Anthony Audibert, Bloop, Victor...
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Of Dust and Blood – A Story from the Fight at the Greasy Grass
By Jim Berry & Val Mayerik (Jim Berry) ISBN: 978-0-692-63801-9 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Even More Potent, Powerful, Unmissable… 10/10 Back in October I reviewed a beautiful book...
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Asterix Omnibus volume 2: Asterix the Gladiator, Asterix and the Banquet,...
By René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge (Orion Childrens Books) ISBN: 978-1-4440-0424-3 It’s been a painful year for lovers of comics, with many of our...
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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
By Fumiyo Kouno (jaPress/Last Gasp) ISBN: 978-0-86719-721-1 (HB) First published in 2003/2004 in Japan’s Weekly Manga Action Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni (Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry...
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Road to America
By Baru, with colour by Daniel Ledran (Drawn & Quarterly Publications) ISBN: 978-1-89659-752-2 We privileged ones live in a world where gratification – if not instant – is far from arduous to...
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
By Howard Pyle, illustrated by Mike Grell (Donning/Starblaze edition) ISBN: 978-0-89865-602-2 (TPB) People who work in comics adore their earliest influences, and will spout for hours about them. Not...
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Blade of the Immortal volume 1: Blood of a Thousand
By Hiroaki Samura translated by Dana Lewis & Toren Smith (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-56971-239-9 Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1970, manga master Hiroaki Samura differs from many of his contemporary...
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Papyrus volume 2: Imhotep’s Transformation
By Lucien De Geiter, coloured by Colette De Geiter: translated by Luke Spear (Cinebooks) ISBN: 978-1- 905460-50-2 Once you get a certain taste in your mind you just can’t stop – well I can’t – so...
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Bluecoats volume 1: Robertsonville Prison
By Lambil & Raoul Cauvin, translated by Erica Jeffrey (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-905460-71-7 The mythology of the American West has never been better loved or more honourably treated than by Europeans....
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The Rolling Stones in Comics
By Céka, Marin Trystam, Patrick Lacan, Dimitri Piot, Kyung-Eun Park, Domas, Clément Baloup, Dominique Hennebaut, Amandine Puntous, Lapuss, Bast, Patès, Filippo Néri & Piero Ruggeri, Anthony...
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Will Eisner’s Hawks of the Seas
By Will Eisner & various ISBN: 1569714274 (Dark Horse) ISBN: 0-87816-022-1 (HB) ISBN: 0-87816-023-X (TPB) (Kitchen Sink Press) It is pretty much accepted today that Will Eisner was one of the...
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High Command – The stories of Sir Winston Churchill and General Montgomery
By Frank Bellamy & Clifford Makins (Dragon’s Dream) ISBN: 978-9-06332-901-3 (PB) Inexcusably absent as we commemorate the achievements and sacrifices of earlier generations are these twin...
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Commando: True Brit
By Many & various (DC Thomson/Carlton Books) ISBN: 978-1-84442-121-3 (HB) DC Thomson is probably the most influential comics publisher in British history. The Beano and Dandy revolutionised...
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The Misadventures of Jane
By Norman Pett & J.H.G. (“Don”) Freeman (Titian Books) ISBN: 978-1-84856-167-0 (HB) Once upon a time, Jane was one of the most important and well-regarded comic strips in British, if not World,...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
By Vittorio Giardino (Catalan Communications) ISBN: 978-0-87416-033-8 (TPB Album) Born on Christmas Eve 1946, Vittorio Giardino was an electrician who switched careers at age 30. He initially worked...
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Horizontal Collaboration
By Navie & Carole Maurel, translated by Margaret Morrison (Korero Press) ISBN: 978-1-91274-001-7 World War II – with its world-shaking reordering of society and all the consequent, still-felt...
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Marie Curie – The Radium Fairy
By Chantal Montellier & Renaud Huynh translated by Lara Vergnaud (Europe Comics) No ISBN: digital-only publication I’ve waited ages (well, since March 2017, but I’m old and my days are limited)...
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