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HETA-UMA & MANGARO:40 Years Of Wild Japanese Graphics
Three generations of Japanese artists are spotlighted in two landmark French exhibitions of underground manga art. More...
Posted: January 23, 2015
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels of 2014:An International Perspective Part 1
Choices of the 1001 Comics Team from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Serbia, South Korea & Sweden. More...
Posted: January 15, 2015
Dylan Horrocks:All Pens Are Magic
The New Zealand-based author of Hicksville finds his way back to comics in Sam Zabel & The Magic Pen. More...
Posted: January 9, 2015
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:March 2015
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 1, 2015
PG Tips No.41: My Best Comics & Manga of 2014:Year in Review
Paul Gravett picks his favourite, most interesting superhero-related comics, translated manga & books about comics. More...
Posted: December 28, 2014
PG Tips No.40: My Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2014:Year in Review
My favourites from an astonishing year of innovation in graphic novels from Britain, North America & Europe. More...
Posted: December 18, 2014
Vishwajyoti Ghosh:Comics From A Changing India
From corruption to public kissing, Ghosh uses comics to engage head on with his nation's history & society. More...
Posted: December 11, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:February 2015
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 2, 2014
Art-Comics:Artists' Lives As Graphic Novels
Fifty years after the term was coined in English, the graphic novel is flourishing, for example as great artists' biographies. More...
Posted: November 24, 2014
Max:Comics Art in Spain
Vapor, his latest graphic novel, purifies and condenses his cartooning and thinking still further. More...
Posted: November 14, 2014
World War One In Comics:Tardi on Mills, Mills on Tardi
Vital understanding of The Great War from the French graphic novelist & the British comics writer. More...
Posted: November 6, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:January 2015
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 29, 2014
Junko Mizuno:Crazy In A Good Way
Now based in the USA, she makes paintings, rock posters, vinyl figures & manga mixing cute with creepy & erotic. More...
Posted: October 17, 2014
Richard Graham:Life Drawing
Making is at the core of the multiple practices of this London-based artist & fabricator. More...
Posted: October 13, 2014
PG Tips No.39 Graphic Novel Reviews:From Music of the Depression to Today's Financial Crisis
Reviews of The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics, Supercrash, Woody Guthrie, Robert Moses & The Motherless Oven. More...
Posted: October 9, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:December 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 28, 2014
Jean-Claude Forest’s Barbarella:A Landmark in Adult French Comics
Barbarella was a truly liberating creation, not only for her creator but also for French & international comics. More...
Posted: September 25, 2014
Maciej Sieńczyk:Adventures On A Desert Island
Reading the Polish writer-artist's work is like waking from one dream into another and yet another, never waking up. More...
Posted: September 14, 2014
Keiichi Tanaami:Manga and Pop Art
His childhood experiences would fuel a lifetime of diverse, determined self-expression in a wide range of media. More...
Posted: September 7, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:November 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 31, 2014
Matilda Tristram:Probably Nothing, Definitely Something
A funny, moving, forthright diary in comics of her experiences & feelings of being pregnant & diagnosed with cancer. More...
Posted: August 9, 2014
Jacques Tardi:Goddamn This War!
In Tardi's ongoing oeuvre, the unlearnt lessons of war after war have rarely been so forcefully communicated. More...
Posted: August 4, 2014
PG Tips No.38:Graphic Novels & Memoirs Round-Up
My reviews of Seconds, Through The Woods, Fatherland, Probably Nothing, How The World Was & To End All Wars. More...
Posted: August 2, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:October 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 29, 2014
Emmanuel Guibert:Memories And Memoirs
From war-torn Afghanistan to L.A. a century ago, Guibert turns his friends' memories into unforgettable memoirs. More...
Posted: July 21, 2014
Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy In The UK:A Co-Curator's Top Ten Best In Show
Ten outstanding items on display at the British Library's biggest ever exhibition of UK comics in this country. More...
Posted: July 13, 2014
Reinhard Kleist Interview:Harry Haft - The Boxer
Polish Jewish boxer & Holocaust survivor Harry Haft is the latest subject of Kleist's compelling graphic biographies. More...
Posted: July 6, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:September 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 30, 2014
Roz Chast:Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Chast looks back with ambivalent humour and hindsight to the final years of her parents who died in their nineties. More...
Posted: June 21, 2014
Anne Opotowsky:The Walled City Trilogy
The award-winning writer turns her fascination with the Walled City of Kowloon into a remarkable graphic novel trilogy. More...
Posted: June 15, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews August 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 8, 2014
Coco Wang:Comics Made in China
Coco Wang thrives as an extraordinary fusion of Chinese & British cultures and as a bridge between the two. More...
Posted: May 26, 2014
Comics and the Critics:A Freakish Kind of Writing
Comics have always had their critics but what lies behind their peculiar resistance to the blending of prose & pictures? More...
Posted: May 18, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews July 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 10, 2014
Comics Unmasked:A Curator's Perspective
Paul Gravett explains the genesis of the PG16-rated exhibition he has co-curated for The British Library. More...
Posted: May 4, 2014
PG Tips No.37:Comics from the Heart of History
My reviews for The Independent of Sally Heathcote Suffragette, Bohemians, The Boxer & Climate Changed. More...
Posted: April 29, 2014
Francisco Sousa Lobo:The Dying Draughtsman
Like a Kafkaesque 'K', 'Francisco Koppens' is the metafictional persona of the London-based Portuguese artist & writer. More...
Posted: April 23, 2014
Alan Moore:The Exhibitions
Treviso, Charleroi and now Aix-en-Provence host exhibitions of Moore & his co-creators & collaborators. More...
Posted: April 15, 2014
Oscar Zarate:A Lifelong Passion
Comics have shaped his life & fuelled collaborations with Alan Moore & Alexei Sayle and now his first solo graphic novel. More...
Posted: April 8, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews June 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 1, 2014
Knut Larsson:Mysteries of Life
The Swedish artist's speechless, soundless 'crocotopia' brims over with eerie elegance and eloquence. More...
Posted: March 23, 2014
Comics Unmasked:Art and Anarchy in the UK
The British Library hosts the UK's biggest comics exhibition to date on class, sexuality, violence, politics, heroes & drugs. More...
Posted: March 14, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews May 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 2, 2014
PG Tips - Best of 2013:An International Perspective Part 2
More of the best comics from around our Comics Planet, from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, India & Sweden. More...
Posted: February 22, 2014
András Baranyai:Comics in Post-Communist Hungary
Baranyai draws on his country’s fine art, illustration & graphic design for his daring constructions. More...
Posted: February 15, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews April 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 5, 2014
Paul Pope:Pulp Hope
Pope is creating 21st century comics that can reach and speak to people everywhere. More...
Posted: January 29, 2014
PG Tips - Best of 2013:An International Perspective Part 1
The best comics from around our Comics Planet, from Argentina, South Korea, New Zealand & beyond! More...
Posted: January 21, 2014
Paul Gravett:The Man at the Crossroads
Gravett is profiled by Ana Merino for Leer Magazine & interviewed by Richard Graham on Comics Bubble. More...
Posted: January 13, 2014
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews March 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 6, 2014
Leo Baxendale:A World of the Unforeseen
Sixty years ago, Baxendale's Little Plum, Minnie the Minx & Bash Street Kids unleashed the uninhibited 'Beano Spirit'. More...
Posted: December 30, 2013
PG Tips: 2013 Year in Review:Ten Best Graphic Novels Published in Britain
Cultural acceptance won't tame cartoonists’ maverick imaginations judging by this year’s harvest. More...
Posted: December 21, 2013
Yves Chaland:Dreams of Spirou
Frenchman Yves Chaland's long-held dream to draw Spirou was ultimately only partially realised, More...
Posted: December 15, 2013
Jaime Hernandez:Breaking Every Rule
His Love & Rockets readers have grown up with his characters, like much-loved friends, even family. More...
Posted: December 8, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews February 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 1, 2013
Howard Hardiman:The Lengths
The Lengths takes us inside the hearts, minds & bodies of the world’s oldest profession. More...
Posted: November 25, 2013
Sofiane Belaskri:Reframe - Comics from Algeria
Many young Algerians long to escape to Europe. Belaskri understands them, because he used to be one of them. More...
Posted: November 18, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Preview January 2014
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 11, 2013
Comics Art:The 21st Century Medium
Paul Gravett introduces previews from & reviews of his new book from Tate Publishing & Yale University Press. More...
Posted: November 4, 2013
Chihoi:Hong Kong Alternative Comics
His comics are fruits of modest means, self-taught draughtsmanship and meditative patience. More...
Posted: October 29, 2013
Michael Deforge:The Awe and The Awfulness
Deforge wants his whole world filled with a prickly, hostile energy vibrating beneath the surface. More...
Posted: October 21, 2013
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean:Violent Cases
Something special was being nurtured here, a writer-artist alchemy that has continued to deepen and diversify. More...
Posted: October 14, 2013
Interview: Enki Bilal:The End of A World
An attuned observer of global tensions who applies his visions fluidly between comics, films, paintings & other media. More...
Posted: October 6, 2013
Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels:PG Previews December 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 28, 2013
Marc-Antoine Mathieu:Prisoner of Dreams
Few have experimented as fiendishly with comics as this French genius in his Kafka-esqe nightmares. More...
Posted: September 23, 2013
Isabel Greenberg:The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
In her playful yet wise debut graphic novel, Isabel Greenberg rewrites humankind’s origins and myths. More...
Posted: September 16, 2013
Katsuhiro Otomo:Post-Apocalypse Now
The manga & anime visionary behind Akira returns with a short film, an exhibition & plans for new comics. More...
Posted: September 7, 2013
PG Previews:November 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 31, 2013
Graphic Justice:The Emerging Field of Comics & Legal Studies
An interview with Thom Giddens on his first symposium exploring the intersection of comics and the law. More...
Posted: August 27, 2013
1001 Comics:Going Global
How has the best-selling guide changed as it is published in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Czech? More...
Posted: August 18, 2013
Gareth Brookes:The Black Project
Dark, funny & sad, Brookes' debut anatomises a boy's secret crafting of artificial girlfriends from found objects. More...
Posted: August 11, 2013
Interview: Julie Tait:Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Its first edition is audaciously ambitious & its director brims over with vivacity & vision. More...
Posted: August 5, 2013
PG Previews:October 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 27, 2013
Frames of Mind:Reflections on Medicine in Comics
Audio, images & clips from my Keynote Overview for the 2013 Brighton Graphic Medicine Conference. More...
Posted: July 21, 2013
The 9th Art Award:The Best in Graphic Literature
Graphic Scotland invites nominations & support for the world's best graphic novel in English of the year. More...
Posted: July 14, 2013
PG Previews:September 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 7, 2013
Stripped at Edinburgh Book Festival:A New Programme & Award
Edinburgh celebrates comics & graphic novels in style this August with a packed programme & new award. More...
Posted: July 1, 2013
Marion Fayolle:Piecing It Together
Tensions between desire or despair, joy or jealousy, possession or freedom, haunt her fragments of life and love. More...
Posted: June 24, 2013
Enki Bilal:Haunted by the Future
To understand him and his oeuvre means understanding the history he’s lived through, and lives with still. More...
Posted: June 16, 2013
PG Previews:August 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 10, 2013
Sequential - A New Graphic Novel App:Interview with Russell Willis
A game-changing iPad app delivers the gold standard of digital graphic novels and not a superhero in sight. More...
Posted: May 28, 2013
BD & Comics Passion:Something To Suit Every Passion
This third annual long weekender invites you to explore the very finest in British and French graphic novels. More...
Posted: May 19, 2013
Crime Does Not Pay:America’s First & Greatest Crime Comic
Crime definitely does pay in the tussle between devilish Mr. Crime and angelic Officer Common Sense. More...
Posted: May 12, 2013
Sarah Lightman:The Book of Sarah
Not every autobiographical comics artist is driven to create their own private book from the Bible. More...
Posted: May 4, 2013
PG Previews:July 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 28, 2013
PG Previews:June 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 22, 2013
Margaret Thatcher in British Comics:Lest We Forget
How did Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Eddie Campbell, Raymond Briggs & others portray The Iron Lady in their comics? More...
Posted: April 14, 2013
François Schuiten:Architect of the Fantastic
Schuiten constructs his Obscure Cities along utopian ideals but taken to thought-provoking extremes. More...
Posted: April 7, 2013
Angoulême 2013:A Report
Two British creators scooped prizes at this year's 40th Angoulême International Comics Festival... More...
Posted: March 31, 2013
PG Previews:May 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 24, 2013
The Principality of Lichtenstein:From 'WHAAM!' to 'WHAAT?'
Ironic recontextualisation or clumsy plagiarism? Dave Gibbons, Brian Bolland & Rian Hughes query Lichtenstein's legacy. More...
Posted: March 17, 2013
Warren & Gary Pleece:Montague Terrace
Darkly humorous tales of a crumbling Thirties apartment block and its diverse occupants. More...
Posted: March 10, 2013
Let Me Feel Your Finger First:Ontologically Anxious Organism
Like a twisted but unified universe, fresh members keep joining this dysfunctional, discomforting 'Familienalbum'. More...
Posted: March 3, 2013
PG Previews:April 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 23, 2013
Adventures in Comics 3:The Great Tree
Local, national & international creators respond to this theme with extraordinary diversity & originality. More...
Posted: February 17, 2013
Frederik Peeters:Pachyderme
Extraordinary comics result from Peeters' improvised writing pictures & drawing words directly onto the page. More...
Posted: February 9, 2013
Will Morris:The Silver Darlings
Morris's confident debut is an understated, social-realist evocation of a once bustling industry, now all but vanished. More...
Posted: February 2, 2013
PG Tips - Best of 2012:An International Perspective
"There's lots of world out there." Global correspondents reveal their Best Comics of 2012 from their own countries. More...
Posted: January 27, 2013
Remembering Les Coleman:A Tribute
A tribute to a liberated and liberating author & artist, thinker & creator, and a good friend. More...
Posted: January 20, 2013
PG Previews:March 2013
Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 19, 2013
