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Top 27 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2024

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 24, 2024


‘Monica’ by Daniel Clowes:
A Graphic Novel Review

My unedited review for The Times Literary Supplement of 'Monica', Daniel Clowes' graphic novel. More...
Posted: February 7, 2024


Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2024

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 2, 2024


Top 37 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2024

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 30, 2023


Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2024

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 30, 2023


Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
Janury 2024

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 22, 2023


Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 7, 2023


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 13, 2023


Jack Kirby:
The Once and Future King

Two French exhibitions celebrated Kirby's wartime experiences and comics career. More...
Posted: August 26, 2023


Top 44 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 15, 2023


Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
September 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 1, 2023


Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
August 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 12, 2023


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 6, 2023


Top 36 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 15, 2023


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 3, 2023


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 5, 2023


Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 28, 2022


Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 7, 2022


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
January 2023

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 25, 2022


Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 7, 2022


Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 27, 2022


Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 7, 2022


Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
September 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 9, 2022


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
August 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 3, 2022


Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 4, 2022


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 27, 2022


Chantal Montellier:
Still On The Frontlines

Interview with the politically engaged bande dessinée creator and champion of comics by women. More...
Posted: March 1, 2022


Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 26, 2022


Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 31, 2022


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 28, 2021


Top 7 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 11, 2021


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: November 16, 2021


Top 17 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
January 2022

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 1, 2021


WANG Ning:
'My Only Child'

Interview with the Chinese writer of four graphic stories about China's One-Child Policy More...
Posted: October 20, 2021


Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 29, 2021


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 30, 2021


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 18, 2021


Top 35 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
September 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 8, 2021


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
August 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 17, 2021


Best Comics of 2020: An International Perspective Part 3:
Year in Review

More reviews by my international correspondents of their countries' outstanding titles released last year... More...
Posted: June 7, 2021


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 18, 2021


Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 9, 2021


Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 9, 2021


Best Comics of 2020: An International Perspective Part 2:
Year in Review

International correspondents review their favourite homegrown comics of the past year... More...
Posted: February 25, 2021


Best Comics of 2020: An International Perspective Part 1:
Year in Review

International correspondents review their favourite homegrown comics of the past year... More...
Posted: February 8, 2021


Top 40 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 31, 2021


Graphic Novel Reviews:
Jewish Renaissance Magazine

Three recent titles about New York acrobats, Surrealist giraffes and London Jewish feminists. More...
Posted: January 3, 2021


Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 29, 2020


Paul Rainey:
There's No Time Like The Present

An in-depth interview with the 2020 Graphic Short Story Prize Winner & Escape Books author... More...
Posted: November 29, 2020


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 22, 2020


Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
January 2021

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 25, 2020


Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 13, 2020


Alexander Tucker:
In The Forcefield

Running through his work is an undertow of separation, loss & longing, perhaps for transformation or transcendence. More...
Posted: October 1, 2020


Steven Appleby:
Dragman

Paul Gravett reviews Steven Appleby's cross-dressing superhero in search of his true self... More...
Posted: September 25, 2020


Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 25, 2020


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 28, 2020


Top 28 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
September 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 19, 2020


Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 25, 2020


Best Comics of 2019: An International Perspective Part 3:
Year in Review

International correspondents review their favourite homegrown comics of the year... More...
Posted: April 6, 2020


Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 24, 2020


Best Comics of 2018: An International Perspective:
Year in Review

International correspondents review their favourite homegrown comics of the year... More...
Posted: March 21, 2020


Top 38 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 28, 2020


Best Comics of 2019: An International Perspective Part 2:
Year in Review

Further reviews by my International Correspondents of their favourite homegrown titles from last year... More...
Posted: February 22, 2020


Best Comics of 2019: An International Perspective Part 1:
Year in Review

My global correspondents comment on their favourite titles published last year. More...
Posted: February 9, 2020


Top 36 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 5, 2020


Tobias Tak: In Tribute:
Cartoonist and Dancer

The doubly gifted Dutch artist made his comics a perfect partnership of motion and rhythm. More...
Posted: January 10, 2020


Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 29, 2019


Ken Reid:
Britain’s Monstrous Mirth-Maker

On the centenary of his birth, tributes to the Great British Comic Artist by some of his peers and admirers More...
Posted: December 17, 2019


Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 24, 2019


Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
January 2020

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 1, 2019


Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: October 6, 2019


Top 21 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 8, 2019


Top 35 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 12, 2019


Top 40 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga::
September 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 19, 2019


Top 21 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
August 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 2, 2019


Top 20 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: May 5, 2019


Top 34 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 7, 2019


Top 30 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 2, 2019


Top 19 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 4, 2019


Top 18 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: January 6, 2019


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 3, 2018


Top 18 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
January 2019

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: November 11, 2018


Top 18 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
December 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 28, 2018


Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
November 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: September 1, 2018


Vannak Anan Prum:
A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

A Cambodian survivor of human trafficking relates his four years of slavery on a Thai fishing vessel. More...
Posted: August 27, 2018


Top 35 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
October 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: August 18, 2018


Steve Ditko: Ditko Unleashed:
A Major Retrospective Exhibition

The first major retrospective of the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. More...
Posted: July 7, 2018


Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
September 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: July 6, 2018


Top 21 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
August 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: June 1, 2018


Chris Reynolds Interview:
Mysterious Stories about Times and Places

Unique auteur Chris Reynolds is overdue for (re-)discovery with The New World. More...
Posted: May 9, 2018


Best Comics of 2017: An International Perspective Part 2:
Year in Review

By Correspondents from Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Flanders, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain & The Netherlands. More...
Posted: May 6, 2018


Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
July 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: April 29, 2018


Best Comics of 2017: An International Perspective Part 1:
Year in Review

Chosen by Correspondents from Argentina, Germany, Indonesia, New Zealand, Serbia, Singapore & South Korea. More...
Posted: April 14, 2018


Top 26 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
June 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: March 29, 2018


Olivier Kugler:
Reportage Comics

Kugler's graphic documentaries record the complex lives of displaced Syrian refugees More...
Posted: March 21, 2018


Hur Young-man:
My Brilliant Korea

A household name and best-selling legend in South Korea, Hur Young-man deserves global acclaim. More...
Posted: March 4, 2018


Top 27 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
May 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 28, 2018


Top 27 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
April 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: February 16, 2018


Top 25 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
March 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 29, 2017


Top 27 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga:
February 2018

Paul Gravett selects the most interesting comics, manga and graphic novels from the publisher advance listings. More...
Posted: December 5, 2017


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