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Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: October 2022
Posted: August 9, 2022
Top of my personal list for this October is the publication at last of one Germany’s most significant modern graphic novels. Years ago it figured among a wish list I helped compile with Mark Nevins and Bart Beatty of remarkable European graphic novels crying out to be translated. So it’s wonderful to see this gem coming out and my pal Mark translating it. Discover more about this book and 30 more of my PG Tips here…
Top 33 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: September 2022
Posted: July 10, 2022
Women’s voices from Sweden, France and the USA are speaking out for themselves about the choices and issues of motherhood. Read about my latest PG Tips here…
Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: August 2022
Posted: June 4, 2022
Genius is not an overstatement for Jason Shiga, whose multi-cursal comic Meanwhile re-wired many people’s comics-reading brains. Now he returns after a lengthy development with his next stage in advancing the medium, Adventuregame Comics. Once more, you’ll never read comics or play games quite the same way again! Read more about this and my other PG Tips for August 2022 here…
Top 15 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: July 2022
Posted: May 6, 2022
It’s time to flag up the imminent sequential releases which I have hand-picked for your consideration, all of them due in stores and online from July. One key title to check out is the return of Booker Prize-nominated cartoonist Nick Drnaso with his new multi-character exposé. Read about Acting Class and my other tips here…
Top 24 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: June 2022
Posted: March 28, 2022
The French creative partnership of Boquet & Catel continue their acclaimed run of substantial and captivating graphic biographies with this vital yet almost-forgotten woman pioneer of early cinema. Read all about this and other upcoming new releases here…
Top 31 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: May 2022
Posted: February 26, 2022
Some rich pickings to choose from this month and from far and wide. To kick off, two distinctive insights into growing up gay in Japan and Chile… Read about these and more in my latest PG Tips monthly round-up here…
Top 32 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: April 2022
Posted: January 31, 2022
Here are my 32 PG Tips and among my highlights let me single out these two vivid and touching historical dramas, one by Aimee de Jongh set during the tragic years of the American dust bowl, the other by Gregory Lockard and Tim Fish (below) unfolding in Weimar Germany amid the rise of Nazism. I invite you to explore these and the rest of my latest PG Tips here…
Top 22 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: March 2022
Posted: December 29, 2021
I invite you to take a browse through the upcoming comics titles in Engish heading our way in March or shortly thereafter. It’s been a long time coming, but Jordan Crane’s heart-rending, heart-lifting book stands out as a major highlight. Read about this and others here….
Top 7 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: February 2022
Posted: December 11, 2021
February 2022 brings a noticeably smaller crop of fresh releases, but here are the stand-outs that caught my eye, originating from Australia, Ecuador, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden - read about them here…
Top 17 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: January 2022
Posted: November 13, 2021
As we enter 2022, manga take the lead, from a bold new ecological allegory by Eldo Yoshimzu to the first English edition of a prime psychodrama by Japan’s ‘God of Manga’, Osamu Tezuka. Read about these and my other PG Tips here…
