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Top 17 Graphic Novels: March 2016
Posted: December 26, 2015
Graphic biographies fill this month’s list of my recommendations, visualising the extraordinary lives of Thoreau, Turing, Belushi and The Smiths. First-person autobiographical accounts include Sam Glanzman’s diaries of his World War II service on board the USS Stevens and Carlos Giménez’s insights into post-war orphans in Franco’s Spain. On the fiction front, Daniel Clowes serves up his first new graphic novel in more than half a decade in Patience, while Hubert announces the dazzling debut of Flemish wunderkind Ben Gijsemans. There’s plenty more to pique your interest here, such as Jacky Fleming’s ferociously funny The Trouble With Women, but my Top Tip has to be Igort’s triumphal achievement, The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks, giving voice at last to the unheard and suppressed victims in the Ukraine and Russia in two major albums, now combined and translated into one significant epic of humane testimony. Surely a graphic novel of the year… Read my latest recommendations here…
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