Review: Illegal (Hodder Childrens)
The team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels bring us Illegal, a poignant story about economic migrants trying to find a better life in Europe.
Review: Basquiat (SelfMadeHero)
Part of their Art Masters series, SelfMadeHero’s Basquiat graphic novel chronicles the chaotic life of one of the 20th century’s most interesting artists
Review: In Waves (Nobrow Press)
Beneath the fairly unassuming cover of In Waves, is a poignant and heart breaking tale of love and loss that is interspersed with a history of surfing.
Review: Maggy Garrisson (SelfMadeHero)
Lewis Trondheim and Stéphane Oiry give us a French perspective on the classic English murder mystery in this new graphic novel from SelfMadeHero.
Review: Hicotea: A Nightlights Story (Nobrow Press)
We take a look at Hicotea (A Nightlights Story) the latest astoundingly beautiful book from Lorena Alvarez’s Nightlights series and Nobrow Press.
Review: Memoirs of a Book Thief (SelfMadeHero)
In Memoirs of a Book Thief Alessandro Tota and Pierre Van Hove explore the idea of existentialism in 1950s Paris through disillusioned law student Daniel Brodin.
Review: Tyna of the Lake: Gamayun Tales Book 2 (Nobrow Press)
The third book in Alexander Utkin’s series of Slavic folktales, Tyna of The Lake: Gamayun Tales Book 3, feels more like a Studio Ghibli movie than a classic fairytale
Review: Cannabis: An American History (SelfMadeHero)
Acclaimed cartoonist’s Box Brown’s latest Cannabis: An American History looks at the back story for the drug’s use in the US, as well as a round the world.
Review: Guantanamo Kid (SelfMadeHero)
This new book from SelfMadeHero is another fantastic example of how comics can be used to chronicle extraordinary lives. Following the true story of one of the youngest inmates at the notorious Guantamo Bay prison camp Guantanamo Kid is a harrowing and thought-provoking look inside this brutal prison camp and the abuses that occurred post […]
Review: A New Jerusalem (New Internationalist/Myriad Editions)
This years award for ‘graphic novel we really should have read sooner so that it was eligible for our best of 2018 list’ goes to Benjamin Dickson’s A New Jerusalem. A powerful and thought provoking story of a young boys relationship with his father in post-war Britain, that is very different to your average heroic […]