Stylish, socially relevant, and loaded with action, this debut issue from Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo launches a timely thriller that is as much a cautionary tale as it is a call to action. Right no…
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Cruising Through the Louvre – David Prudhomme’s Masterful Use of Colour and Form Illuminates the Hidden Secrets of the World-Famous Museum
The latest entry in NBM Publishing’s partnership with the Louvre, David Prudhomme’s sumptuous graphic survey of the hordes of tourists and art lovers crowding the illustrious museum takes people-watch…
Hax – Lale Westvind Sends an Intense Psychedelic Postcard from a Traumatised World
In Hax, from Breakdown Press, artist Lale Westvind uses an powerful visual style to evoke a woman’s journey through a broken landscape. Hax, by New York-based artist Lale Westvind, hums with the…
Take It as a Compliment – Twenty Powerful Accounts of Sexual Abuse and Harassment in Maria Stoian’s Remarkable Collective Graphic Memoir
Take It as a Compliment is not simply an effective sequential art record of individual experiences. It’s a proclamation that abuse and harassment can happen to anyone, an exercise in reaching out to t…
Mirror #1 – Through the Looking Glass of Ríos and Lim’s Animal Fantasy
Emma Ríos and Hwei Lim’s Mirror invites us into a fully realized world where the fantastical has become mundane. Humanity has quite literally harnessed the stuff of legend to its own ends, craft…
Dad’s Not All There Any More – Alex Demetris Demystifies Lewy Body Dementia with Humour and Sensitivity
First self-published in 2012, this wonderful example of the power and appeal of graphic medicine started life as an art school project. Since then, Demetris’s intimate account of his father’s struggle…
Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure – Mike Medaglia and Rachael Smith Bring Kathy Hoopmann’s Much-Loved Children’s Book to a New Audience
Blue Bottle Mystery is not just a solid exercise in taking an already successful work and re-imagining it for a new readership but also an object lesson in how to adapt material in a way that makes fu…
A Tale of Shadows, Book Two: Cause and Effect –This High Fantasy Epic of Science and Faith Avoids the Sophomore Jinx
A timely modern fable set in a fictional world divided along lines of science and faith, the second volume of A Tale of Shadows explores its opposing doctrines with intelligence and style. Kudos to th…
Siren’s Calling #1 – This Noir Thriller Builds Its Own Dark Mythology with Heart and Style
Dredging the waters off the famous Santa Monica Pier, promising newcomers John T. Trigonis and Lauren Clemente compose a haunting and original love letter to all things noir, in this atmospheric and a…
Test Tube – Carlos Gonzalez Tests a Human Hypothesis in Experimental New Work
Carlos Gonzalez’s Test Tube is an experiment in every sense of the word – and one that won’t leave its readers unchanged. In the realm of the Arts-with-a-capital-A, work has historically b…
The Violent #1 & #2 – Ed Brisson and Adam Gorham’s Nuanced Street-Level Crime Story Has a Socioeconomic Edge
Ed Brisson and his collaborators weave a gripping tale of flawed people trying to do the right thing, against a timely backdrop of gentrification and social exclusion. Writer (and letterer) Ed Brisson…
Barrier #1 – BKV and Marcos Martín’s Digital Follow-Up is a Taut and Timely Tale of Migration, with a Late Twist
In their follow-up series to The Private Eye, digital comics pioneers Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martín weave a taut and enthralling tale of migration and border tension that doesn’t go where yo…
Underworld – Lovern Kindzierski and GMB Chomichuk Translate Homer’s Epic into Urban Graphic Poetry
In a book that challenges the established perceptions of the traditional graphic novel, this insightful retelling of the Odyssey also pushes us to explore the origins of our most treasured tales and r…
Alabaster Shadows – Gardner and Doucet Pair Cosmic Horror and Adolescent Angst in Their Debut Graphic Novel
Guillermo del Toro and the creators of True Detective have done much to bring Lovecraftian horror into the mainstream over the last several years. But while a generation of new adult fans has been dis…
Mystery Girl #1 – Paul Tobin and Alberto Alburquerque Serve Up a Detective with a Contemporary Twist
In the energetic, enjoyable opening issue of Mystery Girl, Paul Tobin and Alberto Alburquerque introduce us to Trine Hampstead – a feisty young Londoner with a very special gift and a taste for advent…
Carver: A Paris Story – Chris Hunt’s Much-Anticipated Debut is a Hard-Boiled Tribute to Crime Fiction
Featuring slick, atmospheric storytelling and a tough-as-nails protagonist, this engaging thriller set against the Parisian underworld of the Roaring Twenties showcases the craft of a dynamic new tale…
Filmish – Edward Ross Mashes Up Page and Screen in an Accessible and Enlightening Journey through Film
No-one can remember who any more, but some bright spark back in the day commented that writing about music was like dancing about architecture. So where does that leave Filmish, Edward Ross’s introduc…
Nix Comics Quarterly #8 – Eppstein Enlists Tillie Walden, Matt Miner and More in his Rock ‘n’ Roll Horror Army
We’ve all seen the horrors that a little good publicity can inflict upon a group of idealistic young artists. Jason dug the last issue of Nix Comics Quarterly, Ken Eppstein’s punk rock hor…