By Roba Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-049-8 At first glance this looks like a book for kids, but if Billy & Buddy were appearing in your daily paper they'd sit quite comfortably besides the existing cartoon strips. Like so many strips featuring children and animals it draws its humour from how they see and interact with […]
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The Definitive Thelwell
By Thelwell (written by David Wootton) Publisher: Chris Beetles ISBN: 978-1905-738144 I feel a bit of swine for including The Effluent Society recently, but then came across this and thought I could rectify matters. It's a new collection, published in late 2009, and brings together a broad swathe of Thelwell's work from his early days […]
I Thought You Would Be Funnier
by Shannon Wheeler Publisher: Boom! Town ISBN: 978-1-60886-034-0 Shannon Wheeler is a regular gag contributor to the New Yorker and The Onion. You may also know him as the creator of Too Much Coffee Man. This collection brings together some of his New Yorker cartoons and is represented in a mono-chrome square format with a […]
Yakari & Great Eagle
By Derib & Job Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-04-5 The Yakari books follow the adventures of a young Native American boy from the Sioux nation. It's a very successful series when considered globally, including a TV series, but it's impact in the UK hasn't been huge to date. Now the books are widely available via Cinebooks […]
Queen Margot: 3. Endangered Love
By Cadic, Gheysens, Derenne & Paganotto Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-41-0 In this third and final volume Margot is at her lowest ebb. She is put upon and manipulated by her family and her husband leading to a hollow and lonely existence. Her brother, the King of France, is deeply unwell and the balance of power […]
Monster (Volumes 1-18)
By Naoki Urasawa Publisher: Viz ISBN: 978-1-59116-641-2 For once I'm not going to review a single book but an entire series. Naoki Urasawa's Monster is a manga title presented in those paperback-sized books that seem to now dominate the graphic novel section of bookstores. Each book runs to around 250 pages, and there are 18 […]
