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Billy & Buddy: Bored Silly With Billy

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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Yoko Tsuno 5: The Dragon Of Hong Kong

By Roger Leloup Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-041-2 This is the fifth Yoko Tsuno offering from Cinebook, a series about a Japanese electronics engineer who gets tangled up in all manner of mysteries. This particular tale involves Yoko travelling to Hong Kong and coming face-to-face with a sea monster in the fragrant harbour separating Hong Kong […]

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Valerian – The City Of Shifting Waters

By Mézières & Christin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849180382 As anyone who has ever sat down in front of an original Star Trek episode will tell you, Science Fiction does date awkwardly. As a society we're just not great at spotting those technological breakthroughs that transform our lives, and why should we? I'm, of course, ignoring […]

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Lucky Luke 23: A Cure For The Daltons

By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-034-4 Doctor Otto Von Bratwurst is over from Europe offering a cure for criminality, but at the US Institue of Science they're having none of it. So it is agreed that the Doctor will head out to the den of desperation that is the West to find the […]

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