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Texas Jack Book 2

By Dubois & Armand Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781800440548 This concluding part to the tale contains some really incredible art. In a book full of mustachiode, bearded and hat-wearing characters it would be easy to lose track of who was who, but the character design and skilled visual storytelling cut through all that to deliver a […]

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London’s Lost Pubs

By Sam Cullen Publisher: White Owl ISBN: 9781399038263 So what’s this book got to do with cartoons, then? Well, I’ll tell you. The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain was founded in 1960 by a bunch of Fleet Street’s doodlers. Over time, the pub they settled upon as a natural home was The Cartoonist, situated a […]

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Amazonia Episode 1

By Rodolphe, Leo & Marchal Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781800441316 What began as the series Kenya, and continued in Namibia, makes a very welcome return with Amazonia. On the face of it, these stories look more like a gripping adventure yarn set during the dying days of the British Empire, rather than a science fiction mystery. […]

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Safer Places

By Kit Anderson Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing ISBN: 9781910395776 Short stories, by necessity, require an immediacy that engages the reader quickly. In terms of comics, this can be done either visually or through the writing, as the tale shares a brief moment with you before moving on to another. Like an album, short story collections […]

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Texas Jack: Book 1

By Dubois & Armand Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781800440531 Cinebook has put out a lot of great books, but it’s their Expresso line that’s really shown off some excellent stories from Europe. Texas Jack – a western, as it title might suggest – follows that trend by giving us another palpable hit. Greed and power have […]

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Stum

By Yann Taillefer Publisher: The Mansion Press ISBN: 9782492646287 I knew nothing of Yann Taillefer’s work when I came across Stum in a marketing email from The Mansion Press. What immediately caught my eye was the extraordinary artwork, a glorious combination of rubber-hose dynamism and surreal characters in a grim, urban setting. But the real […]

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