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DC Comics: the 75th Anniversary Poster Book
By various, compiled and with commentary by Robert Schnakenberg & Paul Levitz (Quirk Books) ISBN: 978-1-59474-462-4 Here’s another poster-sized (a colossal 282 by 356mm) full-colour art-book, this...
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Milo Manara Glamour Books 1 & 2
Edited by Vincenzo Mollica & Antonio Vianovi (Glamour International Productions) No ISBNs For some folks the graphic arts collections under review here will be unacceptably violent and/or dirty....
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Liberatore Glamour Book
Edited by Vincenzo Mollica & Antonio Vianovi (Glamour International Productions) No ISBN A lot of people may find the graphic arts collections under review here to be shocking, unacceptably...
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Signal: 02 – A Journal of International Political Graphics
Edited by Alec Dunne & Josh MacPhee (PM Press) ISBN: 978-1-60486-298-0 “A week is a long time in Politics” - Harold Wilson I’m going to go all traditional here and offer a few on-line dictionary...
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A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola
By Ricardo Cortés (Akashic Books) ISBN: 978-1-61775-134-9 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: potent, punchy and thought-provoking fodder to enjoy after overindulging… 9/10 The astounding power of...
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Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012
By Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-594-5 Some creators in the world of comics just defy description and their graphic novels and collections are beyond the reviewer’s skills (mine...
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Thrill Murray – a Colouring-In Book
By Mike Coley & various (Belly Kids) ISBN: 978-0-9574909-0-1 Belly Kids are a quirky multimedia arts company with a fun-fuelled, anything goes attitude, producing art-based books, records, DVDs,...
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Ratspike
By John Blanche & Ian Miller (Games Workshop) ISBN: 978-1-87237-200-6 I haven’t covered an actual art book in an age, so let’s look at a little known gem sorely in need of a new edition featuring...
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Man of Steel – Inside the Legendary World of Superman
By Daniel Wallace with photographs by Clay Enos (Insight Studios/Titan Books) ISBN: 978-178116-817-2 Always foremost amongst the fascinating publishing add-ons to accompany major fantasy motion...
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World War Z – the Art of the Film
By various (Titan Books) ISBN: 978-178116-885-1 Regular readers will know that I’ve never been the biggest fan of zombie fiction but occasionally something comes along that compels me to re-evaluate...
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Flesk Prime
Illustrated by Craig Elliott, Gary Gianni, Petar Meseldžija, Mark Schultz & William Stout, edited by John Fleskes (Flesk) ISBN: 978-1-933865-38-6 After everything is said and done the most...
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Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball – Drawings 1934-1972
By Willard Mullin, Hal Bock & Michael Powers (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-639-3 Britain never really enjoyed the long and lovingly cherished tradition of sports cartoons enjoyed by...
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Ghosts and Ruins
By Ben Catmull (Vertical) ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2 If you know the works of Sidney Sime and Edward Gorey and the horror comics of Bernie Wrightson and Michael Kaluta or love to peer through your locked...
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Sidney Sime: Master of the Mysterious
By Simon Heneage & Henry Ford (Thames and Hudson) ISBN: 0-500-27154-2 A little while ago I mentioned with due reverence the wonderful illustrator Sidney Herbert Sime: late Victorian, Edwardian and...
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Walrus (Brandon Graham’s All Bum Album – from Tusk ‘Till Dawn)
By Brandon Graham (PictureBox) ISBN: 978-0-9851595-9-7 Autumn is officially here, with its fire-storms, droughts and sunburns, so it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Holiday Season is...
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Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True Volume 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book...
By Steven Brower & Jim Simon (SB Studio Books) ISBN: 978-1-4820-3313-7 Once upon a time, literacy was at an all-time high in the English-speaking world. A determined push to educate all and sundry...
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Nudnik Revealed!
By Gene Deitch (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-651-5 Kim Deitch has been one of the leading lights of America’s Comix Underground since its earliest days. He probably got his artistic acumen,...
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Mark Shultz: Carbon volume 1
By Mark Shultz (Flesk) ISBN: 978-1-933865-54-6 After everything is said and done the most immediate response to narrative art is inevitably visceral and visual. We take and tell our stories in picture...
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Love and Rockets: the Covers
By Gilbert, Jaime & Mario Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-598-3 In the 1980s a qualitative revolution forever destroyed the tired moribund, stereotypical and ghettoised ways...
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The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora – Album Covers and Music Illustrations
By Irwin Chusid & Barbara Economon (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-655-3 Some artists can be said to epitomise an era, their works forever evoking the time and style and flavour of a...
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