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A1: The World’s Greatest Comics
By various (Atomeka/Titan Comics) ISBN: 987-1-78276-016-0 A1 began in 1988 as an anthology showcase for comics creativity, free from the usual strictures of mainstream publishers, consequently...
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The Art of Archie: the Covers
By various, edited by Victor Gorelick & Craig Yoe (Archie Books) ISBN: 978-1-936975-79-2 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A perfect celebration of the magic of comicbooks… 10/10 For most of...
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Spain: Rock, Roll, Rumbles, Rebels & Revolution
By Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez (Burchfield Penney Art Center/Last Gasp) ISBN: 978-0-86719-782-2 Manuel Rodriguez was one of the pioneering lights of America’s transformative Underground Commix movement:...
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VIP – the Mad World of Virgil Partch
Edited by Jonathan Barli (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-664-5 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: impossibly inventive – an all-year-round treat… 9/10 Virgil Parch is another of those almost...
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ArtistsAuthorsThinkersDirectors – One Hundred Influences, One Hundred Portraits
By Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-285-2 Last-Minute Christmas Dilemmas Solved: perfect for any aspiring creator or art lover. In his relatively short graphic novelling...
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Mitch O’Connell: World’s Best Artist
By Mitch O’Connell (Last Gasp) ISBN: 978-0-86719-773-0 Some artists can be said to epitomise an era, their works forever evoking the time and style and flavour of a discreet age, whilst others have...
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The Blighted Eye – Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection
By many and various (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-695-9 When I talk about the field and art form of comics the intent is generally to celebrate and advertise the triumphs and talents of...
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Phantoms of the Louvre
By Enki Bilal translated by Joe Johnson (NBM ComicsLit/Louvre: Musée du Louvre Éditions) ISBN: 978-1-56163-841-3 A few years ago the legendary Louvre Museum in Paris began an intriguing and extremely...
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Cork High and Bottle Deep
By Virgil Partch, Edited by Jonathan Barli (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-664-5 Virgil Parch is possibly the greatest of those almost forgotten key men of comedy cartooning: a pervasive...
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World War 3 Illustrated 1979-2014
By various, edited by Peter Kuper & Seth Tobocman (PM Press) ISBN: 978-1-60486-958-3 Since the 1980s and proceeding ever more unchecked into the 21st century, nations and human society have been...
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I’d Love to Draw!
By Andrew Loomis (Titan Books) ISBN: 978-1-78116-920-9 Win’s Christmas Recommendation: a superb, old-school introduction to peace and recreation… 9/10 There are a host of books both academic and/or...
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The Squickerwonkers volume 1
By Evangeline Lilly & Johnny Fraser-Allen (Titan Books) ISBN: 978-1-78329-545-6 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Beguiling fun for kids of all ages… 9/10 In the good old days children used to...
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Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole
By Leonard Brandt Cole with an introduction by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-762-8 The early days of the American comicbook industry were a whirlwind of spectacular exuberance...
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Street View
By Pascal Rabaté translated by Terry Nantier (NBM/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-908-3 Whilst everyone else you know is risking life and limb at the post-Christmas sales (or carpal tunnel syndrome by...
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Flawed Dogs – The Year-End Leftovers at the Piddleton “Last-Chance” Dog Pound
By Berkeley Breathed (Little, Brown & Co.) ISBN: 978-0-316-71359-7 After an all-too-brief and glittering career as a syndicated strip cartoonist and socio-political commentator (so often the very...
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Adventure Time: The Original Cartoon Title Cards Seasons 3 & 4
By various (Titan Books) ISBN: 978-1-78329-896-9 Just in case you’re unfamiliar with the Cartoon Network show this book celebrates, Adventure Time is set in a post-apocalyptic future about a thousand...
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The Legend of Korra: Book 4 – Balance – the Art of the Animated Series
By Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko & Joaquim Dos Santos (Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-61655-687-7 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Astonishing Art Attack for Kids Of All Ages… 9/10 Autumn...
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Secret Teachings of a Comic Book Master: the Art of Alfredo Alcala
By Heidi MacDonald & Phillip Dana Yeh with art by Alfredo Alcala (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-80041-7 Win’s Christmas Recommendation: A Perfect, Old-School Craft-Book...
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The Louvre Collection: Cruising Through the Louvre
By David Prudhomme translated by Joe Johnson (NBM ComicsLit/Louvre: Musée du Louvre Éditions) ISBN: 978-1-56163-841-3 Some years ago the Louvre Museum in Paris began an intriguing and immensely...
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Tarzan at the Movies
By Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan Books) ISBN: 978-0-85768-568-1 Soon after the publication of Tarzan of the Apes in 1912, the character – thanks in no small part to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ acumen as a...
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