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Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales
By Wilford Mullins with Ernest Thayer and various (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-814-4 Happy Anniversary! It’s a memorable day. In 1835 HMS Beagle set sail for Charles Island in in the...
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My War
By Szegedi Szüts (Dover) ISBN: 978-0-486-79925-4 (PB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Profound and Compelling Commemoration… 9/10 From its earliest inception, cartooning and graphic narrative has...
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DC Comics: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
By Liz Marsham, Melanie Scott, Landry Q. Walker, Stephen Wiacek & many and various (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 978-0-24131-424-1 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Fact-packed, Superhero Fun and...
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Krampus: The Devil of Christmas
By various, edited by Monte Beauchamp (Last Gasp) ISBN: 978-0-86719-747-1 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Horrid Holiday Cheers… 8/10 When I lived in New York, the morning after Thanksgiving was...
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Of Dust and Blood – A Story from the Fight at the Greasy Grass
By Jim Berry & Val Mayerik (Jim Berry) ISBN: 978-0-692-63801-9 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Even More Potent, Powerful, Unmissable… 10/10 Back in October I reviewed a beautiful book...
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Desolation Wilderness
By Claire Scully (Avery Hill) ISBN: 978-1-910395-45-5 (PB) The most magical thing about comics is the sheer versality of potential results. In terms of narrative, exposition, mood-setting and...
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Death Threat
By Vivek Shraya & Ness Lee (Arsenal Pulp Press Vancouver) ISBN: 978-1-55152-750-5 Vivek Shraya is a poet, musician, educator, writer and performer of immense creativity, as can be appreciated in...
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Why Art? (Fourth Edition)
By Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-68396-082-9 (PB) Probably everybody here will agree that comics is art sequentially wedded to pictures. However, when asked to define what...
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Cave Girls of the Lost World,
By Richard Sala (Fantagraphics Books Digital Exclusive) No ISBN: ASIN: B07H487P65 Richard Sala is a lauded and much-deserving darling of the Literary Comics movement (if such a thing exists), blending...
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Bent
By Dave Cooper (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-378-1 (HB) Every so often I tend to stray a little from my accustomed comfort zone and regulation hunting grounds: moving beyond narrative art...
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Walking Distance
By Lizzy Stewart (Avery Hill Publishing) ISBN:978-1-910395-50-9 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Heartwarming and Thought Provoking… 9/10 Assuming you do still think, where do you go and what...
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Ghosts and Ruins
By Ben Catmull (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2 (HB) If you know the works of Sidney Sime and Edward Gorey, the horror comics of Bernie Wrightson and Michael Kaluta or simply love to peer...
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The Artist: The Circle of Life
By Anna Haifisch (Breakdown Press) ISBN: 978-1-91108-107-4 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Picture Perfect Grown Up Fun… 9/10 Like Norwegian émigré and cartoon superstar Jason, Anna Haifisch...
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Lala Albert: Seasonal Shift – Comics 2013-2019
By Lala Albert (Breakdown Press/The Library of Contemporary Comics) ISBN: 978-1-911081-09-8 (TPB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Because Not All Beautiful Things are Pretty… 9/10 All...
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The Art of Hellboy
By Mike Mignola (Dark Horse Books) ISBN: 978-1-56971-910-7(HB) 978-1-59307-089-2(TPB) eISBN 978-1-62115-749-6 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Indulge Yourself in the Art of Terror… 9/10 Hellboy...
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Chicken Fat: Drawings, Sketches, Cartoons and Doodles
By Will Elder (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-56097-704-9 (PB) Wolf William Eisenberg was born in The Bronx on September 22nd 1921, and you probably have never heard of him. He became a cartoonist,...
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A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
By Evie Robillard & Rachel Katstaller (Kids Can Press) ISBN: 978-1-5253-0056-1 (HB) We don’t cover nearly enough kids’ books here, nor those with an Arts or educational underpinning, and that’s...
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Rosa Goes for a Walk
By Nic Lawson (Nic Lawson Comics/Canberra) ISBN: 978-0-646-90434-4 (PB) The current comics/graphic novel market is a true wonderland these days. For every planetary megastar and proprietorial...
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Red Mother with Child (Louvre Collection)
By Christian Lax translated by Montana Kane (NBM/Musée du Louvre Éditions) ISBN: 978-1-68112-257-1(HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-258-8 In 2005 one of the greatest museums in the world began an intriguing...
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Like a Dog
By Zak Sally (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-165-7 (HB) Some people do it for money or fame… and money. It doesn’t matter what form of creative endeavour “it” is. Whatever art-form you’re...
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