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By George Wylesol (Avery Hill Publishing) ISBN: 978-1-910395-65-3 (TPB) Baltimore-based George Wylesol (Internet Crusader; Ghosts, Etc.) is a cartoonist with lots to say and intriguing ways of doing...
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Edwurd Fudwupper FIBBED BIG – Explained by Fannie Fudwupper with Berkeley...
By Berkeley Breathed (Little, Brown & Co./Storyopolis) ISBN: 978-0-316-14291-5 (HB) 978-0-316-14425-4 (Album PB) I’ve been watching The News and getting upset by politicians’ obnoxiously blatant...
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Big Scoop of Ice Cream
By Conxita Herrero Delfa: translated by Jeff Whitman (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-294-6 (PB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-295-3 Comics are a nigh-universal, extremely powerful medium that lends itself to a host of...
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The Bible
By Sheldon Mayer & Nestor Redondo, with Joe Kubert (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3425-6 (HB/Digital edition) I first reviewed this material back in 2008, even though it didn’t really qualify as a...
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Death Threat
By Vivek Shraya & Ness Lee (Arsenal Pulp Press Vancouver) ISBN: 978-1-55152-750-5 (HB/Digital edition) Vivek Shraya is a poet, musician, educator, writer and performer of immense creativity, as...
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The City: A Vision in Woodcuts
By Frans Masereel (Dover Publications) ISBN: 978-0-486-44731-5 (TPB/Digital Edition) We tend to think of graphic novels as being a late 20th century phenomenon, and one that fought long and hard for...
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Rayguns & Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art
By many and various: edited and compiled by Rian Hughes (Korero Press) ISBN: 978-1-91274-004-8 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Eyepopping, Mind-blowing Vintage Visions… 9/10 Very often the...
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Black Panther: Visions of Wakanda
By Jess Harrold, Rodolfo Muraguchi & Adam Del Re with Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Roy Thomas & John Buscema, Don McGregor, Rick Buckler, Billy Graham & Gene Colan, Ta-Nehisi Coates &...
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Pete & Pickles
By Berkeley Breathed (Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers Group) ISBN: 978-0-399250-82-8 (HB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Because it Ain’t Seasonal Without Cartoon Critters… 10/10 Throughout...
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The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire volume 1
By Mike Butterworth & Don Lawrence & various (Rebellion Studios) ISBN: 978-1-78108-755-8 (TPB/Digital edition) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Classic Boys Own Nostalgia… 9/10 For British...
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The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
By John Stanley, Walt Kelly, Richard Scarry, Jack Bradbury, Klaus Nordling, Mike Sekowsky, Alberto Giolitti & various: edited and designed by Craig Yoe with Clizia Gussoni (IDW Publishing) ISBN:...
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Look and Learn Book 1964
By many & various (Fleetway) ISBN10: 901267-49-X – ISBN13: 978-0-90126-749-8 One the most missed of publishing traditions in this country is the educational comic. From the fact features in the...
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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 (HB/Digital edition) For most of us, comics mean buff men and women in capes and tights hitting each other,...
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The Provocative Collette
By Annie Goetzinger, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-170-3 (HB) Publisher NBM struck pure gold with their line of European-created contemporary arts histories and dramatized graphic...
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Frida Kahlo – Her Life, Her Work, Her Home
By Francisco de la Mora, translated by Lawrence Schimel (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-10-2 (HB) The creation and crafting of an image is infinitely variable and the response to it even more so:...
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The Art of Ramona Fradon
By Ramona Fradon; interviewed by Howard Chaykin (Dynamite Entertainment) ISBN: 978-1-60690-140-3 (HB/Digital edition) Although present in comic books from the start, women – like so many other...
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I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
By Gina Siciliano (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: ?978-1-68396-211-3 (HB/Digital edition) A denizen of Seattle, Gina Siciliano studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art and has worked as a musician and...
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White Collar – a Novel in Linocuts
By Giacomo Patri (Dover Comics & Graphic Novels) ISBN: 978-0-486-80591-7 (HB) If you regularly access any kind of news in any format or platform, you won’t be at all in doubt or surprised by my...
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Armed With Madness – The Surreal Leonora Carrington
By Mary M. Talbot & Bryan Talbot (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-0-914224-12-6 (HB/Digital edition) Mary Leonora Carrington overcame wealth, privilege, entrenched unwanted religion and the repressive...
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Shazam! The Golden Age of the World’s Mightiest Mortal
By Bill Parker & C.C. Beck, Roscoe Fawcett, Marcus Swayze, Pete Costanza, Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Mac Raboy, Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, Chad Grothkopf, Kurt Schaffenberger, and many &...
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