Graphic novel

If you read enough space operatic science fiction, it becomes clear that the far and even near reaches of the galaxy are an endlessly exciting place of intrigue, mystery and anti-humdrum. But what if that’s not entirely the case and that being out amongst the stars is all bit been-there-done-that, Continue Reading

The prospect of finding out the truth about something is powerfully and motivatingly intoxicating. Operating as we so often do in a veil of lies and half-truths, much of it motivated by necessary social lubrication or the unwillingness of certain groups in society to gaze upon the authentic face of Continue Reading

We’ve all had bad days at work, right? Sent an email with highly confidential comments meant for one person and one person only to Reply All. Or we’ve accidentally deleted a document we spent all day on and no amount of IT wizardry can summon it back from the Microsoft Continue Reading

Diving into a fully-realised fantasy world is one of life’s great inestimable pleasures. No matter where you are or what you are doing, escaping into a world such as the one exquisitely and immersively well-realised as the one in Gert and the Sacred Stones by the Italian team writer Marco Continue Reading

Among the current, quite understandable, surfeit of apocalyptic and dystopian literature – a product of both a long-term decline in peoples’ faith in many things including governing bodies and the state of the world, and the seemingly never ending COVID pandemic – there is a very welcome trend that posits Continue Reading

There is a great charm and sweet vibrancy to Flavor by writer Joseph Keatinge and artist Wook Jin Clark (with colouring by Tamra Bonvillain and lettering by Arian Maher) which deep into a world where food and its preparation, presentation and consumption is akin to a high religion which governs Continue Reading

There is such an extravagance of imagination, such an exhilarating deep dive into fantasy and wonder and weirdness on a grand scale, to Undiscovered Country that it is safe to say that it is one of the best graphic novels to come along in some time. The writers of the Continue Reading

There are rare and special times when you read a graphic novel when you realise, within mere frames of the story’s commencement, that you are reading something very, very good indeed. That here is an adventure very worth taking, one with a wholly engaging story that compels you to keep Continue Reading

Diving into a story fit to bursting with vivid imagination and expansive leaps of inspired storytelling is one of life’s great pleasures. And since Eight Outcast, with story and art by Rafael Albuquerque and script by Mike Johnson, is brilliantly and imaginatively told such that when reading you often gasp Continue Reading

It may not be immediately obvious but at the heart of every fantastical tale, if its told well, of course, sits a vibrantly humanistic core. This is certainly the case in the King of Nowhere written by W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man) with artwork by Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings, Continue Reading