As the night tightens its grip, Huizenga’s art soars above cities, through wormholes, along rivers and into bizarre mental realms.Īlan Moore, the legendary creator of From Hell and Watchmen, has said that The Tempest (Knockabout), the conclusion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, will be his last comic. It’s a deeply surreal journey through work, computer games, law enforcement, geology, married life and robots. This fascinating collection presents a Japan of scruffy shops and quiet streets in which forgotten men tell strange stories.Īnother book about everything and nothing, Kevin Huizenga’s The River at Night (Drawn & Quarterly) follows caffeine-fuelled IT worker Glenn Ganges’s struggle to sleep as his thoughts tumble over, under and into each other. The semi-autobiographical The Man Without Talent, translated by Ryan Holmberg (New York Review Comics), written in the mid-80s, focuses on an unhappily married man who does things he’s not good at (selling decorative stones and going on holiday) and puts off the thing he is good at (drawing comics). This year marked the first translation of one of Japan’s most celebrated and reclusive artists, Yoshiharu Tsuge. Perky colours contrast with worried faces in an affecting warts-and-all love letter to her family and the NHS. Her memoir shows how serious illness can make a child feel alone in the world, but it’s also about friendships, drawing, boys and listening to the Pixies. In A Puff of Smoke (Jonathan Cape), she’s soon undergoing scans, being offered pills that make things worse and lying on the couch while her brother and sister tussle. Sarah Lippett’s childhood troubles started with dropped dishes and headaches. Other writers speak directly of their own lives. ![]() ![]() It’s an energetic and often very funny collection that makes serious points about identity and personal space. Hair is centre stage in Ebony Flowers’s debut Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly), a sharp-edged, warm-hearted series of strips about black girls growing up in the US. It’s an array of scraped knees, bashed noses, irony and regret. Hernandez regulars Maggie and Hopey head to a punk gig with their old crew in a book that brilliantly captures the emotional charge of a reunion, and the politics and in-jokes of ageing scenesters. The darkness in Jaime Hernandez’s Is This How You See Me? (Fantagraphics) is mixed with friendship, joy and the shared sweat of the moshpit.
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