DG Stewart 
A City Inside Avery Hill Publishing, 2016 Writer: Tillie Walden Time. It starts with a woman, lying on a very soft mattress, offered some tea. There is a sense of therapy, of mediation being introduced to a reluctant novice. And then, she is told to breath. With that breath the protagonist is stolen from the … Read more
Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai Takeshobo, 1991-2018 Writer: Nobuyuki Fukumoto Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai (Japanese: アカギ 〜闇に降り立った天才〜, in English, “Akagi: The Genius Who Descended into Darkness”) ended in February 2018 after a twenty-seven year print run. Set in the shady world of gambling in mahjong parlours, Akagi told the story of a very young … Read more
Single Cell Independently published, 2018 Writer: Dr Machina Strongly recommended to fans of surrealism, Single Cell is one of the strangest comics we have had the pleasure to review. Single Cell consists of a series of unrelated one panel pages. Each panel consists of what appears to be obscure or forgotten comic book art, some … Read more
The popularity of Asterix – “Asterix et la Transitalique“ Orion Children’s Books, 2017 Writer: Jean-Yves Ferri We have previously written about the historical inaccuracy of Asterix. But we have not addressed the question: why is a story about two Gauls fighting Romans two millennia ago so popular? Thus far Asterix has spawned seven French language … Read more