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Graphic Novel

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Winshluss - Pinocchio

Winshluss - Pinocchio

(4 stars)3 May 2011

Winshluss, the multitalented French cartoonist, filmmaker and musician whose real name is Vincent Parronnaud, is best known for the Oscar-nominated animated feature film he made with Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi based on her memoir…

Arthur Flowers & Manu Chitrakar: I See the Promised Land

Arthur Flowers & Manu Chitrakar: I See the Promised Land

Mystical graphic novelisation inspired by the life Martin Luther King

(3 stars)24 Mar 2011

(Tara Books) The life and times of saints and heroes have long been the base for storytelling traditions. With I See the Promised Land, African-American writer and blues singer Arthur Flowers repositions civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s story…

Denise Mina & Antonio Fuso - A Sickness in the Family

Denise Mina & Antonio Fuso - A Sickness in the Family

Scottish crime novelist creates concise and claustrophobic take on the graphic novel genre

(4 stars)30 Nov 2010

(Vertigo Crime) After a successful run on Hellblazer in 2006, Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina returns to the ninth art, with this her first graphic novel. While there are hints of the supernatural here, A Sickness in the Family is essentially a…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton

(3 stars)1 Oct 2009

Inspired by the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites), Ray Bradbury created a dark future where books are illegal for promoting critical thought and intellectualism, a world where firemen have…

Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'edera

Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'edera

The crimewriter turns to comics

(3 stars)17 Sep 2009

Ian Rankin isn’t the first author to turn his hand to comics, with names as diverse as Jodi Picoult and Michael Chabon all having had a go. In fact he isn’t even the first Scottish crime writer to script a John Constantine story, with Denise Mina having…

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