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The 75 Most Anticipated Graphic Novels for Winter 2021
New and upcoming graphic novel releases from January-March 2021
INDIE VIEW: THOREAU AND ME talks through the end of the world
Thoreau and Me
By Cedric Taling
SelfMadeHero
If you want to feel angsty, we’re at a point in history when you can take your pick of disastrous circumstances to fret over or worse, devote a complete work...
INDIE VIEW: In ALTITUDE growing up happens in dangerous terrain
Altitude
Written by Olivier Bocquet
Written and Illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette
Translated by Edward Gauvin
SelfMadeHero
I was recently standing at a local landmark called Witt’s Ledge, the cliff atop a former quarry looking down 1100 feet and thinking...
INDIE VIEW: SIBERIAN HAIKU creates magic from nightmares
Siberian Haiku
Written by Jurga Vile
Illustrated by Lina Itagaki
SelfMadeHero
Starting in 1941, Lithuanians endured the first of nearly three dozen mass deportations by order of the Soviet government, which occupied Lithuania. Over an 11 year period...
INDIE VIEW: THE BOOK OF FORKS runs circles around most world-building
Rob Davis's newest graphic novel is the conclusion of the Motherless Oven Trilogy.
65 of the most anticipated graphic novels for Winter 2020
New and upcoming graphic novel releases for January-March 2020.
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Master and Margarita’ dismisses the ulitmate power of systems
The Master and Margarita
Written by Andrzej Klimowski
Illustrated by Danusia Schejbal
SelfMadeHero
As a choice for a literary adaptation in graphic novel form, you couldn’t get much more obscure or curious than The Master and Margarita. This...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Mikel’ plunges into paranoid Basque Country
Mikel
Written by Mark Bellido
Illustrated by Judith Vanistenpael
Translated by Erica Mena
Self Made Hero
Taking place amidst the Basque separatist movement in Spain, Mikel focuses on a guy named Miguel who appears to be nobody important. But...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Maggy Garrisson’ will make you happy too
John Seven reviews 'Maggy Garrisson'
INDIE VIEW: The art of crime in ‘Memoirs of a Book Thief’
John Seven reviews 'Memoirs of a Book Thief'
INDIE VIEW: Everything old is new again in ‘Blossoms in Autumn’
'Blossoms in Autumn' reviewed by John Seven
Review: The thrilling darkness of Rachael Ball’s ‘Wolf’
Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a way that the most fantastic fictions mingle with the drudgery...
