Guido Negretti 
Writer/Artist : Hideo Azuma Translators : Kumar Sivasubramanian & Elizabeth Tiernan Publisher : Ponent Mon, 2005 Depression, a concept we are so used to nowadays, is that kind of feeling that leads to a complete numbness of our mental capacity. There seems to be no easy way out, in such cases, so that the end … Read more
Writer/Artist : Shigeru Mizuki Translator : Jocelyne Allen Published by : Drawn & Quarterly Year : 2019 (Original Japanese text: 1977) Time and time again we are reminded of how the past has been building up into our present, the structure of lost events being reproduced into the ever-changing and ever-still momentum of the “here … Read more
Writer : Joshua Gamon Artist : Aleksandar Bozic Ske Lettering : Jérôme Gagnon Cover : Flavio Giron Markosia Enterprises, 2019-2022 The idea of there being different worlds where different rules apply is part of the underlying structure of the ars scribendi. Not all books deal with new realities, of course, but those which do (books … Read more
Writer : Helen McCarthy Year of publication : 2014 Published by : Ilex Press Manga, as a concept, have come to mean more than simply comics produced in Japan. Just like Europe and the USA cannot be defined by either the symbolic presence of Goscinny and Uderzo’s Asterix or Siegel and Shuster’s Superman, so must … Read more