Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment is a semi-historical account of Sunderland, England. In this nonlinear graphic novel, Talbot explores the relationship between Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s (1832-1898)fictional world of Wonderland and the real-life city of Sunderland by merging fiction, reality, and rumor. Dodgson is more commonly known as Lewis Carroll and, according to Talbot, [...]
Tetsuya Chiba is a versatile author known for shōjo, shōnen and even seinen manga. However, his greatest contribution is to the sports genre. Chiba was born in Manchuria in 1939. After the end of the WWII, his family was repatriated to Japan - an experience he later used to portray the hardships of repatriates [...]
La bête est morte! (The Beast is Dead!) is a French graphic novel which was published as a children’s book in two volumes in 1944 and 1945. It was created during Nazi occupation of France and is often referred to by its subtitle, La Guerre Mondiale chez les Animaux (World War II Among the [...]
Les Cités Obscures (The Obscure Cities) is a series of comic albums created by the French writer and comics specialist Benoît Peeters and the illustrator and scenographer François Schuiten. It includes twelve albums, from The Great Walls of Samaris (1983) to Souvernirs de l'Eternel Présent (2009), as well as some special issues including albums, [...]
Published in 1980, Ziraldo Alves Pinto’s (1932-) O Menino Maluquinho is one of the most acclaimed Brazilian illustrated books for kids, being edited and translated several times since them. More than 2.5 million books were sold since them, solidifying Ziraldo has an author of children’s literature. Before O Menino Maluquinho, Ziraldo had already published [...]
Rebelde (Rebellious) is a Mexican comic book series first published in April 2006 by ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio. Based on the successful Mexican telenovela (soap opera) of the same title, Rebelde tells the adventures and struggles of teenaged students at Elite Way School—a prestigious private boarding school in Mexico City. The story’s main plot line revolves [...]