Book Cover Graphic Novel Nunavik

“Do you know what constitutes a typical Inuit family? A man, a woman, two children… …And an anthropologist!” Michel Hellman promised his publisher a sequel to his first graphic novel. […]

Nunavik: A Visit with Inuit Culture

Cover of Babylon Berlin the Graphic Novel (English Translation)

A quick note—in addition to murder and torture, this graphic novel has adult situations and nudity. It’s 1929, and the Golden Era of the Weimar Republic is coming to an[…]

Babylon Berlin

Snow Day Book Review Wazem Aubin

How should a person respond when a line has been crossed? What happens when an honest sheriff comes up against a dishonest system? This is the premise of Snow Day,[…]

Snow Day

Death of Stalin Book Review Red Square Technique

In graphic novels, a sense of place is often just as important as the main characters.  In The Death of Stalin, Fabien Nury (writer) and Thierry Robin (artist) had two[…]

Panel Discussion: A Sense of Place

Herman By Trade Book Review

What does it mean to be invisible? To live a life where you barely exist? And how can you be true to yourself? Herman, the main character in Herman by[…]

Herman By Trade

Updated to (1) fix appalling mistakes in spelling and grammar, (2) add a comparison from “I Kill Giants”, and (3) add a link to blambot.com Lettering is often overlooked in[…]

Panel Discussion: Lettering

Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge is a unique literary product. The English translation of the illustrated adaptation of a French version of a hardboiled private-eye mystery novel, it will be immediately[…]

Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge

The Death of Stalin Book Review

Translated into English from the original French, The Death of Stalin details the farcical struggle for control of the Soviet Union in 1953.  It’s a story of secrets and suspicions,[…]

The Death of Stalin