The first day of the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomise the Great War. This monumental panorama captures the unimaginable horrors of that fateful day.On 1st July 1916, almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded during the first day...

Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2014 British Comic AwardsReaders! This book is not a real encyclopedia!It is an epic work of fiction, detailing the many tales and adventures of one lonely storyteller, on a quest for Enlightenment and True Love. This...

A collection of surreal, comic, and mournful graphic stories, traveling across three continents, zooming in on unusual lives and remarkable situations, each tale unknowingly impacting the next In Rye train station a woman impulsively buys the same ticket as the man in front of her, the...

After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle is back with Burma Chronicles. In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control - where...

Inspired by the food of Vietnam, The Art of Pho is a remarkable debut by the winner of the 2008 Cape/Observer graphic novel competition The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue-- having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red...

This essential guide to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story brings the brand new Star Wars movie to life, with detailed information and extensive images depicting the characters and worlds explored in Rogue One, as well as presenting unseen concept art and unique behind-the-scenes...

Move over Johnny Blaze, take a hike Danny Vetch — there’s a new Ghost Rider in town! The spirit of vengeance returns in the form of Robbie Reyes, a teenage petrolhead with a fl ame-spitting Dodge Charger, eager for revenge against those who took...

In another world, in another time, an aged Logan was one of the few survivors when the villains finally won. He tried to carve out a peaceful life for his family – until they were brutually murdered by the Hulk Gang. Though his vengeance was...

Witness the destruction as the Onslaught Saga draws to a shocking conclusion! Using the mutant abilities of his captives to evolve into his final form, the psionic psychopath grows in power every second. But as the Avengers, Fantastic Four and the X-Men clash with...

This is the Marvel Universe. Where the personalities, powers, and straight-up legends of countless heroic women have captured readers for generations.This unique book is the perfect start-or addition-to any Marvel fan's collection! Using her in-depth knowledge and passion for Super Heroes, Lorraine Cink explores...

Celebrate 60 years of web-slinging with the story of Marvel Comics' most beloved super hero, Spider-Man! Features Foreword by Stephen Wacker, former Senior Editor of Spider-Man. When Stan Lee and Steve Ditko debuted Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, would they have ever predicted what would...

Inspired by tales of mythical sea creatures and the tall stories of doomed voyages passed down from sailor to son Kellie Strom has created a rich tapestry of wonderment. Historical ships are attacked, enveloped and engorged by monstrous creatures surfacing from the deepest depths...

A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction. Prior to Safe Area...

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER. Featuring 256 pages of gorgeous full-colour illustrations and wrapped in a beautiful package.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited...

A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly turned to...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Netflix's Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, this graphic novel brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using...

Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced...

Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the...

HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST?In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept...

‘This is a book for anyone who has ever laboured under a deadline, battled a stubborn pig of a boss, or half drowned beneath a wave of bureaucracy and paperwork. Put off what you intended to do today and go out and buy it,...

Six months on the New York Times bestseller list! Featured on 25 best of the year lists!"Somewhere in my heart is a folder titled Things I Did Not Know I Wanted and it is full of Kate Beaton comics... Sharp, charming, and weird, Step Aside, Pops is a...

Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People – men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and...

A story of loyalty, love, and courage, Sally Heathcote, Suffragette follows a common housemaid swept up in the feminist militancy of Edwardian Britain. Costa Award winners Mary and Bryan Talbot and acclaimed illustrator Kate Charlesworth craft a gripping inside story of depth, drama, and detail that...

On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable…monster*!Where did it...

Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions...

ON TIME, NPR AND USA TODAY'S BEST-OF 2011 LISTS! WINNER OF THE EISNER, HARVEY AND IGNATZ AWARDS Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious--but loyal--Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and...

From “a master of precision” (The Observer, London) comes an explosive, provocative novel about John F. Kennedy’s years in the White house: his political daring, his brave dedication to human rights, his devotion to his family—and his uncontrollable and unrelenting appetite for sexual adventure.•...

Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened...

In his remarkable new book Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could...

This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But...

––– GUARDIAN GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR –––––– OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH –––THE GROUNDBREAKING GRAPHIC NOVELA story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times.On the eve of the US elections, a Syrian family leave their world behind for a chance...

The world has changed beyond all imagination. From high above its surface, X-51 and the Watcher observe a planet populated by superhumans, chronicling what may be its final days. As the mystery of the Celestial Seed is revealed, the human race finds itself on...

Hero, warrior, princess, ambassador: over the decades, Wonder Woman has been all these things and more. The beginning of Rucka's remarkable mid-2000s run on Wonder Woman, ‘Down to Earth' and its successor stories redefined Diana for the era. Also includes stories featuring art by...

Disgraced ex-Green Lantern and longtime nemesis of Hal Jordan, Sinestro, assembles his own rival crew to the Green Lantern Corps, in the process igniting an interstellar conflict! With some of the most powerful entities in existence on his side – including two prime movers...

In a world where everyone has powers, what need is there for yesterday's heroes? It has been 20 years since the mutant plague ‘gifted' all those on Earth with strange new abilities. Far above the planet, Uatu the Watcher summons X-51, the Machine Man,...

Bolstered by a bonus feature detailing how Moore and Gaiman's experiences with DC Comics and Superman continuity shaped their careers, plus an afterword by Gaiman, these are some of the finest Superman stories ever published. COLLECTS ‘FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING' FROM SUPERMAN...

Deadpool has been doing a fair bit of pondering over the course of this series, by his standards at least, and the conclusion reached in Operation Annihilation was that his behavioural patterns indicated a desire for suicide. He subsequently discovered that when you’ve undergone a treatment...

The bewitching classic children's graphic novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted from his bestselling book'I was enthralled ... a marvellously strange and scary book' Philip Pullman'A masterpiece' Terry PratchettThere is something strange about Coraline's new home.It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be...

In Eisner Award–nominated How Comics Work, Dave Gibbons offers a class in creating comic books. Learn scriptwriting, page layouts, lettering, and more from the incredible artist behind Watchmen!This “How It's Done” series reveals insider hints, tips, and tricks from one of the world’s greatest comic creators, all in his...

The complete story of Marvel Comics, illustrated with artwork from the official Marvel archives. The Marvel Museum gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a beautiful book. This stunningly curated collection includes rarely-seen artwork from the Marvel archives, from concept sketches...

In this major new book by the bestselling author of Palestine Joe Sacco travels to the Arctic regions of CanadaIn his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of...

Assassin’s Creed: El Cakr continues the story of elite Assassin Jonathan Hawk, a brother-in-arms of video game protagonist Desmond Miles. In the present day, Hawk fights through a terrible setback to unmask a traitor in the Order’s ranks, whilst his ancestor El Cakr battles Templar...

Collects Moon Knight (2016) #1-5.Marc Spector — a.k.a. Moon Knight/Jake Lockley/Steven Grant — has been fighting criminals and keeping New York City safe for years…or has he? When Marc wakes up in an insane asylum with no powers and a lifetime's worth of medical...

The Champions name hardly applied to a fondly remembered super team at Marvel, and hadn’t been used for almost forty years when Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos revived it for their version of a teen super team. The series launched in the wake of Civil...

Alliances crumble and friendships lie in tatters as Earth's super-hero community is ripped in two once again! The cause? A new Inhuman with precognitive abilities who is able to perceive events before they occur. Some want to use his powers to protect the future,...

The emergence of an Inhuman who can predict the future has sparked a new Civil War between Earth's heroes. On one side stands Captain Marvel, on the other Iron Man. As the visions increase and even heroes fi nd themselves facing arrest for crimes...

It's double the archery adventure with not one, but two Hawkeyes! Clint Barton and Kate Bishop team-up to deliver twice the justice as they take on Russian mobsters, the Circus of Crime, Madame Masque and more! Get ready for a ground-breaking Marvel comic unlike...

Jessica Jones is back in her own solo series! A lot has changed in the Marvel Universe since the last time she headlined her own book, and there are secrets hiding in the shadows - secrets only a special woman like Jessica Jones can...

Onslaught has been revealed in all his terrible glory! Betrayed by their own leader, the X-Men have been shattered from within, but there is more treachery to come. As the mutants discover the shocking secret of the Xavier protocols, the Dark Beast clashes with...

For months an ominous name has haunted the X-Men... Onslaught. Who or what is this mysterious creature and why is he so obsessed with the mutant heroes? Meanwhile, as the team wrestle with this phantasmagorical foe, Jean Grey inches ever closer to discovering the...