Another month begins, another list of graphic novels and comics we’d like to suggest you take a look at coming at you over the next couple of months… here’s what we’re looking forward to:
FEBRUARY 2012
Finally! Finally! Hopefully…. Morrison and Quitely’s Flex Mentallo re-released
Early Warren Ellis Stormwatch re-released in HC.
First Second release Faith Erin Hicks’ Friends With Boys – webcomic here.
Mary Talbot’s first Graphic Novel, alongside husband Bryan for what looks like a classic debut: Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes.
And after a debut, here’s a finale. A very sad finale, as this is the last work of Harvey Pekars we’ll ever be lucky enough to see. The master of autobiog is back in Cleveland.
And there’s a new book from Joe Sacco – Journalism. Three must buys I reckon.
King City Comics – by the brilliant Brandon Graham, finally gets collected.
Old buddy, ex-Nostalgia & Comics alumni Ben McCool’s PIGS gets a first collection (biased – absolutely!).
SelfMadeHero release the latest Edginton/Culbard adaptation – Princess Of Mars. UPDATE – 6th Feb – This is now being released later in 2012.
Gloriana – latest from Kevin Huizenga.
Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague from Time Bomb comics – Britains most famous highwayman comes up against vampires!
Whilst Nobrow’s Cramond Island has Edinburgh native Joe all excited!
Hector Umbra – Out from Blank Slate through previews in February – and previewed here.
Ampney Circus – another Ian Edginton book – from 2000AD this time, and it sounds bloody great!
Kolor Klimax showcases the best of alternative Scandanavian cartooning talent.
MARCH 2012
Compleat Terminal City – brilliant from Motter and Lark, much overlooked over the years.
New HB collection of Elektra: Assassin – back in the days when Miller was readable, ably assisted by manic Sienkievicz artwork, this was magnificent.
Hugo Pratt’s epic, iconic Corto Maltese reissued – it’s been too long! (Meant to be March, but may be out earlier)
More from Blank Slate…..  Laurie J Proud’s Peepholes.
Interiorae – Gabriella Giandelli’s masterpiece Interiorae is a mash-up of day-to-day drama and surreal fantasy set in a high-rise apartment building.
Fallen Words – A new graphic novel from the forefather of the Japanese literary comics movement.
I’m Never Coming Back – a collection of surreal, comic and mournful interweaving tales travelling across three continents, by Observer/Cape/Comic award winning Julian Hanshaw.
Monsieur Jean, acclaimed creation of celebrated European creators Phillippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian, is back in this stand-alone volume
Megalex – Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, with art and cover by Fred Beltran.
SelfMadeHero with a couple of lovely horror books - Lovecraft Anthology Vol 2, and a new Cthulu adaptation from INJ Culbard – The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward. (UPDATE Feb 4th – correction. The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward is scheduled for May).
And completing a triumverate of books with art from INJ Culbard; here’s New Deadwardians #1, coming from DC/Vertigo.
New Andi Watson! Always a great phrase to utter – Gum Girl is out from Walker Books on the 1st.
Warren Ellis’ 6-issue run on Secret Avengers gets a collection – great spy-tech stuff going on.
And finally – Blue is the debut graphic novel of Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. Part autobiography and part science fiction, Blue is the story of three spotty teenagers who skip school to go surfing only to end up investigating rumours of a dead body in their beach town. Looks stunningly good – see here for pages.
Okay, that’s it for this  month – what looks good to you coming to the shelves?
February 5th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
A Princess Of Mars may well be coming out in March, but it seems I won’t be getting my copy from FPI as I received an email the other day saying my order was cancelled because “our suppliers have informed that this item has now been cancelled.”
February 5th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Just updated the post – it’s now being released later in 2012 in the UK from SelfMadeHero. Hence the cancellation of the order.
It will be back on the site, with a new code, as soon as we get details. Apologies for this, but such is the problem with release schedules occasionally!