A rare UK appearance from the award-winning graphic novel creator
Sean Michael Wilson
In Memoriam: Chris Reynolds, creator of Mauretania Comics… tributes planned for an indie comics legend
News of tributes to the groundbreaking independent comics luminary Chris Reynolds, who died earlier this month
The 17th Japan International MANGA Award seeks entries from manga artists across the globe
Manga creators from across the world are being encouraged to enter this competition
Mamiya Rinzo, samurai explorer, focus for new graphic novel
Check out this new manga on the explorer Mamiya Rinzo by Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima
Creating Comics: Sean Michael Wilson on adapting the world’s oldest known novel, The Tale of Genji, into manga
How do you adapt a 1000-plus page novel into comics? Writer Sean Michael Wilson has some thoughts…
Sneak Peek: George Orwell’s acclaimed essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys” gets graphic novel treatment
Coming soon from Pluto Press, a powerful retelling of an acclaimed polemic on British class structure
“Radical Reading: Political Comic Books” online short course open now from the School for Social and Cultural Change
Check out this course run by comics writer Sean Michael Wilson
Sneak Peek: Spirit of Japan: Festivals, Rituals and Everyday Magic
A intriguing new illustrated book from Liminal 11 will be released next year
New “Comic Book Guide to Gardening”, out next year, is not the first gardening-inspired comic
This upcoming new gardening graphic novel looks great, but the marketing department who hyped it need a history lesson
Who Guards the Guardian’s Graphic Novels?
Sean Michael Wilson feels there’s something lacking in The Guardians’s graphic novel coverage…
Manga Yokai Stories offers some ghostly tales from Japan, retold by Sean Michael Wilson and Inko
Ghostly manga tales on their way to a bookshop near you…
Japan Society offers free online “Manga Drawing for Wellbeing” workshop with Fumio Obata
Manga creator? Don’t miss this free online workshop next month
Thirteenth Japan International MANGA Award competition closing date approaches
The call for entries is open to all over the world for the 13th Japan International Manga Award, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The deadline is 14th June 2019. Previous British winners include Sean Michael Wilson,… Read More ›
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launches new “The Many Not the Few” graphic novel
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn not only attended the launch of “The Many Not the Few” in Parliament on Monday 20th May 2019 – he bought four copies, too, and made a very nice speech saying how much he liked it…. Read More ›
Petition calls for arts funding support for British Comics on a par with Opera
The UK has a long tradition of making good comic books. Yet since the 1980s, sales of comics in newsagents, while still stronger than some magazine sectors, have declined drastically. Comic creator Sean Michael Wilson – author of the upcoming graphic novel The Many Not the Few with artist Robert Brown, introduced by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is calling for better funding support for comic art projects to encourage creators.