Wuthering depths: the Brontë country graphic novel about floods and fracking
Yorkshire’s under threat – from extreme weather, extreme pollution and extreme grouse-shooting. The Costa-winning duo behind graphic novel Rain talk us through its deeper meanings
July 2018
Yes, graphic novels are thriving. (Well done, Booker)
Rachel Cooke
Comic book Sabrina by Nick Drnaso is on the longlist for the prize, but it’s just the latest in a fine tradition
June 2016
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, and The Last Communard review – the best model for the left
A graphic biography about a saintly feminist who fought on the barricades of the French Commune and the story of an unlikely revolutionary icon point to new socialist futures
April 2016
Children's books
The best starter graphic novels for YA readers
The world of graphic novels can be hard to navigate, especially if you’re not a superhero fan. Here are seven of the best introductions to the genre for teens
July 2015
Children's books
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot – review
Lattice: ‘I found that I learnt more about the suffrage movement from reading this book’
February 2015
Books blog
Why our comic-book heroes deserve to be celebrated, not trashed
The long history, abundant diversity and visionary quality of comics produced in the English-speaking world are too rarely appreciated by mainstream critics
January 2015
Top 10s
Neel Mukherjee’s top 10 books about revolutionaries
A quirky collaborative story featuring the work of Irvine Welsh, Mary Talbot and Pat Mills set in Scotland's highest village after the rest of the country has been flooded, writes James Smart
June 2014
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette review – a very readable crusade
Flashes of colour illuminate the black and white panels in a book that combines an academic attention to detail with passionate politics. By James Smart
May 2014
The suffragettes' struggle reborn as a gripping graphic adventure
Mary Talbot's graphic novel about James Joyce's daughter won the Costa biography prize, but for her next project she chose a completely different subject, writes Rachel Cooke
April 2014
Irvine Welsh joins team writing dystopian graphic novel
IDP: 2043, set in a benighted future Scotland, features leading writers and graphic artists including Mary Talbot and Pat Mills
October 2013
Comic and graphic novel stars take over Kendal for new festival showcase
Lakes International comic art festival eschews superhero model to give women writers and artists equal billing, writes Laura Sneddon
January 2013
Books blog
Who will win the 2012 Costa book of the year award?
The week in books
How the Costa prize debate got graphic
Costa 2012: Dotter of Her Father's Eyes - extract
Costa awards 2012: graphic biography wins category prize
November 2012
The graphic novel's spectacular rise: from kids' comics to the Costa prize
Cartoonists Joff Winterhart and Mary Talbot gain accolades that once would have seemed like a pipe dream
Books blog
Two Costa nominations isn't the full picture for comics
Peter Wild: Kudos to Bryan and Mary M Talbot and Joff Winterhart, but the graphic scene is full of authors worthy of mainstream awards
Costa book awards: the comic contenders
Days of the Bagnold Summer and Dotter of Her Father's Eyes are the first graphic works to be shortlisted for one of the UK's most prestigious book awards
