SelfMadeHero’s Spring 2023 Titles Announced: New Graphic Biographies Of Frida Kahlo, Thomas Girtin And More
SelfMadeHero have announced their new slate of titles for Spring 2023, including work from Reinhard Kleist, Mary & Bryan Talbot,
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Preview: Barbara Yelin’s Award Winning ‘Irmina’ Re-Released For Holocaust Memorial Day
Barbara Yelin‘s Irmina is a reflection on war, on the Holocaust, a troubling and intelligent drama released by SelfMadeHero in
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Preview: The Rickard Sisters & SelfMadeHero Say ‘No Surrender’ In November
UK creators Sophie and Scarlett Rickard and publishers SelfMadeHero adapt Constance Maud’s classic 1911 suffrage novel, No Surrender, into a
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Preview: Welcome To ‘Sophie’s World – A Graphic Novel About The History Of Philosophy’
SelfMadeHero’s latest graphic novel brings the worldwide philosophy bestseller by Jostein Gaarder to comics
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Preview: ‘The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding’ – Barbara Stok’s Wonderfully Realised Fascination With Philosophy
The author of SelfMadeHero’s Vincent turns her attention to Hipparchia and a lost strand of philosophy…
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SelfMadeHero’s Autumn Quartet Announced – Including The Graphic Novel Adaptation Of ‘Sophie’s World’
Philosophy, fine art, and the Suffragette movement, SelfMadeHero‘s newly announced quartet of Fall releases promises so much.
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Preview: ‘Alice Guy: First Lady of Film’ Shows Us A Pioneer’s Vision And Journey From The Early Days Of Cinema
SelfMadeHero, José-Louis Bocquet, and Catel Muller combine for an essential history lesson in cinema with Alice Guy.
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Comics Salopia 2022: The Female Frontier And Celebrating Great Comics By Women
Host Leonard Sultana starts off on the right note by joking about being a middle-age, cis “bloke” hosting a panel
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Upcoming: ‘Days Of Sand’ – A Best-Seller In Europe, Telling A Forgotten American Tale
SelfMadeHero announces the English-language publication of Aimée de Jongh’s Days of Sand, a bestselling graphic novel inspired by real-life stories
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‘Catalyst’: SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Features As An Online Exhibition At The Cartoon Museum
Following the launch of SelfMadeHero‘s Graphic Anthology Programme launch in 2021 which led to Catalyst the graphic novel anthology, now
Read morePreviewing ‘Knock Out! The True Story Of Emile Griffith’ By Reinhard Kleist
Knock Out! is the latest of Reinhard Kleist‘s graphic novels from SelfMadeHero, the true story of the bisexual black American
Read moreBest Of British: Gareth Brookes Tells A Visionary Story Of ‘The Dancing Plague’
In The Dancing Plague, Gareth Brookes‘ takes established historical events to ground what we’re reading in fact, but then cleverly
Read moreSelfMadeHero Offers A Dark Take On Romance In New Anthology ‘I Feel Love’ Out In April
I Feel Love, an anthology of short fictions that explores love’s dark, twisted underbelly thanks to editors Julian Hanshaw and
Read moreEuro Reviews: ‘Zátopek’ – When You Can’t Keep Going, Go Faster!
The man who changed running, that’s what they call Emil Zátopek, one of the greatest Olympic champions of all time,
Read moreSelfMadeHero: Promoting Diversity In Comics Publishing With Their Graphic Anthology Programme
Just announced from SelfMadeHero, a UK graphic novel publisher of UK and foreign material – the Graphic Anthology Programme (GAP). Designed
Read moreEuro Reviews: ‘The Summer Of Her Life’ – A Thoughtful Reflection On Age And On Life
A beautiful, thoughtful look back at a life, beginning to end, a study on choices made and roads not taken
Read moreEuro Reviews – ‘Wine: A Graphic History’ Is A Full-Bodied, Complex & Deep Look At The History Of The Grape
As Wine – A Graphic History so neatly puts it – ‘The history of wine is nothing less than the
Read moreEuro Reviews: ‘Medicine – A Graphic History’ Is Part Historical Journey & Part Anecdotal Insight
In Medicine: A Graphic History, surgeon and professor of medical history, Jean-Noël Fabiani, together with artist Philippe Bercovici attempt to
Read moreEuro Reviews: Because It’s There – ‘Altitude’ Takes Us To The Heights Of Climbing
Climbing meets art as Jean-Marc Rochette (Snowpiercer) and co-writer Olivier Bocquet slowly but surely craft a tale that captures the
Read moreAt The Mountains of Madness, No One Can Hear You Scream
I. N. J. Culbard’s At the Mountains of Madness opens in silence. A graphic novel adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella,
Read moreABC Of Typography: The Story Behind The Fonts You Use Everyday
Thanks to word processing programs like Microsoft Word there’s probably been a few occasions where you’ve had to decide what
Read moreMozart In Paris – Inside The Musical Mind Of The Genius
Mozart in Paris tells a fascinating and often gloriously inventive tale of a musical genius escaping an overbearing father and
Read moreIsadora: A Biography That Misses The Essence Of The Mother Of Dance
When chronicling the life of one of the world’s most innovative, wonderful dancers, you need a book that ascends to
Read moreThe ABC Of Typography: The History Of Fonts Laid Bare…
ABC of Typography is a book that could have been a dry treatise, walking us through 3,500 years of type
Read moreThe Book Of Forks: Essential Reading For Later In 2019
Back in 2014, Rob Davis began a trilogy of books that are some of the best examples of just how
Read moreAn Abstract Adventure Comes To An End In ‘Book Of Forks’ From Rob Davis This Fall
From British comic book creator Rob Davis (Black Crown Quarterly) comes The Book of Forks, the third book in a
Read moreAn Abstract Adventure Comes To An End In ‘Book Of Forks’ From Rob Davis This Fall
From British comic book creator Rob Davis (Black Crown Quarterly) comes The Book of Forks, the third book in a
Read moreMaggy Garrisson – The Least Likely Detective In All London
“Sardonic, gainfully employed – and in trouble.“ That’s the tag-line for Maggy Garrisson, a rather fabulous new private detective graphic
Read moreSelfMadeHero To Publish Biographical Graphic Novel Basquiat This May
A highly influential street artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat gets his own biographical graphic novel from SelfMadeHero this coming May 9th from Julian Voloj and
Read moreThe Darker Side Of America’s Recent History Exposed In ‘Guantanamo Kid’ From SelfMadeHero
Sometimes there are graphic novels that sound stranger than fiction, but are in fact all too real. Guantanamo Kid: The
Read moreBox Brown Offers Up ‘Cannabis: An American History’ From SelfMadeHero
Coming this March from SelfMadeHero comes the graphic novel history of America’s love affair with cannabis, simply entitled Cannabis: An
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