The outstanding title this year is Stephen Collins’s Some Comics… Collins is a young man already equipped with the mordant gloom and brutal cynicism of the career cartoonist, and this is a fine first collection.

Perfect single page distillations of 21st-century life. And they are hilarious... There truly is something for everyone

Ridiculously funny, damn clever... really well crafted.

Hannah Berry’s stunning artwork is painstakingly meticulous and her narratives are always thought-provoking and playful.

Sumner’s wondrous art is a perfect visual correlative to Wyld’s spare lyricism.

A lovely, complex, elegiac book.

The perfect marriage of sparse but beautiful prose with elegant and effective imagery.

Wyld … uses her signature oblique style to excellent effect in conjuring up a child’s world of everyday nightmares.

If you have never read a graphic novel before, this powerful and moving example is the perfect place to start.

Poignant and rather perfect.

Sumner’s illustrations are an evocative accompaniment to this melancholy, funny, moving tale.

Lyrically written, […] Sumner’s artwork complements Wyld’s restrained style beautifully.

Here’s hoping Father Christmas is an Observer reader and buys it for me.

A testament to the mind of a child and how it survives the world around it and a remarkable comic book in tapping into that transformative experience.

Communicates elaborate ideas in deceptively simple ways

Wonderful graphic novel.

The storyline is exciting and well thought out to give a wide overview of the suffrage movement. I was very pleasantly surprised.

A seamless blend of historical fact and fiction ... The illustrations are full of energy and expression.