A bona fide masterpiece.

Jimmy Corrigan is certainly the greatest thing in strip cartoons since Krazy Kat and Little Nemo

Ware is the most versatile and innovative artist the medium has known - arguably the greatest achievement of the form ever

This new book seems to be another milestone in the demonstration of what comics can be

Chris Ware has produced a book as beautiful as any published this year, but also one which challenges us to think again about what literature is and where it is going

Perhaps best read in a single sitting, Jimmy Corrigan is perceptive, poetic, and sometimes profound, generously rewarding the absorption it requires

Jimmy Corrigan is a dazzlingly handsome book with every detail lovingly attended to. The book is demanding, disturbing, funny and exciting. Oh yes, and essential

A work of genius

Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother.

A complex, fascinating and intellectually rich memoir.

Very original and arresting.

Throughout, there are magnificent feats of connectivity, startlingly complex internal monologues that unfold with perfect simplicity… I haven’t encountered a book about being an artist, or about the punishing entanglements of mothers and daughters, as engaging, profound or original as this one in a long time.

Lively, fresh and expressive…humane, complex and beautiful.

Don’t let the cartoons fool you, this is an exciting and intelligent book and, at many points, highly moving. It doesn’t just tell Alison’s story, Are You My Mother? allows to you to think about your own.

Find everything this author has written. Every jot she makes on the paper enriches the baroque, painful, exhilarating story she has to tell.

It’s first and foremost funny, using graphical and verbal tricks to express the psychological dramas of an American household.

[Sacco’s] ability to cram in detail is extraordinary. And it is the details that linger.

When stretched to its 24ft length in the Saga Magazine office, we pored over it for ages. We predict you will want to do the same.

About Joe Sacco’s The Great War, one can write only essays or short, ecstatic sentences... A beautiful accordion-book, it unfolds on the Western Front, with all its monotony and misery: simple, but intricate; wordless, but vocal; brutal, but beautiful. A masterpiece of quietly affecting numbers, the thousands of lines, dots, and crosses that demarcate the thousands of lives, deaths, and crises.

The detail in this work is phenomenal, capturing the aloof generals, death in the trenches, and the wounded... [Sacco] makes visceral one of the bloodiest days in history.

Wordless and brilliant.

Sometimes words and photographs are not enough… [An] astounding book.

A unique and unforgettable experience.

A meticulous visual depiction.