A distinctly continental sort of graphic novel: 200 sepia-tone pages of rambling story about a young ballet dancer’s training and young adulthood, rather like Black Swan without the madness and body horror.

An absorbing tale… Both the art and the narrative are compelling and arresting and it isn’t long before the book has you in its gentle grip.

Thrillingly minimalistic… Who knew you could express so much in so few lines?

I was seduced immediately… This is an exceptionally absorbing and touching book, one that should be required reading for teenage girls everywhere.

Vivès conveys emotions with the lightest of touches... a perceptive look at the things in a ballerina’s life that fuel her artistry. But it will also delight readers unfamiliar with ballet. It reminds us that youthful hopes and disappointments may be innocent, but they are not necessarily shallow. They can be turned into great art.

Woody Guthrie And The Dust Bowl Ballads is simply splendid. Hayes’ strong graphic hand and integrated text are wonders to pore over and return to.

Greenberg both tells and illustrates with warm, whimsical beauty.

Fantastical, often touching yarns, which graphic novelist Greenberg tells and illustrates with warm, whimsical beauty.

A work of exquisite originality... This book has the sort of energy and depth that will appeal to readers of all ages. Early Earth encompasses humour, wit, tragedy, brutality and the most bittersweet love story you can imagine.

I cannot recommend you getting a copy of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth enough. It really is just wonderful how every page will hold a story within a picture, yet all those pictures create another story which adds a layer, back story, or myth around the story we are following.

I was instantly struck by how breathtakingly beautiful it was… Prepare for some stunning mythology that you will never have read before… This is the kind of book you will want to take home and keep forever. It’s timeless folklore and exquisite drawings will convert lovers of fantasy and mythology to the wonders of graphic novels

Greenberg speaks of storytellers but she's a great storyteller herself, and it's easy to be pulled into the worlds that she writes, housed neatly by tight drawings in a style that is bright enough to bring these worlds to life, and detached enough to feel a little otherworldly.

‘It’s a book about many things – love, snow, god, poisoned sausages...but mostly it’s a celebration of storytelling itself. Strange and wry and funny and beautifully drawn.’

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a delightful accordion of a book. This graphic novel casts a spell like that of Scheherazade – when you sit down with it, prepare to stay until the last page.

One of the most anticipated debuts of 2013.

A playful yet wise graphic novel.

A welcome return - just as thoughtful, intellectual and valuable as Wilson or Mister Wonderful, but with an added sci-fi angle that's a perfect blend of weird science and paradoxical time travel.

Clowes is a master of immediacy. Even without his elegant illustrations, his dialogue…is so sharp, he establishes characters in just a few bubbles… I read it in one sitting and wanted, like Jack, to start over again.

A beautiful graphic novel that pays equal tribute to 50s comics and the contemporary confessional memoir.

A time-travelling masterpiece full of anger, with the fabulous art for which Clowes is renowned

A brilliant time-travelling rumination on love, bereavement and obsession.

A time-travel epic propelled by slabs of bright, confectionery color and the unhinged grief of a widower… In a year when so much art felt undone in light of current events, Patience is right on time.