Strange, fantastical and largely terrifying… If you fancy escaping into a dystopian nightmare… then we can’t recommend Burns’ work highly enough.

My strong feeling is that this series is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully and honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read… I love Charles Burns…and I really adore these books.

Fizzes and pops.

Fans who return to the first two volumes will find even more resonance there now that the trilogy is complete.

Burns brings it all together in Sugar Skull. I don’t know which impressed me more – the slow build-up, over three books, to the revelation and knowledge that the final volume delivers.

The confidence with which Burns positions himself within the larger map of other writing and art is entirely earned.

A powerful story with beautiful drawings… It’s a triumph… A debut of quiet and delicate beauty, this is the graphic novel for the thinking creative.

The next hot ticket could be British artist Philippa Rice, whose marvellously inventive blogs My Cardboard Life and Soppy have won her fans across the world

McGuire adds lavish color and some plot, but he preserves the captivating, uncanny sense of love, anger and tragedy flying across the centuries while staying in one place.

One of the most engaging graphic novel experiments in book form I've ever seen

Here heightens our awareness of how much has gone before and is still to come

Rarely does a conceptual work seize the emotions like Here. Every moment seems insignificant compared with the massive sweep of time, and yet the most trivial actions take on an aching poignancy

Almost overwhelmingly poignant. His masterful sense of time and the power of the mundane makes this feel like the graphic novel equivalent of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Completely wonderful

You begin to appreciate McGuire's extraordinary command of history and pacing . . . the non-chronological arrangement seems faithful to how consciousness really works

Mixing brilliant images with witty captions… Clever, funny and shocking work.

Fleming is a gifted illustrator with a sharp sense of humour... I read it any time I have a bad day

Characteristically witty and well-observed

Jacky Fleming…is brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever, and these are her finest drawings yet… The book is savagely funny and wonderfully constructed, so that you start off giggling uncontrollably but then grow quieter at each successive misogynistic shocker… There isn’t a man, woman or child who wouldn’t benefit from spending time with this.

Jacky Fleming nails it with her razor-sharp observational writing and drawing in this very funny and fresh take on women in history. Fleming is a genius but with normal hair

Highly original and very funny. Takes history and turns it upside down, adding generous dollops of wit and charm

Ferociously funny