At long last, from the creator of The Walking Man comesJiro Taniguchi's tale of the small quotidian pleasures of Edo era Japan. It has finallybeen released in English translation by Ponent Mon in this solid hardcover edition. Taniguchi, one of the greats, passed away earlier this year.

The work of Paul Hornschemeier is unique in that it employs the (re)production processes as narrative signifiers. InThe Three Paradoxes, his most sophisticated work yet, he employs several different modes of production and reproduction to convey his epistemological concerns, chief among them how experience, imagination, and memories are each treated in different ways by human consciousness, ordered according to only dimly perceived criteria, and sorted into different categories. Hornschemeier doesn't hold back here. He reaches deep into his bag of tricks, brings it all out and throws it all down, creating a fascinating visual mix where we...

Charles Burns has been creating and publishing his own unique brand of finely polished comics of life on the edge of sanity for well over thirty years.He forged an instantly recognizable pen and ink style from his earliest outings on, one that has influenced legions of comickers and illustrators (and writers and filmmakers) around the globe.He was a key contributor toRAW Magazineand helped redefine, as well as expand the boundaries of, comics during the 1980s. He has produced numerous genre-defying works such asEl Borbah,Big Baby, andBlack Hole– and he's still going strong!Sugar Skullis the third and final volume in the trilogy that began...

Believe it or not, it's been over twenty years since the publication of Understanding Comics, which established the breakthrough realization that the most effective way to truly explain how comics work is in comics form. Now, at last, we have the next iteration of this understanding: that the most effective way to explain how comics -- presented here as consciously thinking and writing - and, of course, reading - in a free flowing combination of images and text -- are changing the way we represent our world and understand ourselves is also in comics form. Unflattening, just published by Harvard University Press, is the book form of...

It's here! Five years in the making. Ganges #5.

Kevin Huizenga makes comics like no one else. He strives to bring the mechanics of consciousness to life in pen and ink on paper, in text and image, diagram and chart. One of his primary concerns is the representation of the temporal dimension in the spatial, in capturing and organizing the implacable flow of time from infinity to eternity to the here and now on the page, and that is the primary focus of this issue. He is aware that this is, ultimately, an impossible task, but attempts it nonetheless, knowing that this is what it means to be human. In this, the fifth issue of his series ...