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In London, the moment two commuters, Aaron and Lilly, lay eyes on each another on a packed Monday morning tube train, everyone else around them van...

Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite...

Genius, eccentric, exhibitionist: there is no shortage of adjectives to describe the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. Yet this iconic artist...

Nominated for the prestigious Angoulême Festival Grand Prix, Vanistendael creates comics 'about life as it really is'. A beautiful, unexpected stor...

On the run from the mob, a trio of 1920s Chicago Jazz musicians take a job from an elderly reverend, playing for what they think is his wifes funer...

In a sleepy village, a retired gentleman is consumed with tales of chivalry. Seeing no impediments, such as logic, propriety or sanity, to fulfill...

The second volume of Don Quixote is much darker than the first, picking up the story where Volume I left off and taking us to Don Quixote's death. ...

Run Wrake's career as an animator and graphic designer was distinguished by an engagement with music, from the videos he produced for the Gang of F...

Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Rosss cartoon alter-ego guides ...

Three short stories, each focusing on the relationship between mother and child. ''''The Piper Man'''' is structured around the legend of The Pied ...

Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charis...

In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, Fun. A century la...

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (18481903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was o...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmosph...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on wr...

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psy...

Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gharani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. H...

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he ...

John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts whose lives took them in different directions. As adults, they are reunited by accident and love takes ho...