Dirty Thirty: Thirty Years of Making a Scene

“I picked Dirty Thirty instead because it’s newer, bigger, retrospective, and all in English: 400 pages celebrating 30 years, 20 countries—a great gateway drug to a true comics institution. The few familiar names Americans will find there have, apart from Peter Kuper and Julie Doucet, all come to us in translation: Jason, Rutu Modan, Anke Feuchtenberger, Danijel Žeželj. The rest is… discovery! Anthologies are a riot for the eyes. The sheer diversity of styles, palettes, stories, minds on display is staggering. You find things there in a raw state that may go on to become parts of larger pieces, or just gems that go on to become legends, never to be seen anywhere else.” Read more...

The Best European Graphic Novels

Edward Gauvin, Translator