events surrounding it, like the Graphical Short Story contest, run in conjunction with The Observer. Gravett and Stanbury's Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes was nominated for a 2007 Eagle Award for Favourite Comics-related Book. Bibliography Gravett is the author of several non-fiction books on the topic of comics and sequential art, including: Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (Harper Design, 2004), ) Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life (Aurum Press, October 2005), ;US printing: Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know (Collins Design, November 2005), ) (with Peter Stanbury) Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes (Aurum Press, October 2006), ) (with Peter Stanbury) The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics (Aurum Press September 2008) ;U.S. printing: Holy Sh*t! The World's Weirdest Comic Books (St Martin's Press, February 2009), . (editor) 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (Universe Publishing, October 2011), , (Cassell Illustrated), Comics Art (Tate Publishing, October 2013) , (Yale University Press), (with John Harris Dunning) Comics Unmasked (The British Library, May 2014) References Notes Sources "Culture Shock" (interview by Chrissie Harper, Judge Dredd Megazine #251, 2006) External links Escape Books Profile by Everett True Journalisted - Articles by Paul Gravett British male journalists Comics critics Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Anime and manga critics