''Put simply, it is a book of powerful, educational words and inspirational illustrations. Each illustration on every page is remarkable, because Olivier manages to capture the ''soul'' of everyone he meets and draws.'' - Kevin Milsom, Joyzine ''Like the better-known Joe Sacco, Kugler practices a form of graphic journalism, although in a very different style. What Kugler does so well here is to step back, still his own voice and instead do his best to give that voice to the refugees themselves. It puts a very human, individual face on people all too often vilified in the press and by certain politicians for their own ends, and reminds us how we are all of us vulnerable and may at some point rely on the kindness of strangers.'' - woolamaloo.org.uk, Best of the Year 2018 ''Olivier Kugler is part of our century''s movement of journalists, like Joe Sacco, who use the 20th-century language of comics to document the world.

Sacco takes us into Gorazde by including himself in the drawings. Kugler does it through enmeshing our imagination in the timelapse of lines and visible voices.'' - Peace News ''It doesn''t surprise me that Olivier Kugler''s Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees won this year''s European Design Awards Jury Prize. This recreated sketchbook is artistically masterful. While he worked after the fact from photos he''d taken, each page has all the energy of an image drawn on the spot. Kugler''s line is astute, sinuous. Sketchbooks like Kugler''s make readers feel as if they are sitting beside the artist--watching the refugees climb onto the beach of the Greek island of Kos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey, or smelling the tea sold by a vendor in an Iraqi refugee camp.'' - The New York Review of Books ''While the work.

is far more venturesome than what is being produced at mainstream comics publishers, Escaping Wars and Waves owes as much to the tradition of comics and sequential art as it does to journalism. The story retains a sketchbook-like sensibility rather than that of formal, finalized storytelling. It''s fitting: Everyone is on the move. Their stories are far from over, and some are still waiting to be told.'' - Hyperallergic ''A kaleidoscopic odyssey for the era of displaced persons and disintegrating nations, this collection of dispatches from the Syrian refugee community is a fine example of humanistic journalism.'' - Publishers Weekly ''Olivier Kugler''s latest book Escaping Wars and Waves is an immersive exploration of the immigrant experience. It''s further proof of just how potent graphic journalism can be. Kugler''s style is visually dense yet carries an emotional punch.

It allows him to get inside people''s stories in a fresh and compelling way.'' - Teddy Jamieson, Herald Scotland ''This is a brilliant example of the power and versatility of the medium - engaging, informative, shocking and even heart-warming. A book we should all take the time to read.'' - Simon Chadwick, The Cartoonists'' Club of Great Britain ''That''s what Kugler does so well, he enables us to see these people not as a news story, not as statistics, not as demonised figures, but to show us people, people we can see ourselves in, we can empathise with. And from empathy comes compassion and more understanding. A very important read.'' - Joe Gordon, Down The Tubes ''That''s what Kugler does so well here, he enables us to see these people not as a news story, not as statistics, not as demonised figures, but to show us people, people we can see ourselves in, we can empathise with. And from empathy comes compassion and more understanding, and god knows our world desperately needs those right now.

This is not an easy read, it''s emotionally hard-going, but very worth making that effort; it''s a much-needed riposte to the demonising and hatred we see poured at some refugees. No, this is not an easy read, but it is, I would say, a very important read.'' - Woolamaloo ''The Syrian refugee crisis--effectively a diaspora now--has proven to be one of the defining humanitarian issues of the modern era. We are blessed to have creators like Kugler making sure that these people''s lives are not forgotten.'' - Josh Franks ''It''s the kind of cliché we try and avoid using here at Broken Frontier but, seriously, if you buy just one comic or graphic novel this week it should be this.'' - Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier ''The book is for everyone to read, to have in the home for all age groups because it makes you value what you have.'' - Jo Good, BBC Radio London ''Olivier Kugler is an extraordinarily skilled journalist and cartoonist who is taking comics journalism to a new level. These potent profiles from the migration front lines will leave an indelible impression on your brain and heart.

'' - Joe Sacco ''Proactive, attentive, sensitive. confronting and communicating experiences and realities, self-effacing Kugler prioritises giving his interviewees their voice.'' - Paul Gravett, ArtReview ''Kugler is the contemporary face of reportage illustration, the art of going to a place where there''s a news story, looking hard, asking questions and coming back with the drawings.'' - John Walters, Eye Magazine.