Herve Bourhis’s fifty year pop culture chronicle of all things British would be the perfect gift for an ex-pat living abroad, a Briton on the homefront or those of us who feel weirdly drawn to the English way. Covering the years 1962-2022, Bourhis graphic novel format gives the first full page to that year’s musical influencer for each year and the subsequent three pages become a patchwork quilt of pictures and text in primary colors of blue, red, yellow, black, white, and peachy-pink that relaying an array of British influence. Almost all musicians are names most people would recognize: The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Sex Pistols, The Beegees, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Oasis, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Adele, Dua Lipa. On page 2 of each year’s focus, musical influences as well as worldly influences on musicians are highlighted as well as 5 more British albums for that year. Page 3 is a patchwork of British factoids for the year that are runners-up to the winner of the biggest British influencer taking center-stage on page 4. For example, in 2021 the winner was Astra Zeneca because of its creation of the anti-covid vaccine “Vaxzevria”. Herve’ Bourhis handi-work with in sketching really make the book pop. They are so spot on and yet so British at the same time, ending so apropro with “God save the King” as the final kiss to this passion project he undertook during the covid pandemic when he couldn’t make his bi-yearly trips to England that he had enjoyed for close to thirty years.