BOLOGNA 2023
Bubble éditions is a publisher empowered by the community of Bubble members (a famous, established online marketplace and news resource for comic book readers in France) and supported by French comics industry veterans. Bubble’s mission is to support the emergence of young artists, French and foreign, introducing their work to new audiences and cultivating their talent. Bubble publishes creators who break the codes.
WINNER: 2022 SCIENCE FICTION COMICS PRIZE
(WINNING OVER BOOKS PUBLISHED BY DARGAUD AND DELCOURT)
RAISED 500% OF GOAL ON FRENCH CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM
BREAKOUT TALENT
YOANN KAVEGE’S FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL
GENRE Science Fiction, Space Opera, Action
FORMAT 192 Pages (16 additional bonus pages avail.)
Full Color • OGN • 195 x 268 mm
SOLD IN Polish, unavailable in French
bubble éditions
Yoann Kavege
A silent and poignant odyssey of a small deer on a mission.
Recalling Wall-E and Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, Moon Deer follows our little hero in his quest to protect a strange egg at all costs. In a desolate cosmos, he is mercilessly
hunted by a mysterious huntress: a faceless enemy determined to restore the “Great Silence.”
Largely told through wordless panels, the story reads as a succession of expressive paintings – the kinetic art showing a desperate chase punctuated
by gloriously colorful explosions and crashes. The heart-pounding action reaches a fever pitch, until a completely unpredictable twist changes everything.
BELISCÃO draws on classic sources such as Incal, by Jodorowsky and Moebius, EC Comics, and classic science fiction like Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov, to portray a dystopian Brazil on “any day between tomorrow and the future” with Terry Gilliam-esque humor.
In the plot, Plínio, a “content creator” in love with old music disobeys one of the fierce (and incomprehensible) laws of the SYSTEM and is forced to flee São Paulo to a small town, where he is welcomed by a distant relative. Among Plínio’s many flaws are his addiction to sweets, which is forbidden. A “good citizen” decides to take justice into his own hands, with the permission of SYSTEM, of course.
In a plot of suspense and paranoia, showing two sides of obsessed minds, Camilo Solano weaves harsh criticisms of our current world, ponders about the future and makes the reader laugh with situations that are increasingly absurd, but bizarrely close to what we witness on a daily basis.
GENRE Science Fiction, Suspense, Political Commentary
FORMAT
148 Pages • Full Color • 21 × 28 cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Portuguese (BR)
Long ago, when gods and demons still roamed the earth... a human touched the heart of a beast. Their offspring would be known as lycans: half human, half wolf. Over time, the lycans split into four clans, kept in balance by the Heketi, a group of elite warriors hand-picked to serve as defenders and peacekeepers of their lands.
Luth, a young lycan, enters the grueling trial to become a Heketi for the first time. With her fighting skills, sharp wits, and the help of an oath-bound will-o-wisp, she may just survive the traps and challenges that await her in the forest. However, she may not be able to outrun her destiny as the Dark Star... and even she does not know what consequences that destiny will bring.
GENRE Supernatural, Adventure, LGBTQ+, Manga-influenced
FORMAT Vol 2 (3 volume series – to be collected in one book)
64 Pages • Black & White • 6” x 9”
PUB DATE April 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
Silver Sprocket
Various Artists
Comics for Choice is anthology of well-researched and educational comics about abortion rights. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political struggles, activism, and more. Lawyers, activists, medical professionals, historians, and abortion fund volunteers also share their highly personal, moving, and even funny stories that defy stigma and stereotypes. These contributors and artists give an entertaining primer on the history of abortion in America, and how far we still have to go. Readers will be encouraged to get involved—standing up for abortion rights, fighting abortion stigma, making links between intersecting forms of oppression, and learning about reproductive justice.
Comics for Choice contains comics from exciting cartoonists like Sophia Foster-Dimino (Sex Fantasy), Leah Hayes (Not Funny Ha-Ha), Archie Bongiovanni (A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Grease Bats), Jennifer Camper (Rude Girls and Dangerous Women), Ally Shwed (Sex Bomb Strikes Again) and Kat Fajardo (Gringa!, La Raza Anthology), and reproductive justice scholars like Rickie Solinger, Renee Bracey Sherman (Program Director, We Testify), and Dr. Cynthia Greenlee.
Nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner Awards. This updated edition includes a new cover and additional comics that address the changing landscape of abortion rights.
Patricia Martín RodríguezJonay has serious anger management issues, tortured by the conviction that he is a bad person. In his late thirties, his life is a disaster. Encouraged by his mother he agrees to go one last time to group therapy with a new psychologist. There he will meet Cho and Airam, two guys of dubious morals with whom he will learn two things: that you can always fall lower, and that even in the deepest and most filthy wells, there is goodness. Jonay, desperate for money, collaborates with his new partners in a plot that mixes them with the mafia and tests their friendship (and survival skills).
Patricia Martín Rodríguez likes complex characters with chiaroscuro, capable of transmitting discomfort to the reader, but with a sense of humor, superimposing on the same plane of the cute and innocent with the crude and unpleasant… And to draw handsome protagonists, too.
GENRE Crime, Action, Adventure, Mental Health, Manga-influenced
FORMAT 136 Pages • Black & White • OGN 17 x 24 cm
PUB DATE March 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
GENRE Non-Fiction, Feminism, Social Issues, Political Commentary
FORMAT
PUB
308 Pages
• Black & White • Anthology
6.625” x 10.25” portrait
DATE March 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
“THE BOOK IS AT ONCE A RALLYING CRY, A TENDER LAMENT, AND SONG OF LIBERATION THAT WILL RESONATE LONG AFTER THE FINAL PAGE IS TURNED.”
– Publishers Weekly
GENRE Humor, Supernatural, Action, Adventure
FORMAT Vol 2 (3 volume series, complete)
128 Pages • Full Color • 17 x 24.5 cm
PUB DATE March 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
Editorial Drakul Javier Ara and Manuel J. Rodriguez
Victor, alias Pantywetter, sold his soul for power, cursing him to lead a rather solitary life. He has gone from being an intern at Dark Investment, the largest soul management company in the multiverse, to taking care of the client portfolio of his former mentor, Angelica. His income and standard of living have increased
exponentially, but he has also inherited all the shenanigans his boss left behind after her disappearance and which are now being investigated by the tax office. Not knowing who he can trust, Victor becomes embroiled in a dark plot of crime and corruption that could end his life.
Javier Ara is the author of FREEHAND ROBBERY, nominated for Best Graphic Novel, and nominated for Future Comic Talent, in the Sanchis Grau Awards at Heroes Comic Con in Valencia. For fans of Deadpool and humorous supernatural fantasy comics.
Nuevo Nueve
Online School of Nacho Arranz Artists
Many years ago, but not as many as it might seem, magical beings migrated from their sphere to ours, to live with humans in perfect concord and harmony. Even if it looks like a lie.
Persephone works in the family business of gathering and selling information on all kinds of magical and prophetic events. The arrival of the magical beings multiplied the prophecies and Persephone is tasked with collecting and investigating them to see which one might be true. Until one night they asked help to find the impossible... Meanwhile, evil lurks in the shadows and the future is at stake of the false peace between man and magic.
Silver Sprocket
Mel StringerMel is excited about moving to Brisbane and starting art school! She imagines collaborating with other artists in a vibrant community, honing her craft, and becoming an accomplished artist. But it turns out that art school isn’t quite the same in real life. Can Mel finish college with her love of art still intact?
Based on the Stinger’s experience attending art school in the early 2000s, this funny, heartfelt graphic novel will resonate with anyone who had a youthful dream—or a DeviantArt account.
“MEL STRINGER’S ART AND STORYTELLING TALENT SHINE IN THIS BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL GRAPHIC MEMOIR THAT’S BOTH PERSONAL AND UNIVERSAL: THE TIME SOMEBODY STARTS TO BECOME THEIR TRUE SELF.”
– Kaz Cooke
GENRE Fantasy, Occult, Thriller FORMAT 104 Pages • Full Color • OGN 27 x 19 cm
PUB DATE February 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
GENRE Slice of Life, Coming of Age FORMAT 200 Pages • Full Color • OGN 6” x 6” square
PUB DATE March 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
GENRE Art Journal
FORMAT Vol 65 • 124 Pages • Full Color
SOLD IN Available in all languages (also looking for international distribution of English edition)
Various Artists
Hi-Fructose Magazine began as a quarterly print art magazine focused squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, taking readers on a delightful journey with coverage and content that is informative and original, with interviews and essays not found anywhere else.
The latest issue features a major cover feature on the works of Bisa Butler, the other-worldly sculptures of Christina Bothwell, the art of Bri Cirel, the wooden sculptures of Kiko Mitares, Brian Dettmer’s book carvings, an in-depth visit to renowned Mütter Museum, nature: as interpreted by artist Ashley Eliza Williams, the art of the legendary Clive Barker, plus a 16-page insert printed on sketch paper on the surreal art of Miles Johnson, and more!
Hi-Fructose’s social media audience (over 2 million combined followers) Is vast, with over 1M followers on Instagram, over 700K followers on Facebook, and 52,000 followers on Twitter.
Hi-Fructose has an enthusiastic international following, clamoring for the periodical to be available in their countries.
GENRE Graphic Medicine, Mental Health, Autobiography, Memoir
FORMAT 240 Pages • Full Color • OGN • 6.875” x 10.25”
PUB DATE April 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
Street Noise Books
Hayley Gold
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. It is not a phase, a fad, or a choice. It is a debilitating illness, manifested in a distorted relationship with food, but which actually has more to do with issues of control. Those who suffer from it are belittled, or tragically misunderstood, not only by society but by the healthcare system meant to treat it.
NERVOSA is a no-holds-barred, richly textured portrait of one young woman’s experience. In her vividly imagined retelling, Hayley Gold lays bare a callous medical system seemingly disinterested in the very patients it is supposed to treat. With brutal honesty and witty sarcastic humor, Gold offers a remarkably candid exploration of the search for hope in the darkness.
“Gold’s gestural artwork is expressive, and her analytical personality…comes through visually in her fondness for drawing diagrams, floor plans, and flowcharts… But her frank insights bring readers intimately into the emotions of living with an eating disorder.”
- Publishers Weekly
“A VIBRANT GRAPHIC MEMOIR FULL OF DARK HUMOR, NERVOSA IS AN INSIGHTFUL LOOK INTO THE TORMENT OF DISORDERED EATING THAT WILL BE A SOURCE OF COMFORT TO OTHERS WHO STRUGGLE WITH THEIR MENTAL HEALTH.”
– ASHLEY HOLSTROM, FOREWORD REVIEWS YA SPOTLIGHT
Tokyopop
Keith R. A. De Candido, Carmelo Zagaria, and Valentina CuomoThis prequel to the events of the 2021 animated Netflix series, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, features all-new original stories from the world of Resident Evil.
The story is set in 2006 during a bioterrorist incident in Pittsburgh, Leon Kennedy is called in to investigate alongside Pittsburgh PD when a bomb kills a guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art. But when that guard rises from the autopsy table and begins a chain reaction of undead corpses hunting for blood, Leon is once again caught in a complex web of intrigue. A terrorist cult, a mysterious virus, and the corpses of the dead returning to life to assault the living...
Leviathan Labs
Colleen Douglas and Jesus C. Gan
SILK COTTON is a Caribbean folk horror comic created from the pen of the London writer Colleen Douglas (of Guyanese origins) and with the explosive drawings of the Spanish artist Jesus C. Gan. The story follows a young boy whose fate is bound with otherworldly elements vying for supremacy on an epic scale.
Peter had heard “the stories,” like every child in the Caribbean. The tales of the ancients bound to the silk cotton tree. Supernatural mysteries whispered under the elders’ breath to avoid the notice of deities who live in between worlds and who live among us. One night, Peter’s world turns upside down when he comes face to face with these powerful beings of myth and legend. He watches his mother’s murder and is thrust into an unfamiliar world of folklore and mythology that is all too real.
FORMAT 5 Issues (Issue #1 released Dec 2022)
128 Pages • Full Color • OGN 6.625” x 10.1875”
PUB DATE (collection): May 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except worldwide English and Japanese
FORMAT
128 Pages • Full Color • OGN
PUB DATE April 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Italian and Spanish (ES)
FORMAT Book 0 (ongoing) • 136 Pages Black & White • 6.60” x 10.2”
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
Begin to delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in this new archival publication.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF BLACK PUNK: RECORD ZERO is an illustrated rollcall for punk, post-punk, hardcore, no-wave, and experimental bands from ground zero ‘til now. A starting point
for anyone curious, another reference for those who devour all genre-related things, or a cool artifact for anyone in the know. This book is part of an ongoing series that covers musicians like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Poly Styrene, Don Letts, Minority Threat, and many others. From LA to London, from the early 1900s till today, Buchanan examines and presents narratives to show how Black musicians shape (and are shaped by) the world we live in.
Buchanan is an illustrator, writer, and musician born in Eerie, PA. After risking more than a decade of her life to drumming and singing in hardcore, post-punk, and power pop bands, she has returned to her first love: comics. Buchanan’s creative work centers on exploring different areas of Black heritage, such as rock ‘n’ roll musical roots and general history, in social and political arenas and science fiction.
Silver Sprocket Raeghan Buchanan
A devoted yet amoral creature ensures a girl’s blood sugar stays up. A gory ritual creates a charming woman’s perfect smile. A neglected and overworked wife is slowly subsumed by violent fantasies. In this collection of short horror comics, cartoonist
GENRE Horror, Feminism, Humor
FORMAT 160 Pages • Full Color
Short Story Collection • 5” x 6”
PUB DATE February 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except UK/North American English
Joy San masterfully explores the ways in which we contort and control ourselves, balancing the bloody and brutal with unexpected levity.
Chest-tightening horror coupled with a feminist perspective and a unique spark
of levity and a must-have for any adult horror fan looking for something beyond cheap scares. Joy San’s art is evocatively beautiful, combining simple lines, painting, and colored pencil.
“JOY SAN HAS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE VOICES IN HORROR, AND THIS COLLECTION IS A PERFECT SHOWCASE FOR HER DISTINCT BLEND OF CHARMING AND MACABRE. IN TURNS DELIGHTFUL AND DISGUSTING, SUGAR AND OTHER STORIES HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE--AS LONG AS YOU’VE GOT A STRONG STOMACH.”
Milkfed Criminal Masterminds/ Images Comics
Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson
The story of beloved pulp hero ADVENTUREMAN ended with a never-resolved cliff-hanger for his legion of fans as their hero faced execution at the vile hand of his ultra-nemesis BARON BIZARRE on the eve of the MACABRALYPSE ... or did it?! Eighty years later, single mother Claire and her Adventureman-fan son Tommy seem to be the only two people alive that remember the thrilling ADVENTUREMAN sagas… but from that memory burns the spark of… resurrection. Where his story ended… HER STORY BEGINS!
This sense-obliterating, earth-shaking, imaginationquaking adventure that spans generations comes to you from the irreverent master of words MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS, Hawkeye) and the vintage, swashbuckling artistry of TERRY & RACHEL DODSON (X-Men/Fantastic Four, RED ONE)!
GENRE Strong Female Characters, Action, Adventure
FORMAT
Ongoing, 4 volume series
Vol 1, 172 Pages • Vol 2, 168 pages Full Color • OGN • 10 x 1 x 12 inches
SOLD IN French, Italian, Spanish (ES, AR, CL), German, Dutch, Bulgarian, and Portuguese (BR)
Nuevo Nueve Canizales
Andrea, a young indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to bury her child, who died under the terrible urban conditions in Cali, Colombia. Andrea is one of millions of rural Brazilians and Colombians who were forced off their lands and into cities by ruthless mining and lumber companies. She comes home carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has been sent to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family. Proof that will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land. Whether she succeeds depends on the intercession of her ancestral deities and the hope for human decency. This socially conscious thriller from graphic novelist Canizales examines the injustices of his home country with urgent line work and dreamy colors.
GENRE Young Adult, Social Issues, Environmentalism, Historical Fiction, Human Drama, Social Justice, Magical Realism
FORMAT 96 Pages • Monochrome • OGN 27 x 19cm
SOLD IN English, French, unavailable in Spanish (ES).
GENRE Crime, Noir, Mystery, Thriller
FORMAT 7 Vol series • ~130 pages • Full Color
3 Deluxe Vols • ~400 pages • Full Color
Vol 1: 6.63 x 0.25 x 10.13 inches
SOLD IN Croatian, French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (BR, PT), Spanish (ES), Ukrainian
Image Comics, Basement Gang
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
The multiple Eisner Award-winning CRIMINAL series is back with a series of new deluxe collections. In the ongoing story, Teeg Lawless is back in town. But he finds himself in more trouble than ever, thanks to his delinquent teenage son. And this time, fists and bullets may not be enough to solve his problems.
“Criminal is easily one of the best comics of the 21st century. Dark, dirty, and addictive, it updates and deconstructs the crime genre to tell a story that reflects the crooked soul of our times.”
-Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (Mr. Miracle; Sheriff of Babylon)
AMAZON STUDIOS HAS ANNOUNCED DEVELOPMENT OF A CRIMINAL TELEVISION SERIES, WITH ED BRUBAKER SERVING AS SHOWRUNNER, WRITER, AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER.
Silver Sprocket
Yugo Limbo
Murder. Love. Cults. Puppets!
It’s 1973, the town of Baths, cozy middle-of-nowhere American heartland. Traveling musician Wegg rolls in, content to busk for a beat and be on his merry way once more. That is, until he meets Mr. Neighbor, the disarmingly sweet man made of cloth who offers him company and a place to stay. They click together, harmonizing with each other’s secret selves. Yet their budding romance is haunted by uncertainty and mystery.
The town itself is plagued by a series of ritualistic murders by an elusive killer: The Baths Heartbreaker. Mr. Neighbor regularly disappears each month, cheery as always. And Wegg, who lives as though he’s on borrowed time. What exactly is he afraid will catch up to him?
A twisted graphic novel of love and deceit, threaded with lush psychedelia, folk horror, and a big serving of fun. Turns out, sometimes the best way to conquer your past is to find a future.
FUNGIRL is a hapless (hopeless) hot mess of a woman crashing through life, leaving chaos in her wake. Although her oblivious antics infuriate her roommate, terrify the teenage skaters she tries to impress, and threaten her every opportunity for employment, FUNGIRL remains charming, transgressive, and hilarious.
Pich’s cartoonish art is simple and quirky, with clean lines and bold colors. The art transforms potentially graphic scenes of sex and violence into adorably cute, almost sweet, vignettes. Pich renders FUNGIRL’s particular messiness deliciously palatable, like a blood red wedding cake.
Elizabeth Pich is a German-American comic artist. After studying arts and computer science, she is currently working on an algorithm that will write all her jokes for her, so she has more time to sit back and enjoy nutbars. She is the cocreator of the hugely popular Instagram comic War and Peas (collected edition, 2020, by Andrew McMeel Publishing).
GENRE Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, LGBTQ+, Humor
FORMAT 496 Pages • Full Color • OGN
6.25” x 8” portrait
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
GENRE Humor, Irreverent, Contemporary Women, Sex, LGTQ+
FORMAT 256 Pages • Full Color • OGN 7 1/2” x 9 11/16”
SOLD IN French, German, Italian, Spanish (ES)
Silver SprocketRECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF FLEABAG, SPACED, AND BOJACK HORSEMAN.
Leviathan Labs
Massimo Rosi and Ludovica CeregattiNuevo Nueve
Alberto Belmonte, El TorresGAIJIN SALAMANDER is an anthropomorphic take on the ronin samurai genre. At the turn of the century, lizards from The West lead the colonization of the frog-people (and samurai) of the East (Japan). A “gaijin” salamander (a lizard among frogs) who was taught by a legendary samurai frog comes to the stronghold of the last shogun to commit hara-kiri (after losing his love and teacher). But when they need his help to hold off the siege, he finds new purpose. Like a classic Kurosawa movie, we are treated to stoic warriors who value honor above all, ruthless, greedy foreign enemies joining forces with internal betrayers, and a perfect battle of good versus evil.
“Inspired by Homer’s poem Batrachomyomachia (a War of Mice and Frogs) GAIJIN SALAMANDER s a wonderfully elegant surprise.”
- Graphic Policy
GENRE Action, Adventure, Samurai
FORMAT
148 Pages • Full Color • Softcover 170 x 260 mm
SOLD IN English, French, and Japanese; unavailable in Italian and Spanish (ES)
In a series of flashbacks, we see Elena’s tragic life, leading to the shocking act. She is a classic character from Dickens: a strong woman with a powerful survival instinct from her hard life (earning her the name “La Miseria.” (“Misery”). “La Miseria” is a classic “Galdosian” character: a strong woman with bad fortune and a powerful survival instinct.
Elena and Galdós’ unlikely friendship is formed at a time when the writer struggles against economic ruin, while slowly going blind. Through their shared memories, they form a bond that provides some comfort, though it is ultimately doomed. Their personal histories are set within the larger political and social movements in Spain. The subtle palettes of muted, sepia tones simulate the historical photography of the age. An atmospheric, classic period piece that resonates today.
GENRE Historical Fiction, Literary, Drama
FORMAT
96 Pages • Full Color • OGN 27 x 19cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
EACH RELEASED BOOKS HAS WON CONSECUTIVE HQMix TROPHIES:
2020: BEST CHILDREN’S PUBLICATION (GHOSTS)
2022: ERIC PELEIAS, BEST WRITER
2022: BEST INDEPENDENT SERIES, BEST CHILDREN’S PUBLICATION (ALIENS)
GENRE Middle Grade, Fantasy, Supernatural, Family Drama, Friendship
FORMAT 4-book series • 74-96 pages • Full Color (additional content available) 6.63″ x 10.19″
SOLD IN Available in all languages, except Portuguese (Brazil)
Original: Como Fazer Amigos e Enfrentar…
Eric Peleias, Gustavo Borges
Introverted Leo and extroverted Olivia meet when their parents bring them along on a weekend in the country. Olivia shares her passion for supernatural beings, and the two become best friends as they investigate the existence of ghosts, aliens, sorcerers, and vampires. Along the way, they make (and lose) friends while having fantastic adventures.
The characters “age up” in each book, similar to the Harry Potter series. Olivia and Leo are loveable outcasts who find community with each other and other kids who might be called weirdos). It is based in the 1980s/90s, with only occasional pop culture references (and no mobile phones!).
This self-published award-winning series encouraging resourcefulness and creativity; finding courage; working together; and the difficulty of growing up.
The third book in the series, SORCERERS, was released last year. The final book, VAMPIRES will be released in 2024.
WINNER: 2020 BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL BEST WRITER AND BREAKOUT TALENT (ZOE THOROGOOD) OVER 10,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
GENRE Coming of Age, LGBTQ+ FORMAT 164 Pages • Full Color • OGN 8 x 0.4 x 11.75 inches
SOLD IN French (bubble éditions), Italian (Feltrinelli), and Portuguese (BR) (CONRAD)
Zoe Thorogood
Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within two weeks she will be completely blind.
As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind.
Her quest is to find ten people to paint for her exhibition, and along the way finds inspiration to continue with her art and the strength to move on after dramatic changes.
“Thorogood’s art retains rough edges, and over the course of the narrative develops an arrestingly cluttered, highenergy style suggestive of Paul Pope and Farel Dalrymple…. This expansive story of an artist’s journey embraces both the power of art and human connection and showcases a new comics talent.”
– Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“[A]rt represents how people are thinking, and it’s an impressive and positive sign as to the resilience of both an emerging generation and the artistic impulse that THE IMPENDING BLINDNESS OF BILLIE SCOTT presents a UK where all the stuff that matters still matters.”
A creative explosion by one of the most impressive authors on the world scene
This new hardcover color sketchbook by Tony Sandoval includes sketches in pencil, ink and watercolor, and comics panels and short scenes (story fragments) with Mr. Calcium Skeleton, a work-in-progress.
It is always a visual delight to look upon the work of this master of illustration. Whether through his comics or his paintings of beautiful women, deformed bugs or nightmare scenarios, beauty rides through his pages. Where the dreamlike shakes hands with the earthly, both take us to other worlds, to other experiences and to other desires. This sketchbook portraying Sandoval’s character Mr. Calcium Skeleton is an anticipation a great work to come. Let us delight in this artwork now and enjoy the excitement of what’s to come later.
Natasha is 18 years old. She has just arrived in the city to study at the university. She starts living in a flat that she shares with Elena and Ane. Away from the town and with new friends, Natasha discovers an exciting new life: living in the flat, studying, working in a bar, bathing in the nudist beach, going out at night... Until one day her past catches up with her.
A year and a half before, Natasha appeared in a sex tape, partying with two boys. In her small town, the video spread quickly and shocked the residents. Faced with sneering faces and derogatory comments, Natasha dropped out of high school and tries to move on with her life. The consequences for her are very different than those of the boys in the same video.
An exploration of how scandal can traumatize a person, and the different way women are treated when the scandal is sexual. Natasha navigates a complicated path through her pain, discovering who she really is.
GENRE Art Sketchbook, Dark Urban Fantasy
FORMAT
32 Pages • Full Color Strips • 24 x 20cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
GENRE Social Issues, Feminism, Women’s Stories FORMAT
192 Pages • Black & White • OGN 27.0 x 19.0 cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
GENRE Social Issues, Middle East Politics, Magical Realism
FORMAT 128 Pages • Black & White • OGN • 6 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
SOLD IN French, Italian
Street Noise Books
Mohammad SabaanehStories born of life and of dreams have the power to change the world by shining a light directly into our hearts. What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison? The walls of the cell are etched with the names of the prisoners who came before. A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: “You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories,” stories of family, of community, of Gaza, of Palestine. Mohammad Sabaaneh uses his striking linocut artwork to help the world see Palestinian people as human, not as superheroes or political symbols.
MOHAMMAD SABAANEH is a Palestinian cartoonist. He is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper and is a former political prisoner in Israel. Mohammad’s work has been included in international art fairs around the world. He recently received his master’s degree from the University of Creative Art, London, UK. And he currently lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Find Mohammad on Instagram @sabaaneh.
“The illustrations powerfully convey the bleak atmosphere and quality of life, and while the stories alone would be incredibly moving, the art makes them even more so.”
-BOOKLIST
-STARRED REVIEW PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“DEVASTATING AND OUTRAGE-INDUCING; THE SPARE LANGUAGE AND POETIC ILLUSTRATIONS CONVEY THE SCOPE OF A LONG, SLOW GENOCIDE.”
GENRE Crime, Noir, Western FORMAT 72 Pages • Full Color • OGN Hard Cover
6.8 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
SOLD IN French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (PT, BR), Serbian, Spanish (ES)
Image Comics, Basement Gang Ed Brubaker and
Brubaker and Phillips deliver a fantastic read that feels timely despite its period setting, with a gripping protagonist who powers the story forward. PULP is a riveting tale of redemption, legacy and last chances. Follow an aging cowboy outlaw who looks to secure one last score and go out in a blaze of glory, rather than resign himself to the inevitability of death.
Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word - tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?
One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence. PULP is a celebration of pulp fiction set in a turbulent time not unlike our own. This gorgeous original graphic novel is another must-have hardcover from one of comics’ most acclaimed teams.
AWARDS:
• WINNER: 2021 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album
• Nominated for 2021 Eisner Award for Best Writer (Ed Brubaker)
• Diamond Distributors’ top 3 best-selling novels of 2020
“LIKE SCORSESE AND DE NIRO, BRUBAKER AND PHILLIPS ARE THE UNMATCHED MASTERS OF A CERTAIN KIND OF STORYTELLING. A NEW TITLE FROM THE SHARPSHOOTERS BEHIND FATALE AND CRIMINAL IS REASON ENOUGH TO GO ON LIVING.”
-JOE HILL (LOCKE & KEY)Sean Phillips
GENRE Crime, Noir, Detective FORMAT 5 Book Series • ~134 pages • Full Color 7 x 1 x 10 inches
SOLD IN French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (PT, BR), Spanish (ES & LATAM)
Image Comics, Basement Gang Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them—a good guy. A bold 5 book series of original graphic novels, each a full-length story that stands on its own.
Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980’s Los Angeles; RECKLESS is the best new twist on pulp paperback heroes since Jack Reacher.
Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his radical student days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears…his own past.
“Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips and their collaboration has never felt more new. Explosive. Vital. And yes…reckless. I love this book.”
-Damon Lindelof (HBO’s Watchmen, LOST)
(orig: La Batalla de Esquizo)
Nueve Nueve Manuel Antonio García IglesiaLA BATALLA DE ESQUIZO follows the daily life of Roberto, an art student suffering from schizophrenia. Roberto shares his daily experiences: the voices in his head that demonize others, the sadness, the desire to isolate, and the abandonment of his own hygiene in favor of his art. It is the story of his struggle to live a peaceful life in the face of a crippling illness. The fragmentary narrative jumps between reality and hallucinations, echoing Roberto’s state of mind. García Iglesias’ art graphically represents schizophrenia’s symptoms: dissociation, crushing sadness and apathy, distorted reality. He uses superimposed monotone images, a decreasing amount of detail, and stained colors to convey Roberto’s internal struggle.
Includes an introduction by Tomás De Vicente, Head of Hospital Psychiatry at Alzira Hospital in Valencia, and renowned comics critic Álvaro Pons.
WINNER:
2021 IV Divina Pastora Prize for Social Graphic Novel
GENRE Graphic Medicine, Fictional Biography
FORMAT 88 Pages • Monochrome • OGN 24 x 17cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES)
Street Noise Books
Bishakh Som
This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author’s daily life and explore her thoughts on themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss.
BISHAKH SOM, grew up in New York City, with parents originally from India, and received a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University. She worked for many years in that field, most notably at I.M. Pei’s New York office. Bishakh’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Boston Review, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post. Find Bishakh on Instagram @biche_bash.
AWARDS: Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Named one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2020 by the American Library Association’s
GENRE Biographic, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Strong Female Characters, LGBTQ+
FORMAT 160 Pages • Full Color • OGN 7 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
– New York Times Book Review
“THE LAYERS OF IDENTITY AND STORY IN THIS MEMOIR… AND SOM’S FLUID APPROACH TO REPRESENTING THE SELF, FEEL IMPRESSIVELY EASY, UN-BELEBORED.”
-JOE HILL (LOCKE & KEY)
GENRE Fantasy, Supernatural, Japanese Folklore, Historical Fiction
FORMAT 64 Pages • Full Color • OGN 15.5 x 22 cm
SOLD IN French
(orig: Shamisen: Canções do Mundo Flutuante)
Pipoca & Nanquim
Guilherme Petreca and Tiago Minamisawa
SHAMISEN is inspired by Japanese culture, weaving the protagonist’s Alice-inWonderland-like journey between reality and the realm of monsters and gods of Japanese folklore.
The main character is Haru, a blind musician who plays the shamisen, a famed string instrument. The character is inspired by real-life musician
Haru Kobayashi (1900-2005), a famous goze (blind female musicians who roamed the countryside playing music for money and shelter). As she has adventures, the story flashes from her childhood, as she learned to play from her beloved teacher, back to the fantastical “present” day. Illustrations in a watercolor style are influenced by artist Katsushika Hokusai, well-known for the style ukiyo-e (a genre of traditional Japanese woodblock art called “the floating world”). The dreamy illustrations are perfect for Haru’s interactions with deities who
can be vain, cruel, tricky, and kind. The book includes a gallery of extras, with detailed information and research about Japanese culture and history (the writer is Japanese-Brazilian).
• Sold out first print run (4,500) in Brazil within months of publication date.
• Artist Guilherme Petreca just won the first CCXP Award for Best Colorist. CCXP is Brazil’s largest comic convention.
“LIKE SCORSESE AND DE NIRO, BRUBAKER AND PHILLIPS ARE THE UNMATCHED MASTERS OF A CERTAIN KIND OF STORYTELLING. A NEW TITLE FROM THE SHARPSHOOTERS BEHIND FATALE AND CRIMINAL IS REASON ENOUGH TO GO ON LIVING.”
(orig: Trilogia Gatilho)
Pipoca & Nanquim
Carlos Estefan, Pedro Mauro (Tex)
Trigger is the story of a “gunfighter without a name,” a tough guy after a bandit called Rufus Smith, who is terrorizing the West with his gang. Violent and feared, Rufus does whatever he wants, jumping from city to city, leaving a trail of death wherever he goes.
The Gunfighter has his eyes set on bringing Rufus to justice, but his motives are not entirely pure. There is a personal score to settle. As the chase sweeps across the plain, members of Rufus’ gang are hunted down one by one, we learn Rufus and The Gunfighter have a history … and realize that nobody is innocent.
With echoes to the works of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, TRIGGER is a tale of violence, revenge, and legacy, tracing a very cruel portrait of the Wild West and its people.
GENRE Western, Crime, Action, Adventure, Thriller
FORMAT 253 Pages • Full Color Hardcover (collecting 3 volumes)
27.8 × 21.2 cm
SOLD IN Available in al languages except Portuguese (BR)
(orig: Sob O Solo)
Pipoca & Nanquim
Bianca Pinheiro and Greg Stella
Two injured. A bunker. A war that could be any war, happening at any time and being fought anywhere. UNDERGROUND is a breath of fresh air in the comics, presenting a thorny theme in a unique, minimalist, and subtle art style. After an attack suffered by their unit on the battlefield, a pair of soldiers are forced to take refuge in an underground hiding place to survive. Locked in and with one of them seriously injured, their only hope is to use an old radio communicator to call in reinforcements and be rescued. But time passes relentlessly and faced with the remote possibility of salvation, haunted by the constant expectation of falling into the enemy’s clutches or dying forgotten, paranoia, fear and frustrations unfold as both get to know each other more intimately, letting regrets, defeats and dreams come to the surface.
In Sob o Solo, authors Bianca Pinheiro and Greg Stella make the reader follow the process of degeneration of two men and provide a dive into their souls, from which it will only be possible to leave long after the end of the book.
GENRE Social Issues, Historical Fiction, Horror, Thriller
FORMAT 104 Pages • Black & White • OGN
26.6 x 17.6 cm
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Portuguese (BR)
Silver Sprocket
Mattie Lubchansky
What if everything the Right thought about the Left was real?
Accomplished ANTIFA operative Max Marx is about to get THE big promotion: body augmentation to become a fully-fledged super-soldier in the shadowy organization’s never-ending battle to destroy the police, the American way of life, gender, capitalism, and anything else they decide to deem “fascist.”
The next frontline: internet celebrity and right-wing gadfly
Adonis Asproulis is about to give a lecture on the campus of the prestigious Earle University. Adonis could do the impossible: present college students with a debate, ANTIFA’S worst nightmare. Can Max and his comrades get to the university and de-platform him in time? Or can the officers of the Big City PD and newly-promoted Sergeant Paul O’Shea put a stop to it?
Image Comics
Ed Brubake & Marcos Martin
A genre-defying post-YA masterpiece from two of comics most acclaimed talents! A young detective hero finally grows up, in this Eisner-winning hit series from creators Ed Brubaker (RECKLESS, PULP, KILL OR BE KILLED) and Marcos Martin (THE PRIVATE EYE, Daredevil).
Friday Fitzhugh’s best friend and partner, Lancelot Jones (the smartest boy in the world) has been killed, and the police in their small town of King’s Hill are not up to the task of solving the crime. Now, Friday must pull herself out of her grief and hunt the cold winter night for justice, all on her own this time.
Winner of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic
GENRE Mystery, Thriller, Strong Female Character, Detective
GENRE Humor, Politics, Satire FORMAT
64 Pages • Full Color • OGN
6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
SOLD IN French, Italian
FORMAT
First of 3 Book Series • 124 pages
Full Color • 5.9 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches
SOLD IN Catalan, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (BR)
Nueve Nueve Juan Álvarez Montalban
Anna and José connect over social media. Despite the distance (she is Catalan and he is from Gran Canaria), they grow close. But the fantasy of their romance clashes with their daily lives. Anna is in a loveless marriage, trying to stay connected with her two older children while working long hours in an emotionally exhausting environment. José interacts with very few people, mourning the abrupt loss of a lover in an accident. Feeling trapped by their circumstances, they find escape with each other.
Their intimacy deepens as they share their family histories, with all the heartache and trauma that make them who they are today. Anna’s responsibilities weigh heavier as she becomes closer to José, as they both dream of a great romance, free of the burdens of the past. But they reach a point when each must decide what’s truly important, and how much they are willing to risk to be free.
Álvarez’ clean and clear lines give great expressiveness to these empathetic characters. They live a life of ordinary drama, colored in shades of gray.
FORMAT
Pipoca & Nanquim
Gianfranco Manfredi and Pedro Mauro
Set in the Wild West of the 1890s, English gentleman James Jennings arrives in Texas as an attorney in the service of a large New York law firm, despite his dislike for bureaucratic life. His elegance and politeness contrasts with the rawness of Big Bend’s residents. But what no one imagines, is that behind his education and odd manners, there is a ruthlessness that he employs on behalf of his clients. And this new mission will demand a lot of his talents, because once James informs the boxer, Henry King that he is the heir to a great fortune, all the “vultures’ in the region turn their eyes to them!
With sharp scripts by Italian Gianfranco Manfredi (creator of Mágico Vento and one of the greatest writers at Sergio Bonelli Editore) and the unrivaled black and white art by Pedro Mauro (designer of Trilogia Trilogia), O Procurado presents the best of these two comic artists so beloved by western fans in a unique, totally new and unforgettable work.
136 Pages • Black & White • OGN 21x16 cm
SOLD IN Italian, unavailable in Spanish (ES)
GENRE Western, Mystery, Action, Adventure FORMAT 180 Pages • Full Color
Hardcover Deluxe Edition • 22 x 29 cm
SOLD IN French, unavailable in Portuguese (BR)
GENRE Historical Fiction, Strong Female Character, Sports
FORMAT
208 pages • Full Color • OGN 168 x 239mm
SOLD IN French
Avery Hill
Tom Humberstone
The incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen, a woman who changed the face of sports and society in the trailblazing jazz age, but whose story has been lost to history.
Suzanne was one of the greatest tennis players the world: a championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war. She broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks; scandalized and entranced the public with her risqué playing outfits; and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout the restrictive tennis society of the wild jazz age.
With stunning art and an astute eye, SUZANNE explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father’s ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new pathand change sports forever.
GENRE Contemporary Life, Women’s Stories, Drama, Family
FORMAT 100 Pages • Full Color • OGN 170 x 216mm
PUB DATE June 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except worldwide English
Mel is spiraling emotionally and professionally when she offers to let her struggling brother live with her, ostensibly as his savior. As she fixates on her health, all the family drama and conflict of her childhood resurfaces
on a road trip with her brother and his girlfriend. She is forced to confront the ugly truth that she was her brother’s childhood bully, trying to reconcile it with an image of herself as a supportive sister. BIG UGLY explores adult sibling
rivalry, aging parents, dating, and work in a thoughtful, complex, relatable way. Ellie Weaver’s art has been featured in The Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
Leviathan Labs
Jose Luis Vidal and Francisco Asenc
The 70s, sports cars, drum guns, and a couple of reckless detectives determined to unravel a terrible mystery that grips the Big Apple, something dark and mystical linked to ancient Haitian voodoo. What else can you expect from Buddies? Vietnam. Restlessness of the living dead. Angry shamans and lots of bromance!
Pipoca & Nanquim
Patrick Martins and Igor Federico
In this thought-provoking and poignant work, an elderly woman religiously follows a domestic routine. Every day, she cooks for four people, methodically arranges the dishes on the table and, at the end of the day, cries uncontrollably in her bathtub. She is trapped in the cycle of the devastating loneliness of old age and the obsessive recollection of her own life.
With a narrative that unites the inks of Samuel Becket’s absurdist nihilism with the melancholy cinema of Chantal Akerman, DENTE DE LEITE explores the theme of domestic violence, emotional abandonment, and the profound existential anguish provoked by the drama of compulsory motherhood.
Comic winner of Amazon Brazil’s inaugural Geek Prize
GENRE Crime, Detective, Humor, Action, Adventure
FORMAT 100 Pages • Full Color • OGN 160 x 240 mm
PUB DATE TBD
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Spanish (ES) and Italian
GENRE Horror, Thriller, Social Issues, Motherhood, Family, Drama, Mystery
FORMAT 188 pages • Monochrome • OGN 26 × 17 cm
PUB DATE TBD
SOLD IN Available in all languages except Portuguese (BR)
Street Noise Books
Sivan Piatigorsky Roth
A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in the LGBTQ community and beyond.
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is obsessed with Princess Diana, in the specific, laser-focused way an autistic person can be. This book is an unorthodox biography of Diana Spencer told through a particular autistic and transmasculine lens, examining issues of identity and selfdetermination, and the mythological parallels in the lives of the royal family and the author.
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he studied art and English literature. He has published cartoons in The New Yorker among other places. Having spent a year working as a teacher in a Jewish day school, Sivan is now a Rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. This is his debut graphic novel.
Silver Sprocket
Alba Ballesta González and David Orellana
Every summer, Grog the Frog forgets to celebrate the most important magic ritual of the year: the Perseids harvest. But this year will be different. The eternally grumpy wizard will travel to forsaken mystical mountains and complete the magical rites. Unless, of course, a case of mistaken identities means that he becomes embroiled in a duel with his cosmic rival.
Will Grog be able to put order in chaos and fulfill his purpose? Or wait, perhaps Grog would prefer chaos? He’s supposed to be the lord of chaos, isn’t he? Either way, it will be epic!
Drama, love, magic, a delivery guy who can fly, a weird snake, a bald centaur who rents cars… it all awaits Grog on his biggest adventure yet! All hail Grog!
Alba and David have already established Grog the Frog as a popular character online (192k and 121k followers, respectively). A hilariously relatable adult fantasy comic, like Adventure Time, about a perpetually annoyed wizard. It’s full of wit, magic, and beautiful visuals!
GENRE Slice of Life, Biographic, Social issues, Strong Female Characters
FORMAT
160 Pages • Full Color • OGN • 6” x 9”
PUB DATE May 23, 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
GENRE Humor, Fantasy, Adventure FORMAT
64 Pages • Full Color • OGN 6.5” x 9” portrait
PUB DATE July 19, 2023
SOLD IN French
A high-concept science fiction story told with a down-toearth, but irreverent humorous tone. What happens when an essential non-renewable fuel component needed for interstellar travel runs out? How does one’s class/wealth or “citizenship” determine one’s choices? The event is paved to radically change society. Survival would be enough, but a chance discovery by the scrappy crew of misfits on a small cargo freighter, struggling to make a living as it is, alters their plans and may prove to be a vital key to unlocking a future for all; not just the chosen few... I fell in love with the characters, especially the sarcastic ship’s mechanic, who happens to be an octopus.
Pomery is a successful architectural illustrator whose previous book won the best artist category in the 2020 Broken Frontier Awards and made numerous best of 2020 lists including Pipedream Comics and the Herald Scotland.
“One of those engaging and wonderful books that you have to experience rather than simply read. Effortless in its storytelling... this relatively simple story is made into something truly wonderful by Pomery’s exquisite visuals.”
- Pipedream Comics
FORMAT 100 Pages • Full Color • OGN 70x240mm
PUB DATE October 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except UK/North American English
Silver Sprocket
Emma Jayne and Sloane Leong
After many grueling years of defending against colossal, violent creatures, the machine that will turn the conflict in humanity’s favor is nearing completion...until the war unexpectedly comes to a sudden, peaceful resolution.
The world rejoices. However, two women fall into crisis as their life’s work becomes obsolete.
Commander Sugimoto and her lead engineer Mischa Polyakov have spent nearly every waking moment together since the project’s inception, but without the pretense of their careers and world-ending calamity, do they have a reason to stay in one another’s lives? A rambunctious sci-fi sapphic mech romance, set against the uncertainty of life after a big change.
LSBN is Emma Jayne’s longform debut. Updated with beautiful colors from fellow cartoonist Sloane Leong (A Map to the Sun)! Emma Jayne is an Ignatz and Prism Award-winning cartoonist from Michigan, best known for her works Trans Girls Hit the Town and Pseudo Slut Transmission.
Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and editor of mixed indigenous ancestries. Through her work, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens. She is currently living on Chinook land near what is known as Portland, Oregon with her family and three dogs.
GENRE Science Fiction, Romance, LGBTQ+
FORMAT 80 Pages • Full Color • OGN
5” x 7” portrait
PUB DATE June 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except worldwide English
A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Faithful to the original text while providing a new lavish rendition.
When three witches prophesize to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions lead to an ever-growing path of murder as Macbeth grows ever closer to the throne. But where will it all end? Only with death – and with madness. Influenced by the witches and magic of Macbeth, K. Briggs’s lush new graphic novel rendition of the classic provides a new interpretation of the Scottish play. Briggs, as a Shakespeare reader (and performer) from age twelve, brings their lifelong love of the Bard to this work.
Great for schools & libraries looking to get kids/teens into the classics. Graphic novels make a great entry-point, and this un-abridged text makes it perfect for reluctant readers.
FORMAT
180 Pages • Full Color • OGN 159 x 39mm
PUB DATE July 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except UK/North American English
Image Comics, Basement Gang
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
“ NIGHT FEVER pulled me in from the first moment with its razor sharp writing and gorgeous art. Brubaker and Phillips have crafted a taut, riveting story, as disturbing as it is satisfying, full of memorable lines and stunning images. Thought-provoking and highly entertaining. ”
— Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of INTERIOR CHINATOWN
Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind?
In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark… And the question is, what will he do to get home?
NIGHT FEVER is a pulse-pounding noir thriller featuring the Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself. This riveting tour-of-the-night is a musthave for all Brubaker and Phillips readers.
In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can't sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the streets of this strange foreign city with a new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer, as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark.
A Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself, NIGHT FEVER is a pulse-pounding noir thriller from grand masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the best-selling creators of CRIMINAL, RECKLESS, PULP, THE FADE OUT and KILL OR BE KILLED
“Inspired partly by old Black Lizard noir novels and weird and sexy European comics from the 70s, this book is a dark trip into what being alive right now feels like, but hopefully a thrilling one for our readers, too. I know it’s the best art of Sean’s entire career, which feels almost unbelievable. But it’s true.”
– Ed BrubakerGENRE Noir, Thriller
$24.99 US
ISBN: 978-1-5343-2609-5
FORMAT 120 Pages • Full Color • OGN
PUB DATE June 2023
Crime & Mystery Horror
Rated M Mature
SOLD IN French, Portuguese (BR)
taut, riveting story, as disturbing as it is satisfying..."
CharlesYu
"A
This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White uses stark black and white illustrations to help us understand why some young people would literally risk their lives to seek safety in the US. Each one of them has been backed into a corner where emigration to the US seems like their only hope.
Tracy White began publishing comics for young adults online in 1996. Her autobiographical series TRACED was twice nominated for an Ignatz Award for Best Webcomic and became a TV series for Oxygen. Her book How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story was on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.
GENRE Non-Fiction, Human Interest, World Events, Social Issues
FORMAT 166 Pages • Black & White • Anthology 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm
PUB DATE June 20, 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
In this horror graphic novel, the new dog that aspiring musician Bobbie has adopted is cute, but also stealing her life.
Bobbie’s life is going nowhere fast. She’s working at a bar, wanting to play music but never having the time or energy. As the relentless day-in, day-out of work piles up, music and roommates and social plans begin to seem less and less important as Bobbie struggles to make rent and have any time to be creative. The only thing she has time for outside her job is her dog . . . and her dog is going to do everything he can to keep it that way.
This debut solo graphic novel from the talented Nicole Goux (FUCK OFF SQUAD, Forest Hills Bootleg Society, and books with IDW and DC).
“Nicole Goux is a startlingly talented illustrator. With a focus on femininity and women-centric stories, Goux is a talented world-builder with a distinct style.”
- Women Write About Comics
GENRE Contemporary, Horror, Thriller, Coming of Age
FORMAT 104 Pages • Full Color • OGN 159 x 239mm
PUB DATE May 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except UK/North American English
GENRE Fantasy, Romance, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+
FORMAT 168 pages • Black & White • OGN 8.5” x 11” portrait
PUB DATE June 2023
SOLD IN Available in all languages except North American English
“A single-celled organism doesn’t toil. It doesn’t stare at the ceiling and cry. It doesn’t have ill-fitting clothes. It doesn’t do anything, that’s the whole point. It just is.” Sydney and Laurelie are best friends searching for the contentment of oblivion. Failing that, they’d like to be adored: Laurelie, by their caustic boyfriend Trip, and Sydney by Laurelie. When Sydney’s ill-considered wish is granted, Sydney and Trip must save Laurelie or risk losing them forever. A beautifully illustrated graphic novel about sickness, ennui, romance, and finding meaning in one’s own self.
A gorgeously illustrated black and white graphic novel reminiscent of Michael DeForge that effortlessly captures the experience of projecting your value onto another person and then being forced to find grounding in yourself.
“Love feels like a sickness in PROKARYOTE SEASON, like a hypochondriac need for control. Fox’s beautifully oozing artwork and delicate prose create a story of obsessive desire to be felt with one’s entire self.”
– VAL WISE (CHEER UP!, DÉLICATESSE)
Silver Sprocket Leo Fox
