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Top 26 Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga::
October 2026
We’ve got an overpacked Pandora’s Box of pictorial splendours this month, as you’ll discover below. Still, I wanted to single out especially Paul B. Rainey’s third outing, his first entirely new, not previously published in the UK or serialised online, and he’s made a switch this time to very British almost-autobiography from his traumatising school years, but given the sort of twisted reboot he’s become renowned for. And yes, I knew Paul before he was Hollywood-bound famous! This and plenty more await your discovery here…
Another Realm
by Avery Hill Publishing
£19.99 / $24.99
The publisher says:
A vibrant, career-spanning celebration of the work of British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski, bringing together her acclaimed graphic novel Retrograde Orbit with a rich selection of her self-published comics and illustrated zines. This collection showcases Baczynski’s unmistakable visual voice-pages alive with colour, emotion, and intricate characterisation. Drawing on inspirations that range from nature and folklore to 1990s pop nostalgia and gentle sci-fi atmospheres, her work creates worlds that are warm, strange, imaginative, and deeply human. Readers will find tender autobiographical pieces, exuberant short comics, playful experiments in risograph printmaking, and the full sweep of Retrograde Orbit, her coming-of-age tale of identity, heritage, and finding ones place in the cosmos. Across more than a decade of making, Baczynski has built a body of work that bridges independent zine culture with mainstream publishing, collaborating with houses such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton, and Canongate. This volume gathers the very best of her small-press output alongside her major long-form work, offering a definitive introduction to an artist whose storytelling is as heartfelt as it is visually distinctive. A richly illustrated, genre-blending collection for fans of contemporary comics, risograph art, and creators with a singular, imaginative world of their own. 256pgs colour paperback.
At, With and About: Through the Blighted Lens of Glenn Bray
by Glenn Bray
Fantagraphics
$35.00
The publisher says:
In his new memoir, collector and editor Glenn Bray focuses on the potent post-war landscape of the San Fernando Valley. For over 50 years, Glenn Bray has been shining a spotlight on some of the most outrageous, powerful, and subversive art made in the 20th century. He was the first to preserve, collect and pay serious attention to this art, and At, With and About is nothing less than an alternative history of American pop culture. In this compendious volume, he turns his focus on the potent post-war landscape of the San Fernando Valley’s washed-up entertainers, suburbs, and Hollywood debris that lit the fuse for a life of endless aesthetic engagement. Bray met and befriended some of the most wild and woolly icons of outré culture as well as artists, fellow travellers, collectors, and dealers that make up the world of So Cal pop history, such as: Basil Wolverton, Carl Barks, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Stanislav Szukalski, Robert Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tor Johnson, The Fugs, Gorgeous George, Matt Groening, Steve Buscemi, Fred Blassie, Alfred Hitchcock, Dirty Dora, Weird Wanda, and Cash Flagg. With all-new artist interviews and Bray’s own large-format photographs, this book bears graphic witness to it all with hundreds of images tracing his life of collecting art and befriending artists. 352pgs colour paperback.
The Book Tour 2: A Lack of Alibi
by Andi Watson
Top Shelf
$24.99
The publisher says:
Have you ever been mistaken for someone else…every day for a week? Keep your wits about you in this head-spinning, Kafkaesque mystery in a brilliant retro style. “There’s no evidence you didn’t do it.” Door-to-door encyclopedia salesman Mortimer arrives in the city in a hurry. He wants to get home in time for his daughter’s sports day, but first he needs to make a sale. All that’s stopping him is a murderer on the loose, the police declaring him their prime suspect…and a lack of alibi. After rave reviews for his graphic novel The Book Tour, internationally renowned cartoonist Andi Watson returns with another bewildering escapade of deadpan disaster, a stand-alone sequel packed with even more twists. 288pgs B&W paperback with French flaps.
Borderline
by Zeta Pal
Conundrum Press
$20.00
The publisher says:
In her highly anticipated first book Mi’kmaq artist Zeta Paul tells her story as an Indigenous urban youth, her perspective of the world transitioning into a digital era, straying from nature and into a gray monochromatic capitalist society that is constantly reinforcing the ideology that ‘life could be better’. The title Borderline refers to both a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder but is also a reflection on a home life that has no stability, no control, no voice, and how growing up in borderline circumstances has affected her life and how it continues into adulthood. Through grand scenes that have ‘eye spy’ maximalism paired with visual storytelling of these drawings of Indigenous Futurism, short comics, bus shelter art, and more, Paul expresses the duality of emotions and how it can be a blessing to be an overly emotional cry baby, a flakey friend, a rager, or a hyper fixated hobbyist. That being an individual in all its strangeness and depth of character is anything but linear, and that one of the most important things for healing is letting go of internalised borderline expectations, and just be yourself. Inspired by artists such as Kent Monkman and Hayao Miyazaki, this book is an important resource for other Indigenous youth to identify with and anyone that has struggled with mental illness, money, abusive family dynamics, societal expectations, reconnecting with oneself, nature, culture, and spirituality. Zeta Paul is a L’nu/Settler illustrator and interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Zeta attended NSCAD University until she decided to put her work into action, she now is focusing on indigenous book illustration in works such as Muinji’j Asks Why and The Friendship Centre. Zeta aspires to create engaging imagery that is exciting, immersive, and thought provoking, that holds deeper messages about culture, identity, mental health, and being an indigenous woman in a post-colonial world. 120pgs B&W paperback.
Coady
by Donald Calabrese
Conundrum Press
$20.00
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Moses Coady (1882-1959), was a Roman Catholic Priest born in Margaree, Nova Scotia who famously inspired and led The Antigonish Movement: the co-operative education / economic movement that spread internationally during the mid-twentieth century. Coady explores Moses Coady’s personal triumphs and misgivings alongside a contemporary historian’s attempt to reconcile the spirit of Twentieth Century revolutionary economics with the vanishing political resistance of post-industrial Atlantic Canada. The Antigonish Movement blended adult education, cooperatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based communities around Canada’s Maritimes to improve their economic and social circumstances. A group of priests and educators, including Coady, led this movement from a base at the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier University (St. F.X.) in Antigonish, NS. The credit union systems of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI owe their origins to the Antigonish Movement, which also had an important influence on other provincial systems across Canada. Unlike other biographical work on Coady and the Antigonish Movement, Cape Breton native Calabrese uses archival material and the Coady papers to focus on private misgivings and personal struggles in addition to his contributions to the co-operative movement and social justice. It is also a meta-history that asks questions about how we mythologise our past and form our cultural identities. 120pgs B&W paperback.
Kate Beaton (Ducks) says:
“Calabrese gives a legend his due, someone who is lionised in saintly terms often enough, but is all the more compelling for his very human qualities and inner turmoil. A thoughtful and searching portrait of leadership and what it means to lift one another up in a community. An impressive debut from Donald Calabrese.”
The Collected Cloak
by Mike Higgs, introduced by Alan Moore
ComicOz / Treasury of British Comics
£29.95
The publisher says:
This deluxe reprinting of all of Mike Higgs’ Cloak works from Pow! and Smash! comics from the 1960s and beyond allows today’s readers the opportunity to savour the mayhem of this well-loved British comic character. Creator Mike Higgs has had a hands-on role in the development of this book. He’s supplied background information about his creative years and provided some artistic material – some never before seen. This book adds another wonderful chapter to Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics series. Introduction by Alan Moore. 200+pgs B&W hardcover.
Diana
by Nate Powell
Abrams
$29.99
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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author Nate Powell comes an intense time-tripping graphic novel capturing the transitional 1990s and the weird kids who fall through the cracks—perfect for fans of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Killing Eve, and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. The year is 1992. Diana Bogue is a personality too big for her small Arkansas town—a runaway who dyes her hair platinum, studies the occult, sings like an angel, and dominates the local punk scene through the force of her personality. Even when being in the “cult of Diana” is too much for them, her friends Jody, Steff, Napoleon, and Todd can’t help but be pulled into her vortex. But under the surface, Diana struggles to outrun damage from a repressive religious past. She only shares these struggles with her dearest long-distance pen pal—who she keeps hidden from her other friends. Until one day, he’s never heard from again. Untethered and fiercely protective of what she considers hers, Diana turns even more inward, blending music and homegrown sorcery in hopes of outrunning reality. But even she can’t turn back time . . . or can she? 320pgs colour hardcover
Fire!
by Hideko Mizuno
Uncivilized Books / Mangalith
$49.99
The publisher says:
Fire! follows the meteoric rise and fall of Aaron Browning, a troubled and poor Ohio teenager. In juvenile detention, Aaron meets the magnetic delinquent Fire Wolf—a motorcycle-riding rebel with an extraordinary musical talent. Their intense bond awakens a fiery passion for music in Aaron. Aaron moves to Detroit’s gritty factories and underground scene, where he forms the band Fire! to channel his emotions, rebellion, and raw energy. As fame explodes, he plunges into the era’s excesses—sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, Vietnam-era shadows—embodying the intoxicating yet destructive pursuit of freedom. Fire! immerses the reader in the turbulent late 1960s. A fascinating peek at the vibrant American rock music scene of the time. Aaron, inspired by Scott Walker, blazes across the pages, colliding with iconic personalities and legendary bands of the era. The collection also includes a short comic on Pink Floyd. Created by Hideko Mizuno, a trailblazing shōjo pioneer mentored by Osamu Tezuka and a Tokiwa-sō resident, Fire! broke new ground: one of the first shōjo series with a male lead, featuring sex scenes that challenged post-WWII taboos and explored mature themes of desire, identity, and countercultural rebellion. Inspired by Scott Walker, Aaron is a flawed, hedonistic, and charismatic anti-hero. Fire! in English is long overdue. Classic shōjo manga has been almost entirely absent from the English localisation wave of the last two decades — a blind spot that has left anglophone readers without access to key works that shaped the medium. Mizuno is the acknowledged forerunner of the Year 24 Group. The artists — Moto Hagio, Keiko Takemiya, Riyoko Ikeda — are already familiar to all American Manga fans. Fire! is the missing ancestor: the work you need to understand later developments. Mizuno’s choice of Scott Walker was not incidental. Walker underwent a similar transformation in critical esteem — by the late 1960s, the teen idol had transformed into a serious artist of brooding romanticism and European grandeur. Decades later, he was reclaimed as a prestigious ancestor of art rock. Fire! anticipated the critical shift it helped create. Mizuno was ahead of time. For fifty years, Fire! languished unknown in America. We’re delighted to finally bring this essential work to English readers. 896pgs B&W paperback.
Forming
by Jesse Moynihan
Fantagraphics
$49.99
The publisher says:
Forming is an eon-spanning, psychedelic, metaphysical, mystical, and epic work of modern mythology and comedy: a retelling of the trajectory of consciousness on planet Earth. In Forming, Jesse Moynihan takes 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws it in the blender to create one epic—and irreverent—battle royale between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself. Originally begun in 2009 and garnering hundreds of thousands of followers online, Jesse Moynihan’s acclaimed Magnum Opus was never completed — until now! Spanning Atlantis, 10,000 BC, across eons and galaxies, religions and myths, humanity emerges from the primordial soup, only to be exploited for its labour by an alien super-being, leading to wars and forces between the likes we could hardly comprehend if not given life before our very eyes via Moynihan’s breathtaking and hand-painted gouache, ink, and airbrushed pages. Forming heralds the birth of civilisation and maps out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, followed by the raging war that ensues in the universe’s years of adolescence and beyond, as the final fate of the universe unfolds. Moynihan’s epic collision course of gods and mutants, philosophy and hilarity, mythology and psychedelia are an instant classic of cosmic comic book world building on par with Kirby and Moebius. 448pgs colour hardcover.
Ghosts in my House
by Eleanor Crewes
Virago
£18.99
The publisher says:
From the author of the acclaimed graphic memoir The Times I Knew I Was Gay comes a brilliantly chilling and original collection of interconnected graphic ghost stories. A house may not start haunted…but it can become haunted. Over the decades, the occupants of Number 20 have noticed that their house, stood in the corner of a London square, feels a little more alive than most: whispers in the walls, a secret in the cellar, the growing sense that no one truly leaves… And for each of the characters in this book - Connie, Hedda, Orlaith, Teddy and Maud - the house seems to understand their deepest desires. In every story is a wish for more - but what might too much wishing unleash? Drawing from classic ghost stories and enlivening them with themes of identity, desire and queer revelations, Eleanor Crewes makes the haunted house tale her own. 224pgs B&W paperback.
The Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds
by Ivo van Woerden, Gemma Plum & Marloes Dekkers
SelfMadeHero
£22.99
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What if you stopped focusing on what’s impossible, and opened yourself up to what’s possible? Marc Evers is two years old and it’s almost impossible for anyone to get through to him. His parents are told by a psychiatrist he has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and that he’ll never be able to talk or go to the toilet on his own. For this reason, the psychiatrist recommends institutionalisation. Thankfully, Marc’s parents refuse to listen. Eighteen years later, Marc is preparing to compete in the 100-metre backstroke at the 2012 London Paralympics. He walks, talks, and rides his bike. He’s his own person, surrounded by a busy family – and he can swim like a torpedo. With five Paralympic medals and many world records, Marc Evers is the Netherlands’ greatest Paralympic swimming champion. How did he manage to beat the odds? The Great Marc Evers is a moving, intimate, inspiring, and above all optimistic coming-of-age portrait of Marc and his family. A beautifully drawn story about perseverance, hope, and strength, about trusting your intuition and daring to believe. 192pgs colour hardcover.
Happy Hour
by Edward Steed
Drawn & Quarterly
$22.00
The publisher says:
A generational talent’s old cartooning soul returns for a second round. Edward Steed continues his winning streak as the most exciting cartoonist in The New Yorker’s pages in the 21st century. Hailed as the last great hope of the single panel gag strip, the sole saving grace of a print media taking its last dying breaths, Steed brings a deftly scrawled lacerating sense of humour that alludes to classic New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams, William Steig, and Sol Stenberg as well as modern cringe alt-comedy. With Happy Hour out hot on the heels of his best-selling and critically-lauded debut collection, Forces of Nature, Steed proves he’s no flash in the pan but an enduring comedic talent. Every page in this collection is a hilarious master class on how to tickle a funnybone. 160pgs B&W hardcover.
Hideout
by Masasumi Kakizaki, translated by Nube Consulting
Abrams / Kana
$17.99
The publisher says:
A single-volume horror manga, perfect to binge. Delivered in heavy, grisly art, a psychedelic descent into madness . . . Junji Ito meets The Shining. The cave beckons. Deep in the rainforest of a southern resort island, where bones of forgotten soldiers abound, another corpse is nothing special. A young couple grieves the death of their young son, but the husband sets out in search of a waterfall said to bring those who see it newfound happiness. The wife is a skeptic, opposed to the trek, but “anything to start afresh,” he says, so they try it. Anything… A fast-paced survival horror-thriller manga with twists on every corner, for fans of the movie The Shining and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Includes full-colour pages from the magazine serialisation, fully preserved. 224pgs B&W paperback with 8-page colour insert.
Hotel and Farm
by Ben Katchor
Pantheon
$32.00
The publisher says:
From award-winning cartoonist and author of The Dairy Restaurant, Real Estate Photographer, and The Jew of New York comes a new collection of graphic narratives preserved in Ben Katchor’s timeless illustrations. Late one night, in an Echoic City basement cafeteria, a group of story-addicts linger after dinner to share 140 tales that examine the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of hotel culture and agriculture. The hotel stories explore the erotic quality of miniature shampoo containers, the pleasures of life between international time zones, the dangers of glossy magazines, and the hotel lobby as a breeding ground for petty crime. The agriculture stories detail the little-known practice of twice-killing meat, the cultivation and sale of exotic produce, the whitewashing of trees, and the arrangement of fruit as an art form. With Ben Katchor’s signature style and wit, the stories in Hotel and Farm weave together the joys and woes of both industries into one unprecedented and unerring graphic novel. 176pgs B&W hardcover.
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex
by Lisa Hanwalt
Drawn & Quarterly
$28.00
The publisher says:
From the creative mind behind Bojack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie comes a fragmented memoir—poignant, punchy, and sometimes just plain gross! A deliciously candid and juicy exploration of platonic and romantic fixations, heartbreak, and the allure of horses. I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex marks the long-awaited return of Tuca & Bertie creator and BoJack Horseman producer/production designer Lisa Hanawalt to comics. This is the honest, silly, horny and vulnerable memoir of a horse girl, now in her forties and reflecting back on a lifetime of obsessions. Whether Hanawalt is confronting large life issues like whether or not to have kids, being an anxious lil freak, caring for a sick horse, revisiting childhood trauma, or dealing with a major breakup and the ensuing lustfulness—she delivers a reading experience that’s relatable, affirming, and almost always hilarious. In lush colours and kinetic lines, she charts the strange terrain of life, one bumpy, dusty horseback ride at a time. 250pgs colour hardcover.
The Jellyfish King
by Brecht Evens, translated by François Vigneault & Brecht Evens
Drawn & Quarterly
$35.00
The publisher says:
The author of Panther returns with another unconventional coming of age story. A child is born and slowly opens his eyes to a cruel world. His mother is dead and his father has retreated into himself. Seeking the approval of his father, the child begins to draw: to create, to document what he sees. This awakens his father from his grief and he begins to educate his child in the ways of the world. Our hero is educated in the arts and sciences and survival skills and is taught to beware of the outside sinister forces at play behind everything. Every pattern is a code, every acquaintance a betrayer waiting to be exposed. Brecht Evens returns with a lucid detailed shining bildungsroman that looks deep into the heart of generational trauma, miseducation, and conspiracy-minded thinking. Page after page of complicated brilliant tableaus mixing symbols modern and ancient unfold revealing an ever complex and sinister world. Evens is a master at mixing humour and horror in what will surely be the year’s most gorgeous and transfixing graphic novel. 288pgs colour hardcover.
Murder School
by Paul B. Rainey
Drawn & Quarterly
$27.00
The publisher says:
A memoir of British middle school bullying and one precocious comic nerd’s fight to make it through while remaining as invisible as possible. Paul B. Rainey takes a look back at his middle school education and the indignities suffered—a mix of stalled friendships, pitched battles with martinets, and exasperated pleading with intractable parents. Playground games take on outsized importance as Paul and his friends seek respite from a particularly abusive science teacher. Paul jockeys to hold his place in the complicated hierarchy of school bullying. Rainey takes a classic “school daze” tale—both wistful and hilarious—and manages to turn it on its head with a couple of his now famous twists. Find out the truth behind the Murder School and the effect it’s had on Rainey well into middle-age. 216pgs colour hardcover.
My Friend Kim Jong-Un
by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong
Drawn & Quarterly
$35.00
The publisher says:
Award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim contemplates and explores the long shadow North Korea casts over Korean society. On an island located an hour from Seoul, North Korea sits visible from cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s home and studio. The spectre of the infamous dictatorship and nuclear power looms over daily life. Artillery fire, helicopters, and sirens from a nearby military base paint the acoustic landscape. In her award-winning books Grass and The Waiting, Gendry-Kim documents the pain and heartbreak of Korea’s history. In My Friend Kim Jong-Un, she looks to the present—to the man currently responsible for upholding the national divide created after World War Two. While the rest of the world partakes in the popularity of Korean culture, a certain unease and anxiety hangs in the air in South Korea as its people still grapple with the distrust and anger of one culture split into two distinct societies. Gendry-Kim explores the life of the supreme leader, searching for commonalities to make sense of the daily fear: from his birth to his international education, his hobbies, and his relationships. She weaves her personal accounts and includes interviews with former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, North Korean defectors, researchers, journalists, and even Kim’s former chef. Translated by the award-winning Janet Hong, My Friend… is a cautionary tale on what makes a dictator, at a time when these lessons are more relevant in the West than ever. 244pgs colour paperback.
Nirvana Is Here
by Mikael Ross, translated by Nika Beauchamp
Fantagraphics
$29.99
The publisher says:
A chance encounter in a flea market parking lot and a severed finger embroil two Vietnamese German siblings—and a vividly drawn cast of eccentric neighbours, a tough teen biker with a crush, a rollerblading girl gang, and many others—on a mission to save a desperate young Vietnamese woman from her pursuer. Two German siblings, 12-year-old Tâm and 14-year-old Dennis Nguyen, encounter a young Vietnamese woman in trouble in a flea market parking lot. When Tâm’s spy movie-obsessed schoolmate, Alex, discovers an abandoned backpack with a photo of a happy couple with Tâm’s address on the back, it will lead the two to discover a severed finger. Worried, Tâm searches for the desperate woman, aided by her reluctant brother, and eventually finds Hoa Bin, who escaped from her kidnapper—who’s still tracking her down. Drawn to Hoa Bin, Tâm vows to save her—even if she has to break her stern-but-loving mom’s rules, dodge the bad guys in wild chases through the Berlin streets, and combine the forces of Marina, the Nguyens’ tough-chick neighbour, Jutta, an elderly retired actress, a rollerblading girl gang, and many others to do so. In Ross’s empathetic, loose-but-controlled lines, cartoonishly expressive kids interact against and within the realistically depicted urban environments, given texture and grit by screen-tones. Nirvana Is Here is a contemporary crime thriller that has adventure, diasporic, coming-of-age, and love story elements, set in Berlin’s working-class Lichtenberg district against a backdrop of very current social issues. 352pgs B&W paperback.
No Concessions!
by Nathan Gelgud
Drawn & Quarterly
$20.00
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Your favourite gang of militant movie lovers are back for an all-new season of hijinks and takeovers from their small town single screen cinema. The Reel Politik guerillas discuss how to be an effective revolutionary while fighting the all-consuming evils of corporate Hollywood. Meditate! Fight your inner urge to binge watch! Engage in a cinema fast to truly appreciate the oeuvre of an auteur! Realism is bourgeois! In an attempt to thwart a Hollywood studio from co-opting the story of the Weather Underground, the gang then pursues its own cinematic celebration of their hero Bernardine Dohrn. “There are no good or bad movies, only correct or false ones.” Along the way the gang gets sidetracked to start the MLIB, the Marxist Leninist International Baseball league. With his trademark slapstick zingers, Gelgud lovingly skewers leftist radical politics while simultaneously illustrating how late-stage capitalism has made ethical decision-making fraught with compromise. At once a celebration of what makes Hollywood and independent local cinema great and a call to arms to protect it. 188pgs B&W paperback.
Penny: A Graphic Memoir
by Karl Stevens
Chronicle
$19.95
The publisher says:
This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny. Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colourful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about the realities of her sheltered life living in an apartment with her owners. Filled with ennui, angst, and vivid dreams, Penny proves that being a cat is more profound than we once thought. A unique blend of high art and humour, Penny: A Graphic Memoir perfectly portrays one cat’s struggles between her animal instincts, her philosophical reflections, and the lush creature comforts of a life with human servants. 152pgs colour paperback.
Pepper
by Karl Stevens
Toon Books
$19.99
The publisher says:
A standalone sequel to the popular graphic memoir Penny, this vivid graphic novel centres on house-cat heroine Penny’s relationship with her sister, Pepper—and the delicately solipsistic inner world they share with each other. As she is prone to do, Penny the housecat spends her days lazing around the apartment and musing philosophically. However, her peace is rudely disturbed when she is forced to contend with the existence of her little sister, Pepper. What follows is one part wry, immaculately watercoloured cat gags, one part vision-quest. Here, acclaimed graphic novelist Karl Stevens blends the quotidian life of a with an epicly psychedelic journey of self-discovery and the profound art of making peace with yourself. 128pgs colour paperback.
Requiem for Gaza
by Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco
Fantagraphics / Jonathan Cape
$24.99 / £20.00
The publisher says:
In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide. In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza, they use the experience and stories of these families to detail the crucible of the genocide, the loss of homes and communities, the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones, the constant displacement, the terror of indiscriminate killing, the hunger and deprivation, the obliteration of all that was known and familiar, and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world that continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destruction of Gaza and mass slaughter. Requiem for Gaza, like their New York Times bestseller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, combines comics and single images drawn by Sacco within the narrative written by Hedges. Hedges’ vivid prose and Sacco’s visceral images complement each other and together paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide. The collective power of the individual stories that chronicle the first day of the genocide, the forced evacuation of homes, the targeted assassinations, the false hopes engendered by ceasefires, the dislocation and alienation of exile, the brutal killing and hasty burial of family members, and the humiliation of living under tarps without clean food and water bring every aspect of the genocide to life. Set against this horror are stories of self-sacrifice and compassion that show how Palestinians not only clung to their humanity, but morally triumphed over their killers. 160pgs B&W hardcover.
Revolutionaries: Spain Vol. 4
by Spain Rodriguez, compiled & edited by Patrick Rosenkranz
Fantagraphics Underground
$35.00
The publisher says:
Revolutionaries collects the most politically galvanising stories by the subversive comix artist, social activist, and outlaw biker Spain Rodriguez. In Revolutionaries, Spain illustrates the lives of some of great historical figures who fought for revolution and independence, including Nestor Makhno, Bernardo Galvez, plus contemporary heroes and villains in the fight for democracy. He also recounts his role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s with autobiographical strips from the East Village Other, Hustler, and Sleazy Scandals of the Silver Screen, exercising the complete artistic freedom those periodicals afforded him. Plus graphic short stories of revolutionary Yiddish entertainers and activists in the Lower East Side that first appeared in Jewish Currents, in collaboration with Jewish scholar Joel Schechter. Spain Rodriguez absorbed revolutionary and military history throughout his life and showcased his eclectic knowledge in the stirring tales of freedom fighting that appear in this volume, from ancient historical times to 20th and 21st century political machinations. This volume collects stories from Arcade, Anarchy, Commies From Mars, Two-Fisted Tales, and Death Rattle and other comix titles from his six-decade career. 272pgs B&W & colour paperback.
Soft Targets; Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire
by Street Noise Books
$23.99
The publisher says:
A work of comics journalism around the stories of four kids who have died in the U.S. due to gun violence or gun negligence—the leading cause of death for minors since 2020, and dispelling myths of the history of gun culture in the U.S. Who have we lost? How did we get here? Why do gun-lovers love their guns? These are the questions that people across America ask every time another news story broadcasts a death from gun violence. With compassionate, thoughtful journalism, this graphic novel explores the lives of four kids and teenagers and the guns that ended their lives: from incidents of gang violence to school shootings to suicide. These tragedies are presented alongside the history of gun culture and legislation, discussing the NRA, the legal system, and the racial imbalances in American gun violence. Camila Kerwin is a journalist who makes comics and radio. She’s a regular comics contributor to The Boston Globe and a founding member of the Rough Cut Collective, an on-demand audio editing studio. Camila illustrated WLRN’s Class of COVID-19: An Education Crisis for Florida’s Vulnerable Students, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2022. She has been a Producer at Marketplace’s
Thistlebone: The Complete Collection
by T.C. Eglington & Simon Davis
2000AD / Rebellion
£29.99 / $39.99
The publisher says:
Britain, 2019. A woman returns to the site of her traumatic past to uncover chilling horrors in the acclaimed Thistlebone series, collected in its entirety in a new paperback volume perfect for fans of The Wicker Man. The secluded rural village of Harrowvale holds a dark past: years earlier, on a farm bordering the woods, a cult—led by the charismatic Jasper Hillman—sought to escape civilisation and find purity in the old ways, namely worshipping an ancient deity called Thistlebone. The cult’s pagan beliefs grew so deranged that they kidnapped a young girl, Avril Eason, with the intention of sacrificing her. But Avril escaped… and now, so many years later, she returns to Harrowvale to face the demons of her past. Haunting and visceral, The Complete Thistlebone collects volumes 1-3 of the acclaimed folk horror series by T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis. 208pgs colour paperback.
Wandering Cat’s Cage
by Akane Torikai, translated by Jocelyne Allen
Takumigraphics / Fantagraphics
$34.99
The publisher says:
An elegiac manga about gender, community, family, control, class, love, and what makes life worth living at the end of the world. In Akane Torikai’s Wandering Cat’s Cage, it is the near future. Only a few women are still able to menstruate, and even fewer men will be born to them. Reproduction is limited to medical intervention controlled from on high, and the structures and lives of the past hold no weight: they are only hinted at through the remaining scraps of a world that no longer exists. Life can be good, though, if you fall in line, and the women of The City live bright, happy, tightly controlled lives. But complete obedience isn’t for everyone. For the women across the river, who live in a rundown shantytown, viewing the opulence of the city from afar each night, life is different. It is humble, and often dangerous, but it is free. It is here that Sanada, a young acupuncturist, lives with the mysterious Reiho, the only male she’s ever met, and who sells himself to the rich women who sneak across the river for something they’ve never experienced …The two form a small “family,” taking in other young women ousted from the city. But a real, living, breathing male might be too precious to leave to the shabby streets. When Reiho is kidnapped at gunpoint and taken to the breeding program in the city, Sanada must join with the other outcasts to try and rescue him, and learn the difficult truths of love, self-actualisation, society, community, safety, and the future itself. Master manga-ka Akane Torikai (Sensei’s Pious Lie) has produced a stunning work of relational SF through a gender-bent looking glass. Torikai pulls no punches examining the deeply messy subjects of our day—sexuality, gender dynamics, romantic love, familial trauma, freedom, and control, through immaculately realised settings and character-rich, emotive body language. Produced in partnership with MSX: Mangasplaining Extra. 344pgs B&W hardcover.
