Charles Burns

Jun 17, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki

Dash Shaw. New York Review Comics, $34.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-68137-846-6A chance encounter triggers an intricate sequence of stories within stories in Shaw’s kaleidoscopic latest (after Discipline). Browsing an H&M for clothes to wear to a wedding, Ken bumps into a former middle school classmate, Mel. When Ken doesn’t recognize her, Mel points out that she now wears glasses. The narrative then shifts to Mel in her 20s, when her vision began blurring.

Jun 17, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki

Julian Hanshaw. Top Shelf, $19.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-60309-543-3In this eloquent, melancholic sci-fi parable from Hanshaw (Free Pass), aliens have used up their planet and must now move onto the next. Young Hoshi and Faith, however, resist the mandated evacuation. Hoshi’s obsessed with chickens and has a metallic leg, while Faith is distinguished by the outmoded tech bolted to her skull.

Jun 17, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Teresa Wong |Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack

Teresa Wong. Arsenal Pulp, $21.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-55152-949-3Wong (Dear Scarlet) explores her Chinese immigrant parents’ history with gentle curiosity, wry humor, and moments of aching regret.

Jun 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki

Joseph Béhé, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Mundi, $39.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63779-066-3Béhé, a comics professor at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, adapts anthropologist Pascal Boyer’s theory of religion in this detailed and convincing work of graphic scholarship. Pascal arrives at a dinner party and dives into a debate with the other guests about the origins, purposes, and features of religion.

Jun 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jim Zub |Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack

Djibril Chu’o’ng and Yasmine Trinh Phan Morissette, trans. from the French by Nikki San Pedro. Fairsquare, $29.99 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-960-17114-6This elegant triptych tells the stories of three Vietnamese women, each of whom is shaped by decades of war and colonialism and finds strength in family. After war between China and Japan separates Khiêm from her family in the 1940s, she becomes a nun, cultivating a commitment to hard work and gratitude.