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Aug 1, 2024 | 
bookforum.com | Emil Ferris
THIS IS A GOTHIC TALE. In the summer of 2002, a professional illustrator and single mom in Chicago went to her fortieth-birthday bash, a gypsy-themed affair that her young daughter told her not to attend. A premonition? At the party, a mosquito bit her. Perhaps she slapped it dead; maybe it stayed attached, vampirically feasting. The result was no mere itch, but a health spiral.
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May 16, 2024 | 
adsmith.news | Emil Ferris
Comic-Con is proud to announce the 2024 Eisner nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The nominations are for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2023 and were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges. Once again, this year’s nominees in 32 categories reflect the wide range of material being published in the U.S. in comics and graphic novels, representing more than 150 print and online titles from over 60 publishers, produced by creators from all over the world.
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May 16, 2024 | 
adsmith.news | Emil Ferris
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May 12, 2024 | 
adsmith.news | Emil Ferris
ComicsPRO, the trade organization representing comics store owners in the direct market, has released the preliminary results of a survey of comics retailers conducted earlier this year. The survey, which was conducted over a period of six weeks starting in late January, found that sales fell at 69% of responding retailers, which included both ComicsPRO members and other stores.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Emil Ferris |Gene Yang |Ayn Rand
Ferris delivers the second part of her debut graphic novel of queer coming-of-age werewolf art noir. In politically charged 1960s Chicago, teenage werewolf Karen Reyes is still haunted by the murder of her neighbor, and now by the cancerous death of her conservative mother, whose worries bleed into Karen’s dreams via a beheaded but sentient teddy bear.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca
Anna Härmälä. Nobrow, $20.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-913123-22-2Härmälä’s wit glows as warmly as her saturated pastel colors in her semi-autobiographical debut about tackling parenthood alone. Her partner dumps her while she’s pregnant, leaving her to shoulder the responsibilities of birthing and then raising their daughter, Alma.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca
Alison McCreesh. Conundrum, $30 trade paper (390p) ISBN 978-1-772-62093-1Set in Canada’s sparsely populated north, these pleasantly meandering vignettes from McCreesh (Norths) document 10 years committed to adventure and freedom, before taking a turn for the elegiac. In 2008, when she’s in her early 20s, McCreesh heads from Quebec to Dawson City, a small Gold Rush town in the Yukon.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca
James Loewen and Nate Powell. New Press, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62097-703-3“History is the only field in which the MORE courses students take, the STUPIDER they become,” according to this striking graphic adaptation by cartoonist Powell (the March series) of sociologist Loewen’s groundbreaking 1995 study, which challenged the prevailing version of American history taught in public schools.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Marian Henley |Maurice Vellekoop |Jay Stephens |Emil Ferris
Marian Henley. Andrews McMeel, $16.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-5248-8469-7Henley, creator of the long-running weekly comic strip Maxine, recounts in this fearless and lyrical graphic memoir her decision to tell her adopted son, William, about her history as a sexual assault victim.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Maurice Vellekoop |Emil Ferris |Paco Roca |Marjane Satrapi
Eddie Ahn. Ten Speed, $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-984-86249-5Ahn debuts with a warmhearted homage to community work that also captures the complex pressures on children of immigrants. In 2005, Eddie is a young adult working with AmeriCorps for an after-school program in Oakland, Calif. There, he discovers the small joys of helping underserved communities. However, his Korean immigrant parents, who own a liquor store, expect upward financial mobility.
