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Jun 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees
Charles Burns. Pantheon, $34 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-70170-6The manias of art-making and adolescent lust are brilliantly rendered by Burns in his first standalone graphic novel since Black Hole. Fans will recognize Burns’s lovingly etched backdrops and pulp sensibility as he returns to the subject of confused hormonal youths lost in a netherworld caught between reality and nightmare.
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May 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Allison Conway |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees
Conway’s wryly whimsical latest (after The Lab) peers into the weeds of a bug’s life. Millie, a sweet-faced pill bug, lives in a leafy city with friends, including an ant who’s eager to show off her colony’s work, a spider with a brood of children clinging to her thorax, and a ladybug who can’t stop chowing down on aphids. She attends a campout, drinks cocktails by the beach, gets a check-up (“It looks like you have a copper deficiency.
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May 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees
Joonas Sildre, trans. from the Estonian by Adam Cullen. Plough, $26 (230p) ISBN 978-1-63608-134-2Sildre (Messages from Ukraine) delivers a lyrical ode to composer Arvo Pärt that translates the minimalist beauty and power of Pärt’s music to the page. Born in Estonia in 1935, Pärt grows up in a nation occupied alternately by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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May 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees |Carl Sciacchitano
Stan Mack. Fantagraphics Underground, $50 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68396-916-7This hefty and hilarious anthology collects more than 300 of Mack’s Village Voice strips depicting conversations overheard on the streets of New York (“All dialogue guaranteed verbatim,” he claimed.) Like a crowded apartment building, the volume’s chock-full of stubborn individuality, and the joy and pathos of urban life.
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May 17, 2024 | 
pathfinderinternational.co.uk | John Lees
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May 14, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees |Carl Sciacchitano
Sophie Adriansen and Mathou, trans. from the French by Montana Kane. NBM, $19.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-68112-334-9In this gentle and accessible portrayal of a mental health crisis, Adriansen (Nina Simone in Comics) and Mathou draw on their experiences as mothers to tell the fictionalized story of Marietta, who becomes clinically depressed during the final trimester of her pregnancy.
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May 6, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki |John Lees |Carl Sciacchitano
Fernando Balius and Mario Pellejer, trans. from the Spanish by Richard Beevor and Mailén Sganga. Graphic Mundi, $19.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-63779-070-0Balius and Pellejer’s raw and revealing graphic memoir debut depicts Balius’s mental illness as a shaggy monster shadowing his day-to-day life.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
nature.com | Ouli Xie |Jacqueline Morris |Andrew Hayes |Magnus G. Jespersen |John Lees |Sarah L. Baines | +8 more
AbstractStreptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) is an emerging cause of human infection with invasive disease incidence and clinical manifestations comparable to the closely related species, Streptococcus pyogenes. Through systematic genomic analyses of 501 disseminated SDSE strains, we demonstrate extensive overlap between the genomes of SDSE and S. pyogenes.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | John Lees
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
phys.org | John Lees
Who needs science fiction when you have the mitochondria? Billions of years ago, early plant and animal cells were infected by protobacteria which sought refuge from the outside world. Over time, these bacteria formed a symbiosis with our ancestors, removing damaging oxygen from their cells while receiving nutrition and a home in return.
