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Sep 10, 2024 | 
plough.com | Joonas Sildre
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Greg Lockard |Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack
Greg Lockard and Anna David. Dark Horse, $22.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-5067-3721-8A queer rodeo star trudges home in this enigmatic graphic novel from Lockard (Liebestrasse). Jimmy Thomas, star of the Electric Rodeo, is losing his panache and too often his grip on the reins. His latest tumble earns a stern warning from a doctor, which Jimmy disregards (“I will ride into my grave”).
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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.
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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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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.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Charles Burns |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki
Choi Gyu-seok, trans. from the Korean by Lynn Eskow. Ablaze, $14.99 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-68497-190-9Gyu-seok’s arresting English-language debut showcases the struggles of Korea’s labor movement through the misadventures of a reluctant activist. The narrative opens in the aughts, as labor organizer Go-shin Gu uses underhanded tactics to help a man receive unpaid wages.
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May 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Alex Irvine |Joonas Sildre |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki
Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, and Ben Bishop. Image, $16.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-5343-7167-5There’s no business like the comics business, as Shane “Books” Bookman, can attest in this rollicking action-comedy by Eastman, cocreator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, written with Avallone (Elvira), and art by Bishop (The Last Ronin). Bookman’s risen rapidly from a complete unknown to a global comics superstar as the cocreator of the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.
