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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Joanna Rubin Dranger, trans. from the Swedish by Maura Tavares. Ten Speed Graphic, $40 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-83690-3“Who will remember them, if not us?” asks Dranger (Miss Remarkable and Her Career) in this meticulous chronicle of her Jewish family’s history of disruption and dislocation. When Dranger was growing up, her grandparents deflected her questions about relatives who “disappeared” in WWII.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Michael J. Conrad |Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel
An ex-con must come to terms with his past before it destroys him in this haunting graphic novel from Conrad (the Nightwing series) and newcomer Ooten. After nearly two decades in prison, Corey Harrison reflects upon his lost years, the result of a convenience store holdup he committed alongside his brother, James, and his friend, Shawn, that left two people dead and multiple families shattered.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Harry Bliss |Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel
New Yorker cartoonist Bliss (A Wealth of Pigeons) lets it all hang out in this poignant, generously illustrated graphic memoir, which combines prose and comics in mordantly funny and moving vignettes. Confiding at the outset that “intimacy is my intention,” Bliss delves into the death of his beloved dog Penny, and springboards from that grief to all manner of life events and transitions.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Rainey follows Why Don’t You Love Me? with another mordantly funny, reality-bending graphic novel featuring malcontents obsessing over the minor frustrations of their humdrum lives. Mousy adult fanboy Cliff (handmade Dalek replica and all) longs for the affections of his roommate Kelly, an anxiety-rattled office drone who self-medicates by binging on yogurt. Rounding out the core cast is Cliff’s friend Barry, a noxious 30-something pop culture collector and porn addict.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
In this introspective graphic memoir debut, biology professor Gormally uses loose lined drawings and a straightforward panel grid to explore a complex topic: trauma. As a self-described “badass,” Gormally is accustomed to pushing toward defined achievements. They run miles every morning, ignoring worsening muscle pain, and spend their days overworking themself in their university lab (“Gotta double down”).
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Matt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt. Dark Horse, $29.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4594-7Harvey award winner Kindt (the Mind MGMT series) collaborates with his mother, Margie Kraft Kindt, on this charming cozy whodunit that builds an intricate case around the murder of a Parisian antiques dealer. Amateur sleuths Meredith “Merry” Pearson and her nephew Sam have a knack for stumbling onto new cases.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Little Thunder, trans. from the Chinese by Montana Kane. Dark Horse, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4600-5Hong Kong artist Little Thunder’s enchanting debut comprises three stories linked by the uncannily cute character Kylooe, a furry white monster who inhabits people’s dreams. In “Downhearted Dragonfly,” an awkward teenage girl living in the shadow of her popular sister meets a boy who lives in a rainbow-hued dreamland, but travel between their realities proves precarious.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | James Tynion IV |Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel
James Tynion IV and Christian Ward. Dstlry, $35 (200p) ISBN 978-1-962265-04-1In this flashy phantasmagoria, Eisner winners Tynion (the Nice House on the Lake series) and Ward (Batman: City of Madness) spin an offbeat ghost story with hints of science fiction and visual style to spare. Janie, a frazzled real estate agent in Malibu, just wants to show an old house to a buyer and get home to the toddler she accidentally left unattended.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Greg and Fake debut with a self-aware pastiche that blends an entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup into a fitfully entertaining sugar rush. Granted powers by the mysterious Madame Sosostris, trash-talking teens Ambar and Alana transform into superheroines in luchador masks when they shout, “It’s Santos Sisters time!” Between partying, bickering, and trading expletive-laden quips, they take on threats ranging from carjackers to a monster cinnamon bun to Snowscrotch, a penis-shaped yeti.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
popculthq-comics.com | Matt Kindt |Jason Bennett |Margie Kraft Kindt
On Wednesday, November 6th, Dark Horse Comics‘ imprint Flux House Books is releasing GILT FRAME #3 – the new series by New York Times bestselling creator Matt Kindt!A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers.
