Michael Cherkas

Oct 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Michael Cherkas |Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White

Catharina Octorina and Hiikariin. Andrews McMeel, $18.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-5248-8604-2Octorina (Maid for Hire) and Hiikariin’s flighty office rom com comes with a supernatural romantasy twist: it’s set in a world where the gods and demigods of Olympus are corporate CEOs. Ordinary human woman Iris has somehow managed to land a job delivering interoffice memos at the deities’ prestigious corporation, which is located in a lofty 1,000–foot-tall office tower.

Oct 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Michael Cherkas |Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White

L. Nichols. Secret Acres, $15.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 979-8-9855863-5-0In a piercing cycle of 28 short, often anguished autobiographical meditations, Nichols (Flocks) chronicles their life story and the long uphill climb to claiming their nonbinary identity in a hostile culture.

Oct 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White |Michael Cherkas

Josh Bayer. Uncivilized, $24.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-94125-056-3Indie comics mainstay Bayer (Theth) confronts childhood traumas while struggling to adapt his estranged father’s unfinished play in this thorny hybrid of family memoir and peek behind the artistic process. Over dense pages swelling with scratched inky lines and bruised washes of color, a discursive psychological drama plays out following the discovery of a manuscript Bayer’s father secretly worked on for decades.

Oct 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Michael Cherkas |Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White

Chuck D. Enemy, $19.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-63614-152-7Public Enemy front man Chuck D follows up Stewdio with a striking graphic narrative archive of gun violence and collective misery during the summer of 2022. He takes note of WNBA player Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia, student debt crises, and alarming climate disasters, but focuses on the issue that dominates that summer’s media cycle: “guns... guns...