Steven M. Wise

Jun 16, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart. Rose Metal, $24.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-941628-29-4Poet and cartoonist Ervick (The Keeper) and Sequential Artist’s Workshop school founder and cartoonist Hart (Rosalie Lightning) host a dazzling showcase of short academic essays designed to get artists and educators jazzed about the “hybrid form” of comics.

Jun 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Navied Mahdavian. Princeton Architectural, $25.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-79722-367-4New Yorker cartoonist Mahdavian debuts with a charming, meditative graphic memoir that recounts three years he lived in the rural Midwest.

May 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Ben Nadler. Chronicle, $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-797-20524-3This appetizing graphic guide from Nadler (Heretics!) lays out a humorous and informative history of the Jewish deli in North America. With sections that include meat, fish, bagels, schmear, and dessert, the primer is populated by talking sandwiches and humans drawn digitally with triangular noses, boneless arms, and a variety of historical dress.

May 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Sam Machado |Steven M. Wise |Jillian Tamaki |Cynthia Sousa Machado

Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth. Street Noise, $19.99 trade paper (148p) ISBN 978-1-95149-122-2In this unorthodox survey of the Princess of Wales’s life and legacy, comics newcomer Piatigorsky-Roth finds parallels between their own navigation of gender as a trans person and Diana’s fraught relationship with celebrity and the monarchy.

May 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Poppy Pesuyama, trans. from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri. Viz, $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-974738-84-7Cute, inviting artwork and a friendly narrative voice ease manga readers into this fearless and often harrowing memoir.