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Jan 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ai Weiwei |Erin Williams |Dave Baker |Yann Damezin
Mia Oberländer, trans. from the German by Nika Knight. Fantagraphics, $24.99 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-1-68396-921-1Body consciousness and generational trauma cast long shadows in this inventive, dexterous modern fable from promising newcomer Oberländer. Set in the fictional mountain village of Bad Hohenheim, Germany, the story spans three generations of Annas.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ai Weiwei |Erin Williams |Dave Baker |Yann Damezin
Underground: The Illustrated Bible of Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of SoundArnaud Le Gouëfflec and Nicolas Moog, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. Titan Comics, $29.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-78774-025-9History, including rock history, is written by the victors—but what about those rockers who weren’t in it to win it?
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ai Weiwei |Erin Williams |Dave Baker |Yann Damezin
Hiro Kashiwaba, trans. from the Japanese by Kathryn Henzler. Seven Seas, $13.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 979-8-88843-259-4This endearing isekai with a furry twist, the English-language debut from Kashiwaba, launches a slice-of-fantasy-life series. Madam Jeanne was once a powerful sorceress who helped a dashing hero defeat a Demon King in the Kingdom of Grifford.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Van Jensen |Nate Powell |Yann Damezin |Manon Debaye
This paean to 1990s DIY punk from National Book Award winner Powell (the March series) puts a paranormal twist on the intimacies and aggravations of life in a band. Arkansas-based quartet Diamond Mine summon thunderous power from their vocalist Diana’s volatile, shamanistic performances. The shows are electrifying—their sound drawn as lightning bolts striking the stage—but there’s something more at play.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ai Weiwei |Yann Damezin |Manon Debaye |Ronald Wimberly
Ai Weiwei, with Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini. Ten Speed Graphic, $28.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-98486-299-0Chinese artist-activist Weiwei’s poignant, meditative graphic memoir debut opens as he speaks to his son about the past, and the “powerful men”—such as Mao Zedong—who “made decisions for everybody” during the cultural revolution, including what few books people were allowed to read.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Small |Yann Damezin |Manon Debaye |Ronald Wimberly
This evocative, sure-handed triptych of short stories from Small (Stitches) showcases his talent to conjure foreboding. The title piece, adapted from a story by Lincoln Michel, depicts an aging werewolf who’s now “lucky [to] overtake an injured squirrel.” As isolated as ever, he’s still fearful of the full moon, but for a different reason: —“It used to mean I’d hurt other people.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dave Baker |Nicole Goux |Yann Damezin |Manon Debaye
Part sprawling adventure series, part manic satire of fandom, this deliciously overstuffed graphic novel never stops to catch its breath. Baker (Everyone Is Tulip) warps a meta-narrative around the discovery of a comic book that he claims in the introduction was “gifted” to him from the future. Spunky “teen sleuth” Mary Tyler MooreHawk, who wears Afro-puffs markedly similar to a certain cartoon mouse, is forever fighting off hordes of monsters, robotic spiders, and supervillains.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Erin Williams |Yann Damezin |Manon Debaye |Ronald Wimberly
If Western medicine tends to overlook patients’ individual lived experiences, this powerful collection of illustrated personal histories from Williams (Commute) embodies a protest of sorts. Framed by the artist’s own narrative of chronic mental and physical illnesses, the stories spotlight four people whose conditions were made worse by the professionals and systems meant to help them.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Mike Carey |Brian Wood |Jody Houser |Yann Damezin
Hobb’s high fantasy Farseer trilogy gets enhanced with expressive renderings of its characters and worldbuilding in this immersive graphic novel adaptation scripted by Houser (the Vox Machina Origins series) and drawn by Kelly (the Stranger Things comics series). The bastard son of an heir apparent, Fitz is a wild card in the line of succession to the First Duchy of Buckkeep, a medieval-ish realm.
