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2 months ago | 
mangasplaining.substack.com | Katsuhiro Otomo |Yoshiharu Tsuge
AKIRA Vol. 5 by Katsuhiro OtomoTranslation and English-language adaptation: Yoko Umezawa, Linda M. York, Jo DuffyTranslation adaptation: Stephen Paul and Ko RansomLettering: Scott O. Brown and Evan HaydenEditing: Lauren ScanlanKodansha Comics edition cover design by Phil BalsmanPublished by Kodansha. Available in print. Audio editing by David Brothers.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke. Difference Engine, $19.50 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-981-14-5160-7In this resonant collection, creators from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand explore the theme of sound.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Hanna Harms, trans. from the German by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. Street Noise, $21.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-951491-36-9Through elegant yellow and black illustrations, Harms’s powerful English-language debut traces the ecosystems that pollinators inhabit—and exposes the dangers that threaten their existence. A series of overlapping geometric panels shows a single bee’s voyage from a small flower petal to a thriving hive, charting a “mental map of signposts” along the way.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Tara Booth. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 trade paper (396p) ISBN 978-1-7704-6732-3With sparse text and an abundance of color, Booth (Things to Do Instead of Killing Yourself) paints her psychological landscape in an idiosyncratic collection full of humor and catharsis.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sarah Kendzior |Andrea Chalupa |Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. JonesThe crusading journalist who inspired George Orwell’s Animal Farm searches for a story and finds hell in this propulsive if uneven nonfiction graphic narrative scripted by Gaslight Nation podcaster Chalupa (Dictatorship). In 1933, bright-eyed Welsh journalist Gareth Jones goes on a fact-finding mission to the Soviet Union.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Cormac McCarthy and Manu Larcenet. Abrams ComicArts, $25.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4197-7677-9French cartoonist Larcenet (Ordinary Victories) captures the darkness and harsh beauty of McCarthy’s novel in this elegiac adaptation. As in the original, an unnamed man and his son travel through a chilly postapocalyptic world where society and life itself seem to be disintegrating.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
buttercup. Radiator, $20 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-0-9963989-5-4Buttercup (Real Realm) weaves edgy social commentary into a playful time warp in this enchanting and vivacious first volume of their ongoing Afrodiasporic sci-fi/fantasy webcomic. Eugenne, a nonbinary apprentice midwife, brings their new partner, Albertx, to meet another pair of lovers and complete their ambitions for a polycule. As a bonus, they lay out chamomile tea, blunts, and candles for a moon worship ritual.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Rick Parker. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6159-1Parker (the Beavis & Butthead comics) mixes dark humor and genuine pathos in this cockeyed account of his Vietnam-era tour of duty. Drafted in 1966, Parker admits he was “not cut out for a career in the army.” He details his stint from boot camp and basic training through his promotion to second lieutenant and service in the Army’s nuclear missile battalion.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
Em Frank. Floating World, $24.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-942801-68-9Is it possible to recapture the magic of falling in love? Debut author Frank puts this question at the forefront of this complex and twist-filled trans love story. Elise and Annie strike up a conversation at Cafe Chateau, bonding over how much they miss Magnolias, the spot it replaced (though to their relief, the cake hasn’t changed).
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Matthew Erman |Yoshiharu Tsuge |Matt Lesniewski
This understated horror comic by Erman (Mariko Between Worlds) and artist Beck (Verse) finds terror in teenage suburban ennui. Sloane and her friends are high schoolers in what appears to be a typical Midwestern town. It gradually becomes clear, however, that the town of Loving is run by the Chorus, a new-agey cult whose beliefs range from past-life regression to the dangers of fluoride. The kids regard their parents’ fanaticism with adolescent skepticism: “All religions are cults.
