MAY 2018

THE BEST WE COULD DO

THI BUI

This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.
 
At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home.
 

APRIL 2018

GOODNIGHT PUNPUN VOL 1

INIO ASANO

This is Punpun Punyama's coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don’t.

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town.

He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.

He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.

He wants to find some porn.

That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?

MARCH 2018

INCOGNEGRO

MAT JOHNSON/WARREN PLEECE

In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities.

They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going "Incognegro."

FEBRUARY 2018

ASTERIOS POLYP

DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames.

In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? 

JANUARY 2019

HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE NORTH

LUKE HEALY

With stunning narrative skill, this compelling graphic novel intricately weaves together true-life narratives from 1912, 1926 and a fictional story set in the present day.

How To Survive in the North is an unforgettable journey of love and loss, showing the strength it takes to survive in the harshest conditions.

DECEMBER 2017

iRON:  OR,THE WAR AFTER

s.m. vidaurri

It is the aftermath of a long war, in a world of constant winter. An intelligence spy from the Resistance — the rabbit, Hardin — steals secret information from a military base of the Regime.

His actions set off a chain of events that reverberates through the ranks of both sides, touching everyone from Pavel the crow to Giles the goat, from the highest-ranking officials to the smallest orphaned child. When the snow finally settles, who will be the true patriot and who the true traitor?

NOVEMBER 2017

ALONE

CHRISTOPHE CHABOUTE

On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone?

Years spent on a deserted rock—a lifetime, really—with imagination his sole companion has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be...nothing. And so, why not stay put? But one day, as a new boatman starts asking the questions all others have avoided, a chain of events unfolds that will irrevocably upend the hermit’s solitary life....

Filled with stunning and richly executed black-and-white illustrations, Alone is Chabouté’s masterpiece—an unforgettable tale where tenderness, despair, and humor intertwine to flawlessly portray how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone. 

OCTOBER 2017

WYTCHES VOL 1

SCOTT SNYDER/JOCK

Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. Wytches takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared venture before.

When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry.

SEPTEMBER 2017

GOD COUNTRY

DONNY CATES/GEOFF SHAW/JASON WORDIE/JOHN J. HILL

In GOD COUNTRY, readers meet Emmett Quinlan, an old widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn't just a problem for his children—his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle.

When a tornado levels his home—as well as the surrounding West Texas town—a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage. An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body, however.

He's now the only man who can face these otherworldly creatures the sword has drawn down to the Lone Star State...

AUGUST 2017

BY CHANCE OR PROVIDENCE

BECKY CLOONAN/LEE LOUGHRIDGE

By Chance or Providence collects Becky Cloonan's award-winning trilogy: Wolves, The Mire and Demeter, with lush colors by Lee Loughridge and a sketchbook/illustration section.

These stories cast a spell of hypnotic melancholy, weaving their way through medieval landscapes of ancient curses and terrible truths that will haunt you long after you've set them down.

JULY 2017

BLACK HAMMER VOL 1 

JEFF LEMIRE/DEAN ORMSTON

Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City--Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien--now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape!

But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!

JUNE 2017

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS VOL.1

EMIL FERRIS

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.

MAY 2017

FLINTSTONES VOL.1

MARK RUSSELL/STEVE PUGH

Fred and Barney reunite for Mark Russell's modern take on Hanna-Barbera's most famous stone-age family!

Welcome to Bedrock, where Paleolithic humans head to dinner for a taste of artisanal mammoth after shopping at Neandertall & Big Men's Clothing, where Wilma shows her modern art, and where, if you take a plane, you could end up sitting on the literal tail section. See Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Dino, Barney, Betty and Bamm-Bamm as you've never seen them before in THE FLINTSTONES VOL. 1.
 
THE FLINTSTONES has garnered significant critical acclaim for its modern take on the iconic Hanna-Barbera prime-time animated series. This darkly hilarious title cast an acerbic eye on issues like consumerism, religion, politics and relationships that's both distinctly twenty-first century and uniquely the Flintstones!

APRIL 2017

SPACE RIDERS VOL 1 

FABIAN RANGEL/ALEXIS ZIRITT

From the galactic core, to the outer quadrands, one name strikes terror in the hearts of evil beings everywhere:  THE SPACE RIDERS!  

Sailing the cosmos in the Skullship Santa Muerte, Captain Peligro and his fearless crew deal harsh justice to the scum of the galaxy while searching for the hidden truths of the universe. 

MARCH 2017

DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT 

TONY CLIFF

Delilah Dirk has been all over the glove.  Now, for the first time in her life, she has a friend to share in her adventures.  Selim is a Turkish soldier with a peaceful nature and a passion for excellent tea.  

He'd better get used to his new lifestyle fast, because there's never a dull moment when Delilah Dirk is involved.  

FEBRUARY 2017

VINLAND SAGA

MAKOTO YUKIMURA

FOR HONOR AND VENGEANCE

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid.

Raised by the Vikings who murdered his family, Thorfinn became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Thorfinn through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery...the land Leif called Vinland.

JANUARY 2017

THE SPIRE

SIMON SPURRIER/JEFF STOKLEY

Visit the strange and fantastic world of The Spire, where an inexplicable murder has turned an impossible tower of a city upside down.

The Spire is a mountain of metal and stone, a vast city that rises out of the middle of the radioactive desert. Filled with twisting tunnels, grinding elevators, and ancient machinery, it is home to over a million human and non-human residents. Sha, the last of the species known as the Medusi, is responsible for keeping the hodgepodge of forgotten technology and new biology safe as Commander of the City Watch. But when a string of grisly murders are committed just as a new Baroness of the Spire is about to be sworn in, Sha will have to find the killer and bring that individual to justice. With the new Baroness housing a deep hatred of non-humans, Sha will have more than one enemy at her back as a mystery buried in the history of the Spire unravels around her.

DECEMBER 2016

KLAUS

GRANT MORRISON/DAN MORA

Comics legend Grant Morrison introduces us to an old friend, Santa Claus, as we've never seen him before.

He’s a myth. He’s a legend. He’s loved worldwide by children and adults alike . . . but does anyone truly know the origins of Santa Claus? Set in a dark fantastic past of myth and magic, Klaus tells the origin story of Santa Claus. It’s the tale of one man and his wolf against a totalitarian state and the ancient evil that sustains it.

Award-winning author Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, The Multiversity) and artist Dan Mora (Hexed) revamp, reinvent, and re-imagine a classic superhero for the 21st century, drawing on Santa’s roots in Viking lore and Siberian shamanism, and taking in the creepier side of Christmas with characters like the sinister Krampus. Klaus finally answers the burning question: what does Santa Claus do on the other 364 days a year?

November 2016

Chainmail Bikini

Hazel Newlevant / Sophie Yanow / Jane Mai / Molly Ostertag / MORE

A knockout of an anthology collecting the stories of women who game. Table top role-playing, video games, board and card games; while none of these hobbies make much of an effort (or any effort, often) to market or appeal to anyone other than men, that hasn't stopped women from all over the world from making their mark on the culture and industry of gaming. Chainmail Bikini is a brilliant reminder of that fact.

The stories in Chainmail Bikini come from over two dozen creators, expressing across a wide spectrum of themes and emotional impact. Some are hilarious, some are heartbreaking, some are fun, some are small and focused, some pull the camera way, way back. Chainmail Bikini works as anthology, as a timely piece of cultural commentary, as kick ass collection of short comics. We are super excited to present it as our November Book of the Month selection and hope that you enjoy it as much as we have.

October 2016

Afterlife with Archie Volume 1

ROBERTO AQUIERRE SACASA/ FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA

When Jughead's beloved pet Hot Dog is killed in a hit and run, Jughead turns to the only person he knows who can help bring back his canine companion - Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Using dark, forbidden magic, Sabrina is successful and Hot Dog returns to the land of the living. But he's not the same - and soon, the darkness he brings back with him from beyond the grave begins to spread, forcing Archie and the gang to try to escape Riverdale!