Our Kickstarter for Pidge’s Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 1 – Catalytic Conversions has just gone live and we’re really excited to share this incredible universe-spanning sci-fi epic with you!
This amazing 280-page book collects Pidge’s Ignatz-nominated self-published comics series into a stunning paperback collection with a beautiful wrap-around cover with french flaps.
Pidge has designed some fantastic bonus items to accompany the book too, so read on…
Relationships . . . androids . . . car repair . . . time travel . . . gods – these interconnected stories set on the edges of human experience share the moments of the little bits of life that feel less than real.
Abby and Lilah are a couple drifting apart. Jeff is a flaming star. Soe is a perpetually late college student and the goddess next door. Casimir is a man with a past, and Abe […]
Our Kickstarter for Kit Anderson’s Safer Places went live recently and we were absolutely thrilled to see it reach its goal in just over a week. Kit’s a creator we’re really excited about, and we’ll be publishing a second book by her in the near future, so if you don’t know her work yet this a great place to start!There are still ten days of the campaign to go, so if you’d like to snap up any of the absolutely gorgeous special items that Kit designed for it, make sure you do before it closes on the 22nd of February!Back the book here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/averyhillpublishing/safer-places-by-kit-anderson
We devised a special bundle of Avery Hill books called The Liminal Spaces Bundle that we think complement Safer Places beautifully, and it’s available as an add-on when you check out! It includes Quiet Thoughts by Karen Shangguan, A City Inside by Tillie Walden, The […]
This week is the American Library Association annual conference. We partnered with the amazing publisher Silver Sprocket to create a super cool handout about why comics are important and exciting. It covers topics including:
Why Build a Graphic Novel Collection?Librarians Talk Graphic Novels!Where are Graphic Novels Now?The Future of Graphic Novels
If you’d like to read it, you can download a copy here!
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K. Briggs’s stunning adaptation of Macbeth comes out on the 25th of July! You can pre-order a copy here.
Below they’re interviewed about the book by Tom Humberstone, creator of the wonderful Suzanne – The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis.
Tom: Macbeth is one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays for stage and screen adaptations. As with any Shakespeare adaptation, I would imagine there’s something both thrilling and daunting about being in conversation with centuries of other people’s interpretations. Were there any choices that other adaptations make that you were keen to avoid, or things that inspired or influenced your own approach? Have you felt frustrated that other adaptations misunderstood or missed a certain aspect that you felt was crucial to the play? Do you have a favourite? (except for yours of course!)
Briggs: It is absolutely one of the most popular Shakespeare plays for adaptation! As I […]
Ellice Weaver’s beautiful book Big Ugly comes out on the 20th June! You can pre-order a copy here.
Below she’s interviewed about the book by Clio Isadora, creator of the wonderful Sour Pickles.
If you’re London-based, there’s going to be a launch party and exhibition for Big Ugly at the fantastic Jam Bookshop on the 22nd June! The exhibition will run until the 9th of July.
Clio: Congratulations on your new book! I loved reading Big Ugly and really enjoyed seeing the sibling dynamics progress throughout all the vibrant illustrated scenes. Where did you find the inspiration when developing Big Ugly?Ellice: I visited my own relationships. Although this book isn’t at all autobiographical, I took inspiration of the sibling dynamic from my relationship with my own sibling. I’m also turning 30 and was reflecting a lot of what that felt like. Certain age milestones have different atmospheres about […]
We now have our first book of 2023 available to pre-order in the shop – Pet Peeves by Nicole Goux!
The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark.
Pre-order here!
Softcover, 104 pages, Full Colour, 159 x 239mm
In this horror graphic novel, the new dog that aspiring musician Bobbie has adopted is cute, but also stealing her life.
Bobbie’s life is going nowhere fast. She’s working at a bar, wanting to play music but never having the time or energy. The only bright spot is her dog – always cheerful, always cuddly, and always there for her.
As the relentless day-in, day-out of work piles up, music and roommates and social plans begin to seem less and less important as Bobbie struggles to make rent and have any time to be creative. The only thing she has […]
Big Ugly is your second long-form comic with Avery Hill, after Something City in 2017. Did you approach this book differently to the first?
Something city was a book of short comics. It felt easier to go into it without too much of a plan. If the comics worked by themselves they were probably going to work together because they had the setting of the book in common. Big ugly is my first longer comic that tells one story which was something totally new for me. I had to go into it with more of a plan and less crossing my fingers and hoping everything made sense.
You do a lot of freelance illustration work. What are the differences between that type of work and creating your own book? Comparing the two processes… are there things you enjoy and things that are more challenging with each?
With illustration work, […]
Your journey to this completed Macbeth started quite a while ago, with Act 1, Scene 1 winning the Elsinore Award for Graphic Shakespeare in 2016, did that prize have an influence on your decision to keep going and create this book? Or was that the plan all along?
It was the hope, rather than the plan. I wouldn’t have started this project if I hadn’t seen the call for entries to the Graphic Shakespeare Competition, so I really credit them with the inspiration to start working on it. Actually winning the award kept hope kindled; someone out there thought my interpretation of Macbeth was a good idea. But, everything in it’s time. I had to do a lot of living and growing and creating before there was actually an opportunity (thank you Avery Hill!) to dedicate myself to finishing the project.
And what was it that made you […]
Pet Peeves comes after you’ve been Eisner Award nominated, you’ve worked on huge titles including those with DC, what was it that made you want to create this story now?Pet Peeves was meant to be a break from big projects at big companies. It was a chance to stretch my writing muscles and to tell a story with no edits, no one telling me what do. Honestly, it was supposed to be much shorter than it is, just a quick story to refresh and re-inspire me between jobs, but I found that the story I wanted to tell needed more space and it grew into the full book that it is today.
You talk about Pet Peeves being a really personal story, how much of Bobbie is based on real-life Nicole’s life and experiences?Nothing that happens to Bobbie in the books is directly from my life. More, the things […]
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