We can now announce three new books for autumn 2023!
The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery
Curses by George Wylesol
The Wilderness Collection by Claire Scully
The Hard Switch will be hardback, 100 pages. An engrossing science fiction graphic novel about a spaceship’s crew tackling the changes in their lives and work at the moment when they – and everyone else in the galaxy – begin to run out of fuel.Curses will be paperback, 240 pages. A new collection of surreal, subversive, magical realist stories from one of comics’ most inventive voices.
The Wilderness Collection will be hardback with a dust jacket – 100 pages. A gorgeous collection of Claire Scully’s three previously published Wilderness books, in a luxurious new edition printed at a larger size.
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Our third book of 2023 is now available to pre-order in the shop – Macbeth by K. Briggs!
The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark.
Pre-order here!
Hardcover, 180 pages, full Colour
A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Macbeth, with Shakespeare’s full, unabridged text.
When three witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions lead to an ever-growing path of murder as Macbeth grows ever-closer to the throne. But where will it all end? Only with death – and with madness.
Influenced by the witches and magic of Macbeth, K. Briggs’s lush new graphic novel rendition of the classic provides a new interpretation of the Scottish play. Briggs, as a Shakespeare reader (and performer) from age twelve, […]
Our second book of 2023 is now available to pre-order in the shop – Big Ugly by Ellice Weaver!
The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark.
Pre-order here!
Hardcover, 128 pages, full Colour
Work, health, family — Mel feels like her life is just circling endlessly as she begins to renew her relationship to her brother in this vibrant graphic novel.
Mel isn’t going anywhere – except to work every day. But when she offers the spare room in her apartment to her struggling brother, everything she loves and hates about wanting to live up to the expectations of her family becomes part of her every day again.
It turns out that even as adults, living with your sibling brings back the dynamics of tween rivalries. As Mel tries to rebalance things with her brother, she […]
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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Over on our campaign page you’ll find a video with all three creators talking about their books, there are sample pages from the books and also details of out what bonus items we have on offer. Some of the bonus items include original artwork and bundles of books/comics both print and digital.
Our spring 2023 books are:
Pet Peeves by Nicole Goux
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 […]
We now have our autumn 2022 titles available to pre-order in the shop:
Suzanne – The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis by Tom Humberstone
Sennen by Shanti RaiBoth have limited signed bookplate editions available while stocks last.Check them out in the shop here!
Hardcover, 212 pages, Full Colour
The incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen, a woman who changed the face of sport andsociety in the trailblazing jazz age, but who few even remember.
One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age.
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