Category Archives: Featured Graphic Novels

Starring Sonya Devereaux Volume 1

By Ashley KronsbergNovember 10, 2020Featured Graphic Novelsamerican mythology, Featured Graphic Novel, graphic novel

Published by American Mythology Productions

ISBN: 9781945205262
Price: $19.99
Genre: Horror
Ages: 16+

On Sale: December 01, 2020

Watch 4 movies in 1 book! Hollywood’s 306th best actress is scream queen Sonya Devereaux, whose career consists entirely of ultra-low budget, straight to DVD/VOD movies – they’re so good because they’re so bad!

Each story adapts and skewers every genre cliche that exists in a laugh out loud, riotous romp. Starring Sonya Devereaux Volume 1 collects the first four issues of the hit series: Naked Are the Damned 2, Vampire Academy 4, Debutante Desperado, & Spider-Shark vs Snake-Bear. Exclusive bonus features include Bloopers, Outtakes, and Introduction by legendary filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (“Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers” “Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold”)!

Key Selling Points

Introduction by filmmaker Fred Olen Ray
Selling to the Troma and Sharknado video viewer!

Oggy & the Cockroackes Volume 1

By Ashley KronsbergNovember 10, 2020Featured Graphic Novelsamerican mythology, Featured Graphic Novel, graphic novel

Published by American Mythology Productions

ISBN: 9781945205255
Price: $9.99
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Media Tie-In
Ages: 9+

On Sale: December 01, 2020

Oggy has been making kids laugh for over 20 years and is a staple in the YouTube viewers cartoon watching. These overthetop hijinks are guaranteed to crack you up!

Lazy cat Oggy enjoys living a simple life — eating and watching TV are among his favorite hobbies. Unfortunately, his roommates often get in the way of his laziness. Those roommates are tiny cockroaches Joey, Marky and Dee Dee, who like to cause mayhem like raiding Oggy’s fridge, making big messes and forcing the cat to clean up after them. Despite the trouble they cause, Oggy secretly misses the little critters when they’re not around.

This incredible fun introductory priced edition delivers six wacky stories Illustrated by Dean Rankine. These new comic tales deliver non-stop hilarity for Oggy fans worldwide!

Key Selling Points

This YouTube sensation has hundreds of millions of views and is one of the most popular YouTube cartoons around.
Now streaming on Netflix!
ALL NEW tales!
Includes 6 stories in 1 book!

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Waluk

By Ashley KronsbergNovember 5, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, international creators, magnetic press

Published by Magnetic Press

ISBN: 9781951719050
Price: $19.99
Genre: Historical
Ages: 9+

On Sale: March 16, 2021

Wáluk and Eskimo are two inseparable bears. Wáluk is very young and Eskimo is very old. Between the two they’ve found a way to survive in an extremely hostile environment, combining the agility of the younger with the experience of the older. When Eskimo decides they should go further north in search of better hunting, they set off on a great journey neither are truly prepared for…

A heartwarming, fun and funny adventure that spotlights the impact of global warming and mankind moving into wildlands, forcing nature to find new ground to thrive.

Key Selling Points

A charming middle grade title about friendship.
A tale about the harsh realities of global warming.
11 x 8.5 landscape

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Waluk Bookmark

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Sex Criminals Volume 6

By Ashley KronsbergOctober 26, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, Image Comics

Published by Image Comics

ISBN: 9781534310629
Price: $17.99
Genre: Fantasy
Ages: 16+

On Sale: December 01, 2020

The grand finale! The big finish! The climax!

We speak of course about this, the end of the award-winning, boundary-pushing, taste-challenging SEX CRIMINALS.

Suzie’s just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we’d ALL do: rob a couple banks.

So Suze and Jon have sex, stop time, and rob banks. The bank went after them. Now Suze and Jon finish off the bank, the Sex Police, and the bad guys all in one pop, hoping to dodge a huge load of trouble before it explodes in their faces.

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Creator(s) Bio

“On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex.”
– Publisher Weekly

MATT FRACTION writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and crows. Surely there’s a metaphor there. He’s a New York Times-best-selling donkus of comics like Sex Criminals (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series and named TIME Magazine’s Best Comic of 2013), ODY-C, and Casanova. Under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc., Fraction and DeConnick are currently developing television for NBC/Universal.

CHIP ZDARSKY is an Eisner Award-winning comic book author, known for his work on Howard the Duck from Marvel Comics, KAPTARA for Image Comics, and Jughead for Archie Comics. Prior to his career in comics, launched by SEX CRIMINALS, Chip worked for the National Post as an illustrator and columnist, writing and illustrating a weekly advice column called Extremely Bad Advice. Chip resides in the hearts and minds of a nation.

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Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick

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Sex Criminals Volume 2: Two Worlds, Once Cop

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Sex Criminals Volume 3: Three the Hard Way

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Ages: 16+

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Sex Criminals Volume 4: Fourgry

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ISBN: 9781534302310
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Ages: 16+

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Sex Criminals Volume 5: Five-Fingered Discount

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ISBN: 9781534306837
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Ages: 16+

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Blue In Green

By Ashley KronsbergSeptember 29, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, Image Comics

Published by Image Comics

ISBN: 9781534317130
Price: $17.99
Genre: Horror
Ages: 16+

On Sale: November 3, 2020

The dark and haunting portrayal of a young musician’s pursuit of creative genius— the monstrous nature of which threatens to consume him as it did his predecessor half a century ago. From creators Ram V (Grafity’s Wall, These Savage Shores) and Anand RK (Grafity’s Wall), BLUE IN GREEN is an exploration of ambitions, expectations and the horrific depths of their spiraling pursuit.

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Creator(s) Bio

Handsell to fans of cerebral horror like MEMENTO, WYTCHES, and UZUMAKI.
Ram V received critical acclaim for his highly buzzed about THESE SAVAGE SHORES and his previous Image book PARADISO, and is poised to be the next big breakout writer in comics
A unique, standalone graphic novel perfect for the Autumn and any Halloween/Horror roundups//displays/endcaps

RAM V, is an award-winning author and creator of comics & graphic novels such as Black Mumba, PARADISO, These Savage Shores, and Grafity’s Wall. Since self-publishing in 2016, Ram has gone on to create critically acclaimed work with the industry’s major publishers.Conspirator and trouble-maker at White Noise Studio comics collective, Ram currently lives in London-dog person, doodles, argumentative melancholic

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Manga Classics: Anne of Green Gables

By Ashley KronsbergSeptember 11, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, literary adaptation, manga classics

Published by Manga Classics

ISBN: 9781947808188 / 9781947808171
Price: $19.99 / $24.99
Genre: Young Adult, Literary Adaptation
Ages: 16+

On Sale: November 10, 2020

Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables – instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear. Manga Classics® is proud to be the only authorized manga adaption of Anne of Green Gables by the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery. This volume presents a faithful recreation of this classic kids novel, from the Lake of Shining Waters to the Dryad’s Bubble!

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CRYSTAL S. CHAN is an award-winning author and television screen play writer. Â She holds a degree in language and literature. Crystal is a huge fan of authors such as Jane Austen and she is equally passionate about Sailor Moon. Her passion for classic literature combined with her love of the comics medium allows her to strike a solid balance between preserving the depth of the original content while adapting the language for a younger generation.

“A charming adaptation…”
– KIRKUS

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Kill A Man

By Ashley KronsbergAugust 26, 2020Featured Graphic Novelsaftershock comics, Featured Graphic Novel, graphic novel

Published by AfterShock Comics

ISBN: 9781949028478
Price: $17.99
Genre: LGBTQ+
Ages: 13+

On Sale: December 8, 2020

A brand new original graphic novel from writers Steve Orlando and Phillip Kennedy Johnson featuring art by Alec Morgan and lettering by Jim Campbell.

In the early days of Mixed Martial Arts, kickboxer icon DJ Bellyi is beaten to death in the ring after yelling a homosexual slur at an opponent, while his young son James watches in horror from the stands.

Sixteen years later, young James Bellyi has become an MMA star in his own right, with top-tier endorsements and an imminent title shot. But when James is outed as gay by an opponent in a press conference, he loses everything: his title shot, his fans, his team, even his family. To fight his way back, he turns to the only one left in the world willing to train him: Xavier Mayne, the man who killed his father.

Says Johnson: “We’re living in an important and dynamic time in American History, when we have the power and responsibility to decide what kind of nation the United States is going to be going forward. Telling a story with such an unlikely crossover — male queer culture and MMA culture — is Steve’s, Alec’s and my way of making that decision for ourselves.”

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Creator(s) Bio

Extremely relevant story right now, as culture in general and sports culture in particular is coming to grips with masculine archetypes who are insisting to be allowed to be who they are.
Though action packed and very much a personal story, can stand on the shelf alongside recent graphic novels that address key moments from the history of the fight for civil rights, like March and They Called Us Enemy.
Scheduled release during LGBT History Month.

STEVE ORLANDO‘s first book ever was poorly drawn in fifth-grade classroom pencils on Xerox paper, and featured a doughboy with superpowers, and names changed from trademark purposes. He was a precocious child. Today he writes and produces comics, including Virgil, Crude and stories in the Eisner Award Nominated Outlaw Territory at Image Comics. He launched Midnighter and took part in Batman and Robin Eternal and CMYK: Yellow at DC Entertainment. Find him at your convenience deep down the rabbit hole of discussing wine, spirits, or mythology.

Digital Assets

Kill A Man Twitter Banner

Kill A Man Poster

Kill A Man Bookmark

Violence and Manhood in Comics

LibraryCon Live 2020 Livestream Interview

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Sex Criminals Volume 6

By Ashley KronsbergAugust 26, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, Image Comics

Published by Image Comics

ISBN: 9781534310629
Price: $16.99
Genre: Fantasy
Ages: 16+

On Sale: November 3, 2020

The grand finale!

The big finish! The climax!

We speak of course about this, the end of the award-winning, boundary-pushing, taste-challenging SEX CRIMINALS. Suze and Jon have sex, stop time, and rob banks. The bank went after them. Now Suze and Jon finish off the bank, the Sex Police, and the bad guys all in one pop, hoping to dodge a huge load of trouble before it explodes in their faces.

Collects SEX CRIMINALS #26-30, 69.

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Dracula, Motherf**cker

By Ashley KronsbergAugust 26, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, Image Comics

Published by Image Comics

ISBN: 9781534317000
Price: $16.99
Genre: Horror
Ages: 16+

On Sale: October 13, 2020

Vienna, 1889: Dracula’s brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an ageing starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him before he gets his own chalk outline? And are Dracula’s three brides there to help him… or use him as bait?

A pulpy, pulse-pounding graphic novel of California psych-horror from acclaimed creators ALEX DE CAMPI and ERICA HENDERSON.

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Creator(s) Bio

Perfect title to capitalize off the recent BBC hit adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA
Combines both horror and noir, making it perfect for seasonal Halloween round-up displays and endcaps—shelve this alongside THE WALKING DEAD, 300 DAYS OF NIGHT, LOCKE & KEY, and the latest JOSH MALERMAN or STEPHEN KING
Henderson cultivated a devoted following with her work on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead

ALEX de CAMPI writes comics. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed teen survival thriller NO MERCY and the groundbreaking, digital-native comic VALENTINE. Her latest work is the spy noir miniseries MAYDAY. She was nominated for an Eisner for her first comic work, Smoke, and it’s all been downhill from there. Alex also directs music videos, and has worked with acts as diverse as Grand Duchy (Frank Black / Violet Clark), Joan As Police Woman, and Amanda Palmer to the retro-fabulous Puppini Sisters.

Alex’s background is a three-whisky conversation and involves several continents. She is a single mother of an awesome daughter; they live in the Stephen Kingdom (Downeast Maine) with two dogs. She has an opinion on nearly everything. You can peruse them, along with stupid photos and memes, at @alexdecampi on most social media.

ERICA HENDERSON is a multiple Eisner winning comic artist known most for rebooting The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead. She has not lived in New York for a decade but still has very strong opinions on bagels.

Gunning for Ramirez Volume 1

By Ashley KronsbergAugust 26, 2020Featured Graphic NovelsFeatured Graphic Novel, graphic novel, Image Comics

Published by Image Comics

ISBN: 9781534316973
Price: $16.99
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Ages: 16+

On Sale: October 6, 2020

What if the deadliest assassin in all of Mexico, a man with dozens of kills to his name, was actually a vacuum repairman in Arizona?

Falcon City, Arizona. Jacques Ramirez works at Robotop, the leading home appliance company in the southwest United States. Jacques is efficient, thorough, and discreet. That last one is easy: he’s also mute. But everything changes when two members of one of Paso del Rio’s largest drug cartels stumble upon Jacques and believe him to be the deadly hitman who betrayed them in the past: the ruthless Ramirez.

Could it be that the cartel’s legendary clean-up man is really a legendary vacuum cleaner expert? Now that they’ve found him, the men of the cartel will do everything they can to kill this traitor!

Nicolas Petrimaux presents a tribute to the action thrillers of the 1980s and 90s, a brutal narrative with never a dull moment. Gunning for Ramirez is as much a descendant of Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. as it is Taratino’s Pulp Fiction or Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy.

Key Selling Points

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO meets Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION and the perfect handsell for fans of DEADLY CLASS, TOKYO GHOST, and Netflix’s OZARK.
A no holds barred, one-and-done standalone action story, previously published internationally by Glénat Comics to critical acclaim, and with a strong sales track abroad.