We had a great start to 2021, with nine nominations in the Broken Frontier Awards.
We won best publisher, and Zoe Thorogood’s The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott won the best writer, best graphic novel and breakout talent categories. Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point won best artist.
We also had books in best-of-year lists from the New York Times, the Herald Scotland and the Comics Journal among many others.
We’re also announcing our 2021 titles today!
Our first book of 2021 will be Alone in Space – a Collection by Tillie Walden.
Release dates: 10/6/21 (UK) – 6/7/21 (USA)
A collection of Tillie’s three longform comics with Avery Hill: I Love This Part, The End Of Summer and A City Inside.
Plus the early sketches, short comics for magazines and webcomics such as What It’s Like To Be Gay In An All-Girls Middle School that shot her to fame on both sides of the Atlantic and have never been collected before.
Quiet Thoughts by Karen Shangguan
Release dates: 19/08/2021 (UK) – 24/08/2021 (USA)
A collection of sketches and poetry comics from Vancouver artist Karen Shangguan.
Lights, Planets, People! by Lizzy Stewart and Molly Naylor
Release dates: 23/09/2021 (UK) – 28/09/2021 (USA)
An adaptation of Molly Naylor’s play about a renowned scientist who is undergoing catastrophes in her work and personal life.
Molly Naylor is an award-winning writer, performer and director and creator of Sky One comedy After Hours.
Lizzy Stewart is an award-winning artist and writer, and creator of Walking Distance which came out from Avery Hill in 2019.
Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure
Release dates: 07/10/2021 (UK) – 12/10/2021 (USA)
A new book in the quiet, fantastical Ismyre series by Bristol-based creator B. Mure. Mure continues to expand the Ismyre universe, this time with a detective story!
Jinx Freeze by Lord Hurk
Release dates: 21/10/2021 (UK) – 26/10/2021 (USA)
Down on the Riviera a famous sculpture has been stolen and the local police force are out of their depth – can a vast cast of local heroes, such as ‘King Gianthead Fighter Policeman O.X.’ or ‘Danny Kildare the Space Priest’, help solve the crime or will the thieves get away with their prize?
Told through the twisted creative lens of Hurk, Jinx Freeze is a heist story unlike any you’ve read before!
Sour Pickles by Clio Isadora
Release dates: 11/11/21 (UK) – 16/11/21 (USA)
Pickles Yin is a final year student at a prestigious art school struggling to live up to her own expectations of how to navigate the transition from education to career. Surrounded by nepotism and wealthy peers, her friend Radish suggests an alternative method to achieve success that results in crumbling teeth and deteriorating mental health. From exiting new London-based artist Clio Isadora.