We’re absolutely thrilled that Tim Bird’s Adrift on a Painted Sea has been named as one of the best graphic novels of 2024 by both NPR and The Guardian!You can grab a copy of the book here.
Safer Places by Kit Anderson was also named a best graphic novel of the year by Booklist, who featured the cover art on their ‘Graphic Novels for Libraries’ Guide this year!
Get your copy here.
Tim Bird’s Adrift on a Painted Sea exhibition at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate will continue to run until the 5th January. It’s free entry, so definitely pop in while you can!
A huge thank you to everyone who’s supported Avery Hill’s books this year, whether it’s by buying a book, backing a crowdfunding campaign or posting about/reviewing our books online. See you next year!
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We’re excited to announce our first graphic novel release for Spring 2025 –Second Shift by Kit Anderson.
Out 5th June 2025132 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 160 x 220mm
Birdie Doran’s life on the station is the same routine every day… until shestarts finding secrets in this science fiction graphic novel.From the time when the station wakes her up, Birdie Doran is on the clock. It’sjust her and one or two others on Terracorp’s isolated outpost, processingcomets. So she slips into virtual reality, with the station creating adventures forher as she does repairs, routine maintenance, and checks the status on all thesystems.But when Birdie discovers another abandoned station just within walkingdistance of her own, she begins to question her isolation, and her ownmemories of what her job- and her life—really is. And at every turn, she startsfinding the things the station has been hiding from her.Ignatz […]
The Kickstarter for the new UK edition of Tillie Walden’s Spinning has just gone live, and we’re thrilled to share this deeply personal and beautifully illustrated memoir with you! This incredible hardback edition brings together Tillie’s Eisner Award-winning graphic novel in a stunning new format with an all-new cover design. There are also some great bonus items to accompany the book, so read on…A competitive figure skater for twelve years, every day was the same for Tillie Walden. Sports, school, and family, with no chance for her to stop and think. But when Tillie met her first girlfriend, it changed her whole life. She broke out of the reinforced sameness of a routine into a new relationship and a new interest in making art. She began to be sure her life should be different.A poignant, honest autobiographical graphic novel about realising you can reinvent your life.
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Our Kickstarter for Tim Bird’s Adrift on a Painted Sea has just gone live and we’re really excited to share this gorgeous, moving story with you!
Tim’s been with us since the very start of Avery Hill and it’s been one of our greatest pleasures as a publisher to see him grow as an artist. Adrift on a Painted Sea is his most personal and engaging book yet.
A poignant, thoughtful graphic memoir that explores family, loss, and art through the author’s relationship with his mother, who painted as a hobby throughout her life.
Sue Bird was always painting: botanical art, landscapes, still lifes, and especially the sea.
She took classes, kept countless sketchbooks, and filled the house with art. From their neighborhood to their family trips, all the moments of her life were memorialized in her artwork. Throughout her life, she never sold a piece—she […]
We’re very proud to announce our line-up for autumn 2024!
The Scrapbook of Life and Death by J. Webster SharpAdrift on a Painted Sea by Tim Bird
The Scrapbook of Life and Death by J. Webster Sharp – Out 3rd September 2024
88 pages, paperback, black and white, 210 x 297mm
The monstrosity of life explored through the strangeness of Edwardian England andthe cartoonist’s own mental illness.
‘Dentist Robs Women of Teeth’ — ‘Death Chair for Nice Old Man’ —‘Mother Feeds Son Like Bird’The British newspaper clipping collection of egalitarian George Ives, collected between1892 and 1949, ranged from murder and theories of crime to cricket scores. He wasfascinated by the unusual, the gothic, the sexual, and the melodramatic.In this graphic novel, acclaimed cartoonist J. Webster Sharp shares some of the mostbizarre stories from his archives, in silent comics form. With often shocking, visceral blackand white […]
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 […]
We’ve just had some new paperback editions printed of The Hard Switch and Victory Point by Owen D. Pomery, and also Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart! Pre-order copies here: https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com
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 […]
We’re very proud to announce our line-up for spring 2024!
Barking by Lucy SullivanSafer Places by Kit AndersonInfinite Wheatpaste vol.1 – Catalytic Conversions by Pidge Disciples of the Soil by B. Mure
Barking by Lucy Sullivan – Out 27th February 2024124 pages, hardback, black and white, 170 x 239mmA year after the death of her friend, Alix’s depression and grief still hound her in this personally-inspired graphic novel.Loopy . . . cuckoo . . . stark raving. . . .When the depression and grief Alix feels over the death of her friend overwhelm her, she’s institutionalized. But inside a psychiatric ward, things don’t get better for her—now she has nowhere to get away from her rapidly-spiraling thoughts. As Alix navigates disinterest- ed attendants, group therapy, and isolation, she must build herself a new equilibrium and tame the black dog of her depression.Inspired by her own struggles […]
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