Our recent Kickstarter campaign for The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery was a huge success! We went more than five times above our goal, and were able to upgrade production of the book to include a beautifully-designed dust jacket and extra features. A huge thank you to those that made this book possible. For those of you who missed the Kickstarter, don’t fret, you can still pre-order this science fiction tale via our web shop here! Below are some sneak peeks at the design and production work that’s going into making this book extra beautiful!
Owen has also designed some exclusive bookplates for the wonderful OK Comics in Leeds, so pre-order from them here and you’ll get this signed bookplate edition while stocks last!
Also newly-available to pre-order in our shop is The Wilderness Collection by Claire Scully. This will be another beautiful hardback book with a dust […]
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 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, […]
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