We now have all three of our spring/summer books back from the printers and we’re so happy with how they’ve turned out. These are all available to buy in our shop here!
Some reviews of George Wylesol’s 2120:“Fascinating… something that has a deep and dark mystery at its heart… something that will reveal its secrets slowly and perfectly through all of the 500 pages.” – Comicon
“Absolutely incredible. I’ve never seen this kind of thing tackled this way before; an eerie, compelling, crazy ride that you’ll want to revisit time and time again.” – No Use Crying Over Spilt Ink
Some reviews of Claire Scully’s Outer Wilderness:
“Every single page is pregnant with undiscovered meaning and frightening awe, which is exactly what I want from sci-fi landscape explorations. I couldn’t get enough of it, it was great!” – Ace Comicals Podcast
“A visual treat, packed with Scully’s strong, […]
We’re very excited to be able to announce two new titles for autumn 2022: Suzanne – The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis by Tom Humberstone and Sennen by Shanti Rai!
Suzanne – The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis
Tom HumberstoneOut 01/09/2022 (UK) – 08/09/2022 (North America) 208 pages, softcover, full colour throughout, 168 x 239mm
The incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen, a woman who changed the face of sport and society 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 […]
A massive thank you to everyone who’s pledged to support our first ever Kickstarter campaign so far.We’re 64% funded now… if you haven’t yet backed the project, this would be a great time to do it! Have a look here.
This week we’ve been sharing more information about the third of our 2022 books – Outer Wilderness by Claire Scully. Regular readers of Avery Hill books will be familiar with Claire Scully’s ongoing series of stunningly-illustrated books exploring varied environments: Internal Wilderness, Desolation Wilderness, and now Outer Wilderness. Outer Wilderness is the third and final instalment of a journey that began with introspective self-imagined places, followed by a passage of experience and memory, and now looks further away to the edges of the universe and into the unknown.
Here’s an interview with Claire about the book, and some sample artwork.
What did you most enjoy about this third […]
A massive thank you to everyone who’s pledged to support our first ever Kickstarter campaign so far.We’re so close to half way funded… if you haven’t yet backed the project, this would be a great time to do it! Have a look here.
This week we’ve been sharing more information about the second of our 2022 books – Sleeping While Standing by Taki Soma. It’s a collection of funny and moving autobiographical stories, and we’re really excited about it. In the book Taki leads us through her early childhood in Japan in the 80s, to moving to Minnesota, the separation of her parents, childhood trauma, teenage angst, death, drugs, comics, health issues, love, fertility, pets and zombies; all of life is here in this book! Taki Soma is a HUGO award nominated artist, writer, and a colorist. She’s worked on projects such as Rapture, Sinergy, The Victories, United States […]
A huge thank you to everyone who’s pledged to support our first ever Kickstarter campaign so far! You can watch a fantastic video that the three creators made about their books by going to our Kickstarter campaign page here. This week we’ve been sharing more information about the first of our 2022 books – 2120 by George Wylesol. It’s an interactive book in which George continues exploring the the boundaries of what can be done with sequential storytelling. His last book Internet Crusader was highly acclaimed for its originality, being called “a masterpiece of intricate design” and “a revelation.” 2120 will be 500 pages long, paperback, full colour. Page size W:195 x H:271mm.
Here’s an interview with George about the book, and some sample artwork.
2120 is your third book with Avery Hill, and it’s clear to see that there are some thematic crossovers with your second book Internet […]
This month we have big news – we’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund our spring 2022 line!
The books included in the campaign will be 2120 by George Wylesol, Sleeping While Standing by Taki Soma, and Outer Wilderness by Claire Scully.
The campaign officially launches on the 8th November, but if you go to our pre-launch page via the link below and click ‘notify me on launch,’ you’ll get lots of info on these three books as soon as the campaign goes live.
Please hop over and give the project a follow… every follow and share will help!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/averyhillpublishing/avery-hill-publishing-spring-2022-line-0
Sleeping While Standing by Taki Soma 2120 by George Wylesol Outer Wilderness by Claire Scully
In other news we also have two new titles available in the shop:Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure and Quiet Thoughts by Karen Shangguan! Both have limited edition prints that you can order alongside the […]
We now have all but two of our 2021 books available to pre-order!Lights, Planets, People by Molly Naylor & Lizzy Stewart, Sour Pickles by Clio Isadora and Jinx Freeze by Lord Hurk are all available now with signed bookplate editions up for grabs. Check them out in the shop.
You can also see short trailers for these books on our youtube channel.
In other news, live events are starting up again this year and we’re looking forward to getting out and connecting with readers again! Here’s a run-down of where we’ll be this autumn. If you’re at any of these events be sure to say hello:
The Meanwhile Festival in Coventry18th-19th Sept
This is a new event with a lot of fantastic guests lined up, so check it out via the link above. We’ll have several of our creators with us including B. Mure, Owen Pomery, Lizzy Stewart and […]
This month we’re excited to launch the brand new large-format edition of Zoe Thorogood’s The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott! This new edition is A4 (21 x 29.7cm.)
Zoe created a special bookplate to accompany pre-orders of this edition, and there are a very small number still available. Pre-orders will ship the week of the 22nd of March. The book is available here.
We now have Alone in Space – a Collection by Tillie Walden available to pre-order in our shop! Pre-order here (books ship in June.)
There are some signed and numbered A5 prints available to accompany early pre-orders too – available while stocks last!
In other news, we’re very happy to announce our first ever foreign edition – Lizzy Stewart’s Walking Distance will have a Korean edition from the brilliant Breathing Book Factory. There are more international rights deals in the works and we can’t wait to see our books find their way into different languages!
The other wonderful news is that several of our books from last year are already onto second print-runs. What We Don’t Talk About by Charlot Kristensen, Victory Point by Owen D. Pomery, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood and Breakwater by Katriona Chapman have already been reprinted or are in the […]
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