This month we’re joined by Gina Gagliano, the Publishing Director of Random House Graphic and someone who worked in the Marketing department at First Second as Tillie Walden released books like Spinning and Are You Listening? with them. We talk to Gina about her discovering the work of Tillie Walden and Tillie’s development in her early books as well as Gina’s wider life and work in comics.
This month we talk to Ricky Miller all about how Tillie Walden came to work with Avery Hill Publishing and the impact of her debut book, The End of Summer, on the wider comics industry and the direction of Avery Hill as an ongoing concern.
This month we talk to Hannah Berry, fresh from her stint as Comics Laureate for the UK. We discuss the work that Hannah did in the role, focusing particularly on the massive survey taken of comics creators and what that revealed.
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 process, so a huge thank you to everyone who’s bought books from us lately!
This month we talk to Andy Oliver from Broken Frontier about the expansive scope of the site and the many related projects that Broken Frontier organise and support.
This month we gather the Avery Hill team together to chat about some of our favourite comics, books, TV shows and sculpture from 2020 and look forward to the new books we’ll be bringing out in 2021.
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.
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!
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.
This month we talk to Katriona Chapman about Follow Me In and Breakwater, the two books she has put together with Avery Hill. We also talk about drawing upon life experience in creating art, Kat’s wonderful use of colour and light in her work and how she gains inspiration from her fellow Avery Hill creators.