HARPER ALLEY
I WITNESSED GN LIZZIE BORDEN STORY
(W) Jeramey Kraatz (A) Crystal Jayme
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Churchill knows that he must put his childish stories behind him and be the man of the house, where his gossip-loving mother and adventurous young cousin in Fall River, Massachusetts, need him. But on the morning of August 4, 1892, Charlie witnesses a horrific act at his next-door neighbors' house, the Bordens, that he can't keep to himself. No one believes that Charlie saw one of the Bordens be attacked on the second floor of the house, not even when Andrew and Abby Borden are found dead later that morning. Charlie is determined to use what he witnessed to help the police find the murderer, from spying a mysterious figure burying something in the woods in the middle of the night to the whispers he overhears from the Borden sisters and staff. Even if it means having to face the prime suspect, his enigmatic neighbor Lizzie Borden, accused of killing her own father and stepmother. (STL355632) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $15.99
I WITNESSED HC GN LIZZIE BORDEN STORY
(W) Jeramey Kraatz (A) Crystal Jayme
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Churchill knows that he must put his childish stories behind him and be the man of the house, where his gossip-loving mother and adventurous young cousin in Fall River, Massachusetts, need him.
But on the morning of August 4, 1892, Charlie witnesses a horrific act at his next-door neighbors' house, the Bordens, that he can't keep to himself. No one believes that Charlie saw one of the Bordens be attacked on the second floor of the house, not even when Andrew and Abby Borden are found dead later that morning.
Charlie is determined to use what he witnessed to help the police find the murderer, from spying a mysterious figure burying something in the woods in the middle of the night to the whispers he overhears from the Borden sisters and staff. Even if it means having to face the prime suspect, his enigmatic neighbor Lizzie Borden, accused of killing her own father and stepmother.
What begins as an innocent moment of being in the wrong place at the wrong time becomes a suspenseful game of cat and mouse as Lizzie faces the trial of the century, and Charlie must ask himself: Can you ever really know someone's true character? (STL355634) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
KIRBYS LESSONS FOR FALLING (IN LOVE) GN
(W/A) Laura Gao
Kirby Tan is in free fall.It's bad enough that she breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals, sidelining her for the season. Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex Santos for her astrology-based love advice column. As Kirby reluctantly agrees to orchestrate "matches made in heaven" with Bex, she begins to wonder if their own planets could be aligned. But it's not so easy for Kirby to embrace her queer identity, not when she owes so much to her family and their church community. What would it be like to believe your fate is written in the stars? Can Kirby learn to trust that love will catch you when you fall…? (STL355605) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 304pgs, FC SRP: $18.99
KIRBYS LESSONS FOR FALLING (IN LOVE) HC GN
(W/A) Laura Gao
Kirby Tan is in free fall.It's bad enough that she breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals, sidelining her for the season. Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex Santos for her astrology-based love advice column. As Kirby reluctantly agrees to orchestrate "matches made in heaven" with Bex, she begins to wonder if their own planets could be aligned. But it's not so easy for Kirby to embrace her queer identity, not when she owes so much to her family and their church community. What would it be like to believe your fate is written in the stars? Can Kirby learn to trust that love will catch you when you fall…? (STL355606) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 304pgs, FC SRP: $26.99
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS GN
(W/A/CA) Ariel Slamet Ries
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you're more likely to be born superhuman than left-handed. None of that is important to Oberon Afolayan. Since his mildly public breakdown, his whole life seems to be spiraling out of control—from dropping out of university to breaking up with his boyfriend, it seems like only a karmic inevitability when he wakes up one day with the ability to conjure his dreams in the real world. Oberon's newfound powers come with a facsimile of his high school crush, Kon, who mysteriously dropped off the face of the planet almost three years ago, and who is a little more infuriating (if not also infuriatingly hot) than Oberon remembers. Oberon might have more on his plate than he originally thought, but is giving up his dreams—even the one he might have accidentally fallen in love with—the only way to find happiness in reality? (STL355607) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 288pgs, FC SRP: $18.99
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS HC GN
(W/A/CA) Ariel Slamet Ries
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you're more likely to be born superhuman than left-handed. None of that is important to Oberon Afolayan. Since his mildly public breakdown, his whole life seems to be spiraling out of control—from dropping out of university to breaking up with his boyfriend, it seems like only a karmic inevitability when he wakes up one day with the ability to conjure his dreams in the real world. Oberon's newfound powers come with a facsimile of his high school crush, Kon, who mysteriously dropped off the face of the planet almost three years ago, and who is a little more infuriating (if not also infuriatingly hot) than Oberon remembers. Oberon might have more on his plate than he originally thought, but is giving up his dreams—even the one he might have accidentally fallen in love with—the only way to find happiness in reality? (STL355608) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 288pgs, FC SRP: $26.99
HERMES PRESS
ART OF GEORGE WILSON HC
(W) Anthony Taylor (A/CA) George Wilson
What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Wilson also turned in hundreds of painted covers for paperback books that range from The Phantom and Flash Gordon to romance, adventure and war titles, all illustrated in the extensive survey of his work. Unlike the majority of comic book covers of the era, Wilson's covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines and were spectacularly eye-catching. He turned in efforts for literally hundreds of comics titles - this important monograph on the artist provides examples of every genre he worked in. Presented are cover paintings scanned from the original artwork from Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Doctor Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Son of Stone, Star Trek, Korak, Son of Tarzan, Mighty Samson, Brothers of the Spear, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, Space Family Robinson, Dark Shadows, and The Occult Files of Doctor Spektre to name but a few.
This new art book focuses on over 200 examples of his cover art accompanied by an introduction by famed artist Joe Jusko, an exhaustive essay by Anthony Taylor and the only interview Wilson ever gave. This is the ultimate, definitive art book about one of the most important cover artists of the Silver and Bronze ages. (STL281227) (C: 0-1-2)
RES. from Previews Vol. XXXIII #7 (JUL231704)
Art Book, HC, 9x12, 208pgs, FC SRP: $75.00
BABES IN ARMS WOMEN IN COMICS DURING 2ND WORLD WAR (O/A)
(W) Trina Robbins (A) Barbara Hall & Various
During the Golden Age of comics publishers offered titles supporting the war effort presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts, babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service women fighting the Axis and gave noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure filled four color stories. Pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and documentary extras. (STK675452) (MAY151418)
Comics History, HC, 8x10, 304pgs, FC SRP: $60.00
BRENDA STARR REPORTER STRIPS 01 (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Dale Messick
Hermes Press presents another classic comic strip with Brenda Starr, Reporter: The Collected Daily and Sunday Strips. Created by Dale Messick, the first woman to create, draw, and write a syndicated newspaper strip, Brenda Starr successfully mixed romance, fashion, and adventure into one of the longest running features in newspaper history, and the reprint volumes begin with the strip's debut on June 30, 1940. (STK438114) (MAY111109)
HC, 10x13, 288pgs, PC SRP: $60.00
BRENDA STARR COMP PRE CODE COMICS HC VOL 02 GOOD GIRLS (O/A)
(W/A) Dale Messick
Before Fredric Wertham and The Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI), before before the infamous Comics Code, the comic book racks at local drug stores and newsstands boasted a plethora of delights highlighted by the good girl adventures of the comic book version of Brenda Starr. These four-color wonders displayed all the finer things loved by comic book buyers: good girls, bondage, a little torture, and other delectable things. Now, comics fans can read and own these rare comics from another era, digitally restored to perfection and presented in an archival hardcover. (STK667226) (APR151543)
HC, 8x10, 224pgs, FC SRP: $60.00
GLADYS PARKER LIFE IN COMICS PASSION FOR FASHION HC (O/A)
(W) Trina Robbins (A) Gladys Parker
Cartoonist Gladys Parker was unique in comics. Parker mixed fashion and comics and created classic characters that mimicked her sense of fashion. In fact, Parker was an exact double for her ink-and-paper creation, Mopsy. Only Gladys Parker was a fashion designer with a successful line of clothing while at the same time drawing an equally successful comic strip. Parker's dresses bearing the Gladys Parker label were sold at her own New York shop and at high-end department stores across the country. Who better to chronicle the story of Gladys Parker than comics herstorian Trina Robbins, who in the 1960s designed clothes for hippies and rock stars out of her East Village boutique, while drawing underground comix? (STL125018)
HC, 8x11, 256pgs, FC SRP: $59.99
HORRORHOUND LTD
HORRORHOUND #105
In celebration of H.P. Lovecraft's 135th anniversary, HorrorHound presents a special issue dedicated to his enduring legacy and the nightmarish creations that have captivated readers for generations. This issue delves into Lovecraft's most iconic works, including At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Call of Cthulhu, while also exploring the film and television adaptations they inspired. A highlight of the issue is a 40th-anniversary retrospective on Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, featuring an in-depth look at the collectibles based on the films. (STL356341) (C: 0-1-2)
Magazine, 68pgs, FC SRP: $9.99
HUMANOIDS
ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN HC (MR)
(W/A/CA) Caza
COLLECTED IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME, RENOWNED ARTIST CAZA'S EPIC MASTERPIECE!
10,000 years ago the Earth stopped moving. Half the world was plunged into frigid Night, the other is scorched in Day. Young warrior Arkadi, whose tribe lives in the thin strip of habitable land known as Twilight, must brave the wide, dangerous outer world to discover why the world stands still, and to rescue it…if he can. (STL357690) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
HC, 11x8, 528pgs, FC SRP: $84.99
HARD BARGAIN GN (MR)
(W) Steven DeKnight (A/CA) Leno Carvalho
Frank Harding, a hard-boiled P.I. in 1940s L.A., is no stranger to dangerous criminals, crooked cops, and the occasional demonic entity!
But his current case-tied to his own past and L.A.'s all-too-real history of prejudice and discrimination-may be the one that puts Frank out of business…for good.
Film and TV powerhouse Steven S. DeKnight's (Buffy, Angel, Daredevil) debut graphic novel combines two-fisted noir with supernatural terrors in a tale of sin and redemption sure to pack a punch! (STL357691) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 10x7, 192pgs, FC SRP: $32.99
LUISA NOW THEN GN (O/A)
(W) Carole Maurel, Mariko Tamaki (A/CA) Carole Maurel
A disillusioned photographer has a chance encounter with her lost teenage self who has miraculously traveled into the future. Together, both women ultimately discover who they really are, finding the courage to live life by being true to themselves. Luisa's sexuality is revealed to be a defining element of her identity, one which both of her selves must come to terms with. A time-traveling love story that turns coming-of-age conventions upside down, Luisa is a universal queer romance for the modern age. (STL082109) (APR181598) NOTE: Not Available in India.
SC, 8x11, 272pgs, FC SRP: $29.95
TOTAL SUPLEX OF THE HEART GN (MR) (O/A)
(W) Joanne Starer (A/CA) Diego Greco
Young freelance journalist Georgie joins a local wrestling circuit to investigate a new article, making friends (and more than friends!) along the way. But is the validation she gets from the sport worth the drama that comes along with it? (STL317714)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 7x10, 160pgs, FC SRP: $22.99
THE CAT FROM THE KIMONO GN (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Nancy Peña
This surreal and imaginative adult fairy tale follows a beautiful black cat through a fantastical world where he'll survive impossible odds to make his way home... to his mistress' kimono! (STL287232)
SC, 7.6x10.2, 104pgs, PC SRP: $19.99
HANAMI YOU ME & 200 SQ FT IN JAPAN GN (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Julia Cejas
Join couple Julia and Marc as they leave the comfort of home to live in a country whose culture and art has inspired them: Japan!
When the economy takes a downturn and Marc loses his engineering job, the pair realize that their relative lack of ties means they can pool their savings and his severance to embark on a new adventure, and where better for a comic artist and aspirational video game musician to go than Japan? (Until the money runs out, anyway…)
Julia documents the entire experience, how they move into a tiny apartment, enroll in a local Japanese school, and begin to acclimate to the local culture (Mysterious toilets! Inscrutable garbage rules! The local fire patrol!). Follow their heartfelt and hilarious adventures as they discover more about this incredible country and each other. (STL326831)
SC, 6.3x8.4, 144pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
MPLS SOUND TP (O/A)
(W) Joseph Illidge, Hannibal Tabu (A) Meredith Laxton (CA) Jen Bartel
Theresa Booker was hardly the first singer-songwriter to be inspired by His Royal Badness-but she was the most determined.
Minneapolis, 1982. Dozens of young bands, playing day and night in bars and clubs across the city, dream of being noticed by the musical genius Prince, revered as a guru and a powerbroker. But when Theresa and her band, Starchild, are offered the opportunity of a lifetime-to be taken in and mentored by their idol-they soon find that there's a dark side to fame and fortune that could turn their dream into a nightmare.
MPLS Sound is the ultimate love letter to the legendary Minneapolis funk-rock sound of the 1980s. (STL181664)
SC, 128pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
BETRAYAL OF THE MIND THE SURREAL LIFE OF UNICA ZURN GN (MR) (O/A)
ZÛRN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. - b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald - 1. Born to a middleclass family, a young woman in Hiter's Germany. 2. Worked at Universum Film AG as a creator and screenwriter of commercial. - 3. Artist who belong to the Surrealist movement; was Hans Bellmer's partner. - 4. Schizophrenic. 5. Crazy woman. -Antonym. Body, organism.
A childhood devastated by rape, the absence of an idealized father, a strict moral mother, and a passion for art shaped Unica Zürn. One of the only prominent female figures of the Surrealist movement, Zürn was tormented by inner demons that she shared through her automatic drawings and anagram poems. She longed for and rejected intimacy at once, seeking her so-called Man of Jasmine, an idealized male figure, throughout her life while living as the partner of Hans Bellmer, noted artist and photographer. As her schizophrenia began to overtake her, she longed to make the woman she once was disappear into the nameless pronoun She. In they eyes of Unica Zürn, madness is the only way to be in the world. (STL322424)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
GOLDEN VOICE BALLAD OF CAMBODIAN ROCKS LOST QUEEN GN (O/A)
(W) Gregory Cahill (A/CA) Kat Baumann
The true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose "Golden Voice" helped define Cambodia's Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. Developed in partnership with Sothea's family, with an accompanying immersive digital soundtrack. (STL287229)
SC, 7.6x10.2, 200pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
COMPLETE OMNI TP (O/A)
(W) Devin Grayson, Melody Cooper (A) Alitha Martinez & Various (CA) John Cassaday
What would you do if you could think faster than the speed of light?
Brilliant doctor Cecelia Cobbina, held in the highest regard by peers and patients alike, is caught in a spontaneous ignition of energy from out of nowhere. As it fades, she finds herself with the ability to process thoughts at the speed of light. Now gifted with an intelligence far beyond anything humanity has ever seen, Dr. Cobbina has set out to find and help other "ignited" people the world over, all in search of cracking the mystery behind their new powers. (STL237140) (JUL221587)
SC, 7x10, 248pgs, FC SRP: $27.99
NICNEVIN AND BLOODY QUEEN GN (MR) (O/A)
(W) Helen Mullane (A) Dom Reardon, Matthew Dow Smith (CA) Jock
Something strange has been unleashed in the north of England.
A modern-day druid commits a series of ghastly murders in an attempt to unleash the incredible power of the ancient gods of Great Britain. But his plans are interrupted when his latest would-be victim, Nicnevin "NISSY" Oswald, turns out to be more than she seems. (STL147378)
MATURE THEMES
128pgs, FC SRP: $17.99
HYPERION AVENUE
MARVEL BREAKING DARK JESSICA JONES SC NOVEL
(W) Lisa Jewell
Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night's poor choices. But something about Amber Randall's story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don't act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something "perfect." Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community? (STL356432) (C: 1-1-1) NOTE: Not available in Europe.
Novel, SC, 6x9, 400pgs, FC SRP: $17.99
86th Floor Comics January 2025 Catalogue
