NBM
JUN221729
BLUESMAN SC
(W/A/CA) Pablo Callejo, Rob Vollmar
Now collected into one stunning paperback! This story, structured like a traditional twelve bar blues song, with three sections each made of four chapters, follows blues musician Lem Taylor's harrowing journey starting from juke joints he appears in to across Arkansas of the late twenties, a black man hunted down for a crime he didn't commit. A racially intense story presenting a significant aspect of black history, its music, its social injustice. (STL234347) (C: 0-1-1)
SC, 6x9, 224pgs, B&W SRP: $19.99
JUN221730
BOB MARLEY IN COMICS HC
(W) Sophie Blitman, Gaet (A) Gaet
In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way to the most fabulous world tours and adulation. Beyond a rocketing musical career, the most famous rasta wants to shake things up and proclaim all over his humanitarian and egalitarian values. (STL138179) (OCT191980)
HC, 7x10, 176pgs, FC SRP: $27.99
JUN221731
O/A DJANGO HAND ON FIRE GREAT DJANGO REINHARDT HC
(W) Salva Rubio (A) Efa
Django Reinhardt is a legend. But Django — which may have meant "I awake" — was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in Liberchies, Belgium. The second in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in the fall of 1928, when a fire in his caravan mutilated his left hand. This biogrpahy devoted to the youth of the prodigy musician features the passion and determination of the man who has always considered himself the greatest guitarist in the world. In this story-score, by laying out the panels like chords, the artist brings to life his passion in vibrating watercolor to better accompany the musical and technical development of the inventor of gypsy jazz. (STL210896)
HC, 9x12, 88pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
JUN221732
LEONARDO DA VINCI & RENAISSANCE OF WORLD HC GN
(W) Marwan Kahil (A) Ariel Vittori
One of the greatest artists of all time, as well as a genius inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci was arrestingly tall and handsome. This comics biography shows the process of his work and his inventions, his persecution as a gay man, and how the changing politics of his country and ebbs and flows of those in power affected him and his career. A turbulent story on an exceptional man. Complemented with back matter on his chronology, a list of his works, and more. (STL158715) (JUN201205)
HC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
NEW YORK REVIEW COMICS
JUN221733
PRETENDING IS LYING GN
(W) Dominique Goblet, Sophie Yanow (A/CA) Dominique Goblet
In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and white—Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents. The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics. (STL233976) (C: 1-1-0) NOTE: Not available in England & Ireland
SC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $24.95
NOBROW - FLYING EYE BOOKS
JUN221734
CURSE OF THE CHOSEN GN VOL 02 WILL THAT SHAPES WORLD (C: 1-1
(W/A) Alexis Deacon
As the great chief matriarch lay dying, she gave one final decree: Upon her death there would be a contest. Having no heir of her own blood she called on the Gods. Let fate decide the one truly worthy to rule in her place. The rich, the strong, the wise, the powerful; many put forward their names in hope of being chosen. But when the night came... only fifty souls alone were chosen. As Io's quest reaches its deadly and dramatic conclusion, things are not all as they seem in the sorceress' game for the right to rule. Still trapped inside the torturous nightmares within the castle, who will remain in the battle for the throne, and which of the chosen will be lost along the way? (STL233807) (C: 1-1-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and the Philippines.
SC, 96pgs, FC SRP: $20.99