Top 10
Anxietyland
Gemma Correll. Gallery, Apr. 28 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-0415-9)
Web cartoonist Correll’s first full-length adult graphic narrative is “one of the funniest and most affable mental health memoirs to come along in a while,” per PW’s review.
Bitter Pill: Randy Shilts and the Dawn of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Xavier and Héloïse Chochois, trans. by Christopher Bradley. Abrams ComicArts, June 30 ($25.99, ISBN 978-1-4197-8869-7)
This graphic narrative recounts how journalist Randy Shilts, author of And the Band Played On, fought to bring the AIDS epidemic to national attention in the 1980s.
Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here): Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood
Julia Wertz. Black Dog & Leventhal, Apr. 14 ($32, ISBN 978-0-7624-6828-7)
An unexpected pregnancy kicks off this quip-filled trip through parenting from New Yorker cartoonist Wertz.
Charity and Sylvia
Tillie Walden. Drawn & Quarterly, June 16 ($30, ISBN 978-1-77046-838-2)
Eisner winner Walden celebrates the true story of a lesbian couple in 19th-century Vermont whose open, more than 40-year partnership she sets against eventful history.
The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East
Riad Sattouf, trans. by Sam Taylor. Fantagraphics, May 19 ($22.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-8750-0237-3)
Sattouf launches a two-volume conclusion to The Arab of the Future series set during his teen years as he falls for Nirvana and Heavy Metal comics amid the family drama of his brother’s abduction by his Syrian father.
Gay Mormon Dad
Chad Anderson and Remy Burke. Graphic Mundi, May 5 ($21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63779-098-4)
A father upends his religious identity to embrace his long-secret gay sexuality in this crowdfunded graphic adaptation of Anderson’s prose work, drawn by a genderqueer cartoonist.
Joe the Pirate
Hubert and Virginie Augustin, trans. by Ivanka Hahnenberger. Iron Circus, Feb. 17 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63899-157-1)
Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs “roars to life” in this “rollicking history,” per PW’s starred review, of the queer socialite, whose many romances included Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich.
Mama Came Callin’
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre. Morrow, Feb. 3 ($25.99, ISBN 978-0-06-323956-2)
A biracial woman reckons with the legacy of her racist father, who was accused of trying to kill her and other Black children, in this blend of slasher tale and Southern gothic.
Martyr Loser King
Saul Williams and Morgan Sorne. 23rd Street, Apr. 28 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-62672-199-9)
Poet and musician Williams debuts with an “incantatory... graphic poem of resistance wonderfully told through Afrofuturistic flare,” per PW’s review.
Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir
Leise Hook. Holt, Apr. 14 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-84503-0)
Believer cartoonist Hook’s debut memoir works through the identity issues she had growing up biracial in Michigan, Tokyo, and Virginia, and the intrusive questions that made her forever feel like an outsider. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Adult Comics Longlist
23rd St.
Everything in Color: A Love Story by Stephanie Stalvey (Apr. 28, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-34780-0). In this “luminous debut” about her college romance with a gentle-hearted seminary student, Stalvey “meditates on her separation from fundamentalist Christianity,” per PW’s starred review.
Abrams ComicArts
Soviet Land: A Tragicomic Thriller by Pierre-Henry Gomont, trans. by Edward Gauvin (Apr. 28, $34.99, ISBN 978-1-4197-8885-7). A failed artist and his con man buddy scheme their way to disaster in 1990s Russia, trading on tourists’ nostalgia for a past that never truly existed.
Andrews McMeel
Emotional Support Animals: Anonymous Fuzzball Comics + Workbook by Nicole Georges (Apr. 14, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5248-9916-5). Avowed dog lover Georges follows up Fetch with therapeutic advice presented by myriad animals, like a good-listener walrus in a sweater, or a crocodile who advises self-care.
Lindsey Cheng Dates a White Boy! by Asia Miller (May 5, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-8816-0582-7). YouTube animator Miller debuts with a romance-breaks-up-the-band story, wherein a Chinese American college rocker challenges the rule of her mother and the patience of her bandmates to date a white dude.
Avery Hill
Orlando by Virginia Woolf and Jules Scheele (June 18, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-917355-24-7) adapts the tale of a possibly immortal gender-shifting poet who starts out as a nobleman in Queen Elizabeth I’s court, wakes up one day as a woman, and navigates love, loss, adventure, and sexism up to the present day.
Black Panel
Death Save by Rune Ryberg (Mar. 24, $34.99, ISBN 978-1-990521-508). Set in the 1990s, this coming-of-age ensemble drama features teens styled as anthropomorphized ducks, cats, and lizards riding out their last summer of freedom before it all gets too real.
Boom! Studios
Bronze Faces by Shobo, Shof, and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Mar. 31, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89215-595-3). In London, a trio of childhood friends get together for a heist: they’re determined to reclaim the work of one of their fathers, a Nigerian artist whose genius they believe is being appropriated by the British Museum.
The War by Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan (Feb. 24, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89215-732-2). The Eisner-winning comics creators team up to conjure an apocalypse-in-motion in New York City, as nuclear war hits the city and a cast of friends strive to survive the devastation and chaos.
Conundrum
Birth Story by Elisabeth Belliveau (Apr. 21, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77262-118-1) follows the artist through pregnancy, birth, and the trials of postpartum depression, documenting the upheaval to her body and mind, and interrogating the ways stories of birth are portrayed or erased.
The Short Years by Alison McCreesh (May 5, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77262-121-1). The Eisner nominee turns from travelogue to domestic life in this collection of comics about raising kids. Per PW’s review, her “vibrant, squiggly line lends knowing charm to familiar parental tragicomedies: toilet training, spontaneous undressing, tantrums, and weird questions galore.”
Dark Horse
Devil on My Shoulder by Kyle Starks and Piotr Kowalski (July 14, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5067-5090-3). A woman who endured an unspeakable crime seeks violent revenge on the five men who wronged her, mixing it up with all manner of the underworld—and actual demons—in her quest.
Difference Engine
Delay: A Comics Anthology by Charis Loke and Paolo Chikiama (Apr. 28, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-981-94-1336-2) brings together artists and writers on the theme of waiting, missing, longing (all forms of delay), and what interruptions can cause one to lose or gain.
Drawn & Quarterly
Animan by Anouk Ricard (Mar. 17, $24, ISBN 978-1-77046-824-5). Ricard, winner of the 2025 Angoulême Grand Prix, riffs in this superhero send-up on the 1980s TV series Manimal with the story of a pet therapist who can transform into any animal to battle Objeto, who can become objects.
Mary Pain by Lola Lorente, trans. by Andrea Rosenberg (May 5, $26, ISBN 978-1-77046-853-5) follows a troubled young woman who loses her job and returns to her hometown, where nasty rumors circulate among her neighbors and her mother’s ghost calls the landline at their old house.
Opioids and Organs by Arizona O’Neill (May 19, $30, ISBN 978-1-77046-845-0) unravels the knotty threads of the organ donation industry and its relationship to the opioid crisis, as debut artist O’Neill grieves her estranged father’s overdose and agonizes over the choices she must make at his deathbed.
Fantagraphics
Heaven by Katie Skelly (July 7, $19.99, ISBN 979-8-8750-0224-3). A strip club that might not actually be tethered to this world lures in super-cool women on the verge of breakdowns in Skelly’s meditation on beauty and vulnerability.
The Lights of Niteroi by Marcello Quintanilha, trans. by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Mar. 31, $22.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-8750-0177-2). Two young Brazilian men, one dreaming of becoming a soccer star, launch a boat into Guanabara Bay near Rio with a simple plan to poach fish, and drift into unexpected adventures.
Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians by Salomé Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy (June 9, $24.99, ISBN 979-8-8750-0169-7) draws from real interviews with Israelis and Palestinians about the ways their romantic and sexual lives are conducted and influenced by the conflict in the region.
Graphic Mundi
Infected for Science by Sydney Halpem and Trygve Faste (May 26, $27.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63779-099-1) uncovers the story of pacifists, including central figure David Miller, who volunteered as medical research subjects during WWII to support their country without entering combat and instead were exposed to hepatitis.
Helvetiq
The Roots of My Hair by Lou Lubie, trans. by Makedah Hughes (May 5, $24.95, ISBN 978-3-03964-127-7). Réunion islander Rose tries to straighten her hair with creams and salon visits, but ultimately reckons with what her curls represent and the legacy of French colonial history, in this graphic novel based on Lubie’s childhood.
IDW
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring by Patrick Horvath (July 21, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88724-384-9). A serial-killer brown bear becomes the hunted among the ducks, badgers, and other seemingly innocent animals of her small town, as her victim’s relatives seek revenge, in this follow-up to the Harvey winner.
Image
Death to Pachuco by Henry Barajas (Apr. 14, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5343-3522-6) retells the story of the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943 L.A., when Mexican American youth battled Navy soldiers in the streets, from the perspective of a PI who is trying to solve the murder that touched off the violence.
Flavors of Ash (Ghost Pepper #1) by Ludo Lullabi and Adriano Lucas (Feb. 10, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5343-3562-2). An entrepreneurial chef starts up a food truck selling super-spicy noodles in a postapocalyptic world and garners a mysterious warrior as a devoted fan in this “inventive” series opener with art “influenced equally by anime and bande desiné,” per PW’s review.
The Voice Said Kill by Si Spurrier and Vanessa Del Rey (Apr. 21, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5343-3037-5). A pregnant park ranger in Louisiana makes a dangerous alliance with the mother ruling a local criminal syndicate as a psychedelics-fueled madman sets off on a murder spree in the haze of the swamps.
Iron Circus
That Sexy Bear by Lin Visel and Bergin (May 5, $25 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63899-167-0). This classic cartoon-styled satire mocks commercial culture and mountain culture fetishism through raunchy tales of a bunch of outrageous social media influencer bears.
The Lab
Mad Dog Morgan by Adam Lawson, Brian Christgau, and Maxi Dall’o (May 12, $49.99, ISBN 978-1-964226-22-4). A washed-up pro wrestler stumbles after one too many drinks into a for-real haunted house—and puts his body slams back in action against supernatural horrors.
Living the Line
UK in a Bad Way and Other Stories by James Harvey (May 26, $24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-961581-15-9) collects the cartoonist’s sci-fi- and punk rock–infused short works, including “Luigi Mode” and “Masterplasty,” and other pieces that lean on social satire and sex.
Mad Cave
Eat Your Young by Brian Buccellato and Mattia Monaco (Apr. 21, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5458-2390-3). Battle Royale meets Succession when a many-thousand-year-old immortal names his six-year-old child as successor, setting in motion a ritual that allows the rest of his kids to fight it out to the death in order to dethrone her.
Flow by Paula Sevenbergen and Claudia Balboni (Mar. 10, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5458-2365-1). A decade after they cruelly bullied their bunkmate whose ultraconservative parents never taught her about the menstrual cycle, a trio of grown-up mean girls meet with bloody vengeance.
Magnetic Press
Twin Lotuses by Zhang Xiaoyu (Apr. 14, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-962413-51-0). When a Chinese opera singer is killed in a Japanese bombing raid in 1937, her inventor husband creates an automaton to take her place onstage, only for its uncanny elegance to draw the attention of autocratic warlords and their minions.
Marvel Universe
Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven (Feb. 24, $22, ISBN 978-1-302-96831-1). Stripped of his powers, Matt Murdock—aka Daredevil—is still dedicated to helping those in need in his broken city. Then, a looming disaster results in him returning to his former glory, just as Captain America shows up with a mission.
New York Review Comics
The Children of Light by Jean Pleyers, trans. by Luke Burns (June 23, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-68137-984-5). Making its English-language debut, this 1980s Belgian sci-fi comic finds aliens called the Zors fleeing their home planet aboard a huge spaceship.
Norton
See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor: A Graphic Memoir by Grace Farris (Mar. 17, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-07901-9). A doctor who draws comics recounts her experiences in medical school, on-the-job training (from cadaver dissection to impossibly long residency shifts), and search for balance as a practicing physician and loving partner.
Oni
Benjamin by Ben H. Winters and Leomacs (Mar. 10, $24.99, ISBN 979-8-89488-020-4). A prolific science-fiction writer who OD’d on speed in the 1980s is seemingly resurrected in present-day L.A., and set on a quest to discover the origins of his return and self-renewal, just like a character in one of his novels.
First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth by Angélique Roché et al. (Feb. 10, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63715-777-0) traces the life and work of activist Opal Lee, a dedicated teacher who advocated for the federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery, and her ongoing commitment to community work.
Pow Pow
Physical Education by Joana Mosi (Apr. 7, $22.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-2-925114-60-4). The first graphic novel to be named a National Illustration Award of Portugal Highlight Book features a wayward novelist with a troubled past whose recognitions as an artist have left her cold.
Princeton Architectural
Unconditional: Stories of Women and the Animals They Love by Cat Willett (Mar. 3, $24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7972-3531-8). These portraits of women and their pets explore how animals help people navigate transitions, grief, and other difficult life moments.
Rebellion
New Adventures from the Trigan Empire by Michael Carroll and Tom Foster (May 19, $25.99, ISBN 978-1-83786-272-6). The classic sci-fi series gets revived some 40 years after the last issue, as aging emperor Trigo contemplates his legacy just as his exiled son returns having built up a force to challenge his cousin’s claim to power.
SelfMadeHero
Noisy Valley: The Art of Protest by Myfanwy Tristram (May 19, $20.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-9142-2443-0). Through graphic reportage and ethnography, Tristram documents the political actions, past and present, of the denizens of one Welsh community as a memorial to the enduring power of protest.
Seven Stories
Rupay: A Graphic History of Political Violence in Peru, 1980–1990 by Jesús Cossío Guevara, Alfredo Villar, and Luis Rossell, trans. by Judah Rubin (Mar. 17, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-538-8). An attempted revolution by the Maoist group Shining Path resulted in a decade of retribution and oppression, massacres and arsons, as documented in this comics history.
Storm King
Pause by Matthew K. Manning and Conor Boyle (Apr. 7, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-9928116-3-6) plays on the conceit of the supernatural ability to stop time with a what-if scenario in which the individual with the power is left free to roam the frozen moment, but accidentally restarts any person he touches, friend or foe.
Street Noise
Punk Like Me by JD Glass and Kris Dresen (Mar. 3, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-951491-39-0). In 1980s New York City, 16-year-old Nina lives on Staten Island, which couldn’t feel further from the heart of the punk scene in Greenwich Village, and is in love with her best girl friend.
Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza by Mohammad Sabaaneh (May 5, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-951491-52-9). The Palestinian cartoonist portrays the oppression of people in Gaza during the recent war, including those imprisoned, like his brother, or isolated by the circumstances of displacement and starvation.
Ten Speed Graphic
The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson, Nora Neus, and Federico Pietrobon (June 2, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-79930-7) adapts the first volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s trilogy on the American Revolution, covering the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord, and major players such as Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, and George Washington.
Titan Comics
Spectors by Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman (May 12, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-78774-537-7). A cult tries to conjure up bad spirits from the past and time-travelling investigators attempt to stop them in this sci-fi/fantasy tale that hops between the 1930s and the present day.
Top Shelf
Punk’n’heads by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux (Apr. 7, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-60309-586-0). Art school dropout Hannah is licking her wounds after a breakup and rocking out with a goofy punk band whose members include her roommates—and her new hookup.
The Shadower by Maria Hoey Griffin and Peter Hoey (Mar. 24, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-60309-585-3). In a country where civil war has led to a paranoid surveillance society, a drama student is asked to stand in for a look-alike and become a spy, only to lose herself in the role.
We Are Pan by Andre Frattino and Yasmin Flores Montanez (June 2, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-60309-592-1) retells the saga of Operación Pedro Pan, an operation where some 14,000 children were secretly funneled from Cuba by the Catholic Welfare Bureau (and the U.S. government) in the 1960s to be raised in the U.S., mostly in foster homes.
Ultimate Universe
Ultimate Incursion by Deniz Camp, Cody Ziglar, and Jonas Scharf (Feb. 17, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-302-96481-8). When Miles Morales’s little sister slips into the Ultimate universe, he chases after her and runs into Peter Parker, Giant-Man, the Wasp, and Black Panther (who isn’t too pleased to see him).
Vault Comics
RE: Trailer Trash by Yishan Li (Mar. 10, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63849-317-4) collects the Webtoon series about a trailer park denizen named Tabitha who’s sent back in an MRI mishap turned time-hop to redo her teens years in the 1980s—and finds that it’s hard to change ways.
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