Adult Graphic Novels

A graphic biography of Djuna Barnes: writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s. Djuna Barnes lived in a dazzling world filled with literary salons, innovative writing, and daring new art styles. But it didn't come easily. She managed to work her way out of an abusive childhood growing up in a polygamous rural utopian...

DiSCONNECT is a touching graphic novel about music lovers in mourning and the always changing nature of friendship. -- Foreword One year after the passing of their friend, two young musicians return to the summer home where they used to record with their trio DiSCONNECT. Upon discovering an unfinished song written by their departed friend, the two decide to work...

Deer Editor is about the editor of the crime beat, who is also a deer. He's a great journalist who stumbles onto a terrible and unseen conspiracy in his town. A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a Wi-Fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime...

Dahlia In The Dark Vol. 1 follows the story of Donny Dahlia, a washed-up hitman who takes one last job to transport a package across the country. His motivation? The hope of reconnecting with his estranged daughter. Unbeknownst to him, this mission will plunge him into the midst of a battle between the fairy realms, a conflict with the potential...

In the midst of the Third Crusade, an exceptionally brutal Templar Knight finds himself accidentally transported to a dangerous realm of magic and monsters. A nameless Templar Knight from the Third Crusade finds himself magically transported to a mysterious world filled with sorcery and monsters. In order to survive, the ferocious Crusader must reevaluate his penchant for violent righteousness and...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones wasn't in your house! Over the course of 2020, Crisis Zone has amassed unprecedented...

Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas follows a group of teens who are transported from a graveyard to another realm where they must collect teeth—and learn about themselves—in order to return home. On Halloween night, when the moon is full, teenagers often get up to mischief. However, an encounter with a giant, sentient puppet in a graveyard sends five teens to...

Charred Remains by Anthony Cleveland centres on a flame that burns only flesh, embedded within a century-long conspiracy that an ageing firefighter and a young woman endeavour to uncover. A dark entity of fire, smoke, and ash—known as "The Fire Man"—rages through a young girl's home, killing her entire family. Amy Durant insists she witnessed this supernatural creature, though no...

After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they've found themselves in. Yixuan Liu, a 16-year-old Chinese girl, has just moved from China to America with her family. To try to fit in to a new school, a new city, and a new culture, Yixuan chooses an...

By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 7 (Light Novel) follows Ryoma, the boy from another world, as he takes the opportunity to revisit the Jamil estate. There, his fellow merchants Serge and Pioro and a friend's unexpected marriage are all converging. Ryoma's happy to help the young lovebirds, provided he can tear himself away from developing new uses for...

TRAINED TO TRUST NO ONE... NOW A PRIME TV SERIES. After being framed for murder, an elite secret agent must confront her past—and the father she believed to be dead—in this high-speed dark thriller. This special expanded edition of the acclaimed comic book that inspired the streaming series contains over 40 pages of exclusive content, behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and in-depth...

A group of teen scientists are shaken from cryosleep ahead of schedule and find themselves facing down a cosmic horror that may already be inside their heads. In the year 2200, a team of teenage scientists are sent on a terraforming mission to a distant planet. Selected as the best and brightest of their generation, architect Jonas, botanist Marnie, biologist...

Celebrate the genius and artistry of Tim Sale with one of his earliest published works, Billi 99. While his collaborations with Jeph Loeb on stories such as Spider-Man: Blue, Batman: The Long Halloween, and Superman: For All Seasons would elevate Tim to legendary status, Billi 99 revealed Tim's master storytelling talents. Billi 99 contains over 200 pages of breathtaking, lovingly...

A tough-as-nails space mercenary faces down a quest to save the universe, armed with only her magical luck dagger and her biggest fan/best friend as backup! Becstar is a star-hopping mercenary-turned-full-time-gambler light years away from Earth. Leaving her old life behind with the help of her magical luck dagger and her fan-turned-regret-filled friend Sally Soolin, Becstar ekes out a living...

While on a quest from King Eramad III to slay the Dire Beast, the Battlecats are faced with familiar foes and hard truths as the foundation for an uprising in Valderia brews. Battlecats Vol. 1: Hunt for the Dire Beast (Legacy Edition) collects the first five completely reimagined issues of Battlecats Vol. 1: Hunt for the Dire Beast. With all-new...

Collects all four issues of the Battlecats anthology plus the 2019 Halloween Comic Fest with art by Mauricio Villarreal. In addition to those five issues, this volume includes never-before-seen Battlecats lore and art that adds to the already lush world of Valderia.

In the not-so-distant future, twenty-something Betty lives in a fascistic society that menacingly polices mental health. When she is caught crying in public, the Peacekeepers take her to an Orwellian health facility to control her emotions. There, she meets the defiant Berina, who opens her eyes to an alternative reality: the Resistance. If Betty can navigate a rollicking underworld, where...

Awkward introduces us to Penelope—Peppi—Torres, a shy new transfer student who desires nothing more than to fit in and find a place among her fellow artistically inclined souls. The last thing she wants is to stand out. However, things don't go as planned when she literally bumps into Jamie Thompson, a quiet, geeky, friendly but friendless fellow student. When Peppi...

A Toe-Stepping Political Dance Since the moment she set foot in the Royal Academy, Rozemyne has put her absolute all into her studies so that she can finally get into the library! Unfortunately, she behaves so abnormally in the process that her retainers and professors end up concerned... Then, she clashes with the greater duchy Dunkelfelger over Schwartz and Weiss,...

The third and final volume in the first part of this epic tale of our intrepid bookworm!

A Phone Call Away tells the gripping story of how a family's tragic loss leads to financial gain through a reality show and worldwide recognition. However, the reality of life sets in as their second child goes missing—can they find her in time? Fourteen years ago, Emma and Andrew Walker suffered a devastating loss when Mandy, their 6-year-old daughter, was...

All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa was selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022 and recognised as a USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book. It was a 2022 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner in the Graphic Novels & Comics Category and received an honourable mention in the 2023 Children's Africana Book Awards. The book was also an...

Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years...

Cullen Bunn and Andrea Mutti return for the terrifying conclusion of the best-selling psychological horror series! All actions have consequences—a reality Nicholas Shaw faces when the past fully collides with the present. Familial truths and blood leak with each slash of the Killer's knife. Can any of it be staunched? The thrilling conclusion to the twelve-issue maxi-series by masters of...

When a serial killer is on the loose in Honduras, a group of Doctors must follow the trail of blood while uncovering ghastly truths from their own pasts. After the disturbing events witnessed by the doctors in Disante, the masked serial killer continues experimenting on his victims while toying with the well-intentioned medical staff. As Dr. Nicholas Shaw continues to...

Starred Review from Booklist, 'this powerful account will comfort those who grew up feeling broken'. What does love look like when you are not interested in sex? Growing up, Caitlin Cook knew the recipe for social success from watching television and reading books: two best friends, two enemies, and a boyfriend. So she arranged her life accordingly: making friends and...

Mike Fallon: handsome and sexy as James Bond; lethal as Carlos the Jackal; discrete as an air bubble to the heart. Collected for the first time, Accident Man features four darkly humorous tales of sex, revenge, brutal violence, people drowning in the bath, and assassination targets being run over by out-of-control cars, all, of course, by 'accident'.

A Business Proposal, Vol. 2 features the captivating dynamic between heartthrob and potential heart attack. On a romantic evening date with the young, rich, and incredibly handsome CEO, Taemu Kang, Hari Shin is the envy of all women. But little do they know... it's all fake! She’s being forced to play the part of Taemu’s girlfriend to appease his meddlesome...

What Parsifal Saw collects work produced by artist Ron Rege, Jr., whose interest in esoteric ideas and spirituality has permeated into all aspects of his comics. This is highlighted by 'Cosmogenesis,' which concerns magical, alchemical, ancient and mysterious ideas; cosmic consciousness, psychedelia, outsider rawness, and pure cartoonish joy.

Publishing in tandem with Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience with a grant from the National Park Service. While certain stories of Japanese American resistance during WWII imprisonment are well-known, such as Gordon Hirabayashi, We Hereby Refuse highlights three distinct stories that demonstrate how people from various walks of life felt compelled to resist the unjust actions...

The next incredible instalment in the library of award-winning master comics creator Philippe Druillet! Vuzz is a warrior. A looter who has simple needs in life: to fight, to eat, and to make love. Vuzz lives in a world where ruined cities are home to zombies, giant rabbits, and salacious wizards. A world where everything is desolation and uncertainties. A...

In the first of two stories that comprise Visual Crime, Rotart Sulli, a painter who illustrates crime fiction, gets a peculiar requirement along with an assignment: he is to stay at Hotel Ace in room 611 until his illustration is finished. In the book's second story, Sulli is once again hired to illustrate a crime story; and once again, he's...

A collection of flash fiction and illustrations celebrating the hardscrabble underbelly of Americana. In this book, Lane remasters milieus, attitudes, and cultural touchstones of the 20th century: wry slice-of-life vignettes are depicted in moodily crosshatched, noir-inflected drawings. Jazz clubs and pool halls, ballparks and graveyards, casinos and coffeehouses, back alleys and bus stops are populated by roughed-up boxers, bleary gamblers,...

From the cult-hit, BAFTA Cymru award-winning TV show comes Torchwood, the comic that continues the story of Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper as they tackle alien-based cases beyond the scope of the government or the police. Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, along with the crew of the alien tech-filled ship Ice Maiden, must stop the alien Navigators' plan...

This unique comic by Milton Knight illuminates the early years of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), known in much later years as the last great Pan-Africanist. The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before...

Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the US boxing underworld—a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published, it made The New York Times bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning film featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. This reprinting of the original, unchanged 1928 poem...

The Nine School Battle. Every year in mid-July, students from magic high schools all over the country gather to participate in fierce competitions of magical skill. Miyuki Shiba is among the members of the team First High will send to the battle. The magical skill of the competitors will be a huge factor, but there's another one—the tuning of their...

Two stories continue the adventure in Volume 8 of the Haruhi Suzumiya series. Editor-in-Chief, Straight Ahead! Since the beginning of the year, the SOS Brigade has been masquerading as the Literature Club to be recognised as an official high school organisation. But when the new student council president threatens to disband the group, the members must write a collection of...

In this volume: What profound insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? What's with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum...

The never-before-published conclusion to the six-volume First Kingdom saga! The incredible conclusion to Jack Katz's personal saga of science fiction and human achievement: forty years in the telling - begun in 1974 and concluded in 2014! Modelled on the Homeric epics, this is the graphic novel equivalent of Paradise Lost - a grandstanding future epic, part space opera, part creation...

The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain (Light Novel) Vol. 4 She-devil's in the details When an aristocrat is murdered on his way home from a brothel, one of Claudia's rivals points the finger at her. After all, it's no longer a secret that she controls a crime syndicate. Just as Claudia launches...

No comics publisher has had a greater impact – or generated more controversy – than the immensely influential EC Comics. The second and concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind the EC war/horror/science-fiction/suspense line brings The Comics Journal Library Volume 10's definitive interviews together with several never-before-published sessions, including a new interview with the legendary Jack Davis conducted by...

The Comics Journal Library: The Writers celebrates the great comic book writers, culled from the pages of America's most respected comics magazine. Between 1966 and 1985, a generation of writers emerged who changed the face of American comic books forever. These writers breathed new life into the dying icons of the past: Len Wein, Harlan Ellison, Gerry Conway, Chris Claremont,...

In addition to this issue's featured interview with Cathy Malkasian, MLK graphic biographer Ho Che Anderson shares his animation storyboards, and Anya Davidson talks to Sally Cruikshank about how the underground comics movement influenced the latter's aesthetic in a career that encompasses indie shorts and Flash animation, as well as work for feature film credits and Sesame Street. Other features...

In this issue of the award-winning magazine, Tasmanian cartoonist Simon Hanselmann discusses how his webcomic - starring a witch, a cat, and an owl - became an internationally acclaimed, best-selling phenomenon. Thematically, The Comics Journal #304 highlights labour and economics - the past and the future of organising a comics union, work-for-hire contracts, and how comic conventions can better serve...

Today, Churubusco is a residential suburb of Mexico City. But in 1847, it was the stronghold of the San Patricios, a motley battalion of soldiers—including some runaway American slaves—who deserted the United States Army for a just, if suicidal, cause. In this graphic novel, The Battle of Churubusco, Andrea Ferraris uses a bold charcoal technique to tell the story of...

The Abandoned Empress, Vol. 2 (comic) by David Odell, Lys Blakeslee, Yuna Yuna, and INA is a gripping continuation of the saga that explores themes of duty, power, and self-discovery. In an attempt to cut ties with the Imperial family, Aristia la Monique decides to strengthen her bonds to her own. But being named the official heir of family Monique...

Fantagraphics is proud to follow up 2010's inaugural edition of Maurice Tillieux's classic early-1960s Gil Jordan adventures Murder by High Tide with a new double dose of classic stories. Readers of all ages who are eager to dig deeper than Tintin and explore the history of other cartoonists working in that distinctive, cleanly drawn comedy/adventure register will enjoy the Gil...

David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute—a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a...

War is always waiting in Peace's shadow... A fragile ceasefire exists between the terrans, protoss, and zerg, but that hasn't stopped them from finding new ways to spill each other's blood. On a fringe world called Adena, a corrupt Dominion commander risks conflict between the three races for his own insatiable greed. The people who pay the price for his...

The Ultra Reincarnation Party unleashes chaos upon the capital, stretching the academy’s forces to their limit! Sugimura leads the monster class into battle against a terrible foe but soon learns kaijin aren’t the only threat arrayed against them. With his back to the wall and the girls under his protection in mortal danger, the stalwart son of Kyushu rises to...

Retrieving their mementos, the Slasher Maidens strike back against the kaijin assaulting Meidou Girls Academy. However, standing in their way are high-ranking members of the Ultra Reincarnation Party wielding mementos of their own! And with the climactic battle nearing its conclusion, Asuma's thoughts turn to his promised reward—has the time finally come for him to lose his virginity?! Slasher Maidens,...

Having fended off the attack on the hospital, Asuma hopes to get back to a quiet life of stealing panties and trying to get closer to Innami, but all is not well at Meidou Girls Academy. There's a spy in their midst from the kaijin-worshipping Ultra Reincarnation Party, and the headmistress is determined to find them—no matter the cost. With...

Asuma Sudou has always been a proud pervert, but he's sworn to give that up to chase the girl of his dreams. Having received a special invitation to enter the same all-girls school as her, he's planning to live his romantic youth to the fullest. But those plans are cut short when it turns out the school is a front...

Sky Doll: Spaceship collects six stories from the eventful life of the SkyDoll, Noa, and the six stories that comprise the Sky Doll Lacrima Christi collection, which are about the lives of the Papesses Ludovica and Agape. With art from a variety of exceptionally talented artists, Sky Doll: Spaceship is a gorgeous vision of the world created by Barbucci and...

Feeling adrift after her daughter leaves the nest, Rita makes the audacious move to model nude for a live drawing class. There, she meets Esther, an artist who sees beyond the superficial and captures people's true essences in her drawings. The two connect as kindred spirits, and their unexpected, yet endearing relationship teaches them to accept their eccentricities and feel...

Summer has begun on Martha's Vineyard, but Gayle isn't interested. Not in working at an ice cream stand. Not in softball, since she broke her arm on a bad play and hasn't seen her team since. Not even in Shark!, the big Hollywood movie being filmed on the island. All she wants to do is help her mother open their...

Newly in paperback, this graphic nautical novel tells the story of a big lug and aspiring poet whose idea of the sailor's life is running up huge bar tabs and haunting the docks at night. Unfortunately, fate has other plans for him, and he is shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong. He finds the reality of the sailor's...

One of the darkest chapters in Marvel history begins as Nick Fury assembles a covert team of heroes for an unthinkable mission! When Nick Fury discovers a disturbing connection between many of Marvel's deadliest villains, he assembles a ragtag team of the MU's most misunderstood heroes for a secret mission to do what the U.S. government could never allow -...

CSI meets Harry Potter in this fantastic new graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of London supernatural police procedural crime novel series! Something dark and slimy is dripping through the walls of suburban London. Not the usual stuff that smells funny and can be hell on the lungs, this mould is possessed by some dark power...

Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine-art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a model, Tina, to pose for a series of paintings he dubs 'The Eroticism of Homeliness'. Their relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual entanglement. Martin's initial repulsion for Tina slowly turns to...

A scoundrel has ruled over the continent's troubadours for the past three years, introducing scum and villainy into their ranks. Arn and Court Jester Sir Dinadan travel to France to set things right, while Prince Valiant accompanies the headstrong Gunther of Germany on his quest to recover stolen holy relics and claim a wife in Jerusalem. The mercenary army of...

Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew — able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: "The Blowout" and "The Hangover." Three contemporary comics titans, Belgian Olivier Schrauwen (Parallel Lives) and the French duo...

The first new NOW of 2022 features all new work from a number of contributors familiar to NOW readers as well as new artists from around the globe. Returning cartoonists include E.S. Glenn, Steven Weissman, and Ariel Lopez V. Newcomers include Justin Gradin, Jesse Simpson, Josh Simmons, Kayla E., Stacy Gougoulis, Natalia Novia, and Bhanu Pratap. NOW: The New Comics...

The best-selling series from David Hazan and Shane Connery Volk returns in a new Spanish language edition! In this twisted medieval noir, the Sheriff of Nottingham hunts a serial killer with a penchant for tax collectors. The Sheriff’s investigation makes him the target of England’s most nefarious power-brokers. That’s to say nothing of the Merry Men, terrorists lurking amongst the...

When the sun goes down, our minds invent all manner of horrors that may lurk in the darkness. Danish cult illustrator John Kenn Mortensen draws inspiration from this shadowy realm, and his pen skillfully conjures these eerie visions on paper. Open this book (if you dare) to encounter a frightful horde of sepia-toned spooks - witches, wraiths, goblins, giant spiders,...

Never Been Deader follows the wildly relatable Lifeless Carl as he reluctantly journeys through the afterlife. Most of Carl’s time is spent in the offices of Afterlife Industries, where he works in the Department of Intake for the recently deceased. He is joined by his dead colleagues, who are equally reluctant to be there but are always ready to complain...

In the dystopian city-state of Kronin, the chief engineer is in charge of all mining of Metax - a precious material that has become indispensable to survival because of its extraordinary qualities. Meanwhile, a police officer investigates the mysterious killing of royal horses, suspecting a terrorist insurrection. Sabrina, the engineer's daughter, is a member of this resistance group, which appears...

Take on the roles of Marvel's most famous Super Heroes—or create your own—to fight some of the most dangerous Super Villains in the Marvel Universe! Featuring the All-New, All-Different d616 System, the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game gives players the chance to explore their own corner of the multiverse. Written by New York Times-bestseller Matt Forbeck (The Marvel Encyclopedia, Dungeons &...

When Stan Lee first pitched the idea of Spider-Man in 1962, his boss was full of objections: People hate spiders. Teenagers aren't lead characters; they're sidekicks. He should be glamorous and successful, not a friendless loser. But Stan persisted, and Martin Goodman let him give the unlikely hero a tryout in Amazing Fantasy, which was already slated for cancellation. With...

Washington Post's Top 10 Graphic Novels 2012 'An unflinching and frequently unforgiving narrative of what it means to have bipolar disorder' - John Crace, Guardian Marbles isn't just a great story; it's proof that artists don't have to be tortured to be brilliant.' - Entertainment Weekly Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but...

Just as Seere is starting to get used to his new role as Sakura's mama, an old demon friend, Gaap, shows up at the Masuda house! He wants to know why Seere hasn’t completed his contract and returned, but Seere has a bigger problem on his mind—he’s starting to worry that no matter how good he gets at doing chores,...

Dark, gritty, and based on the hit video game, Mafia III: The Rise and Fall of Sal Marcano explores the brutal world of organized crime. New Bordeaux is a city on the edge of the bayou—and on the edge of chaos. A hazy, fictional recreation of New Orleans in the 1960s, New Bordeaux is the kind of town where violence...

In the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes, Mutts, and Krazy Kat, Liniers (Ricardo Siri) uses a shifting cast of children, talking animals, imaginary monsters, sensitive robots, occasional elves, and anthropomorphised objects to perform gags, philosophise, muse on nature, and engage in surreal, artistic flights of fancy. With delicate, calligraphic pen work and understated watercolours, the comic skips lightly from style...

The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with the first of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometime lover Hopey, and their circle of friends. Maggie the Mechanic collects the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi Maggie stories, and you can see the artist (who drew like an angel from the very...

For the first time since being summoned to another world, Kazuma faces his very first winter. Genuinely living in a stable during winter is too miserable to bear. Securing a better quality of life is now the top priority. Soon, he's visited by a chance he never even thought to ask for when he comes upon a request to exorcise...

Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humour, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka's...

The story opens with an exterior of a Midwestern farmhouse. Once inside, we follow our titular heroine as she bounds out of bed on Christmas morning, going about her usual routine with her father and grandparents. The banality of the situation is underpinned with a building sense of dread, as it transpires that her situation is far from normal: Jessica's...

When you're level 99, finding time to relax can be the hardest part... After I died from overwork in my previous life, I decided keeping a good work-life balance in this one would be my top priority. I've been a lot busier ever since word got out that I'm level 99, but my world has also been getting bigger. Beelzebub...

There's no such thing as bad publicity, right? As a member of the obscure idol group Tea Party, Maha Lee dreams of becoming a superstar one day. But she had no idea she’d get her big break so soon by embarrassing herself on a popular talk show! Even worse, the debacle lands her on the bad side of Ryoc Kwon,...