INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS
(Company names beginning with L)
LAB PRESS
ESSENTIALS HC VOL 01 BILL SIENKIEWICZ PREMIERE ED (O/A)
(W) Luke Arnold, Chris 'Doc' Wyatt (A) Glenn Fabry & Various (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz
In Essentials, mathematician Harris Pax predicted the end of the world but failed to prevent it. Now he's living alone in a bunker and his niece's favorite toys have started talking to him. The good news? He's not the world's sole survivor. The bad news? The other survivors are trapped in alternate realities imprisoned in imagined worlds full of zombies, robots, mythical creatures, and chaos. And now Harris Pax and an unlikely ally must travel the country on a quest to restore reality, save humanity, and defeat his new interdimensional nemesis: Snuggles. This debut graphic novel from The Lab ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase! (STL351056)
HC, 8x11, 176pgs, FC SRP: $49.99
LAGUNA STUDIOS
FINDING DEE TP VOL 01
(W) Dee Sarah Fish (A) Dee Sarah Fish, Katy Rewston (CA) Laurie Foster
Finding Dee is a stunning, hilarious, and emotional collection of webcomic strips about a 40-something cartoonist discovering herself as a transgender woman while trying to make it in comics. Also, trying to find a place to pee. The strips are now colored for the first time and collected in print, along with fanart and other extras! (STL361743) (C: 0-1-2)
First Time in Previews, SC, 118pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
LITTLE BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
MIGHTY ONION AND GUINEA PIG GIRL HC
LITTLE BROWN INK
BIZARRE BAZAAR GN VOL 01 MIRROR TOWN
(W) Daniel Nayeri (A) Liz Enright
Enter the Bizarre Bazaar, a phantasmagorical graphic novel series sure to enchant or entrap its curious customers! No one ever pays attention to twelve-year-old Abel Azari: not his parents, not the cool kids at school, and certainly not his crush, Ginny Mendoza. To them, he's always been practically invisible. That all changes the day he discovers a peculiar mirror in his neighbor's garage. But this isn't any old mirror, as Abel finds out soon enough when he accidentally falls through it. What waits for him on the other side is a world just like his, except something is...off. Suddenly, his busy parents are spending every minute with him, his classmates treat him like a king, and now the girl he's been crushing on wants to hang out? It's the life Abel's always dreamed of; how could he possibly go back to the way things were before? (STL371777) (C: 0-1-1)
SC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $12.99
LITTLE SIMON
DRAGON KINGDOM GN VOL 12 RESTLESS RUINS
(W) Jordan Quinn (A) Glass House Graphics
Hidden somewhere deep in the forest of Trellis, there is a fallen wizard s tower full of secrets. Ruskin knows that the only way into a magical tower is by using even more powerful magic. But what he doesn t know is that something sinister is lurking in the tower s shadows, waiting for his arrival (STL370969) (C: 0-1-1)
SC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $11.99
LIVING THE LINE
RABAGOO RACE GN
(W/A/CA) Bonten Taro
The Rabagoo Race, the most famous boat race in the world, sees contestants face certain death throughout its frantic stages, all in the impossible hopes of reaching that mythical finish line, and winning everything their hearts desire. Only three ships have survived the 100 brutal stages of boat racing. Having fought mega sea monsters, riptide hell storms, and whip smart competitors, they must now face each other in the final sprint to the finish line. Does the humble sailboat the Boulie Bear have what it takes to beat the Slick Van Vex and the Indestructible Solid Slope? (STL347713) (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x10, 104pgs, FC SRP: $20.00
CENTRALIA HC (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Miel Vandepitte
2024 MoCCA Arts Fest Award of Excellence Recipient! The earth in and around Centralia has warmed so much, it's impossible to stand on without melting. Those who survive long enough will be confronted with carnivorous birds, collapsing buildings, and the trigger-happy Simia Nasalis, armed with bazookas and stilts. Against their better judgment, a group of adventurers set out to discover the treasure of gold hidden away at the heart of the abandoned town. (STL241247)
HC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $35.00
HER FRANKENSTEIN GN (MR) (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Norikazu Kawashima
Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Junji Ito called a 'frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.' Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don't love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn't love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants the monster she wants. He becomes Her Frankenstein! (STL304120) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 208pgs, PC SRP: $19.95
MANSECT GN (MR) (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Koga Shinichi
New Printing!
Humans grow and age. They change. But always we are the same person, the same creature. Not so with insects, whose powers of metamorphosis alter not only their shape and size, but also their very beings. And now, because of one young man's unhealthy obsession with bugs, humans also find themselves transformed into disgusting, decrepit, bloodsucking insect monsters! Published in 1975, Koga Shinichi's Mansect is a shonen horror classic by one of the undisputed masters of the genre. Swarming with mesmerizingly gnarly imagery and freakish bio-evolutionary speculation, Koga here demonstrates why his name is uttered with the same quivering reverence as horror manga legends Mizuki Shigeru, Umezz Kazuo, and Ito Junji. (STL347710) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 6x8.25, 224pgs, PC SRP: $19.95
THE EXILE HC (MR) (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Erik Kriek
Returing to print! Winner of MoCCA Arts Fest Award of Excellence 2023! After seven years of exile, battle-hardened Hallstein Thordsson returns home to Iceland, only to find that old wounds haven't healed. A remarkable decades-spanning epic, Erik Kriek's The Exile is equal parts action 'Western' and family drama, with a surprising story of violence and consequences at its core. (STL241248)
MATURE THEMES
HC, 192pgs, FC SRP: $40.00
LOCUS MAGAZINE
LOCUS MAGAZINE #774 VOL 95 NO 1
The July issue includes this year's Nebula Awards winners, the Locus Awards Winners and the results of the Locus Poll, interviews, commentary from Cory Doctorow, extensive book reviews, our monthly listing of US and UK books, industry news, people notes, and much more. (STL372211) (C: 0-1-1)
Magazine, 60pgs, FC SRP: $12.50