Books
Books
Mermaid Town by Tomohiro Tsugawa
Softcover, 80 pages, 5.83 x 8.27 inches.
Tsugawa’s comic “dream journal”, carefully transcribing their recollection of an array vivid dreams, mysterious places, and subtly surreal interactions, in narrative manga form.
A work recently rereleased by the author, unearthed from material over ten years old.
This collection includes 9 short stories in a startling variety of tones and settings.
Final Testament to the Moon (Vol 1) by Sayaka Mogi
Softcover, 100 pages, 5.83 x 8.27 inches.
There used to be many werewolves, but now only few remain.. here is detailed the tragic fate of werewolf twins Skoll and Hati in this, the final testament to the moon.
“I want to hurry and grow up…”
The first volume of Sayaka Mogi’s ongoing series, this book introduces the werewolf twins who play an integral role in the story of the wolfkin tribe. This work both stands alone as an independent story and functions as a continuation of the Kodansha digital series Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice and the overarching world of Humans, Beastkin, and Hunters. Sayaka Mogi continually refines their line with the spinning of this new epic yarn of fantasy / adventure / drama.
Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang
Softcover, 80 partially colored pages, 6 x 9 inches.
Corporate magical girls and the apocalypse!
To fight is to live, to fight is to die, to fight is to become something unknown.
In a world where pop media meets military power, two idol-supersoldiers are locked in a world-ending conflict on behalf of their corporate nations. Battles blast across a dying land, both sides convinced of their own righteousness. Ragnarok looms on the horizon. Yet Magni and Dimo—young icons created for the sole purpose of eliminating the other—find their closest reflection in their opposite. Now, completing their mission means destroying the one who understands them most.
Debut author Kimberly Wang crafts a thrilling two-tone sci-fi graphic novel, growing the seeds of hope from the gravel of apocalypse.
Magical Beatdown (Vol. 2) by Jenn Woodall
Softcover, 44 blue and pink pages, 5 x 7 inches.
Hyper violent street harassment revenge fantasy in the style of Sailor Moon about about an average video-game loving schoolgirl who transforms into a foul-mouthed and rage-fuelled Magical Girl when provoked.
Watch in awe as she swiftly disposes of street harassers and mutant creeps with her impressive array of magical weapons.
Printed in fluorescent pink and blue ink on thick matte cover-stock.
Magical Beatdown (Vol. 1) by Jenn Woodall
Softcover, 32 blue and pink pages, 5 x 7 inches.
Hyper violent street harassment revenge fantasy in the style of Sailor Moon about about an average video-game loving schoolgirl who transforms into a foul-mouthed and rage-fuelled Magical Girl when provoked.
Watch in awe as she swiftly disposes of street harassers and mutant creeps with her impressive array of magical weapons.
Printed in fluorescent pink and blue ink on thick matte cover-stock.
GIRLS by Jenn Woodall
Full color, 40 pages, 5.5 x 7.1 inches.
Bright, full color illustrations of badass girls, highlighting day to day experiences and the embodiment of how they feel by talented Jenn Woodall.
Nikki McClure - Old Wood Boat
48 pages, full-color, hardcover book. Measures 8.75 x 11 inches.
Raise the sails and follow the wind across the green sea in this captivating marriage of lyrical prose and intricate illustrations from a renowned West Coast artist.
Old Wood Boat remembers the wind. Dilapidated and parted from the sea, she remembers and waits as her mast cracks and blackberry vines creep across her deck. But one day, a family tows her home. Scraped, scrubbed, sanded, and varnished, she is made beautiful and seaworthy again. After libations have been poured out, the family casts off, and old wood boat embarks on adventure once more.
In this love letter to sailing, heralded artist Nikki McClure tells the story of a restored boat in timeless and reverent prose that perfectly accompanies her stunning cut-paper illustrations. At once delicate and bold, each page is masterful, rendered from a single sheet of black paper with precision and care that is sure to enthrall readers from coast to coast.
Rhythm of the Seasons by Saki Obata
Measures 5 and 7/8 x 8.25 inches, paperback, 32 pages.
Follow along through beautiful and elegantly simple illustrations pages, telling the tale of the rhythm and feel of each season, a story in a year as depicted by Japanese illustrator and designer, Saki Obata.
Records of the Seasons 2 by Saki Obata
Measures 5 7/8 inches x 8.25 inches, paperback, 146 pages.
Follow along through beautiful and elegantly simple illustrations pages, a new iteration of the four seasons, a story in a year as depicted by Japanese illustrator and designer, Saki Obata.
20 km/h - Woshibai
Softcover, 376 pages, 5.3 x 7.1 inches.
A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand
How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly’s wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China’s most prolific and recognizable—yet anonymous—new underground cartoonists of the current generation.
Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: come back to it as often as you like, it will never quite read the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically-fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda.
Woshibai’s minimalist renderings are a startlingly delightful cocktail of existential dread and silent slapstick that arrest the mind’s eye with equal parts humor and grace.
The Art of yoco: For Eternity and a Second
Softcover, 152 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
yoco is an illustrator who is active mainly in the BL (boys’ love) genre and who is particularly known for her exquisite, painterly illustration style. Her dramatic compositions evoke pure scenes of longing, while also fulfilling a slightly voyeuristic desire to take a peek inside a beautiful, ephemeral world of pure and delicate boys and young men, rendered in pale colors and fine lines, but also with a hint of melancholy and shadow. The Art of yoco For Eternity and a Second is the long-awaited first collection of the artist’s illustrations and paintings that have appeared in many BL novels, along with newly drawn illustrations.
Mari Naomi - I Thought You Loved Me
This Gen-X memoir, which is told in prose, collage, and sequential art, explores queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and the flawed nature of memory as Mari works to uncover a long-lost best friend that she can no longer remember but can’t let go.
Jodie was Mari’s best friend through their teens and twenties. As young Mari began to explore her identity as a bisexual, biracial outsider in a rich, white town, Jodie was her constant confidant, even kissing Mari out of the closet. The two were inseparable as they sought to gain a foothold in life and love as young feminists, Jodie an entrepreneurial sex worker, and Mari working in the boys’ club of video game development in the late ‘90s. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, Jodie ends their friendship. Years later, Mari is stunned when she discovers why.
Now much older, Mari is ready to forgive, but her memories of Jodie seem to have vanished. Through journal excerpts, letters, conversations with friends, and cross-country travel, she pieces together lost memories from a lost friendship, in an attempt at catharsis. The reader follows in real-time as the author unravels her own mystery, examining the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go.
Junji Ito - Venus in the Blind Spot
Hardcover, 272 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa’s classic horror story “Human Chair” and fan favorite “The Enigma of Amigara Fault.” With a deluxe presentation—including special color pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human—each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror.
Please note: Only a small portion of the book has colored illustrations, most are black and white.
Junji Ito - No Longer Human
Hardcover, 616 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
Junji Ito - Sensor
Hardcover, 240 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he’s been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them—the opening act for the terror about to occur!
Junji Ito - Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition
Hardcover, 752 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body “Remina” after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction… Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.
Junji Ito - Remina
Hardcover, 256 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body “Remina” after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction… Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.
Junji Ito - Fragments of Horror
Hardcover, 256 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga.
An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito’s long-awaited return to the world of horror.