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Out this week: Red Harvest (NBM, $19.99): 

Michael Cherkas writes and draws this graphic novel about Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the brutal war he waged against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33.

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week.

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week! 15 comics, graphic novels, and manga to check out this week! #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at! Find out what…

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Ok, so, this is adorable, lol.  How the Rolling Stones got their name. Notice Brian is correctly identified as "the band's first leader." From The Rolling Stones in Comics by NBM graphic novels.

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NBM Spring 2025 Publishing Schedule

“Spring 2025 Releases by NBM” By August Tales Spring 2025 Publication Bonanza The literary world is abuzz with excitement for the first round of Spring 2025 offerings. Among the flurry of upcoming releases, NBM Graphic Novels stands out with their diverse and compelling lineup. Country Icon and Counterculture Chronicles NBM’s Spring roster promises a graphic biography of country-western legend,…

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The British are coming, again, thanks to graphic novelist Hervé Bourhis

Coming soon from American publisher NBM is The British Invasion, a new graphic novel by Hervé Bourhis

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Michael Cherkas chats with True North Country Comics Podcast about ‘Red Harvest’ — a graphic novel of the terror famine in Soviet Ukraine. Discover more at https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/2023/12/11/michael-cherkas-recounts-the-red-harvest/

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Publishers Weekly 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll

Winner: Ducks by Kate Beaton

2nd (tie): Keeping Two by Jordan Crane 2nd (tie): The Third Person by Emma Grove

3rd: A Career in Books: A Novel About Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino (Plume) 3rd: The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories by Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly) 3rd: Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner (Metropolitan) 3rd: Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Chronicle) 3rd: What Is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan (Street Noise) 3rd: Who Will Make the Pancakes by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics)

Two Votes:

Acting Class by Nick Drnaso (Drawn & Quarterly) Artist by Yeong-shin Ma, trans. from the Korean by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly) Genevieve Castrée: Complete Works 1981 - 2016 by Genevieve Castrée, edited and trans. from the French by Phil Elverum with Aleshia Jensen (Drawn and Quarterly) The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner (Harper) Invisible Wounds by Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics) Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver (Abrams ComicArts) The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives by Kelcey Ervick (Avery) Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish Notes From a Sickbed by Tessa Brunton (Graphic Universe) Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki trans. from the Japanese by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second) Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki trans. from the Japanese by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn and Quarterly) Time Zone J by Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)

Honorable Mentions:

Acid Nun by Corinne Halbert (Silver Sprocket) Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti (Random House Graphic) After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila by Eliza Victoria and Mervin Malonzo (Tuttle) Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense by Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, trans. from the French by Montana Kane (NBM) Alice Guy: First Lady of Film by Catel and Bocquet, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin (SelfMadeHero) All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson (New York Review Comics) Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly) Black and White: Tough Love at the Office (#1) by Sal Jiang (Seven Seas) Catch These Hands! (#1) by Murata (Yen) Clementine by Tillie Walden (Image) The Con Artists by Luke Healy (Drawn & Quarterly) DC Pride 2022 by Various Writers/Artists (DC) Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli (Graphic Mundi) Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki (Viz) Everything Is Ok by Debbie Tung (Andrews McMeel) Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross (Abrams ComicArts) Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts) G.I.L.T. by Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet (Ahoy!) Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor (DC) Halina Filipina by Arnold Arre (Tuttle) How To Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein (Fantagraphics) The Human Target (#1) by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC) Hummingbird Heart by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly) I'm Still Alive by Roberto Saviano and Asaf Hanuka (Boom!) The Joy of Quitting by Keiler Roberts (Drawn & Quarterly) The Last Mechanical Monster by Brian Fies (Abrams ComicArts) The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen (Viz) Look Again by Elizabeth Trembley (Street Noise) Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Viz) Love and Rockets: The First Fifty by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) Monotone Blue by Nagabe (Seven Seas) Movements and Moments edited by Sonja Eismann, Ingo Schöningh, and Maya (Drawn & Quarterly) Mr. Colostomy by Matthew Thurber (Drawn & Quarterly) My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly) My Wandering Warrior Existence by Nagata Kabi, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen (Seven Seas) Nowhere Girl by Magali Le Huche, trans. from the French by Jesse Aufiery (Nobrow) Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss (Celadon) One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington (Drawn & Quarterly) The Paradox of Getting Better by Raven Lyn Clemons (Silver Sprocket) The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding: The Story of the Infamous Female Philosopher Hipparchia by Barbara Stok, trans. from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison (SelfMadeHero) Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren Rave by Jessica Campbell (Drawn & Quarterly) Real Hero Shit by Kendra Wells (Iron Circus) Salamandre by I.N.J. Culbard (Dark Horse) Schappi by Anna Haifisch (Fantagraphics) The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer (Image) Slash Them All by Antoine Maillard, trans. from the French by Jenna Allen (Fantagraphics) So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship by Sophie Lambda trans. from the French by Montana Kane (First Second) Something is Killing the Children (#4) by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera (Boom!) Space Story by Fiona Ostby (West Margin) Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh (HarperCollins) Thieves by Lucie Bryon (Nobrow) Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics) Upside Dawn by Jason (Fantagraphics) Why the People: The Case for Democracy by Beka Feathers and Ally Shwed (First Second) Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin (IDW)

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The Lighthouse by Paco Roca

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Satania

Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët

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Previewing 'Love Me Please: The Story Of Janis Joplin'

Previewing ‘Love Me Please: The Story Of Janis Joplin’

Coming in July, NBM give you the biography of one of rock’s legendary figures – the great Janis Joplin in Love Me Please. (more…)

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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2019 - Love, A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer

$24 CAD, Published by NBM Graphic Novels

Love is a many-splendored thing, as comic artist Margreet de Heer has found out through several relationships and her marriage to fellow artist Yiri. How to describe it? Is love passion, stability, friendship, or all of the above? In this comics exploration, the author investigates different aspects of love: is there really such a thing as finding The One? What happens in the brain when we fall in love? How can we keep long-term love? What to do about a broken heart? Margreet herself seems to have found her ideal partner in Yiri, but after so many years of marriage, how about that Seven Year Itch? This book deals with many aspects of love, sex and relationships in a light-hearted, playful and often thought-provoking manner and is a fun and informative read for anyone who is in love or planning to be.

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Out this week: Good: A Graphic Memoir (NBM, $24.99): 

This is a really interesting “based on a true story” graphic novel, about David Good — the son of an anthropologist father and a mother who was part of the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon rainforest, who had limited contact with the outside world. Good worked with cartoonist FLuX on the story, which details how he grew up in America without his mother and was eventually reunited with her in the Amazon.

See what else is coming to your friendly neighborhood comic book shop this week!

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GlobalComix adds Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Archie Comics, Tokyopop, and more

GlobalComix adds Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Archie Comics, Tokyopop, and more #comics #comicbooks #digitalcomics

In the lead up to the launch of its app, GlobalComix has announced new comic publishers that are coming to the digital platform’s catalog; Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Archie Comics, Tokyopop, NBM Graphic Novels, and more! The GlobalComix Appfor iOS and Android will feature: Over 40k+ books in catalog with 25k+ more in pipeline and growing In-App subscription purchase with worldwide…

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NBM Graphic Novels Explores The Life of The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock

"Psycho" traumatized viewers around the world. Never before had the angst or the suspense been so well presented in cinema. But where does the talent of Alfred Hitchcock come from, the one nicknamed the "Master of Suspense"? To find out, we must first go back to his youth, in England, during the first half of the 20th century. Having grown up in a Catholic family - a religious originality that will be felt in a large part of his cinema - "Hitch" is an atypical Englishman who, very early on, has a taste for telling chilling stories. The temptation to work for the cinema will not be long in coming, first as a graphic designer where his visual talent will lead him to make his debut behind the camera, as an assistant and then as a full director. It is also here that he will meet Alma Reville, his assistant and wife who will accompany him throughout his storied career, including the jump to the big time in Hollywood.

Discover the life of undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, the in-depth story film by film, with plenty of juicy anecdotes and amazing insights derived from interviews with Francois Truffaut and others, of a colorful and quite simply extraordinary artist.

DETAILS: 7 ½ x 10, 312pp., B&W, hardcover, $44.99 ISBN 9781681122892 Ebook, $29.99 ISBN 9781681122908 Publication: May 2022

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NBM Graphic Novels List Announced for Summer 2021-Winter 2022 - Includes 'Canciones of Federico Garcia Lorca' by the Late, Great Tobias Tak

NBM Graphic Novels List Announced for Summer 2021-Winter 2022 – Includes ‘Canciones of Federico Garcia Lorca’ by the Late, Great Tobias Tak

NBM have announced their upcoming releases for the second half of this year which include work from the late Tobias Tak, whose contributions to anthologies like The Comix Reader, Tiny Pencil and Affordable Amazement will be fondly remembered by UK small press aficionados. The full NBM Graphic Novels list with cover reveals runs in the press release below. NBM GRAPHIC NOVELS Announce Upcoming…

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Leonardo 2 by Stéphane Levallois Review

Leonardo 2 by Stéphane Levallois Review

I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into with this book, and even though I had read the description, It really didn’t prepare me for what really happened. In this graphic novel is a collection of breathtaking works of art, and they are woven into an equally breathtaking story. I never thought scifi could blend so seamlessly with this style of art, and really…