If your entire life was online against your will–if everyone knew about your potty training, your first breakup, and even your coming out story–how would you feel?
I Didn’t Ask For This follows the members of Not Your Baby Anymore, a group of kids who share one thing in common: their parents are social media influencers who have shared their entire lives online. The group forms a chosen family as each member struggles with how to break away from a life and fame that they didn’t ask for and do not want.
This summer, Maverick brings readers Across the Widest Sea, a visually arresting and emotionally grounded graphic novel exploring what it means to be cast into adulthood before you’re ready.
Created by author and illustrator Jean Cremers, with lettering by award-winning letterer Taylor Esposito and translation by Joe Johnson, who brings the story seamlessly to English-language readers.
Across the Wildest Sea sits in the in-between, where nothing is fully formed and nothing feels certain. Cremers’ fluid, expressive artwork carries that tension, letting the disorientation of growing up live on the page without forcing resolution.
Abandoned in the middle of the ocean by her parents to learn to fend for herself, Leonie must find dry land. She meets Balthazar, a teenager whose canoe is taking on water, and Agatha, who lets herself be carried by the current and no longer has any hope of landing. They join forces to find a shore. A metaphorical story about the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Blending quiet character work with visual metaphor and atmosphere-driven storytelling, Across the Wildest Sea is perfect for readers drawn to introspective, emotionally grounded YA storytelling.
Across the Widest Sea arrives July 14, 2026, in paperback (ISBN: 9781545827314 | $19.99).
Los adolescentes compiten en un reality show de cocina que pone a prueba su amistad.
Layne Green es un cocinero estrella de las redes sociales. Fue seleccionado para competir en un reality show llamado Voyage de Gourmet, una aventura gastronómica trotamundos. Sin embargo, su compañero es su ex mejor amigo, Jiang-Mi Pipper, a quien perjudicó seriamente con algunas de sus publicaciones. ¿Podrán ambos encontrar la compasión, el sabor y a sí mismos en este viaje?
A high-action, beat ’em up with a tender heart and a humorous point of view for fans of arcade cabinets and fighting games.
Listen up! This is the fisticuff-filled tale of Princess Helia of Terrager: a natural-born fighter since childhood, Helia must head out into the wider world when her soon-to-be-husband is groom-napped on their wedding day by the atrocious ape, and would-be world conqueror, Gogo. But what does a sheltered princess know of the other realms? Well, not a whole lot. Luckily, Helia is joined by her (only) friend and bodyguard, the ice witch, Sidra. Together, the pair will brave the deserts of Flaterra, the blizzards of Frosterra…uh, you get the idea…until they’ve rescued the wayward prince, thwarted Gogo, and punched every henchman they can find. And maybe, by the end of their journey, Helia and Sidra will realize their connection goes beyond mere friendship… …find out in BEAT EVERY 1-UP, a young adult graphic novel that will bring a new definition to “your princess is in another castle!”
What if you could do it all over again? A desperately single 40-something attends her college reunion to win back the love of her life, with disastrous results. But, through a magical twist of fate, she finds herself in her early college years once more–with a chance to fix it all.
(W) Andrew Clemson (A) Mau Mora (L) Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Abandoned as a child by her adventurer father and having fought her way up through the ranks of the kingdom’s premier espionage agency, Bec has become their top operative. But when a Dwarven princess is kidnapped, Bec must leap into action. Written by ANDREW CLEMSON (STAR BASTARD, BETE NOIR) and illustrated by MAURICIO MORA (HAUNTING, MAJOR THOMÁS) as you embark on an elves & espionage young adult adventure!
(W) Christopher Greenslate (A) Riccardo Faccini (C) Dearbhla Kelly (L) Justin Birch
Following in the massive footsteps of legends like Godzilla and King Kong, comes QUEEN KODIAK, a colossal, super-charged Kodiak grizzly bear… one who survived from the ice-age and who’s been irreversibly enhanced by a mysterious geothermal energy pulsing in the unknown depths of an Alaskan ice cave. And although QUEEN KODIAK’s been asleep for thousands of years, melting ice and subsequent tectonic activity has disturbed her hibernation. And in her debut graphic novel, she wakes up to find her only cub missing.
But as much as we want to meet her and watch her wreck shop on the Pacific northwest (sorry Seattle), our story actually centers on JOEY FOX, an embattled 17-year-old girl, and natural empath, who befriends Queen Kodiak’s cub after a tectonic shift in her own life — the recent passing of her mother. As a result, Joey’s been sent to Alaska’s Kodiak Island to live with the man who left them ten years ago, her state trooper father. In many ways, it’s a story about how families survive overwhelming odds.
(W) Richard Ashley Hamilton (A) Pablo Andres (C) Simon Robins, Rebecca Good (L) Justin Birch
Sophie Cooper has overcome a lot in the last couple of years, all in the hopes of convincing the world that her dad is not a criminal. She’s solved some murders, outwitted a time-traveling mad scientist, gained psychic powers (only to give ‘em right back), raised a flying saucer from the Everglades — even while celebrating her Quinceñera, surviving high school, navigating a love triangle, and interning for the local TV news station, WMIA 7. But now Sophie faces off against the deadliest threat yet…herself! When a sinister Sophie doppelgänger appears on the scene, spouting fake news and debunking all that the real Sophie has worked so hard to achieve, our intrepid teen reporter must face facts. Will she ever prove her father’s innocence? Would anyone believe her anyway? Or have Sophie’s investigations only put a giant target on her family, her friends, and that which she values above all else — the truth?
Maverick has announced the Spanish-language release of Navigating With You Vol. 1 (Navegando Contingo), bringing one of its most celebrated and heartfelt graphic novels to an even broader community of readers. Following a year of major acclaim—including a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and nominations for both the Harveys and Ringos—Navigating With You continues its journey with a new edition honoring the cultural roots woven into its story!
Created by writer Jeremy Whitley and Brazilian comic creator and illustrator Cassio Ribeiro, and translated by Mercedes Guhl, this edition invites Spanish-speaking readers into the tender, hopeful world of Neesha and Gabby—two teens discovering connection, courage, and their shared love of manga.
Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer – and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga series, Navigator Nozomi, they become more than just fellow new kids. But it was more than just having read the same book series–neither of them had finished it! Soon, they become new friends on a mission – to track down the remaining Navigator Nozomi books. This slice-of-life romance follows the two girls as they adventure across North Carolina to find each book, with their story intercut with the tales of Navigator Nozomi. Neesha and Gabby find more than just the books though – they find acceptance, friendship, understanding, and love.
The Spanish paperback edition of Navigating with You Vol. 1 (ISBN: 9781545824320) hits shelves May 19, 2026.
Following the breakout release of The October Girl Vol. 1 in October, Maverick brings readers back into the uncanny, heart-tugging world of the Night Folk with The October Girl Vol. 2, the next chapter in writer and artist Matthew Dow Smith’s beautifully dark coming-of-age fantasy.
Smith, known for his work on DC’s Misfits of Magic and his creator-owned middle-grade series Amelia Shadows, widens Autumn Ackerman’s world and sharpens the emotional stakes in this second volume—
Autumn Ackerman’s life was turned upside down when her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, returned and Autumn discovered that she is a Night Folk — a race of incredible creatures that inspired all of humanity’s myths and fairy tales.
Finishing high school and working at the local coffee shop is more than enough for any teenager to deal with, but now Autumn has to learn to navigate a new world of trolls and fairies, dealing with threats like the mysterious Mr. Balloon, and getting to know her estranged grandfather, the October King, leader of the Night Folk.
Before Autumn can even get used to all these changes, her life is turned upside down yet again when her ordinary, human father — who she hasn’t seen in five years — suddenly returns, exhibiting terrifying new powers…
…powers that threaten everything Autumn holds dear!
The October Girl Vol. 2 goes on sale May 26, 2026.
