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Soaring Penguin Press to publish Serge Baeken’s Sugar: The Life of My Cat

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Soaring Penguin Press has agreed to publish the English edition of Sugar: The Life of My Cat by Serge Baeken. The book was originally published by Belgian publisher Blloan, and subsequently in French by Dargaud.

Sugar is the biography of Baeken’s cat who came to the family as a kitten and lived eighteen years; and who became something of a legend even after his passing.

Serge Baeken is an author and illustrator of who in July 2016 was awarded the deAuteursprijs for his illustration work by copyrights management company deAuteurs. The jury called Baeken “an illustrator with an authentic body of work, an autonomous and committed artist who creates his own universe through his work.”

Sugar: The Life of My Cat will be published in early 2018.

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Soaring Penguin Press catches Breaks

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breaks-page-1Soaring Penguin Press has agreed to publish the first volume of the popular web comic Breaks by Emma Vieceli and Malin Rydén.

Presented in weekly segments from February 2014 to August 2016, Breaks has garnered a reputation as an intelligent and thoughtful coming-of-age story:

From self-publishing to some of the biggest book publishers in the world, Emma loves telling stories with pictures. Her work includes: Doctor Who for Titan comics, the New York Times-bestselling Vampire Academy graphic novel series for Penguin Random House, Avalon Chronicles for Oni Press and the critically acclaimed independent web series, Breaks with co-creator Malin Ryden. Her recent work includes the Alex Rider series for Walker books, The Adventures of Supergirl for DC comics, and Back to the Future for IDW. Alongside comics, she worked on the A&E television series, Bates Motel, providing the sketchbook found by Norman Bates.

breaks-page-2Malin Rydén is a published freelance fiction writer, sharing her time between two continents, two languages and too many imaginary worlds to count. While the bulk of her work remains firmly rooted in speculative fiction, she has made forays into crime and contemporary young adult fiction as well as comic scripts. Current projects include a collection of horror shorts dealing with what lurks beneath the idyllic Swedish surface, a time-travel novel about the worst dad ever, a paranormal crime drama as well as several collaborative projects with other authors.

Breaks will be published in the latter part of 2017 as both a trade edition and a limited prestige publication.

Soaring Penguin Press to Publish A Small Revolution

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a-small-revolutionSoaring Penguin Press has agreed to publish the English edition of A Small Revolution by Boum, the pen name of Samantha Leriche-Gionet. The book, which was nominated for a 2016 Ignatz award for Outstanding Online Comic, was originally published in 2012 in French as La petite révolution.

A Small Revolution is a story of dictatorship and revolution as seen through the eyes of a little girl, and her love for Boris Vian’s music.

Boum is a comic artist, illustrator and animator living in Montreal, Canada. She studied traditional animation for seven years, at the cegep du Vieux Montreal first, then at Concordia University. Her animated shorts have been screened all over the world. Currently, she has entirely devoted herself to her new job as a mom and makes comics during nap times.

A Small Revolution will be published in the latter part of 2017.

Soaring Penguin Press is coming to Kickstarter!

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Isoaring pengiunn recent years, Soaring Penguin Press has become a highly regarded small graphic novel publishers in the UK, with a reputation for showcasing, in glorious print, many of the most talented and innovative comics creators working today.

2015 is poised to be an immensely exciting year. They have their ongoing anthology series, Meanwhile, and six new titles! During one of their recent meetings they broke down the costs of the titles, and it really hit them how much initial investment they needed to make it all happen. It’s important to them that they support their creators both financially and creatively. At the same time, there are many significant costs involved in getting their titles out there long before the books hit the shop shelves. So they are asking for a little help from the amazing comic readers, which will make all the difference, and enable them to continue putting out the kind of graphic novels and comics that people have been crying out for.

This is why, the publishing is starting a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for what looks like will be a fantastic year of releases.

This is also the most diverse and varied line-up they’ve ever planned; three of their titles are by unbelievably talented female artists, and they’re also very excited to be introducing some amazing French-language graphic novelists to the English-speaking world for the first time! Among their highlights:

  • Meanwhile, the universally acclaimed comics anthology.
  • The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert and Sullivan, by Laura Howell
  • The Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113, by John Maybury
  • To End All Wars (paperback edition), edited by Jonathan Clode and Brick
  • The Black Feather Falls, by Ellen Lindner
  • Perfume of Lilacs, by Samuel Leblanc
  • It’s Hard to be a Girl, by Bach

Backers will be richly rewarded for investing in their graphic novels during the creation stage. As well as being among the first to secure copies of these beautiful titles, they’re putting together a great selection of goodies and bonus options.

They’re the first graphic novel publisher to run a Kickstarter campaign in the UK. They think that this is a great way to ensure that they can do justice to the amazing writers and artists that thry publish, as well as their readers, by continuing to put out the beautiful titles for which they have become renowned.

Gilbert & Sullivan: Defenders of the Realm!

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The Bizarre Adventures Of Gilbert & SullivanEveryone knows Gilbert and Sullivan were peerless as composers of light opera. But fewer people are aware of their dual identities as super-powered, dapper defenders of the realm! How else could they have come up with the inspiration for The Pirates of Penzance?

Winner of the International Manga and Anime Festival “Best Comic” category, and lovingly created by the first ever female Beano artist Laura Howell, The Bizarre Adventures Of Gilbert & Sullivan is the comical companion of choice for ladies, gentlemen and urchins alike!

This collection is highly readable while retaining the articulation, intelligence and playfulness that distinguished the work of Arthur Sullivan and W.S Gilbert. Based on historical facts and characters, including Oscar Wilde and Mad King Ludwig, Laura Howell conjures a delightful collection of madcap, topsy-turvy stories set in an unpredictable Victorian England.

Soaring Penguin Press Announces Meanwhile… the comics periodical that you deserve

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meanwhileWe want to tell you about the most important new comics journal to arrive in years. With issues releasing every two months, Meanwhile… brings readers an eclectic mix of established, legendary talent and future superstars, acting as a launchpad for the biggest names of tomorrow.

The first issue sees the hugely anticipated return of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Strangehaven. Millidge’s acclaimed idiosyncratic magical reality comic was self-published from 1995 until 2005 in eighteen issues, collected into three graphic novels, gaining numerous international award nominations including Eisners, Eagles and Ignatzes. Meanwhile… presents the exclusive serialization of the fourth and final volume of the series, Strangehaven: Destiny.

They’re also excited to introduce The Bad, Bad Place, a new series by David Hine and Mark Stafford. Among other highlights is Chris Geary’s future spy-story, Melody Baker, 10 Minutes by Yuko Rabbit and Sally Jane Thompson’s Heavy. Rounding out the first issue of Meanwhile…, and cementing our commitment to rising talent, are the 2014 British Library & Arts Thread Comics Unmasked Competition Winners.

Never murder without properly moussing…. Newt by Mahler & Wolf

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NEWT

Written by Nicholas Mahler
Illustrated by Heinz Wolf
ISBN 9781908030146
Price: £4.99/ $7.99
Publication Date: May 2014
Format: 80 Pages, perfect bound, B&W
Available: Worldwide

A Serial Killer is on the loose with a rather large razor…

A hairdresser with a pronounced predilection for extravagant hair sculptures is kidnapped by a sinister gangster – all during the shave of a depressed used-car salesman. Having recently been left by his dolled-up dentist wife for a man with better hair and a convertible, the salesman – the only witness to the crime –  now has a slightly crazed homicide detective stalking him, and half a beard still to shave off.

Nicolas Mahler and Heinz Wolf paint a picture of ordinary failure to show that there’s a murderer in all of us.

About the creators:
Nicolas Mahler is the Austrian author of My Therapist is a Psycho and What’s Wrong With Us? Cartoons for Doctors and Patients. He has published over twenty books, with several English translations of his work having been published previously by Top Shelf (Lone Racer, 2006) and Fantagraphics (Angelman, 2012).

Heinz Wolf is the artist for over a dozen German comics. He originally trained in fabric design, and then worked in theatre painting. He works as an illustrator and comic book artist in Vienna. Both Wolf and Mahler work together on the project gallery in Vienna – Kabinett Passage.

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David Hine & Mark Stafford Joining Meanwhile

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Soaring Penguin Press has announced that Mark Stafford and David Hine will be teaming up again, post The Man Who Laughs, their critically acclaimed adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel.

Their new, original story, The Bad Bad Place, will be serialised in Meanwhile…,  Soaring Penguin Press’s bi-monthly anthology series which will begin May 2014.

The series follows the sordid and mysterious history of Faraway Hills, a typical modern-built small town in middle-England, seemingly left deserted and abandoned by its citizens – apart from a madman.

The madman, the town’s former Town Crier, reveals story by story the various individuals that disappeared into a mysterious sprawling Victorian manor at the border of the town.

This story will appear alongside the continuation of Gary Spencer Millidge‘s Strangehaven, a superb self-published series from the nineties and noughties, returning to print after an eight-year absence to complete the final chapter.

Meanwhile will also the available digitally via the Sequential app.

The Black Feather Falls: Book One

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The Black Feather Falls: Book One

by Ellen Lindner
ISSN 2053-3381
Cover Price: £3.95 / $5.95
Publication Date: October 2013
Format: 32 Pages, full colour
Available: (UK and Europe) Diamond UK October Catalogue & Soaring Penguin Press, (North America) Little White Bird

Tina Swift has just arrived in London from the hinterland of the United States, expecting to lead a quiet life. When the street where she works turns into a crime scene, and Tina discovers a crucial clue – she must leave behind her desire for an ordinary life.

Disgusted by this murder the police seem keen to sweep under the rug, Tina picks up a thread of intrigue that will lead her all the way to the trenches of World War I, the offices of a British state and to a criminal lair – but Tina must unravel even more disturbing secrets, the one she brought from her homeland.

Travel back to twenties London in this new four-part by Undertow author Ellen Lindner.

Born on Long Island, illustrator and writer, Ellen Lindner is the author of Undertow, a graphic novel about Coney Island in the early sixties, and the editor of The Strumpet, a transatlantic comics magazine showcasing art by upcoming women cartoonists.

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