After fourteen years at Avery Hill Publishing, Co-Publisher and Co-Founder Dave White will be stepping away, effective this month. Co-Publisher and Co-Founder Ricky Miller steps up as Publisher.

White and Miller co-founded Avery Hill Publishing together in 2012, along with Michael Gosden. They were school friends, then in a band together, and then Miller contributed to White’s music blog. Next White decided that he wanted to turn his attention to physical media and started a zine compiling prose, illustration, poetry, and comics called Tiny Dancing, which he produced on the printer at his day job. As editor of Tiny Dancing (to which Miller contributed his comic, ‘Metroland’), White discovered future Avery Hill stars like Tim Bird, Owen Pomery and Simon Moreton. Having that physical object to share with comics stores and readers was irresistible, and White and Miller plunged into the world of comics publishing from there.

In recent years, White has edited graphic novels including Owen Pomery’s science fiction scarcity adventure The Hard Switch, Shanti Rai’s fantasy tale Sennen, and Tim Bird’s heartwarming autobiography and tribute to his mother, Adrift on a Painted Sea. “As an editor, and as part of the driving ethos of Avery Hill, I’ve always looked for those stories that I wanted to read and wasn’t seeing anywhere else—and that readers wouldn’t have an opportunity to experience if Avery Hill didn’t publish them,” says White.

Miller will continue the publisher’s growing legacy, working to build the careers of new young UK cartoonists and champion the power of UK creators and comics around the world.

Upcoming from the publisher this year include a graphic novel adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s queer classic Orlando, by Jules Scheele and a first-ever fiction graphic novel from nonfiction comics luminary Darryl Cunningham, a science fiction adventure called John of the Night, and the concluding part of B Mure’s ecological hopepunk fantasy series, Ismyre.