Overwhelmed by the weight of everyday life, our narrator leaves the familiar and steps into the wild unknown.
From forests to deserts, oceans to mountains, each landscape reveals hidden truths that reshape their understanding of grief, healing, and who they are becoming. As they travel, sage creatures, whispering mushrooms that glow with memory, and churning whirlpools guide them through moments of fear, wonder, and quiet reflection. The journey becomes a deeper reckoning with loss―and a search for meaning in what remains.
With evocative artwork and lyrical, contemplative prose, this graphic novel charts a path from uncertainty to connection, and from being lost to finally being found.
Story: Olivia Sullivan Art: Olivia Sullivan
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Avery Hill Publishing has announced their graphic novel list for autumn 2026:
John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham
Another Realm by Kristyna Baczyski
I Love This Part(10th Anniversary Edition) by Tillie Walden
Under Ismyre by B. Mure
John of the Night
Darryl Cunningham Out 2nd September 2026 184 pages, paperback, full colour, 164 x 234mm
A scientist races against a god‑killing cult, cosmic collapse, and his witch‑queen ex‑wife to save creation—even if it costs him the person he loves most.
At the centre of all creation lies Far Eternity, where universes converge and reality is kept in balance. Scientist John of the Night and his daughter Aysha uncover a plot by The Perfection—a fanatical cult—to kill God and reboot the “flawed” multiverse into something supposedly perfect. As if that’s not enough, Medea—Aysha’s mother and a witch‑queen with a flair for drama—plans to sacrifice her to recharge her magic and avert an invasion. With cosmic forces closing in, John faces an impossible choice: save Aysha or risk the collapse of all existence.
Inspired by Jack Kirby’s grand cosmic epics, John of the Night blends humour, myth, and multiversal mayhem with themes of sacrifice, destiny, and the baffling indifference of higher powers. A cosmic adventure driven by a fraught but fiercely loyal father–daughter bond against reality‑shattering odds.
Tillie Walden Out 30th Sept 2026 72 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 148 x 210mm
A brand new edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tillie Walden’s acclaimed I Love This Part!
This new edition features an all-new foreword from best-selling comics superstar Alice Oseman, the author of Heartstopper .
A slice-of-life graphic novel story of two girls and the moments of their lives that lead up to them falling in love.
Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school. They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
In her follow up to the critically acclaimed The End of Summer, Tillie Walden tells the story of a small love that can make you feel like the biggest thing around, and how it’s possible to find another person who understands you when you thought no-one could.
Another Realm
Kristyna Baczynski Out 21st October 2026 220 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 239 x 168mm
A luminous journey through the worlds, wonders, and warm‑hearted imagination of Kristyna Baczynski.
A vibrant, career-spanning celebration of the work of British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski, bringing together her acclaimed graphic novel Retrograde Orbit with a rich selection of her self-published comics and illustrated zines.
This collection showcases Baczynski’s unmistakable visual voice—pages alive with colour, emotion, and intricate characterisation. Drawing on inspirations that range from nature and folklore to 1990s pop nostalgia and gentle sci-fi atmospheres, her work creates worlds that are warm, strange, imaginative, and deeply human. Readers will find tender autobiographical pieces, exuberant short comics, playful experiments in risograph printmaking, and the full sweep of Retrograde Orbit, her coming-of-age tale of identity heritage, and finding one’s place in the cosmos.
Across more than a decade of making, Baczynski has built a body of work that bridges independent zine culture with mainstream publishing, collaborating with houses such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton, and Canongate. This volume gathers the very best of her small-press output alongside her major long-form work, offering a definitive introduction to an artist whose storytelling is as heartfelt as it is visually distinctive.
A richly illustrated, genre‑blending collection for fans of contemporary comics, risograph art, and creators with a singular, imaginative world of their own.
Under Ismyre
B. Mure Out 4th November 2026 114 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 210 x 148mm
The stunning conclusion to the fantastical Ismyre series.
In the sweeping conclusion to B. Mure’s quietly powerful and allegorical Ismyre saga, the city trembles in the aftermath of the catastrophic events that closed Disciples of the Soil. With the land still shifting beneath their feet and political tensions at an all-time high, the citizens of Ismyre must confront the consequences of unchecked ambition, ecological imbalance, and years of simmering unrest.
Told with Mure’s signature tenderness, wry humour, and atmospheric watercolour artwork, this final volume weaves together themes of resistance, community care, environmental stewardship, and the fragile, ever-present hope that small actions can reshape the world.
Both intimate and sweeping in scope, it brings the Ismyre cycle to a deeply human, cathartic, and magical close—a farewell to a world of quiet wonders, uneasy truths, and the enduring strength found in solidarity.
The final Ismyre graphic novel is a poignant, beautifully crafted conclusion to one of contemporary comics’ most distinctive and enchanting fantasy series.
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.
The Nebula Awards has announced the nominations for the 61st annual event which honors the best sci-fi and fantasy writing. This year’s awards expanded with “Best Poem” and “Best Comic” with the latter causing some issues.
The awards are organized by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and in their announcement, they only listed the “writers” and publishers in the “Best Comic” category.
The announcement was met with negativity with numerous individuals pointing out the “writing” of comics is far more than the script and can be a team that involves pencillers, colorists, letterers, editors, and more, all of whom work together to tell the story.
Like the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing, these new awards celebrate the writers at the heart of productions that also involve editors, artists, publishers, producers, and a wealth of other team members who make the magic happen.
Some pointed out the award is for “Best Comic” which would indicate the entire comic, not just the script. The organization did engage with individuals, though the response was more “speak up for next year’s awards” and that further promotion would include all of those involved in the comic.
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Comic!#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards 🥳
Philip is searching. For meaning. For connection. For someone to share a moment with. By day, he works from a rented room. By night, he drifts through cafés and bars, dodging awkward chats with his landlady and hoping for something more. When he meets Gina, a local musician, things begin to shift. But relationships are messy, and Philip’s discomfort grows as he stumbles through miscommunications, emotional misfires, and the looming presence of Gina’s intense ex.
Add in a crumbling tower, gong baths (whatever they are), and the quiet ache of modern life, and you have a story that’s tender, funny, and deeply human.
Story: Alex Potts Art: Alex Potts
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Philip is searching. For meaning. For connection. For someone to share a moment with. By day, he works from a rented room. By night, he drifts through cafés and bars, dodging awkward chats with his landlady and hoping for something more. When he meets Gina, a local musician, things begin to shift. But relationships are messy, and Philip’s discomfort grows as he stumbles through miscommunications, emotional misfires, and the looming presence of Gina’s intense ex.
Add in a crumbling tower, gong baths (whatever they are), and the quiet ache of modern life, and you have a story that’s tender, funny, and deeply human.
A beautifully observed graphic novel about connection, confusion, and the spaces in between.
The thermometer has plunged in the past week, so: with the chill of winter approaching, it’s clearly time for spring! Avery Hill Publishing has revealed what’s coming in Spring 2026.
Was That Normal?
by Alex Potts Moving to a new town and having to figure out a new social life is tough. That’s what Alex Pott’s protagonist Phillip is faced with. This book takes us inside his head in a funny contemporary meditation on finding friends and relationships as an adult, and how absolutely, completely awkward it is to be a competent well-socialized human. Pick this one up if you’re reading Dan Clowes or Jason.
Oracles
by Olivia Sullivan Who isn’t feeling some ennui about the present moment? Olivia Sullivan’s Oracles starts out living in that very moment — and then takes us through the process of giving it all up in a meditative exploration of the nature all around us. This absolutely lovely debut is a wonderful escape that we’re all needing right now! It’s perfect for readers who love comics by Linnea Sterte and Michael DeForge.
Infinite Wheatpaste: Universe. Sol. Remote
by L. Pidge We were thrilled to publish the first volume of L. Pidge’s Ignatz-nominated Infinite Wheatpaste series last year, and here comes volume two: now with even more robots, a human-ape hybrid, and a newly minted goddess. I think these galaxy-spanning stories that feel comfortable and personal are absolutely charming!
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf and Jules Scheele Orlando is our publisher Ricky Miller’s favorite Virginia Woolf novel, and we’re excited to be partnering with one of the UK’s most prestigious queer graphic novelists to transform it to comics format. And obviously this novel with an immortal protagonist full of gender play is a perfect fit for comics readers — we know that people are going to love reading this classic story in a brightly-colored, gorgeously illustrated new format.
by Sara Kenney, James Devlin, Emma Vieceli, and Ria Grix
Jade came here to have fun – but now it turns out it’s up to her to save the world!
Jade Nyo just wants to listen to some music and to get wasted.
Then, while out clubbing with her brother, she meets a trio of women who control portals through space and time, and give her an Acid Box, which controls geological features on earth. Now it’s all up to her to travel through time and avert global disaster.
But the box is broken, and Jade travels through the past, present, and future in a quest to fix it, finding along the way friends who can help through music. And as she tries and tries to change things for the better, she finds that the work and pressure of changing history might be too much for just one person to fix. . . .
Avery Hill recently celebrated their tenth year as a publisher, and an upcoming exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery offers an in-depth exploration of their work. It’s an important retrospective that charts their early days publishing zines in the London small press scene, through to today’s carefully and lovingly produced high-quality graphic novels which are sold the world over. All achieved despite having no publishing experience, juggling demanding day jobs and major life-changes, in what was supposed to be a fun side-project that accidentally got out of control. The exhibition runs from October 18, 2025 to April 26, 2026.
On display will be original art from the books, glimpses into the creative process of making comics, and fascinating information about the artists they work with. Additionally, there will be video, prints, books on display and interactive elements, including a game designed by another of their discoveries, the highly talented and idiosyncratic comics creator and graphic designer, George Wylesol.
The exhibition gives insight into their development and philosophy, with deep-dives into some of the books that have been milestones in their catalogue. As the audience goes on this journey through the history of the publisher, they will witness the development of some of the most interesting and important creators working in comics, and an important snapshot of the UK comics landscape over the past decade.
Featured artists:
Kristyna Baczynski, Tim Bird, Katriona Chapman, Tom Humberstone, Charlot Kristensen, B. Mure, Owen D. Pomery, Claire Scully, J. Webster Sharp, Rachael Smith, Lizzy Stewart, Lucy Sullivan, Zoe Thorogood, Donya Todd, Tillie Walden, and George Wylesol.
If you’re attending the Thought Bubble festival this autumn, there will be two guided tours of the exhibition. Avery Hill’s Kat Chapman (Saturday) and Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver (Sunday) will take you on a 30-minute walk through the exhibition, giving some extra insight into Avery Hill’s work as a publisher. They’ll be accompanied by several of the creators with work on display, who’ll talk about the medium of comics, their artwork, and their approach to making graphic novels.
We have an exclusive preview of The Witch’s Egg by Donya Todd. Currently on Kickstarter, it’s out this October from Avery Hill Publishing.
It was a spiderweb moon And the imps did wonder What dark delights wouldst the cat-witch conjure
By the Sardine Queen, by salt and the devil, by blackwormy earth, and by the deep, dark sea, the catwitch Urfi conjures an angel to love her and have children with her. But angels aren’t meant for love, and with the embryonic egg of their unborn children, Urfi flees from her partner’s violence, enduring terrible trials to find a new and safe home in the faery forest.
As her children, Isobel, Batzel, and Mazel, grow up with her, they find the horrors their mother endured during her flight to the forest returning to their lives — this time for the three of them to defeat for good. With secret magic, solemn bonds of friendship, and sisterhood, they can at last stand against the threat of the angels’ terror and insanity in this dark fairytale of motherhood, magic, and apocalyptic romance.
Donya Todd makes weird and wonderful illustration inspired by the magical, mystical, and macabre. She is a prophet-poet of the otherworld with visions of apocalyptic romance in a twisted glittery future. She has worked with Cartoon Network, Mercury Filmworks, Blank Slate Books, Avery Hill, Guillemot Press, Image Comics, Blackwater Studios, Foyles, House of Illustration, Ekidna, Cicada Magazine, Samsung, Tatty Divine, the band Tuneyards, and many more. She has received the AOI newcomers prize, the Earl Richards Narrative Prize in 2009 and an Outstanding Achievement in Illustration in 2018.
Praise for The Witch’s Egg:
“The Witch’s Egg will mix you up in its cauldron of spectacular colours, haunting poetry and mad mythology. But at the bottom of it all you will find age-old stories of the journeys we must go on and the monsters we must defeat as partners, parents, and children. Donya Todd remains one of the most original visionaries creating comics today.” – Karrie Fransman, The House that Groaned
“My favorite comic artist is back with my favorite subject . . . a witch! Thank you, Donya, for always reminding me of the joy and magic of making comics.” – Junko Mizuno, Pure Trance
“This book is delightfully weird and maybe a tiny bit deranged. Expect beautiful artwork, talking eggs, witches, cats, frogs, the devil, and some very human family dynamics.” – Isabel Greenberg, The One Hundred Nights Of Hero
