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NBM Announces its Summer 2025 Publications

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NBM Graphic Novels is has announced its Summer 2025 line-up including a fun guide to cryptocurrency, a biography of British soul icon Amy Winehouse, a biography of pioneering comics legend Will Eisner, and an adaptation of a shocking masterpiece of contemporary French literature!

ALICE IN CRYPTOLAND: Bitcoin, NFT and Other Curiosities

Daniel Villa Monteiro (writer), Nicolas Balas (art)

Dive with Alice into the mysterious and controversial world of cryptocurrencies.

We are on the eve of Covid confinement when the young woman received an inheritance from her grandmother and wonders what to do with this money that her banker wants to invest for her.

By chance, she discovers that parallel currencies open the door to another world. Misunderstood by her family and friends, she nevertheless threw herself into it wholeheartedly.

Her online comics on her experience make her quite the influencer, explaining crypto’s intricacies in simple terms but with eyes wide open as to its dangers. We even travel with her to El Salvador, the first country to accept Bitcoin as a national currency, and its cryptocurrency farms, to understand the power and perils of Bitcoin, NFTs, blockchains and other curiosities.

6 ½ x 9, 112 pg., full color HC, $22.99
ISBN 9781681123554
e-book: $9.99
ISBN 9781681123561
PUBLICATION DATE: May 13

ALICE IN CRYPTOLAND: Bitcoin, NFT and Other Curiosities

AMY WINEHOUSE IN COMICS

Tony Lourenço, Elsa Gambin (writers), various artists

Amy Winehouse, her music, her life, her destiny told through comics.

With her unique voice, Amy Winehouse quickly established herself as a paragon of British soul at the start of the 21st century. Winning all the awards in her path after the immense Back to Black album, her career was an explosion in the world of music.

Too brief an explosion. With multiple addictions and fragile mental health, Amy died prematurely, joining the fateful ‘Club of 27’, but leaving behind a memorable body of work.

Discover in this comics biography the eventful life of this artist with such a recognizable style, still resonating throughout the world today.

Part of the bestselling series of pop musician biographies marrying well illustrated articles presenting the facts with comics chapters presenting the feel.

7×10, 128pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123592
e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123608
PUBLICATION DATE: June 17

AMY WINEHOUSE IN COMICS

WILL EISNER: A Comics Biography

Stephen Weiner (writer), Dan Mazur (art)

Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, through inventing the term “graphic novel” to convince a general trade publisher to publish the groundbreaking A Contract with God, you’ll follow along in Eisner’s life journey.

With the most prestigious comics awards named after him, Will Eisner is forever celebrated not only in what he created but his unerring belief in comics’ capacity to be better, to reach higher, to be a full art form in its own right. This is the life of this man of vision who helped to put comics on the map.

Includes an afterword by Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL, Tüki)!

6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 300pp. full color hardcover, $29.99
ISBN 9781681123578
e-book: $19.99
ISBN 9781681123585
PUBLICATION DATE: July 15

WILL EISNER: A Comics Biography

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Françoise Sagan as adapted by Frédéric Rébéna

One of the masterpieces of contemporary French literature is brilliantly adapted to comics.

1954, Cécile, a Parisian high school student, spends the summer of her seventeenth birthday in a villa with her father Raymond, a widower, and Elsa, his mistress. Cécile and her father have a close relationship, carefree and full of pleasure. Cécile will experience her first thrills with Cyril. The atmosphere changes when Raymond announces the arrival of Anne, a friend. Different from Elsa and Cécile, Anne is a strict and moralizing woman, she appreciates culture, good manners and intelligence. As soon as she arrives, a subtle fight begins between the three women. Elsa tries to maintain the relationship with Raymond, who is also attracted to Anne. As for Cécile, she fears losing the complicity that binds her to her father, as well as their freedoms. How to avert the threat? In the burning heat of the summer, a cruel game is being prepared with tragic consequences.

A remarkable adaptation of the classic bestseller by Sagan which shocked a generation.

8 ½ x 11, 112pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123615
e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123622
PUBLICATION DATE: August 12

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Review: Spellbound Vol. 2 Urban Magic

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Spellbound Vol. 2 Urban Magic

Anyone who has ever watched SyFy Channel knows the network has a superior inventory of programming when it comes to the geek genre. The network was first started as a network which would stream old science fiction movies and television shows. This would slowly change as they started introducing original programming which included both movies and television shows. One of my personal favorites was Eureka, about a community filled with the brightest minds in the world.

Then the came other shows like Warehouse 13, which combined all the intriguing aspects of X-Files, but only a more light-hearted take on the concept. Then there is the one show that seems to be the dark horse favorite of anyone who watches it, Lost Girl. The show embraces magical myths but set in an urban landscape and ruled by a numinous monarchy. The world created by the show makes you believe that there is a world that not everyone gets to see. In the second volume of Spellbound, the Boston Comics Round Table gives the world new tales that both astonish and dazzle.

In “What Circe Up to Now?,” we find the Greek goddess as she endures a “mortal” day, one which tries her patience as much as we do. In 
“The Sword In The Store,” a talking sword gets bought and becomes more than what the buyer expected. In “Salt Circle,” some pedestrians run across a monster who takes the first victim who becomes skeptical of its abilities. In “The Protector,” gives us an alternate reality which treats demons like refugees. In “The Legend of The Pope Lick Creek Monster,” tells of an animal god whose power ruled man from the day a clan settled there until now where it charms its victims to their deaths. In “Taco Truck Wizard,” one wizard tells of how food trucks are used in the battles between wizards. In “Facetime,” one man falls asleep and his face decides to have party all on its own and to have his face discombobulated once he wakes up. In the last story I will highlight, “NextHex,” a coven of witches uses their collective powers to hex a curmudgeon who had upset their evening.

Overall, the comics collection is excellent and different. Readers will both enjoy and be intrigued by these new voices. The stories are fun and exciting. The art is alluring and gorgeous. Altogether, it’s a set of stories which coalesce into an interesting narrative of a city beneath its underbelly.

Story: Irene Spassova , Barbara Thomas, John Bell, Kyri Lorenz, Samuel Cleggett, Patrick Scarborough, Catalina Rufin, Adrian Alvarez,Ben Rutberg, John Carvajal,  Brendan Tobin, Beth Barnett, Dan Mazur, Holly Fultz
Art: Irene Spassova , Timothy Wall, Anthony Lathrop, Kyri Lorenz, Samuel Cleggett, Patrick Scarborough, Catalina Rufin, Adrian Alvarez, Ben Rutberg, John Carvajal, Brendan Tobin, Beth Barnett, Dan Mazur, Holly Fultz
Edited By: Jonathan Hayes, Beth Barnett, Adrian Alvarez, Daniel Welch, and Cyn
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

Review: Spellbound Vol. 1

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Each city has character. Most people seem to write about my hometown New York City. Los Angeles is also popular because of its steeped history and indelible character. The truth is every city ,town, and county has its own story and holds its own secrets. It makes you wonder what lies in those hidden streets, and dark corridors. Is it anything like Neil Gaiman’s masterwork, Neverwhere? In one of their first entries into the comics anthology world, the Boston Comics Roundtable has put Spellbound Volume One, a mystical exploration of Boston.

In “Wizards of the MBTA,” we meet a team of magicians who take care of fantastical nuisance but are on the city’s payroll. In “Snapper,” one man’s first day at work becomes the strangest in his life. In “The Secret,” one woman feels a need to escape and wishes away from her troubles, only to find her wishes come true in a not so subtle manner. In “Marcel On Ice,” a teacher and a student share funny conversation and a walk together. “Whereto Find Faeries in Boston,” explores the most common haunts where you find faerie kind congregating. In “Urban Fantasy,” one dishwashing liquid gets to dream about her best life.

Overall, the graphic novel is a diverse collection of stories that reflects the many shades and shapes that the city possesses. The stories by the creators are funny, enigmatic, and accessible. The art is both alluring and vivid. Altogether, it’s an excellent set that will have readers wanting to peak around their city for those mystical clues that makes their places magical.

Story: L.J. Baptiste, J.L. Bell, W.B. Clem, PatrickFlaherty, Mehitabel Glenhaber, Levon Gyulkhasyan, Paul Hanna, Youngjin Hur,Patrick Jordan, Anthony Lathrop, Dan Mazur, Greg Moutafis, John Quirk, Roho,Catalina Rufin, and Adam Tutkus
Art: L.J. Baptiste, J.L. Bell, W.B. Clem, Patrick Flaherty, Mehitabel Glenhaber, Levon Gyulkhasyan, Paul Hanna, Youngjin Hur, Patrick Jordan, Anthony Lathrop, Dan Mazur, Greg Moutafis, John Quirk, Roho, Catalina Rufin, and Adam Tutkus
Edited by: Olivia Li, Heide Solbrig, Ben Doane, and Jamie Koh
Story: 10 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.5 Recommendation: Buy