Song for Medusa is a sapphic reimagining of the petrifying Gorgon Medusa, who falls in love with a blind princess who is not affected by her curse.
Medusa has lived in her temple prison for years, turning men who seek glory to stone. Her only comfort is the mysterious song drifting from the villa palace above. After a chance encounter with Princess Cyrene—whose blindness spares her—the two lonely women find in each other kindred spirits, and soon, love.
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The Wandering Island continues the adventure of the Smurf Girls and their friends!
In search of the Land of Smurfing Stones, Mint, Storm, and Blossom set sail with their new friend Bernardo. But all this is easier said than smurf. The inhabitants of the strange land where they arrived may differ from humans…but you still have to pay for your crossing! So, for the salvation of Willow, our heroines will have to embark clandestinely on their next great adventure.
Sometimes the most valuable treasure you find might not be buried under the sand.
The Captain, José, and Miguel are three mice in search of adventure…and sail the seas known as the Pi-Rats!
Marea, a young girl who embarks on her first adventure at sea, meets the Pi-Rats who agree to join her on her quest and help her overcome various obstacles to find her long-lost grandfather. Faced with one danger after another, will Marea and the Pi-Rats survive them all in order to reach their goal?
Jo and Susie are best friends. Helen and Susie are also best friends. Helen and Jo, however… well, let’s just say things can quickly get out of hand when the two are in the same room… or the same set, shooting Susie’s action-movie project for film school.
As the lead actress, Helen is nailing it, while Jo is struggling to come up with music for the film. But when Jo’s nights fill with eerily vivid dreams that transport her into the story alongside Helen’s gruff heroine, she wakes up full of tunes. Is there something more than just hatred between Jo and Helen? What will Susie think about all this? Will they be able to finish the film before the tension on set becomes explosive? Or are these three dream girls headed for disaster?
This week sees the highly anticipated release of Decidium Vol. 1 from Ram V and Evan Cagle. Published by Image Comics, it features lettering by Aditya Bidikar, and designed by Tom Muller.
In a future rebuilt from the ashes of war, belief is no longer sacred — it’s monetized.
Humanity has entered a hard-won age of stability, governed by an unholy alliance between global corporations and newly engineered religions. Worship fuels the economy. Faith is power. Salvation is a product. Welcome to the industry of belief. That fragile balance shatters when the old gods return. Ancient deities of fire, wind, jaguars, love, war, and mischief awaken inside ordinary people, transforming neighbors and strangers into living gods. To the powers that be, they aren’t miracles — they’re threats.
The great faiths of the new world knew the old gods could one day return, and they planned for such an eventuality. 12 orphans were chosen, bestowed with gifts and taught to be faithless, loveless instruments without reward or remorse. The old gods have returned — and the 12 will be unleashed.
As old myths collide with a world built on manufactured faith, a brutal conflict ignites — one that will decide who controls humanity’s future, and whether salvation comes from those placed above us… or from within us.
Deicidium‘s release coincides with the recent launch of Ram V’s new creative studio Mirror Maker Studios, and it’s accompanying YouTube Channel which will give fans a look at Ram V and his collaborators’ creative process.
Check out an exclusive look at Evan Cagle’s character designs for Deicidium Volume 1 and get it when it comes to comic shops this week or get it on Bookshop, Amazon, and more.
Darrington Press and Dark Horse Books present Candela Obscura, a new graphic novel series set in the world of the hit tabletop role-playing game, Candela Obscura. This horror drama series will be written by Tini Howard and Blake Howard, illustrated by Fernando Heinz Furukawa, colored by Charlie Kirchoff, and lettered by Ariana Maher, and will feature an all-new cast of characters in the Candela Obscura secret society who confront the occult.
Amelia Ashford, resident loose cannon and junior member of the Circle of the Riddle and Key, embarks on an unauthorized adventure to uncover the veiled past of Empress Iomene. Deep within Oldfaire, among the crumbling ruins of the House of Iomene, Amelia finds a strange relic that attunes her to the Empress herself! Iomene strikes an enticing deal: she’ll answer Amelia’s questions in exchange for her unwavering devotion.
It’ll take some tricky maneuvering to slip one past her Circle, especially when stern Javri’s set on ousting Amelia for her troublemaking. But as she starts to prove herself to Empress Iomene, Amelia realizes great power—and darkness—hides inside the mysterious artifact. Though the young investigator might be gaining the Empress’s trust, is that trust mutual?
Join the team and investigate the unknown in Candela Obscura Volume 1(hardcover, 56 pages, 6.625 x 10.1875”), available wherever books are sold on August 3, 2027. It is now available for preorder from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $17.99.
Welsh arts-in-health charity Re-Live has announced Here and Now, a life story comic co-created with people living with dementia and their families in Wales and Japan. Published in three separate editions – English, Welsh (Yma Nawr) and Japanese (今、ここに立つ) – it is on sale in UK and European comic shops from Wednesday, November 11, and available to pre-order now from comic shops in the United States and Canada, with a final order cut-off of December 21, 2026 and release on January 27, 2027.
Manga and Western comics meet
The comic is a flip-book with two covers. One side reads left to right, in the traditional Western style; but when you turn it over to the other side, it reads right to left, as manga does. Two covers, two countries, two reading directions. Together, the four stories invite readers into the lives of people living with dementia and their families in Wales and Japan.
On the Japanese-facing cover is the final painting by Ebisu Yoshikazu – one of the originators of Japan’s heta-uma (“bad but good”) art movement, a contributor to the legendary manga anthology Garo since the 1970s, published in English by London’s Breakdown Press (The Pits of Hell, I Wish I Was Stupid), and for years a much-loved face on Japanese primetime television. Now in his eighties and living with dementia, Ebisu-sensei and his family gave permission for the painting, titled Relieved (ほっとした), to be used for the comic. Welsh illustrator Jonathan Edwards has painted two of the comic’s storytellers, Mr and Mrs Sato, standing before Ebisu-sensei’s painting in a gallery. For Ebisu, an artist who has spent his life telling stories in pictures, it is a powerful statement that an artist can go on expressing themselves while living with dementia.
The book brings together some of the most exciting names in alternative manga and Western comics. Tokyo mangaka Kawakatsu Tokushige (Tokyo Blues; The Cursed Body, Glacier Bay Books), fresh from his first US tour, drew Dream Again and hand-lettered both Welsh stories into Japanese. Yuki Monou (My Pink is Overflowing) drew I’m a Human Being Too! The English translation is by Ryan Holmberg, a leading scholar and translator of Japanese alternative manga, and the logo in all three languages was designed by New York letterer Jared K Fletcher, whose logo work includes Wonder Woman and X-Men. The two Welsh stories are drawn by Matt Beese and Archie McKenzie, with covers by Welsh illustrator Jonathan Edwards and Swansea artist Sok. The comic had its UK festival premiere at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal in October.
Ordinary lives, extraordinary stories
Here and Now is Re-Live’s third life story comic, following two issues of Coming Home, which shared the mental health stories of military veterans and are now used by veterans’ services across the UK and internationally. Here and Now builds on that work. Two of its four stories come from Wales and two from Japan. Each is shared by a person living with dementia or a family member, and each is drawn by a different artist.
Fifteen years in the making
Here and Now is Re-Live’s first international manga collaboration, made with Tenjin-kai, a dementia care organization in Ofunato, northern Japan, as part of the Wales–Japan 2025 Culture Programme. Karin Diamond first travelled to Ofunato in 2011 on a Churchill Fellowship to study with Dr Uchide, whose relationship-centred approach to care went on to shape Re-Live’s theatre with people living with dementia and its training for more than 5,000 care workers across Wales and beyond.
Availability
Here and Now is 44 pages of story in full colour, and retails for $6.99 in the US or £5.00 in the UK. In the UK and Europe it goes on sale on Wednesday, November 11 via Diamond Comic Distributors (order code SEP262089). In the United States and Canada it can be pre-ordered now through Lunar Distribution via Massive Indies (order code 1126MP0956), with a final order cut-off of December 21, 2026, for release on January 27, 2027. Copies are also available directly from Re-Live at www.re-live.org.uk at any time.
Fan-favorite creators Curt Pires and Ryan Quackenbush will team up for an all-new, original graphic novel titled, Content. This razor-sharp sci-fi thriller will hit shelves in trade paperback in February 2027 from Image Comics.
Inspired by Pires’ own time in the Hollywood dream factory, Content is set in the age of the infinite scroll. The perfect read for fans of Severance, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and The Social Network.
In a near-future ruled by streaming services, Trip Cruise is the most valuable mind in entertainment and the visionary architect behind the world’s biggest platform: Content. But when an experimental AI helmet meant to extract stories straight from his brain malfunctions, Trip becomes trapped inside the system he built: forced to navigate an endless hellscape of shows and fragmented memories.
His only shot at escape? Margot, his junior programmer and the only person with a strong enough human to him to take a shot at saving him. Together they’ll have to outsmart the machine designed to replace them or risk getting permanently deleted from existence.
Content original graphic novel trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534331846) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, February 17, 2027 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, March 16, 2027.
Bedford Street is an Altman-esque, darkly comic exploration of social decay, hardship, recklessness, and isolation composed of loosely interwoven stories of different sets of characters living on the same street.
An alcoholic beneficiary is tasked with looking after his teenage son for a weekend. A nurse is faced with a violent altercation after her late-night shift. A single mother struggles with the sudden onset of crippling back pain while trying to keep her drug-addicted former partner at bay. A homeless man tries to readjust to life on the outside after a period of incarceration. A young father succumbs to boredom and lust.
These are some of the lives of the inhabitants of Bedford Street, an all-too-familiar place where those at the less fortunate end of the ever-widening spectrum of inequality reside. People leading modest lives in challenging circumstances where disenfranchisement is high and a sense of community is low. All packed together and teeming with a chaotic energy, some submitting to their worst impulses, others trying their best despite it all.
Bedford Street forms a mosaic image of lives lived in the maelstrom of a cost-of-living crisis, increasing rates of unemployment, and an age of individualism where isolation and alienation is rife. Murray’s skillful storytelling and combination of pathos and dark humour explores how we navigate life and care for one another in a disconnected society.
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Since 2009, Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast established the gold standard for podcasting and revolutionized entertainment, as it challenged assumptions on what audiences could find compelling In the process, it garnered a loyal fanbase and an unbelievable roster of guests, stretching out over 1,000 episodes, including President Barack Obama In June of 2025, fans were heartbroken when it was announced that Marc would be ending the show officially. Now we can share the most exciting final chapter in the WTF book Now, celebrating the full history of WTF, and in commemoration of its conclusion, Marc and Z2 are announcing the official history of the WTF Podcast, told in graphic novel form, adapted into comic book format by Marc’s longtime partner-in-crime Brendan McDonald and acclaimed cartoonist Brian Box Brown A sage that spans from 2004 to 2025 (COVERING THE SPAN OF THE STORY) WTF IS A PODCAST is a must-have for all WTFers
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