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The Murder Next Door is a graphic memoir that explores trauma that stays with us & how it impact us

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When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered.

Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. But even so he is plagued by anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. As he attends therapy and looks back on his childhood, he comes to realize the trauma and stress that the murder next door had on his life, and how it still affects him today.

Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? This thoughtful, powerful memoir explores how one event in childhood can make a permanent mark on someone’s life.

Story: Hugh D’Andrade
Art: Hugh D’Andrade

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Exclusive Preview: The Murder Next Door

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When someone is murdered next door, it changes everything about the way you live your life. The Murder Next Door is a brand-new graphic memoir from Hugh D’Andrade published by Street Noise Books and available now!

When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered.

Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. But even so he is plagued by anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. As he attends therapy and looks back on his childhood, he comes to realize the trauma and stress that the murder next door had on his life, and how it still affects him today.

Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? This thoughtful, powerful memoir explores how one event in childhood can make a permanent mark on someone’s life.

Hugh D’Andrade is an award-winning illustrator based in Oakland, California. His work has appeared on young adult book jackets, rock posters, magazines, t-shirts, skateboards, and on the occasional gallery wall. Hugh is Creative Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he has taught at the California College of Arts & Crafts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. This is his debut graphic novel. 

We have an exclusive preview of the graphic memoir. Purchase it now from Bookshop, Amazon, and your local comic shop!

The Murder Next Door

Street Noise Books Presents: Revolution, Resistance, Healing, and Queer Love in Spring 2025!

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Graphic novel publisher Street Noise Books presents the Spring 2025 list: The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade, Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh, You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally, Call Me Emma, by Makee, and Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dressen. Street Noise books have a radical, intersectional feminist, queer, and inclusion vision, and provide a platform for the voices of marginalized people. 

SPRING 2025 is: 

The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade (on sale 2/4). When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered. As an adult, Hugh explores how the trauma of this event changed his life forever. 

Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh (on sale 2/18). A powerful and impassioned prose collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time by a leading scholar of Islamophobia, as the annihilation was being carried out, accompanied by political cartoons from a renowned Palestinian comics creator. 

You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao (on sale 3/4). From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a dystopian graphic novel exploring our future with China, about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that people will go to in the fight for freedom.

Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally (on sale 4/1). One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara’s watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to “friend” them. This graphic novel is the story of one queer person bravely and creatively using therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault. 

Call Me Emma, by Makee (on sale 5/6). After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they’ve found themselves in. Balancing chaotic school life with her divorcing parents, her sister’s mental illness, and a new crush, Emma must ask herself, “How do I know who I really am?”

Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dresen (on sale 6/3). Sixteen-year-old Nina Boyd is into punk rock and comic books. She plays guitar, is a straight-A student, a champion swimmer, and is in love with her best friend. But her best friend Kerri is a girl, and Nina knows her family would never approve. As Nina’s crush grows stronger, she must choose between her family’s dreams for her and her own in this powerful, emotional, queer graphic novel.