The Dark Horse Comics imprint founded by Karen Berger, Berger Books, welcomes its latest graphic novel—Post York, an innovative expansion of the acclaimed one-shot by James Romberger arriving September 2020.
The polar ice caps have melted, and New York City is flooded beyond recognition. Amidst the ruin, an independent loner along with his cat and only friend, navigates the submerged city as he tries to live another day. But everything changes when he encounters both a mysterious woman and a trapped blue whale. Will they be each other’s salvation. . . or destruction?
Their paths intertwine surprisingly, daringly, dangerously with others from this makeshift community– from outsiders like himself to the depraved and ruthless elite; all struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy in a city drowned in its past.
This eco-fiction fable of epic proportions will arrive on September 2, 2020 and will feature an environmental fact sheet and other bonus material.
For Real #1 dives into the life of Jack Kirby juxtaposing his cancer diagnosis with his time during World War II. Also featured is an essay about the comic great.
Story: James Romberger Art: James Romberger
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The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, has announced the 2015 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
The Ignatz, named after George Herriman’s brick-wielding mouse from his long running comic strip Krazy Kat, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. The Ignatz Awards are a festival prize, the first of such in the United States comic book industry.
The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of five of the best of today’s comic artists, Lamar Abrams, Cara Bean, Robyn Chapman, Sophie Goldstein and Corrine Mucha, with the votes cast for the awards by the attendees during SPX. The Ignatz Awards will be presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony held on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 9:30 P.M.
ComiXology will be sponsoring this year’s Ignatz Awards.
The 2015 Ignatz Award Nominees
Outstanding Artist
Emily Carroll – Through The Woods
Ed Luce – Wuvable Oaf
Roman Muradov – (In a Sense) Lost and Found
Jillian Tamaki – SuperMutant Magic Academy
Noah Van Sciver – Saint Cole
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Drawn and Quarterly, 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin, Chris Oliveros, Peggy Burns, Tracy Hurren, and Julia Pohl-Miranda
An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown
How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Beauty by Kerascoët and Hubert
The Oven by Sophie Goldstein
Rav by Mickey Zacchilli
Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver
Wendy by Walter Scott
Outstanding Story
Doctors by Dash Shaw
“Me As a Baby” from Lose #6 by Michael DeForge
“Nature Lessons” from The Late Child and Other Animals by Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger
SPX will be held Saturday, September 19 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 20, noon-6PM at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $15 for Saturday, $10 for Sunday and $20 for both days.
This year’s image of Ignatz, as seen above, was created by 2014 Promising New Talent Winner Cathy G. Johnson.
7 Miles a Second
by David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook
68-page full-color 9″ x 12″ hardcover • $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-614-0
In-Store Date: February 3, 2013 (subject to change)
7 Miles a Second is the story of legendary artist David Wojnarowicz, written during the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992. Artists James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook unsentimentally depict Wojnarowicz’s childhood of hustling on the streets of Manhattan, through his adulthood living with AIDS, and his anger at the indifference of government and health agencies. A primal scream of a graphic novel, 7 Miles a Second blends the stark reality of Lower East Side street life with a psychedelic delirium that artfully conveys Wojnarowicz’s sense of rage, urgency, mortality and a refusal to be silent.
Originally published as a comic book in 1996 by DC’s Vertigo Comics, 7 Miles a Second was an instant critical success and has become a cult classic amongst fans of literary and art comics, just as Wojnarowicz’s influence and reputation have widened in the larger art world. This new edition finally presents the artwork as it was intended: oversized, and with Van Cook’s elegant watercolors restored. It also includes several new pages created for this edition.
The Heart of Thomas
(original title: トーマの心臓 / Thomas no Shinzō)
by Moto Hagio; edited and translated by Matt Thorn
528-page black & white (with some color) 7″ x 9.5″ hardcover • $39.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-551-8
In-store date: January 18, 2013 (subject to change)
At a boys’ boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a brief love letter to another boy at the school.
Thus begins Moto Hagio’s The Heart of Thomas — a pioneer in the popular boys’-romance “shounen-ai” genre. Thomas’s death throws the school into turmoil, while his letter sets off a chain of emotional upheaval as secrets are revealed and shared. And then a new boy who looks exactly like Thomas shows up at school…
Unabashedly romantic and emotionally complex, The Heart of Thomas features an unusual, richly imagined setting and a cast of memorable characters. This timeless masterpiece is now finally available to American readers.
Vertigo has taken up the reigns of a major publisher putting out some pretty ballsy pieces of work lately. Aaron and Ahmed is a complicated piece of work and though it’s been over a week since I finished reading it, I’m still struggling to fully grasp it. The title of the graphic novel calls it “A Love Story” and boy is it a messed up one, full of abuse (mostly in the psychological sense). “What causes terrorism?” the graphic novel asks, but much the answer to the question, the graphic novel is deep and opens up more questions.
The tale is a metaphor of love following a member of the army who has a twisted relationship with a member of Al Qaeda in Guantanamo. While at first glimpse the story focuses on the question of what makes a suicide bomber commit that act, the bigger question is why do we do anything we do? Most importantly why do we fall in love?
Written by Jay Cantor with art by James Romberger, I struggle with the story. On the surface it creates a cop-out answer as to why people murder in the name of God and terror, but deeper down it very well may nail why we act on love and feelings. They rather risque surface story is a cover and has so many depths much like the subject matter itself.
The tail touches on 9/11, the war on terror, terrorism, torture and love. It’s an in depth and complicated tail and one weeks after reading I’m still thinking about and wishing I had someone to discuss it with.
