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Street Noise Books Presents: Changing the World with Comics in Spring 2026

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Street Noise Books has revealed what it has coming in Spring 2026. Every book is a story that support the publisher’s mission of dissident publishing the raises up marginalized voices.

Ace of Hearts

by cooklin
Purchase: Amazon – Bookshop

Debut author cooklin really pulled me into this autobiographical story about her discovery of her asexuality. This book takes us from her high school experience through college to today as she explores relationships, identity, and self-worth. It’s a personal and thoughtful read. 

Ace of Hearts

Chicken Heart

by Morgan Boecher
Purchase: Amazon – Bookshop

We just got a great review from Foreward for this book (yay!) — they called it, “a thoughtful graphic novel in which a trans man finds the strength to accept his own identity.” It also contains: stand-up comedy, communes, and failed attempts at gardening! 

Chicken Heart

War Poems

by Jamie Mustard and Corey Drayton
Purchase: Amazon – Bookshop

In this collection of futuristic poetry that explores the darkest corners of human existence, these short form, cinematic stories bring into sharp relief the point of view of those we most fear, abhor, and cast out. We’re glad to share another incisive reflection on the world today from Jamie Mustard, the author of our fall graphic novel Hybred. 

War Poems

Welcome to Hell

by Mohammad Sabaaneh
Purchase: Bookshop

In October of 2023, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh was on an international book tour to promote his latest graphic novel. This autobiographical account chronicles his return to Gaza that month and his life since then on the West Bank — while also sharing the story of his brother, who was locked in an Israeli detention center. This is such a powerful and important book!

Welcome to Hell

Punk Like Me

by JD Glass and Kris Dresen
Purchase: Amazon – Bookshop

This queer coming-of-age graphic novel immerses you in all the ways being a queer teen sucks — family who doesn’t understand, crushes who turn out to be straight, and never knowing if it’s okay to be queer while the world around you is straight straight straight. This historical fiction bildungsroman is so evocative of queer life in the 1980s! 

Punk Like Me

Exclusive Preview: Hybred is a story of staggering poverty, drugs, and violence and of an artistic child who finds beauty in the ugly and sublime hope in our conflicts

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Set in a future-adjacent, alternative Los Angeles, this is a story of staggering poverty, drugs, and violence and of an artistic child who finds beauty in the ugly and sublime hope in our conflicts. Hybred, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena and published be Street Noise Books, is out in shops this November.

Hybred shows us how in our most marginalized communities lies an astonishing amount of genius which goes unnoticed and is so often tragically wasted.

Nine-year-old Johnny James lives in The Casque, the poorest neighborhood in Greater Angeles, where he shares a one-room apartment with his mother, stepfather, two brothers, and an army of cockroaches. He spends his days in the sweltering heat of the neighborhood, at the movie theaters, playing tackleball, or drawing – but there’s no money for him to go to school.

As death, addiction, and violence swirl through the neighborhood, Johnny grows up with friends, adventures, and magic around him. And he discovers how to use art, beauty, and personal strength to transcend the forces destined to hold him back.

Jamie Mustard is an artist, a futurist, and a writer with a focus on perception in the physical world. Growing up in severe poverty and illiteracy in inner city Los Angeles, Jamie overcame obstacles to graduate from the London School of Economics. He currently works as a strategic multi-media consultant, teacher, interdisciplinary art, design, and product futurist. He is the winner of The National Indie Excellence Award as well as the OWL Outstanding Works in Literature Award for his book, The Iconist. And his memoir Child X was published by BenBella Books.

Francesca Filomena is an Italian artist working internationally in design and print. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leece, Italy and won first prize at the International Red Paper Kite Illustration competition in 2020. Francesca is the illustrator of the picture books Hoping for You, Aster, The Wire, and The Girl Who Was Nearly a Flower.

Order Hybred now from Bookshop, Amazon, or your local comic shop or bookstore.

Hybred

Street Noise Book’s Hybred by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena explores Childhood Poverty and Lost Potential

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Hybred

Set in a future-adjacent, alternative Los Angeles, Hybred is a story of staggering poverty, drugs, and violence and of an artistic child who finds beauty in the ugly and sublime hope in our conflicts. From writer Jamie Mustard and art by Francesca Filomena, Hybred shows us how in our most marginalized communities lies an astonishing amount of genius which goes unnoticed and is so often tragically wasted.

Nine-year-old Johnny James lives in The Casque, the poorest neighborhood in Greater Angeles, where he shares a one-room apartment with his mother, stepfather, two brothers, and an army of cockroaches. He spends his days in the sweltering heat of the neighborhood, at the movie theaters, playing tackleball, or drawing – but there’s no money for him to go to school.

As death, addiction, and violence swirl through the neighborhood, Johnny grows up with friends, adventures, and magic around him. And he discovers how to use art, beauty, and personal strength to transcend the forces destined to hold him back.

Out November 18, 2025 from Street Noise Books, get your copy from Bookshop, Amazon, and more.