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Preview: Heebie Jeebies

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Heebie Jeebies

(W) Matthew Erman (A/CA) Shelby Criswell
In Shops: Sep 25, 2024
SRP: $14.99

At Amberline Middle School, there’s more than one thing that goes bump in the night!

Blue and their best friend Herschel are definitely not the coolest kids around, but when a group of popular bullies tell our main characters that their problems can be solved by finding the treasure buried beneath the school… well, Blue, Herschel, and one annoyed night janitor have to investigate their school after dark! What nightmares guard the treasure? The kind to give our heroes one bad case of the Heebie Jeebies!

Matthew Erman and Shelby Criswell re-team for this hilarious and spooky middle grade graphic novel perfect for the spookalicious kid or kid-at-heart that’ll be sure to surprise, delight and terrify!

Get the Heebie Jeebies this September from Matthew Erman, Shelby Criswell, and Papercutz

Posted on August 6, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Blue and Herschel, two bumbling losers, seek a cursed treasure buried beneath their middle school, but there is one problem; It’s haunted by those who tried… and died in their attempt to get the treasure for themselves! Heebie Jeebies is the brand-new all-ages graphic novel from Matthew Erman and Shelby Criswell.

“AT AMBERLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL, THERE’S MORE THAN ONE THING THAT GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT…

Blue and their best friend Herschel are definitely not the coolest kids around, but when a group of popular bullies tell our main characters that their problems can be solved by finding the treasure buried beneath the school… well, Blue, Herschel and one annoyed night janitor have to investigate their school after dark!

What nightmares guard the treasure? The kind to give our heroes one bad case of the Heebie Jeebies!

Heebie Jeebies [9781545811887; Ages 7-12] is out on September 17, 2024. It is available wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble.

Preview: Golgotha Motor Mountain #4

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Golgotha Motor Mountain #4

(W) Matthew Erman, Lonnie Nadler (A/CA) Robbi Rodriguez
In Shops: Jul 10, 2024
SRP: $5.99

Oversized 48-page finale! It all ends here. Will the boys make it down the mountain? The stash is gone, and now it’s time for Vernon and Elwood to get the hell out of Kentucky. The problem? Just about everyone else in Golgotha is now a mutant freak hot on their tail. To make matters worse, their truck is…well, it’s alive.

Preview: Golgotha: Motor Mountain #3

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Golgotha: Motor Mountain #3

(W) Matthew Erman, Lonnie Nadler (A/CA) Robbi Rodriguez
In Shops: May 29, 2024
SRP: $5.99

Vernon and Elwood’s nightmare ride through the heart of Golgotha County to sell the rest of their infected supply of product leads them to the Skull Hill Veteran’s association… and a world of pain and conspiracy. But when the infected mutants the boys accidentally created catch up with them, all hell breaks loose, and they won’t be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube!

Preview: Golgotha Motor Mountain #2

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Golgotha Motor Mountain #2

(W) Matthew Erman, Lonnie Nadler (A/CA) Robbi Rodriguez
In Shops: Apr 17, 2024
SRP: $5.99

Elwood and Vernon are doing their best to finish the sales of their most recent batch and make their dreams come true in Cincinnati. However, Golgotha County ain’t done with them yet. Their batch is turning folks into monstrous mutants, and the boys are going to find that out the hard way! Also, no business in Golgotha County happens without the sheriff’s knowledge, and he’s going to have a few violent words with the brothers. Nikola Ci me ija’s restoration of T.A. Toshiro’s manga Zorro Raito continues with a story of interstellar swords and dreams coming to clash!

Preview: Golgotha Motor Mountain #1

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Golgotha Motor Mountain #1

(W) Matthew Erman, Lonnie Nadler (A/CA) Robbi Rodriguez
In Shops: Mar 06, 2024
SRP: $5.99

Join superstar artist Robbi Rodriguez (Spider-Gwen) and the dynamic writing duo of Matthew Erman (Witchblood) & Lonnie Nadler (Age of X-Man) on a high-octane redneck motor massacre! When a derelict chunk of a passing interstellar rock rains down on Elwood and Vernon Damnage’s meth lab in Golgotha Knob, Kentucky, their lives are turned into a redneck body horror nightmare.

Still needing to make their deliveries to the buyers, mutations or not, they set off down Golgotha Knob only to be beset on all sides by crazed addicts, cannibal police, and mutated Neo-Nazis. It doesn’t matter what waits at the bottom of Golgotha Knob for the Damnage brothers because they must ride through a cosmic hell that they’re unlikely to survive… But if these brothers do survive, they’ll finally have made enough money to start over in the beautiful utopia that is Cincinnati.

Cult horror comes to Ohio in Matthew Erman and Sam Beck’s Loving, Ohio

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Dark Horse Books presents Loving, Ohio, a coming-of-age graphic novel written by Matthew Erman and illustrated by Sam Beck.

After the mysterious suicide of their friend, Sloane, Elliott, Cameron, and Ana are just trying to get through the rest of high school in Loving, Ohio–a town built around The Chorus, a new-age cult that has infiltrated every structure of Loving.

As the group of friends deals with their grief, a series of murders throws them into a mystery connected to everything around them. Sloane and her friends have to escape a roaming murderer, figure out their place in the world, and deal with loss, all in the looming shadow of The Chorus. But through it all, they will find the cost of friendship and the adulthood they seek.

Loving, Ohio TPB, 216 pages, will be released in bookstores on August 6, 2024 and in comic shops on August 7, 2024. It is now available to pre-order for $19.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, local comic shops, and indie bookstores.

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IDW unleashes horror with Golgotha Motor Mountain

Posted on November 26, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Buckle up for a chaotic ride through a cosmic nightmare in the countryside. IDW Publishing presents Golgotha Motor Mountain! It’s from writers Lonnie Nadler and Matthew Erman with art by Robbie Rodriguez and colorist Marissa Louise, and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

Golgotha Motor Mountain is a mind-bending six issue limited series which follows two brothers, Elwood and Vernon, as their life is abruptly turned into trippy terror when an interstellar rock crashes through their meth lab. With one batch left to deliver before they can start a new life, the duo have the bright idea to mash the cosmic rock and pass it off as drugs, unknowingly turning all different kinds of terrible people – neo-nazis, corrupt cops, dangerous addicts – into terrifying mutants. Can the siblings survive the madness and escape Golgotha once and for all?

Every issue will feature a backup short manga that is in-universe to the story, illustrated by Nikola Čižmešija.

Golgotha Motor Mountain #1 is on sale March 6, 2024 and features primary covers by Rodriguez and manga variant covers by Čižmešija.

Preview: Mariko Between Worlds

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Mariko Between Worlds

(W) Matthew Erman (A) Liana Kangas
(C) Rebecca Nalty (L) Micah Myers

Mariko and Rem are breaking up but they have one last night together in the Mall of Portals, an inter-dimensional consumerist heaven full of unending vice, before Rem takes his new job doing data entry on the Moon of Plenty. With a couple hours to spare, no personal repercussions and entire dimensions at their fingertips — what’s the worse that could happen?

This out of this world rom-com is straight out of the year 2099, but speaks to a feeling that time will never change. The fear of loss.

Artist Liana Kangas and author Matthew Erman team up to create a world of lust and star dust. Find yourself navigating the human condition with the most out of this galaxy characters. Mariko Between Worlds is down to earth and completely off the wall swarming with magic portals and sexy aliens.