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The Last Session: The Complete Campaign, Coming Soon in One Definitive Edition

Selected as one of YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens and a New York Public Library Best Book for Teens, Mad Cave Studios’ Maverick imprint brings The Last Session: The Complete Campaign, collecting both volumes of the celebrated YA graphic novel series!

Written by California-based writer Jasmine Walls, with art and a brand-new cover by Dozerdraws, and lettering by award-winning letterer Micah MyersThe Last Session: The Complete Campaign brings both volumes together in a single, cohesive edition. The series uses the framework of a tabletop campaign to explore identity, distance, and the ways friendships evolve.

It all kicks off with book one, where we meet Jay, Lana, Drew, Walter, and Shen. This tight-knit group of friends began playing Dice & Deathtraps in high school. Now dealing with college and all the twists and turns of their lives, their weekly game has been a wonderful constant. But, as college graduation looms and it feels like their lives are all moving down very different paths, Lana’s thrilled to finally complete the party’s unfinished original campaign. But when Jay’s partner Cassandra joins the game, Lana refuses to let her inexperience ruin the best part of her week! But in the end, that may be Lana and the party’s undoing

Then in book two, a new party is formed! Erika, Jacob, Marcelle and Damien have become popular online personas, each with a huge following on their corner of the internet. The only thing they have in common is that they used to be close friends until they drifted apart in high school, leaving their Dice & Deathtraps game unfinished. Now, four years later, their old game master Amina has reached out with a chance to reunite, save the community center that fostered their creativity, and finally finish their abandoned campaign. They have one night to do it, streaming to a live audience with tensions and old grudges on the rise. Can they mend their fraying friendship or will this last session cut their ties for good?

If Critical Role and The Adventure Zone are your speed, then The Last Session offers a character-driven story about friendship, change, and the spaces—real and imagined—that will bring people together.

Clocking in at 304 full-color pages, The Last Session: The Complete Campaign goes on sale July 7, 2026, in paperback (ISBN: 9781545827840 | $29.99). Final Order Cut-off is June 15.

The Last Session: The Complete Campaign

Preview: I Didn’t Ask For This

I Didn’t Ask For This

(W) Jennie Wood (A) Josh Cornillon

If your entire life was online against your will–if everyone knew about your potty training, your first breakup, and even your coming out story–how would you feel?

I Didn’t Ask For This follows the members of Not Your Baby Anymore, a group of kids who share one thing in common: their parents are social media influencers who have shared their entire lives online. The group forms a chosen family as each member struggles with how to break away from a life and fame that they didn’t ask for and do not want.

I Didn't Ask For This

A coming-of-age journey adrift, where survival and self-discovery collide, Across the Widest Sea is coming this Summer from Maverick

This summer, Maverick brings readers Across the Widest Sea, a visually arresting and emotionally grounded graphic novel exploring what it means to be cast into adulthood before you’re ready.

Created by author and illustrator Jean Cremers, with lettering by award-winning letterer Taylor Esposito and translation by Joe Johnson, who brings the story seamlessly to English-language readers.

Across the Wildest Sea sits in the in-between, where nothing is fully formed and nothing feels certain. Cremers’ fluid, expressive artwork carries that tension, letting the disorientation of growing up live on the page without forcing resolution.

Abandoned in the middle of the ocean by her parents to learn to fend for herself, Leonie must find dry land. She meets Balthazar, a teenager whose canoe is taking on water, and Agatha, who lets herself be carried by the current and no longer has any hope of landing. They join forces to find a shore. A metaphorical story about the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Blending quiet character work with visual metaphor and atmosphere-driven storytelling, Across the Wildest Sea is perfect for readers drawn to introspective, emotionally grounded YA storytelling. 

Across the Widest Sea arrives July 14, 2026, in paperback (ISBN: 9781545827314 | $19.99). 

Across the Widest Sea

Preview: Voyage de Gourmet En Español

Voyage de Gourmet En Español

(W) Paul Tobin (A) Jem Milton

Los adolescentes compiten en un reality show de cocina que pone a prueba su amistad.

Layne Green es un cocinero estrella de las redes sociales. Fue seleccionado para competir en un reality show llamado Voyage de Gourmet, una aventura gastronómica trotamundos. Sin embargo, su compañero es su ex mejor amigo, Jiang-Mi Pipper, a quien perjudicó seriamente con algunas de sus publicaciones. ¿Podrán ambos encontrar la compasión, el sabor y a sí mismos en este viaje?

Voyage de Gourmet En Español

Preview: Beat Every 1-Up

Beat Every 1-Up

(W) Lan Pitts (A) Joe Hunter

A high-action, beat ’em up with a tender heart and a humorous point of view for fans of arcade cabinets and fighting games.

Listen up! This is the fisticuff-filled tale of Princess Helia of Terrager: a natural-born fighter since childhood, Helia must head out into the wider world when her soon-to-be-husband is groom-napped on their wedding day by the atrocious ape, and would-be world conqueror, Gogo. But what does a sheltered princess know of the other realms? Well, not a whole lot. Luckily, Helia is joined by her (only) friend and bodyguard, the ice witch, Sidra. Together, the pair will brave the deserts of Flaterra, the blizzards of Frosterra…uh, you get the idea…until they’ve rescued the wayward prince, thwarted Gogo, and punched every henchman they can find. And maybe, by the end of their journey, Helia and Sidra will realize their connection goes beyond mere friendship… …find out in BEAT EVERY 1-UP, a young adult graphic novel that will bring a new definition to “your princess is in another castle!”

Beat Every 1-Up

Preview: The College Try

The College Try

(W) Olivia Cuartero-Briggs
(A) Roberta Ingranata

What if you could do it all over again?
A desperately single 40-something attends her college reunion to win back the love of her life, with disastrous results. But, through a magical twist of fate, she finds herself in her early college years once more–with a chance to fix it all.

The College Try

Preview: Damsel From D.I.S.T.R.E.S.S.

Damsel From D.I.S.T.R.E.S.S.

(W) Andrew Clemson (A) Mau Mora (L) Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Abandoned as a child by her adventurer father and having fought her way up through the ranks of the kingdom’s premier espionage agency, Bec has become their top operative. But when a Dwarven princess is kidnapped, Bec must leap into action. Written by ANDREW CLEMSON (STAR BASTARD, BETE NOIR) and illustrated by MAURICIO MORA (HAUNTING, MAJOR THOMÁS) as you embark on an elves & espionage young adult adventure!

Damsel From D.I.S.T.R.E.S.S.

Preview: Queen Kodiak

Queen Kodiak

(W) Christopher Greenslate (A) Riccardo Faccini (C) Dearbhla Kelly (L) Justin Birch

Following in the massive footsteps of legends like Godzilla and King Kong, comes QUEEN KODIAK, a colossal, super-charged Kodiak grizzly bear… one who survived from the ice-age and who’s been irreversibly enhanced by a mysterious geothermal energy pulsing in the unknown depths of an Alaskan ice cave. And although QUEEN KODIAK’s been asleep for thousands of years, melting ice and subsequent tectonic activity has disturbed her hibernation. And in her debut graphic novel, she wakes up to find her only cub missing.

But as much as we want to meet her and watch her wreck shop on the Pacific northwest (sorry Seattle), our story actually centers on JOEY FOX, an embattled 17-year-old girl, and natural empath, who befriends Queen Kodiak’s cub after a tectonic shift in her own life — the recent passing of her mother. As a result, Joey’s been sent to Alaska’s Kodiak Island to live with the man who left them ten years ago, her state trooper father. In many ways, it’s a story about how families survive overwhelming odds.

Queen Kodiak

Preview: Scoop Vol. 4

Scoop Vol. 4

(W) Richard Ashley Hamilton (A) Pablo Andres (C) Simon Robins, Rebecca Good (L) Justin Birch

Sophie Cooper has overcome a lot in the last couple of years, all in the hopes of convincing the world that her dad is not a criminal. She’s solved some murders, outwitted a time-traveling mad scientist, gained psychic powers (only to give ‘em right back), raised a flying saucer from the Everglades — even while celebrating her Quinceñera, surviving high school, navigating a love triangle, and interning for the local TV news station, WMIA 7. But now Sophie faces off against the deadliest threat yet…herself! When a sinister Sophie doppelgänger appears on the scene, spouting fake news and debunking all that the real Sophie has worked so hard to achieve, our intrepid teen reporter must face facts. Will she ever prove her father’s innocence? Would anyone believe her anyway? Or have Sophie’s investigations only put a giant target on her family, her friends, and that which she values above all else — the truth?

Scoop Vol. 4

Navigating With You gets a Spanish Edition

Amor, amistad y manga—ahora en español…

Maverick has announced the Spanish-language release of Navigating With You Vol. 1 (Navegando Contingo), bringing one of its most celebrated and heartfelt graphic novels to an even broader community of readers. Following a year of major acclaim—including a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and nominations for both the Harveys and Ringos—Navigating With You continues its journey with a new edition honoring the cultural roots woven into its story!

Created by writer Jeremy Whitley and Brazilian comic creator and illustrator Cassio Ribeiro, and translated by Mercedes Guhl, this edition invites Spanish-speaking readers into the tender, hopeful world of Neesha and Gabby—two teens discovering connection, courage, and their shared love of manga.

Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer – and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga series, Navigator Nozomi, they become more than just fellow new kids. But it was more than just having read the same book series–neither of them had finished it! Soon, they become new friends on a mission – to track down the remaining Navigator Nozomi books. This slice-of-life romance follows the two girls as they adventure across North Carolina to find each book, with their story intercut with the tales of Navigator Nozomi. Neesha and Gabby find more than just the books though – they find acceptance, friendship, understanding, and love.

The Spanish paperback edition of Navigating with You Vol. 1 (ISBN: 9781545824320) hits shelves May 19, 2026

Navigating With You Vol. 1
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