Rising star cartoonist Katia Vecchio will make her Image Comics debut with the forthcoming original graphic novel, Memories of Giselle hitting shelves this summer. This highly anticipated, hard-hitting tale, inspired by true events, will captivate readers with its tender exploration of coming-of-age while coming-to-terms with trauma.

Memories of Giselle is a haunting, deeply compassionate Bildungsroman. It explores the slippery nature of memory, the psychological wounds we walk with, and the fierce, quiet bravery required to reclaim a life shaped by trauma.

As the Memories of Giselle unfolds with quiet inevitability, a brother and sister move through the fragile terrain of a childhood marked by hidden abuse, silence, and loss. Giselle is pursued by the memory of her late grandmother and by a single, recurring image—an empty boat—an emblem of the truth she has spent years repressing. As adolescence draws her into the bewildering realms of desire, vulnerability, and trust, the fractured pieces of her past begin to align, revealing a story long buried and the shadow it has cast over her and her brother’s present-day lives.

Memories of Giselle (ISBN: 9781534330757, Lunar Code: 0426IM0290) will be available in trade paperback at local comic book shops on Wednesday, June 17 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, July 14.