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Exclusive Preview: You Must Take Part in Revolution

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From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopian graphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that one will go to in the fight for freedom. You Must Take Part in Revolution is out March 4 from Street Noise Books.

It’s 2035. The US and China are at war. America is a proto-fascist state. Taiwan is divided into two. As conflict escalates between nuclear powers, three idealistic youths who first met in Hong Kong develop diverging beliefs about how best to navigate this techno-authoritarian landscape. Andy, Maggie, and Olivia travel different paths toward transformative change, each confronting to what extent they will fight for freedom, and who they will become in doing so.

A powerful and important book about global totalitarian futures, and the costs of resistance.

Badiucao is a Chinese Australian artist, activist, and political provocateur. One of the most popular and prolific creatives from China, he confronts a variety of social and political issues in his work, often using satire to tackle censorship, authoritarianism, and capitalism. For years, he operated anonymously and was dubbed “China’s Banksy”. He has exhibited in the US, Australia, and throughout Europe. In 2020, Badiucao won the Human Rights Foundation’s Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. He currently lives in exile in Australia. This is his debut graphic novel.

Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American foreign correspondent based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She was previously posted in China until she became the first journalist in more than a decade to be expelled by the Chinese authorities in 2012. Much of her reporting examines human rights, the rise of global authoritarianism, and the defense of democracies. She has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award—business journalism’s highest honor—and The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and more. This is her debut graphic novel.

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Exclusive Preview: The Murder Next Door

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When someone is murdered next door, it changes everything about the way you live your life. The Murder Next Door is a brand-new graphic memoir from Hugh D’Andrade published by Street Noise Books and available now!

When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered.

Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. But even so he is plagued by anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. As he attends therapy and looks back on his childhood, he comes to realize the trauma and stress that the murder next door had on his life, and how it still affects him today.

Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? This thoughtful, powerful memoir explores how one event in childhood can make a permanent mark on someone’s life.

Hugh D’Andrade is an award-winning illustrator based in Oakland, California. His work has appeared on young adult book jackets, rock posters, magazines, t-shirts, skateboards, and on the occasional gallery wall. Hugh is Creative Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he has taught at the California College of Arts & Crafts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. This is his debut graphic novel. 

We have an exclusive preview of the graphic memoir. Purchase it now from Bookshop, Amazon, and your local comic shop!

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Exclusive Preview: Toxic Tropics explores the use of the deadly chemical Chlordecone to support the banana crops in Martinique and Guadeloupe

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Toxic Tropics by Jessica Oublié  and Nicola Gobbi and published by Street Noise Books is an in-depth piece of comics journalism exploring the persistent use of the deadly chemical Chlordecone to support the banana crops in Martinique and Guadeloupe.

In 1975, pesticide producer LifeSciences closed their plant that produced the chemical chlordecone, after numerous employees had toxic chemical poisoning, and the local river had been polluted. But in the French Antilles, farmers continued to use the pesticide. Even after it was banned in 1993, planters continued to illegally import and use it. Chlordecone use became so widespread that it was in almost everything people on the islands ate and drank.

Today, 95% of the inhabitants of Guadeloupe and 92% of the inhabitants of Martinique are contaminated by the chemical, and the islands have one of the highest cancer rates in the world.

In this richly illustrated work, the author brings her personal experience and connection to the story as she interviews scores of local people as well as scientists and government officials to uncover the true story behind the decision to continue poisoning the water and the soil for the sake of global commerce. We, as global citizens, are urged to consider the decisions we are making through our consumer choices and how they affect the health of the planet and the survival of communities throughout the world.

Toxic Tropics

Jessica Oublié studied art history and was the editor of the magazine Africultures. She worked with artist Marie-Ange Rousseau to create a graphic novel on institutionalized West Indian emigration from the 1920s to the 1960s, which won the France Culture Student Prize for Political Comics. After settling in Guadeloupe, she discovered the impact of chlordecone on the health of the people, the land, and the water, and is working to bring it to the attention of the world. Follow the author on Instagram @jessicaoublie.bd

Nicola Gobbi has created several graphic novels and children’s books in Italy, and then she moved to Paris, where he lives now and continues to make books. Follow the artist on Instagram @nicola_gobbi

Street Noise Books Presents: Revolution, Resistance, Healing, and Queer Love in Spring 2025!

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Graphic novel publisher Street Noise Books presents the Spring 2025 list: The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade, Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh, You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally, Call Me Emma, by Makee, and Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dressen. Street Noise books have a radical, intersectional feminist, queer, and inclusion vision, and provide a platform for the voices of marginalized people. 

SPRING 2025 is: 

The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade (on sale 2/4). When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered. As an adult, Hugh explores how the trauma of this event changed his life forever. 

Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh (on sale 2/18). A powerful and impassioned prose collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time by a leading scholar of Islamophobia, as the annihilation was being carried out, accompanied by political cartoons from a renowned Palestinian comics creator. 

You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao (on sale 3/4). From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a dystopian graphic novel exploring our future with China, about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that people will go to in the fight for freedom.

Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally (on sale 4/1). One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara’s watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to “friend” them. This graphic novel is the story of one queer person bravely and creatively using therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault. 

Call Me Emma, by Makee (on sale 5/6). After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they’ve found themselves in. Balancing chaotic school life with her divorcing parents, her sister’s mental illness, and a new crush, Emma must ask herself, “How do I know who I really am?”

Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dresen (on sale 6/3). Sixteen-year-old Nina Boyd is into punk rock and comic books. She plays guitar, is a straight-A student, a champion swimmer, and is in love with her best friend. But her best friend Kerri is a girl, and Nina knows her family would never approve. As Nina’s crush grows stronger, she must choose between her family’s dreams for her and her own in this powerful, emotional, queer graphic novel.

SDCC 2024: Street Noise Books’ Publisher heads to the convention with a panel

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Street Noise makes nonfiction and memoir graphic novels that powerfully combine words and images. Street Noise books have a radical, intersectional feminist, queer, and inclusive vision, and provide a platform for the voices of marginalized people. Publisher Liz Frances was inspired to found Street Noise after a career working in mainstream publishing and seeing the change that books can make in the world – and looking at the world and seeing the changes needed and happening. 

Following its launch in 2020, Street Noise has published books on topics ranging from climate change to sexual assault and eating disorders, Native American identity, and the conflict in Palestine. Street Noise graphic novels have received starred reviews and been recognized by awards. 

Liz will be participating in Publisher Weekly’s Book Buzz – Spotlight on Independent Publishers and New Imprints on Thursday, July 25th at 3:30pm in room 24ABC. She will be speaking about the importance of independent and countercultural publishers in American today, and about mission-driven publishers’ challenges in rewriting social norms. 

Exclusive Preview: Crazy Like a Fox explores mental health and schizophrenia in an emotionally honest story with a fantastical cast of animal characters

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Fox Foxerson’s got a new roommate. Fox Foxerson’s got a new job. Fox Foxerson’s got a date. The roommate is only a little strange, sometimes. The job seems to involve . . . filing? It’s not very clear. The date seems to be more interested in someone else. Fox would rather be making art.

As the oppressive weight of the everyday routine beats down on Fox, nothing is going right. And it doesn’t seem like anyone can help — not Fox’s roommate, not Fox’s friends, and definitely not the nurses and doctors at the hospital, who don’t seem to take notice of anything Fox tries to tell them. Fox needs some time and space to figure things out. This quirky, humorous graphic novel tinged with pathos, immerses readers in the constant question: are you okay? Fox is not okay, but Fox is working on it.

Christi Furnas is a queer cartoonist, illustrator, oil painter, and disability rights advocate. She has exhibited in galleries across Minnesota and in New York City. Christi’s career includes over ten years of arts administration, teaching art workshops, and numerous speaking engagements. With a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant Christi created the mini-comic, Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia, which she has since developed into a full-length graphic novel. The comic’s protagonist, Fox Foxerson currently has an advice column in Dispatch, a Twin Cities publication covering arts and culture. Christi lives with her partner in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is her debut graphic novel.

Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia is out April 9 in bookstores and out now in comic shops from Street Noise Books. Check out this exclusive preview!

Exclusive: Silence, Full Stop is an emotional autobiography about the struggle to find love and connections

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Karina Shor‘s Silence, Full Stop is a breathtaking and gut-wrenchingly real graphic memoir of the struggles of an adolescent girl processing the trauma of childhood sexual assault.

An immigrant at the age of six, she arrived in a strange new world. Karina was labeled “different” immediately, and a desire to be invisible was born. The “different” label expanded to “weird” and “freak”, terms that she fervently embraced. By taking society’s critique, owning it, and taking pride in it, she gained power over it. In a life overshadowed by fear, Karina wanted control. If something was going to ruin her life it would be her and her alone.

Karina Shor is an illustrator, a cartoonist, and a teaching artist. She grew up in a small town outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, after she immigrated from the former Soviet Union. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and now lives between Brooklyn, New York and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Silence, Full Stop is out November 28 from Street Noise Books. You can check out an exclusive excerpt below!

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