Navigating With You, The Casagrandes, Halloween Releases, Mutupo & Murder Kingdom
Maverick, Papercutz, Ablaze, TOKYOPOP, Noir Caesar Entertainment & Mad Cave Studios
New comics news and previews including:
A new young adult graphic novel from Maverick.
News on The Casagrandes 3-in-1 Vol. 2.
What’s out in October 2024 from Ablaze.
New from TOKYOPOP and Noir Caesar Entertainment.
And the announcement of Murder Kingdom!
Coming in August 2024 is a new young adult graphic novel from Maverick - the imprint of Mad Cave Studios - Navigating With You.
Mad Cave’s YA Imprint MAVERICK is pleased to announce NAVIGATING WITH YOU, out August 6, 2024. Navigating with You is a charming POC-led WLW romance where two new friends hit the road in search of the missing volumes of their favorite 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, Super 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 Super 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 Super Navigator Nozomi. Neesha and Gabby find more than just the books though—they find acceptance, friendship, understanding, and love.
Writer Jeremy Whitley said, "Navigating with You has been a passion project for me. It's the kind of book I've always wanted to write and Maverick gave me the chance to do it. My goal was to create a beautiful story of friendship and romance with a side of fandom and how our loves - both romantic and fandom - help us find ourselves and work through trauma. Navigating with You is a story inspired by and dedicated to all of the amazing people who have come to my table at comic conventions over the last twelve years."
Artist Cassio Ribeiro said, “As a fan of slice of life stories and manga, it was amazing to draw these two things together. I hope this book can connect people, just like the characters in this story."
NAVIGATING WITH YOU (9781952303609; Trade Paperback; $14.99); is available for preorder now, and on-sale wherever books are sold on August 6, 2024.
From Papercutz, another Mad Cave Studios imprint, is The Casagrandes 3-in-1 Vol. 2 - and it’s out now.
Papercutz is pleased to announce the publication of The Casagrandes 3-in-1 Vol. 2, the latest 3-in-1 bind-up of the graphic novel series that adapts stories from Nickelodeon's Emmy® Award-winning The Casagrandes! This collection includes three classic The Casagrandes graphic novels – “Friends and Family,” “Going Out Of Business,” and “Familia Feud” – is a must have for fans of The Casagrandes and The Loud House.
When Lincoln Loud’s close friend Ronnie Anne and her brother Bobby Santiago moved away from Royal Oaks to the Big City, they had no idea that they were about to start an exciting new chapter in their lives, while living in an apartment above their abuelo’s Mercado. Together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Oaks to living with their whole extended family, headed by the kids’ abuelos, Hector and Rosa, in the big city. Now, The Casagrandes are starring in their own popular animated series on Nickelodeon!
Get ready for the latest 3-in-1 bind-up of the graphic novel series that adapts the Emmy® Award-winning The Casagrandes and featuring stories from the creative team of the hit Nickelodeon series, The Loud House and The Casagrandes!
This collection, including three classic The Casagrandes graphic novels – “Friends and Family,” “Going Out Of Business,” and “Familia Feud” – is a must have for fans of The Casagrandes and The Loud House.
CASAGRANDES 3-in-1 Volume 2 [9781545800850; Ages 7-12] is on-sale in trade paperback on July 2, 2024. It is available wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble.
Ablaze Publishing has released details of what they have coming in October 2024 with a variety of horror for the season!
Comics and graphic novel publisher ABLAZE looks ahead to October and the season of frights and spooks with a vivid array of new releases set to debut in time for Halloween, as well as the advance solicitation of a new volume of a key horror title for Jan ’25.
ABLAZE proudly announces the launch in October of PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS #1, the Eisner-nominated Gothic horror series (Best Digital Comic) by Abigail Jill Harding and Richard Starkings.
ABLAZE also delivers frights and chills with the launch of a series of VARIANT COVER PACKS for acclaimed horror series such as HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS, LOVECRAFT: UNKNOWN KADATH, and CHILDREN OF THE SUN. The packs feature the complete series run of a particular title, offered with special variant covers by an array of acclaimed artists.
Available in October as well is the WAKFU MANGA VOLS. 1-2 COLLECTED SET. See the heroes of WAKFU ride again in the brand-new manga series written by Tot, the creator of WAKFU & DOFUS! In a story that directly follows season 2 of the TV series.
October also sees the release of a trio of ABLAZE Standalone Boxes, a handy and eye-catching way to consolidate all the collected volumes for series such as THE CIMMERIAN, TRESE, and THE BREAKER. The box set cases feature gorgeous art from these series and will keep the graphic novels safe from dust, wear, and tear while providing a beautiful display option.
New additions to continuing ABLAZE series include ALMOST DEAD #8. And looking ahead to next year, an advance solicitation for January 2025 is open for the next volume of creator Peter Richardson’s manga-inspired horror series, ZOMBIE MAKEOUT CLUB Vol. 3, collecting the hit Webtoon in print for the first time.
TOKYOPOP and Noir Caesar Entertainment have teamed up to bring a new graphic novel series to life with Mutupo.
Publisher TOKYOPOP and Noir Caesar Entertainment, a black-owned indie creative company that supports and nourishes content from marginalized communities across various media, have announced their latest graphic novel release – MUTUPO.
MUTUPO is a supernatural action adventure by Zimbabwean creator Kay Rwizi that is steeped in African mysticism and mythology. Originally produced as a webtoon, MUTUPO initially garnered over 10,000 readers in less than 3 months. The digital release is available now with the print edition set to debut on August 13th.
Kuda Rwizi also created an animated trailer for MUTUPO on YouTube and other social media platforms that went viral. Catch the trailer at:
“Kuda Rwizi is a talented artist and epitomizes a new breed of black creator that is emerging around the world and taking diverse influences from pop culture, comics, anime and manga and blending them with black and African culture and characters to bring a new kind of story,” says NOIR CAESAR founder Johnny O’Bryant III. “We are excited to partner with TOKYOPOP to bring MUTUPO to readers.”
Mad Cave Studios has announced a new series - coming out in time for the spooky season with Murder Kingdom.
You must be this tall… to DIE!
Mad Cave Studios is thrilled to announce MURDER KINGDOM, the toon-themed terror comic from six-time New York Times bestselling and YALSA award-winning writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies), French artist Chris Panda (Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors: Night Shift, Rom: First Strike), and letterer Becca Carey (Radiant Black, Golden Rage).
Once upon a time, in a strange land called Florida, a masked psycho starts murdering cast members of the Storybook Kingdom theme park in ways identical to the gory original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princess-turned-detective Tanith is the only person who can unmask the killer before she and her friends are all Dying Unhappily Never After!
“Murder Kingdom riffs on classic slashers and classic fairy tales in equal measure,” said Fred Van Lente. “It's a giallo whodunit with a tomboy princess detective who has to make sure she and her best friend live to see the sunrise—and that means unmasking the killer. One of my first jobs was as a fry cook at a theme park and I feel like I've been working on this project ever since. I'm so thrilled that the team at Mad Cave have helped me bring it to bloody life. And I am so lucky to have Chris on artwork. His work is equal parts adorable and terrifying, resulting in some of the most shocking kills I've seen in any horror comic ever.”
“This has been a dream come true project mixing three things I’m really fond of: theme parks, horror, and fairy tales,” said Chris Panda. “When Fred and Mad Cave first sent me the pitch for Murder Kingdom, it took me five seconds to be sold on that project with just those three elements. On top of that, I have been a huge fan of Fred's works for years so helping him bring that whole universe he created to life has been a blast. Him and the team have been stellar in letting my creativity go wild in designing every aspect of the storybook kingdom world.”
So preserve the magic… with your life! Murder Kingdom #1 with Cover A by Paulina Ganucheau and Cover B by Trevor Henderson, hits comic shops just in time for Halloween, expected Oct. 9th.