Three Thieves: Tower of Treasure, Death Comes For The Toymaker, ShortBox Comics Fair & Student Government
Three Thieves: Tower of Treasure, Death Comes For The Toymaker, ShortBox Comics Fair & Student Government
Papercutz, Magma Comix & Maverick
The latest comics news and comics previews including:
A return in Three Thieves: Tower of Treasure.
A new graphic novel from Magma Comix.
The ShortBox Comics Fair is live!
And a preview of Student Government.
There is a new series from Papercutz in Three Thieves: Tower of Treasure for young readers.
Papercutz is pleased to announce the return of Scott Chantler's Three Thieves: Tower of Treasure, due on shelves Feb 2025. Papercutz will release the Three Thieves series for young readers throughout 2025 and beyond!
As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her twin brother — or the mysterious man who snatched him away when they were just children.
Meanwhile, Topper, the circus juggler, recruits Dessa and the circus strongman, Fisk, for the job of robbing the royal treasury. Hungry and desperate, both agree, setting off a series of adventures that will take the three thieves from one end of the world to the other in search of Dessa’s long-lost brother.
Scott Chantler’s fast-paced story will engage readers while his bold-lined art with richly detailed backgrounds is a tribute to classic comic books. Scott recently said of the book, “I'm absolutely thrilled that Papercutz is bringing THREE THIEVES back in such a big way. It's so much fun to spend time with these characters again. Kids who are new to the series are in for a lot of surprises, and original fans are going to be happy to have new editions that are the best version of these stories to ever appear in print."
THREE THIEVES, VOL. 1: TOWER OF TREASURE (Ages 7-12) will be available in hardcover ($19.99; 9781545816882) and trade paperback ($14.99; 9781545815939).
Magma Comix has a new graphic novel coming in November 2024, focusing on the festive and spooky aspects of the time of year. Check out the details and preview of Death Comes For The Toymaker below.
Familiar characters from mythology and folklore, it’s an epic twist on the traditional Christmas legend...
As we move into spooky season, Magma Comix, is thrilled to share a first-look at DEATH COMES FOR THE TOYMAKER, the inventive graphic novel by writer Dakota Brown (Grandma Tilly's Hell-Tech Mech) and artist Ryan Cody (Family Tree)!
Death comes for us all. But for Gil the Toymaker, the visit is an eternal tragedy! Every year the holiday gift giver visits children all over the world on a special night, but Gil’s immortality comes at a cost. Forced to do the work of Death, carrying a list of ready-to-harvest souls alongside his naughty and nice lists, Gil gives toys AND takes souls all in one night! But as the Toymaker reflects on the relationship he’s had with Death for several millennia, an associate reveals a scheme that may just put an end to Death’s contract (and, perhaps, Death himself!)
With small moments with old friends and bitter battles between eternal rivals, Death Comes For the Toymaker is a mythic epic full of action, terror, introspection, and heart.
For fans of gods and goddesses, mythic beasts, bloody battles across multiple millennia, and exploring the tragedies that are the passage of time and missed opportunities, the 144-page trade paperback brings familiar characters from mythology and folklore; it’s an epic twist on the traditional Christmas legend.
Death Comes for The Toymaker hits comic shops on November 6th and bookstores on November 19th, and is now available for preorder—final orders due, so head over to your LCS this weekend!
Want to try some new indie comics? The ShortBox Comics Fair is live with specially curated comics for you to check out.
ShortBox Comics Fair is an all-digital, online only comics fair. This means all the comics we sell throughout the fair are digital downloads: pdfs. We do not sell any physical products, nor is there any shipping involved.
The fair takes place annually every October. It opens at 8am (UK time) October 1st and closes at 8pm (UK time) October 31st. Our comics are available on our website only during this time.
Maverick has released a preview of their latest young adult graphic novel - Student Government.
Maverick is pleased to announce STUDENT GOVERNMENT, from award-winning writers Dave Justus and Lilah Sturges, and Illustrated by Joe Eisma.
At America's second-oldest university, four earnest, clever, and desperate teens on the interim student government exploit a charter loophole in an effort to save their school from being demolished, facing down pressures on campus and escalating hostility from the Board of Regents in a story both hilarious and heartfelt.
Student Government is born of a long term creative relationship that goes back to 2009. “I was still stapling my own minicomics when Lilah and I first met Joe on Free Comic Book Day, 2009, and by day's end we were determined to work together,” said writer Dave Justus. “Since then, the two of them have become household names in comics, and I can no longer afford staples. When Lilah and I first began envisioning Student Government, it included several hallmarks of our previous collaborations -- dark comedy, social commentary, parent/child schisms, churros -- and it was truly a unique experience to all be in the same room, everyone throwing in ideas as Joe expertly brought the world and characters to life. We pitched it as a “mature readers” title, full of casually profane gallows humor and political cynicism... but to the credit of Mike Marts and the editorial crew at Mad Cave, they saw in our proposal all the elements of a compelling Young Adult graphic novel. Which meant we, and a hand-picked creative team, got to craft it under the Maverick imprint, shepherded by editor supreme Lauren Hitzhusen. (Ask her about the very serious “business chili” that kicked off our working relationship, deep in the heartburn of Texas.) As we developed the book with her, we realized that we didn't have to sacrifice any of the comedy or the politics... but we gained story threads of courage, compassion, optimism, and all the different things that the word "family" can mean.”
Co-writer Lilah Sturges concurred. “I literally couldn't be happier that Student Government is finally a reality! Dave, Joe and I have been talking about doing a book together for over a decade and it's clear that it was meant to be,” she said. “This is one of the most fun, funny, and collaborative projects I've ever worked on--it's just a great group of people, including Lauren Hitzhusen and everyone else at Mad Cave. And when you have a great group of people doing what they love, the result is almost always going to be fantastic--and I really hope that Student Government is a case in point! It's a book for everyone who likes comedy, bunnies, and justice being served--and isn't that everyone?”
Illustrator Joe Eisma said, “Student Government is a collaboration that has been in the works since the early stages of my career, when I first met Dave and Lilah at a Free Comic Book Day event in Dallas in 2009. I knew from hanging out with them and reading their comics that it would be a truly rewarding collaborative relationship where we could all amplify each others' strengths. I've never had the chance to build a new comic from the ground up with the writers in the same room before, where we built upon ideas and let characters and storylines develop organically, almost in an improvisational way. The MVPs of this book were absolutely our editorial team at Mad Cave/Maverick, Editor Lauren Hitzhusen and Editor in Chief, Mike Marts, who were our strongest cheerleaders and shepherded everything in the right direction. I'm so happy with the final result, and I think readers are truly in for a treat with a story that is charming, funny and heartwarming in all the best ways.”
STUDENT GOVERNMENT (Ages 12-17) will be available in trade paperback ($14.99; 9781545816103) on March 11, 2025.