Last Gender 2

By Rei Taki 9781647291952 / Vertical / p/b / £12.99 / Out 21st Feb A manga exploration of gender identity. The stories of sexual minorities gathering at a chic spot called BAR California looking for their sexuality and love. Welcome to ‘BAR California’, a place where people with different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather to find a certain ‘something’. A transgender bisexual who has been hurt by the voices of others, a pansexual looking for true love, and a person who iden...

Youth Volume 2

By Curt Pires, Alex Diotto & Dee Cunniffe 9781506730998 / Dark Horse / p/b / £21.99 / Out 28th Feb A coming-of-age queer teen superhero story that redefines all the genres it touches. Youth is Larry Clark’s Kids meets Chronicle. X-Men by way of Frank Ocean. It smashes together the violence of coming of age with the violence of the superhero narrative — as well as the beauty. Six months later. Some of the kids are dead. Some are missing. Some are trying to do better. One thing is for certain:...

Carmilla: The First Vampire

The Heavy Bright

by Cathy Malkasian 9781683966920 / Fantagraphics / h/b / £39.99 / Out 28th March In this allegorical, fantastical graphic novel, a queer young woman aims to dispel the greed and cruel masculine energy that has consumed the world. Once, the world lived in harmony. People trusted and aided each other, dreamed freely, and communed with their ancestors. And then one day the eggs appeared. One thousand black eggs, heavy as pure lead, which by some mystical property, provoked greed and violence in...

The Sucker

By Elle Shivers 9798886200188 / Silver Sprocket / p/b / £15.99 / Out 19th April A surreal graphic novel weaving the fates of the environment and humanity. In this moving graphic novel by cartoonist Elle Shivers, two estranged friends discover a mysterious underwater creature, setting off a collision of passions and wants. On an assignment to survey an uninhabited Philippine island marked for commercial development, a jaded marine biologist and a guileless underwater photographer are surprised...

Light Carries On

Lost Falls Volume 1

By Curt Pires, Antonio Fuso & Minotti Pierluigi 9781506730950 / Dark Horse / p/b / £20.99 / Out 9th May Twin Peaks meets Lovecraft Country in this socially minded mystery thriller graphic novel. When Detective Daniel Pynchon Wakes up in Lost Falls, on the shore with no recollection of how he got there, he struggles to piece together the events that lead him there. As he investigates the phenomenon surrounding his memory loss and the town itself, he discovers horrors both human and otherwise.

Twilight Out of Focus 1

By Jyanome 9781647292331 / Vertical / p/b / £12.99 / Out 11th May Second-years Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Otomo make three promises: 1) That Mao will never tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend, 2) That Hisashi will never think of Mao ‘in that way,’ and 3) That they’ll always knock before entering, in case someone is having some ‘private time.’ The two’s ground rules should ensure a peaceful life together in their dorm, but life is never as simple as it should be, and some things...

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