Avery Hill Publishing

Creative Team

• A/W/CATillie Walden

Description

Tillie Walden's complex, lyrical stories about queer love, fantasy, coming-of-age, and cats are now available in this collection. In 'The End of Summer,' Lars is battling illness and boredom in a secluded castle at the start of an endless winter with a giant cat to keep him company and fraying family bonds to test his strength. In 'I Love This Part,' two small-town girls kill time and try to muddle through school when an unexpected romance blooms. And the surreal 'A City Inside' recounts one woman's life from childhood on, in a poetic tale about coming-of-age when you think you're past all that.This graphic novel also includes never-before collected early sketches, webcomics, including the short comic 'What It's Like To Be Gay In An All-Girls Middle School,' which shot Tillie to fame on both sides of the Atlantic."A seamless integration of art and feeling." -- Kirkus Reviews"[An] intimate peek into the creative trajectory of a brilliant author and illustrator." -- School Library JournalPreviously offered through other distributors.

Creative Team

• A/W/CATillie Walden

Description

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman's life, starting from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in.Tillie Walden creates a poetic graphic novel exploration of the process of growing older; the journey towards finding out who you are and building a life for yourself.Previously offered through other distributors

Creative Team

• A/W/CAB. Mure

Description

When the Prime Minister announces a new rail line in Ismyre, there are protests: from the wizards, who are concerned about the country’s magic, from the naturalists, who fear the damage to the soil, plants, and animals, and from the Sisters of Our Lady Who Slumbers Under the Earth, who would prefer their giant serpent deity to rest peacefully. As the railway proceeds, the worries of the wizards and the naturalists come to pass . . . and the earth has begun to shake. . . .A new book in the creative, fantastical Ignatz Award-finalist Ismyre series drawn in pencil and watercolor by Bristol-based creator B. Mure. Mure continues to expand the Ismyre universe, this time with a story of industry and ecology.

Creative Team

• A/CALizzy Stewart
• WMolly Naylor

Description

Renowned astronomer Maggie Hill is giving a lecture about her career, to inspire young women to work in science. She's also attending her first ever therapy session in order to overcome some debilitating anxiety. These events force Maggie to examine her greatest achievements and biggest regrets as she tackles space science, mental health, and communication -- both interpersonal and intergalactic. A new comic about legacy, loss, human curiosity and the economics of failure -- adapted by illustrator Lizzy Stewart and writer Molly Naylor from Naylor's play of the same name.Previously offered through other distributors.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAK. Briggs

Description

A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- faithful to the original text with a new lavish rendition.When three witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will one day become the King of Scotland, an epic of unhappiness, treachery, and blood begins. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions lead to an ever-growing path of murder as Macbeth grows ever-closer to the throne. But where will it all end? Only with death – and with madness.Influenced by the witches and magic of Macbeth, K. Briggs’s lush new graphic novel rendition of the classic provides a new interpretation of the Scottish play. Briggs, as a Shakespeare reader (and performer) from age twelve, brings their lifelong love of the Bard to this work.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAAlabaster Pizzo

Description

Mimi enjoys a quiet, productive life in her tree house in the Flat Fields with her companion Bobo -- until a mysterious and disturbing recurring dream of demons and a long-haired deity becomes impossible to ignore. In the Evergreen Woods live dangerous creatures who can help her, but will she leave the comfort of her home to find answers? An epic tale of affairs, alliances, and friendships in a quest for power and self-discovery, this graphic novel tells the story of an everyday life that suddenly becomes dark, ominous, complicated, and magical.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAKit Anderson

Description

From road trips to doctors’ offices to the mysterious spaces under the house, Kit Anderson’s short stories explore the secrets and magic typically unseen in everyday life. A walk through the forest, a family move, a day in a normal life – Anderson’s depictions of these ordinary moments transform them with a double-take, revealing the strangeness, surreality, and transformation within. With powerful and personal emotional writing and art, thoughtfully combining magic and life as we all know it – these stories establish Kit Anderson as a presence in short comics-format fiction. Previously offered through other distributors.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAB. Mure

Description

In the city of Ismyre, something is stirring...An aristocratic businessman reveals the latest must have: a pillar of crystals that allows for the creation of beautiful illusions and powerful spells to be performed. At the same time, Henriett, a disgraced biology professor, feels the disquiet in the air as specimens she has studied for years begin inexplicably dying out.On travelling to Ismyre, to warn the current Prime Minister and council of an imbalance within the world's ecosystem and magic, she encounters a young magician called Niklas who is there for a very different reason. Alongside a crew of ex-academics and inhabitants of smaller surrounding villages, Henriett and Niklas work together to uncover the strange imbalance being created in the world.In moving pencil and watercolor artwork, this graphic novel in the Ignatz-finalist series explores the motives and back story of Ismyre's mysterious eco-anarchist wizards and their terroristic, floral tendencies.

Creative Team

• A/W/CASteven Tillotson

Description

Without a map or much of a plan, Untitled Ape and Cat journey through flooded cities and stormy seas, across frozen plains and snowy mountains, and even up into the world of the clouds on their quest to find Ape’s home in the jungle. But Ape’s mysterious and sinister past is starting to catch up with him, and it becomes more and more difficult to keep his personal history from Cat. . . .What happened to Ape? Why doesn’t he have a name? And how can he find a way to complete his journey to return to his old life and make sure his friends and family are safe? These are the questions that graphic novelist Steven Tillotson wrestles with and ultimately answers in his saga of trial, tribulation, and friendship.