Abrams

Creative Team

• A/CANaoki Urasawa
• WTakashi Nagasaki

Description

From superstar creators comes volume 3 in one of the most anticipated manga—a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures everyone knows: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus ChristA historical conspiracy thriller meta manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese-American comics artist’s search for the truth regarding the origins of his character “Billy Bat.”The Bat appears again in 16th-century Feudal Japan. Kanbei, the fastest ninja in the Iga province, has been tasked by Lord Momochi to slip through a devastating siege by “Great Unifier” Oda Nobunaga and deliver a scroll that could alter the course of history.Pursued in bloodlust by childhood friends and tormented by both his memories and the strange hallucinations of an imaginary bat, will he be able to prevent the prophetic “Bat Tome” from falling into the wrong hands?The third volume in the sprawling genre-defying historical epic that transcends time and space!!

Creative Team

• A/W/CAXianzhe Xu

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In ancient China, a lone swordsman risks everything to protect a child destined to change the world. True Grit meets The Last SamuraiSet in ancient China during the fall of a ruthless empire, bounty hunter Dao Ma breaks his code to protect a child and becomes the hunted. What begins as a routine escort mission turns into an epic fight for survival against assassins, warlords, and the forces of fate.When a sandstorm provides stopgap cover for the group to flee, Ayuya separates from Dao Ma to stay behind and take revenge into her own hands. Elsewhere, a much-awaited glimpse into Zhi Shi Lang’s past. In all the bloodshed, enlightenment appears. Just what did Shi Lang experience to become the cryptic insurgent he is now?Blades of the Guardians blends the intensity of True Grit, the heart of The Mandalorian, and the grand intrigue of Game of Thrones. A breathtaking martial-arts fantasy rooted in Chinese history, filled with brutal action, haunting beauty, and fierce compassion.

Creative Team

• A/W/CACece Bell

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Cece Bell’s #1 New York Times bestseller graphic novel El Deafo is the origin story of a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid becoming a superhero.Newbery Honor Winner * Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series!Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece’s class was deaf. Here, she’s different. She’s sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends.Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere her teacher is in the school—in the hallway . . . in the teacher’s lounge . . . in the bathroom! This is power. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All.But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it’s just another way of feeling different . . . and lonely. Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most: a true friend?El Deafo is a book that will entertain children, give hearing-impaired children a hero of their own, and challenge others to consider an experience unlike their own. Like other great works for children, it provides the opportunity for young readers to consider how they would act or react in a similar situation, helping to build empathy and understanding through the power of story.

Creative Team

• A/CAKensuke Nishida
• WMuneyuki Kaneshiro

Description

From Blue Lock author comes a manga cult classic. A superpower drama of carnal desires and primal violence . . . for fans of Attack on Titan, Alice in Borderland, and The BoysPolice officer Shintaro Jagasaki lives a stable life with a girl he’s dated for years. Their future seems all mapped out—marriage, a family, children—but it all feels unbearably dull. With a few screws loose (and his frequent fantasy to open fire on civilians to show for it), Jagasaki’s mind is anything but stable.Then, out of the blue, people suddenly begin to contort into monsters driven by primal urges to commit violence. And as chance has it, Jagasaki also gains a grotesque, body morphing power, which transforms his right hand into a fleshy gun. Now a newly made monster and mentally unstable, Jagasaki becomes an antihero of ambiguous morals and dark impulses.Author Muneyuki Kaneshiro (creator of the super-hit soccer anime Blue Lock, the battle royale manga As the Gods Will—with over 5 million copies sold—and the award-winning series Bokutachi ga Yarimashita) and rising star illustrator Kensuke Nishida (I Am a Hero in Nagasaki) team up to delivers a fiercely explosive story about the carnal impulses that explores mankind’s dark desires—blurring human and inhumane!

Creative Team

• A/W/CAJason Shiga

Description

You are the hero, the pilot, and the detective.This masterpiece by comics genius Jason Shiga (winner of Eisner and Ignatz awards) reinvents interactive fiction for the 21st century. Forget simply turning to a page number. Meanwhile uses an ingenious system of tabs and color-coded paths that lead you forward, backward, upside down, and right-side up again.Every turn of the tab reveals a new clue, a shocking revelation, or a catastrophic failure.Experience true replay value: Can you find the one path that leads to the best possible ending, or will you end up blowing up the universe?The ultimate puzzle book: Designed by a mathematics major, the narrative structure is a complex flow chart hidden within a fun, all-ages graphic novel.A wholly unique physical book: The interactive nature is designed specifically for the print format, making it a must-have collector's item and a perfect gift for readers who love puzzles, science fiction, and non-linear storytelling.Dive in and choose your path. Just be careful: every choice has 3,855 other consequences.

Creative Team

• A/W/CADerf Backderf

Description

A national bestseller, Derf Backderf's Alex Award winner My Friend Dahmer is the bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture.You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities.To Derf Backderf, "Jeff" was a more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides.In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Derf Backderf creates a portrait of a disturbed young man struggling with the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche.With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAVarious

Description

“All the stories offer top-notch storytelling while providing readers with something more to think about.” —Publishers WeeklySTARRED REVIEW *“An outstanding out-of-the box anthology from renowned comics veteran Kibuishi . . . Both a visual feast for the eyes and a healthy helping of thought for the soul. Superb.” —Kirkus ReviewsSeven clever stories answer one simple question: What’s in the box?Funny, fantastic, spooky, and suspenseful, each of these unique and beautifully illustrated short graphic works revolves around a central theme: a mysterious box and the marvels—or mayhem—that is hidden inside.Artists include middle school favorites Kazu Kibuishi, Raina Telgemeier (Smile), and Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy), as well as Jason Caffoe, Stu Livingston, Johane Matte, Rad Sechrist (all contributors to the groundbreaking comics anthology series Flight), and Emily Carroll.Award-winning artist Kazu Kibuishi’s selection creates a mixture of laughs and creeps (with some philosophy) as well as the kind of graphical triumphs expected from Kibuishi’s other collections. With gorgeously detailed full-color artwork, there is a spooky tale of a sinister doppelgänger invading a girl’s life by up-and-coming comics star Emily Carroll; Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier’s comedy of wizarding errors and online bidding wars; and Rad Sechrist’s romp involving a teenage girl, an introduction to the basics of Shintoism, and a manic butter thief driving a grandma to the brink.So, don’t hesitate. Come and open the box. You’ll be amazed. You’ll be entertained. You’ll be scared. And then you’ll want to read each story over again! Edited by Kazu Kibuishi.

Creative Team

• A/CASana Takeda
• WMarjorie Liu

Description

The Night Eaters: She Eats the Nights is the first volume in a graphic novel horror trilogy from author Marjorie Liu and illustrator Sana Takeda—the creative team behind the New York Times bestselling series Monstress.* Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Album—New as well as for Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior art)* Named a Best Graphic Novel of the Year by the Washington Post* Named a Book We Loved by NPR?Chinese American twins Milly and Billy are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they’re struggling to keep their restaurant afloat.Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand—but they’re starting to wonder, has their support made Milly and Billy incapable of standing on their own?When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door—a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder—the twins are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.Eisner Award–winning and bestselling author Marjorie Liu and illustrator Sana Takeda have crafted a wild and wicked tale that will leave readers hungry for more. She Eats the Night is the perfect start to The Night Eaters trilogy, which is a combination of Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith and Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.

Creative Team

• WCharles Solomon

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The official behind-the-scenes companion to Academy Award–winning director Brad Bird's Ray GunnRay Gun: The Art of the Brad Bird Film is a comprehensive look behind the scenes of Brad Bird's (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, The Incredibles) latest animated feature film, Ray Gunn.Following the titular human private detective, the film is set in a brilliantly imagined world where science fiction meets film noir. Flying cars, alien species, bizarre weaponry, and femme fatales abound in the film's city of the future, and this book documents the entire creative process that brought these elements to the screen.Original interviews conducted by author and animation historian Charles Solomon with Brad Bird, Paul Felix, John Lasseter, Michael Giacchino, the animators, and other key creatives provide keen insights into the development of this long-in-the-works project.Showcasing the storyboards, concept art, costume sketches, weapon, alien, and character designs that set this film apart from anything audiences have seen before, Ray Gunn: The Art of the Brad Bird Film is an essential companion to this genre-bending adventure. Foreword by Brad Bird.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAMatt Groening

Description

It’s a comic convergence on a reality-ripping, time-altering, space-traveling, intergalactic scale for Matt Groening’s two hilarious television series! It’s The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis—presenting all four hard-to-find comics together for the first time in a hardcover collection, encased in a die-cut slipcase, and packaged with a reprint of the very first Eisner Award–winning issue of Simpsons Comics.What would happen if the Planet Express crew and the citizens of New York City in the 31st century met the Simpsons and the citizens of Springfield . . . and how is it even possible? Prepare yourself for a Simpsons saga filled with Futurama! A Futurama fable suffused with the Simpsons!Featuring a plethora of pleasing plot devices including: evil brain spawn, lactose-intolerant space aliens, a giant ball of yarn, flying cars, mistaken identities, world domination, the brittle fabric of reality torn asunder, a comic book–collecting sentient planet, the Dewey Decimal system, self-eating watermelons, slave labor, space pirates, power-crazed vampires, super hero battles, unflattering underwear, mad science run amok, and much, much more!Edited by Bongo Comics cofounder Bill Morrison, this is the epic story that you’ve been waiting for . . . a story so big, so ambitious, so sweeping that it can only be told in a 208-page, large-format, slip-cased edition, complete with new material, supplemental stories, preliminary sketches, character designs, and a pin-up gallery featuring the talents of comics industry luminaries Alex Ross, Sergio Aragonés, Geof Darrow, Kyle Baker, Peter Kuper, and Bernie Wrightson, among others.

Creative Team

• A/W/CAStephen Hillenburg

Description

SpongeBob Comics: Silly Sea Stories is a collection of classic SpongeBob stories, specially curated by SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg and some of the biggest names in comics.Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!Silly Sea Stories includes short, self-contained classic SpongeBob stories, bringing together the main characters and the rest of the undersea cast that fans know and love—all in an exciting comic book adventure.“The comics perfectly match the tone of the show, from the humor to the visual style.” —BooklistSpongeBob Comics:SpongeBob Comics: Silly Sea Stories (#1)SpongeBob Comics: Aquatic Adventurers, Unite (#2)SpongeBob Comics: Tales from the Haunted Pineapple (#3)

Creative Team

• A/W/CAStephen Hillenburg

Description

SpongeBob Comics: Aquatic Adventurers, Unite! is a collection of classic SpongeBob stories, specially curated by SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg and some of the biggest names in comics.Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!SpongeBob Comics: Aquatic Adventurers, Unite! features stories with a superhero theme. The book brings together the main characters and the rest of the undersea cast that fans know and love—all in an exciting new comic book adventure.“The comics perfectly match the tone of the show, from the humor to the visual style.” —BooklistSpongeBob Comics:SpongeBob Comics: Silly Sea Stories (#1)SpongeBob Comics: Aquatic Adventurers, Unite (#2)SpongeBob Comics: Tales from the Haunted Pineapple (#3)

Creative Team

• A/W/CAStephen Hillenburg

Description

SpongeBob Comics: Tales from the Haunted Pineapple is a collection of classic SpongeBob stories, specially curated by SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg and some of the biggest names in comics. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob Comics: Tales from the Haunted Pineapple includes more than 15 short, self-contained stories by some of the biggest comics creators in the industry.These original stories feature all the fan favorites—from Patrick and Squidward to Sandy and Mr. Krabs—in original adventures you won't see on television, and including spooky themes that make this a perfect read for Halloween."The comics perfectly match the tone of the show, from the humor to the visual style." —BooklistSpongeBob Comics:SpongeBob Comics: Silly Sea Stories (#1)SpongeBob Comics: Aquatic Adventurers, Unite (#2)SpongeBob Comics: Tales from the Haunted Pineapple (#3)