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Welcome to the island of Asunción, home to the most powerful witches—and Pacheco, their biggest fan. In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, debut creator Juan E. Zambrano will take readers on an epic adventure that's all about magic, identity, and staying true to yourself.Pacheco's biggest dream is to practice magic! There's just one problem: commoners, and especially boys, aren't allowed to learn witchcraft.  However, once his family’s fishing business begins to suffer, Pacheco is determined; he's certain that learning magic is the best way to help his family and community. He meets Doris, a grumpy, old witch, and he decides to become her apprentice. As Pacheco enters the world of magic, he finds himself caught up in the rules and schemes of a whole new society and surrounded by magical creatures in need of protection. Pacheco will have to dig deep to muster the courage—and magic—to defend his future. Debut creator Juan E. Zambrano presents a breathtaking graphic novel that delves into the importance of staying true to oneself while courageously addressing challenging themes such as gender roles and environmental protection. Perfect for fans of Joe Latham's Haru, Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch, Claribel Ortega's Witchlings, and Hayao Miyazaki's films like Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away.

Beyond They/Them is a captivating, gorgeously illustrated book celebrating 20 trailblazing nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit individuals who have left an indelible mark on music, sports, film and television, politics, and more.Explore 20 biographies of game-changing and noteworthy nonbinary people of diverse backgrounds and in a wide variety of industries. Beyond They/Them: 20 Influential Nonbinary People You Should Know is a fully illustrated guide to celebrities, activists, musicians, and other influential people of various identities across the nonbinary spectrum. Complete with beautiful illustrations by the talented artist Cameron Mukwa and written by Em Dickson, this book is a celebration of nonbinary joy and proves that there has been, and always will be, a place for people of all genders. Featured individuals include: ND Stevenson JanelleMonáe Rebecca Sugar Maia Kobabe Sarah Gailey Joshua Whitehead Quinn Layshia Clarendon Jaiyah Saelua Vico Ortiz Sam Smith Demi Lovato Cris Derksen Amita Kuttner Uzomo Asagwara Maebe A. Girl Audrey Tang Dr. James Makokis Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins Judith Butler

An inspiring new deck from artist Lettie Jane Rennekamp, The Listening Oracle Deck is the perfect companion piece for unlocking your creative process and helping you to lead a full and intentional life.Illustrator and tarot enthusiast Lettie Jane Rennekamp returns with an exciting new deck, this time for their fellow artists and creatives. The Listening Oracle Deck was designed with the intention of guiding users through the creative process by representing milestones in the path of making art or living a fully examined life.   As a lifelong artist, Lettie Jane has ridden the wild ups and downs of creation for most of her life. She still strives to make sense of the times it doesn’t feel good and the times it does, as most artists do. In these moments when you are feeling blocked, vulnerable, or otherwise uninspired, The Listening Oracle Deck invites you to pull a card before sitting down to write, paint, or draw. Unique in its circular format and mixed media art, each card is ready to guide you gently into your next big breakthrough.   If you’re ready to live a more creatively inspired life, The Listening Oracle Deck is waiting for you!

Color your way through over 100 adorable characters, sweet patterns, and feel good sayings in this cozy coloring book! Perfect for fans of Hello Kitty, Labubu, Coco Wyo, Sonny Angel, and all things irresistibly cute! A heartwarming coloring experience packed with over 100 adorable designs, thick artist-quality pages, and a bonus sticker sheet! Join Peaches the bunny, her sweet dog Sesame, and their Pocketon pals for a cozy and creative escape! Inspired by the beloved Pocket Peaches webcomic, this official coloring book is filled with cute characters, pastries like ube cakes and chocolate croissants, and feel-good quotes like “You got this!” Why You'll Love This Book: 100+ Wholesome Designs – Featuring cute characters, cozy scenes, sweet treats, and positive vibes Double-Sided, Thick Paper – Great for colored pencils, gel pens, and even Copic markers Perforated Pages – Tear and share your favorites with ease, perfect for display! BONUS Sticker Sheet – Decorate your journals, devices, and more with Pocket Peaches stickers Makes a Great Gift – Ideal for fans of Hello Kitty, Pusheen, Sonny Angel, Coco Wyo, Labubu, POP MART, and all things kawaii Whether you’re winding down for the night or looking for your next cozy activity, The OfficialPocket Peaches Coloring Book is your go-to comfort companion. For ages 8 to 108—because cuteness has no age limit. "Chock-full of charm with a lovable cast of characters. Pocket Peaches is a winner!" - Lincoln Peirce, bestselling author of Big Nate

Tessa hasn’t spoken to Olive in ten years and she’s not about to start now…readers will delight in this enemies-to-lovers graphic novel with a queer twist: I Hated You in High School.Struggling 20-something Tessa has a dead-end job as a barista and the dream of a creative career that never quite seems to take off. When the coffee shop where she works goes out of business, she's able to visit her parents for the first time in years. Arriving at her family home, she discovers that her parents have rented out the basement apartment to her high school nemesis, Olive Virtue. Old wounds resurface during Tessa’s stay, but an accident that traps them in the attic forces them to face their past and think about their future.  I Hated You in High School is an enemies-to-lovers story inspired by classic romantic movies—with a queer twist. Author and illustrator Kathleen Gros has expanded her short story webcomic into a beautiful tale of love and learning.

The Time Buddies are back with a brand-new set of time-jumping adventures in this hilarious graphic novel from Epic!Hoot and Bentley know the most important rule of time travel: Don’t mess with history—especially your own history! Still, a quick trip can be hard to resist when you really, really need to ask your future self an important question—or get your grandpa the coolest birthday gift ever. But after a visit to the roaring (or were they mooing?) twenties, a groovy trip to the disco era, and an adventure in the world of Sherlock Holmes, our favorite partners-in-time have to face facts: Mistakes they made millennia ago have followed them home!

A visual celebration of one of the most dynamic and imaginative comics since Calvin and Hobbes, this deluxe hardcover treasury celebrates includes every Wallace the Brave Sunday comic strip from 2018-2024, featuring original watercolors, character art, maps, and an introduction by the author.This book celebrates the artistic achievement of Will Henry and presents the Wallace the Brave universe in vivid color, the first ever book edition that presents his Sunday comics in their original, large format. Henry's illustration and storytelling in the daily Wallace the Brave comic strip and books have earned multiple Eisner Award nominations and Reuben awards for the Best Newspaper Comic Strip and Cartoonist of the Year. As NPR's Glen Weldon writes, "The world of childhood depicted in the strip is a timeless, outdoorsy one reminiscent of strips like Calvin & Hobbes and Cul De Sac, both of which Henry cites as influences."  

“No one, before now, has written a history of the comic strip as a technological artifact—not, at least, in such depth, and on such a sound foundation of research.” – Michael Chabon, author, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayIf you love comics, you’ll love this visual history of comic strips featuring all of the methods, techniques, and wizardry that made the funny pages such an important staple of American life. Featuring interviews with dozens of the century's most famous cartoonists and hundreds of rare archival images.How Comics Are Made covers the entire history of newspaper comics from a unique angle—how they were made and printed. This book combines years of research and dozens of interviews with cartoonists, historians, and production people to tell the story of how a comic starts with an artist’s hand and makes it way through transformations into print and onto a digital screen. You’ll see reproductions of art and artifacts that have never appeared in print anywhere, and some historic comics will appear for the first time ever in any medium in this book. And you’ll find out about metal etching, Dragon’s Blood (a real thing), flong (also a real thing), and the massively, almost impossibly complicated path that original artwork took to get onto newsprint in the days of metal relief printing. The book is divided by time and transitions, from the start of consistently appearing daily and weekly comics in newspapers: The Early Days: From the Yellow Kid in the 1890s to the 1910s Syndication in Metal: When it became affordable to make hundreds or thousands of copies of daily strips to send around the country (or world), from the 1910s to 1970s Flatland: Newspapers’ switch from relief to flat printing and the shift to purely photographic transformations from the 1950s to the 1980s Pixel Perfect: The transition from photographic to digital, from scanning to digital creation, from the 1970s to 2000s and through the present day Webcomics and Beyond: Look, ma, no ink! Digital comics read online and sometimes put on press to make books Each section features interviews with artists, reproductions of original cartoon art, printing and coloring artifacts, and the way cartoons appeared in print—or on screen.

In this unique, illustrated collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional murder ballads, exploring the beauty and horror of the art form through stories, lyrics, and original illustrations.Murder Ballads is a guide to the origins and cultural impact of murder ballads as a music genre, covering its roots in patriarchal violence and white supremacy, as well as its contemporary relationship to true crime.   From “Delia's Gone” to “The Death of Queen Jane,” each of twenty carefully chosen ballads is accompanied by one of Horan’s beautifully macabre illustrations and a thoroughly researched reflection on the song's history and evolution. At the back of the book, readers can browse a list of essential recordings for each ballad.   Mysterious and alluring as the songs themselves, Murder Ballads will delight history enthusiasts, armchair musicologists, true crime fans (and critics), as well as anyone who appreciates the darker side of folk music.

The $3 time machine strikes again in this third and final installment in the series perfect for fans who love funny, unexpected adventures and wacky plot twists from best-selling author Dustin Brady.Professor Snellenburg is a mysterious man. What’s the real story behind his time machine? What does the villainous Queen want with him? And where is he now? To find the professor, Elsa and Liam will need to start digging up answers to these long-buried secrets. Their search starts with the Voynich Manuscript—a book from the Middle Ages that puzzles historians and codebreakers to this day. They’ll travel to an alternate dimension, where they’ll meet Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (the geologist, not the wrestler) and discover the shocking origin of time slime. Finally, with the help of the World’s Worst Time Machine, they’ll attempt a journey to the very center of time. As the kids close in on the answers they’ve been seeking, their world begins turning upside down. Who’s the hero of this story? Who’s the villain? And what happens when you find out that everything you thought you knew was a lie?

Zom is just your average everyday zombie girl. Enjoy Zom’s daily adventures and slice-of-life stories with her spooky roommates and friends in this wordless popular Webtoon turned graphic novel, ZomCom'ics.ZomCom'ics is a laugh-out-loud, wordless comic collection that follows the everyday adventures of Zom, a zombie girl; Ari, resident vampire; and Theo, loveable werewolf. Zom and her fantastical friends navigate everything from dating to beach trips to roommate spats in a colorful, engaging world full of ghouls, skeletons, and ghosts. This silent graphic novel takes full advantage of the illustrated format and shows the hearts (literally, in some cases) at the core of even the spookiest monsters. It’s great for anyone who likes spooky, funny, and relatable stories.

Journey to the beginnings of the bloody days of the Haitian Revolution, with a classic tale of revenge and reclamation, reimagined with a horror twist, in The Curse of Monte Cristo.France, 1788. Edmond Dantès, a Haitian of African descent and Parisian citizen has been sentenced to a life of hell at Château d'If for treason against the Ancien Régime. Once a man of faith, Edmond believes he’s been abandoned by God, and the only thing that keeps him going is his deep hatred of those who he believes have framed him. Faria, an older prisoner who becomes a mentor to Edmond, confesses, “I am not flesh of this realm. Your lust for revenge drew me here.”   Together, they escape the prison and return to Saint Domingue, where the smell of rebellion is thick in the air. Edmond, once an enslaved man himself, thought he had escaped the colonized land and his past life for good, only to return as the wealthy and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. In pursuit of his enemies – including Mercedes, once his fiancée – he finds his careful rage growing only more reckless and ravenous. Haydee, a young revolutionist, tries to use his fury for good, while Faria, drunk off the misery Edmond has caused, hungers for the fresh taste of innocent blood. As Edmond’s enemies begin to catch on to the count’s true identity, and the fight for liberation from the French colonists swells to a pop, Edmond must reckon with the deal he’s made with Faria. Is it any more sinister – or any different – than the pact he’s made with his own inner demons?

This book features a fun and uplifting series of classic Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schulz selected especially for kids, presented in color and with fun storylines featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Woodstock, and the entire Peanuts gang.Whether he’s sledding in his supper dish, flying his Sopwith Camel on a dangerous mission, or leading Woodstock and friends on a dangerous cliffside hike, Snoopy is a beagle with a nose for adventure. The rest of the time he can be found at his doghouse, waiting for supper or writing on his trusty typewriter. Featuring a fun and uplifting series of full-color Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schulz selected especially for young readers, Doghouse Tales follows the adventures of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Woodstock, Snoopy’s brother Spike, and the entire Peanuts gang.

The Princess in Black meets Monsters, Inc. in this zany, heartwarming new series for early readers 4 to 8 years old!Written by the acclaimed Corey Ann Haydu with sweet, quirky illustrations by Anne Appert, the Zoomi and Zoe series explores the wonder and anxiety of life''s first big transitions with warmth, whimsy, and plenty of silliness.Zoe loves routine, her stuffed rhino Zoomi, and her best friend Kyla. When Kyla moves away, Zoe feels alone. Until somehow, she?s transported to a magical new world with just one sort-of-familiar face: Zoomi, who is suddenly very much real.Zoomi loves adventure, zooming, and her best friend Moo. In her world, life is full of happy surprises, but one ritual is certain: when something hard happens, she?ll have Tricky Turnaround. And when she does, a Happy Helpful Human from the ?real? world will arrive to help her through it.But when Zoe arrives, she doesn?t seem very happy. Or helpful. Or interested in the party Zoomi threw for her?complete with toothbrushes and a rainbow mud slide. In fact, Zoe may be navigating a Tricky Turnaround of her own. Can Zoomi and Zoe come together to help each other with the trickier parts of growing up, like saying goodbye to friends and making new ones?Keep an eye out for book two, The Sibling Situation, launching in August 2025!

“Fake dating + reality TV drama + murder mystery = an absolutely addictive read.”—Mia P. Manansala, author of the award-winning Arsenic and AdoboIn this page-turning murder mystery perfect for fans of Dial A for Aunties, a reality TV contestant must fake date her rival as bodies pile up and the show spirals out of control. Can Alice crack the case . . . and confront her true feeling? lice Chen doesn’t believe in true love, but she does believe in cold, hard cash. Buckling under the weight of student debt and her mother’s medical bills, Alice will do anything to make bank—even star on Dawn Tay’s Inferno, the hot new reality TV show designed to push couples to their breaking point. The show is Alice’s chance to sip cocktails on the beach and win a cash prize of a million dollars. But when her fiancA© cheats on her with another contestant, Alice is faced with a choice: go home in defeat or fake date the other newly single contestant—who just so happens to be her high school rival and sworn nemesis, Daniel Cho. But all’s fair in love and reality TV, and Alice isn’t the only one who will do whatever it takes to win. When a dead body turns up, Alice and Daniel are faced with uncovering the secrets of the cast and crew to catch the killer—all while playing the loving couple on camera. Starring a murder mystery twist, plenty of reality show drama, and a thrilling romance, this debut by up-and-coming Asian American writer duo Kara Loo and Jennifer Young is the ultimate beach read.

A love letter to his fans, My Dear Wildflower finds New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin at his best, guiding readers through the journey out of despair and back to self-worth with the honest relatability that fans worldwide have come to know him for. My Dear Wildflower is the latest poetic offering from prolific writer r.h. Sin. A revisit to the themes and style that fans first fell in love with when he debuted his Whiskey Words and A Shovel series in 2015. In My Dear Wildflower, Sin speaks directly to readers with his signature kindness and honesty, expounding on ideas of love, regret, heartbreak, and the journey to rediscovering self-worth.   Sure to resonate, this collection is a perfect entry point to readers new to Sin’s world and a nostalgic reach back for those who have been here since the beginning.