Bess Pallares
@besspallares.bsky.social
Senior Editrix at Oni Press // High Strangeness, Out of Alcatraz, Plague House, The Autumn Kingdom, Cult of the Lamb, Hobtown Mystery Stories, I Feel Awful, Thanks, and MORE // Not accepting pitches. Views are my own, obviously.
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Canada Post releases stamps to celebrate country’s Graphic Novelists
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
Canada Post releases stamps to celebrate country’s Graphic Novelists
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Canada Post releases stamps to celebrate country’s Graphic Novelists
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
Canada Post has just launched its second set of limited edition stamps celebrating the country's contribution to the world of graphic novels
My weird light doesn't quit capture the treeline from Vol. 1 to 2, but artist Alex and Oni designer Rocky have crafted this magnificent interlocking cover design. @hobtown.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My weird light doesn't quit capture the treeline from Vol. 1 to 2, but artist Alex and Oni designer Rocky have crafted this magnificent interlocking cover design. @hobtown.bsky.social
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The Hobtown Mysteries are *fantastic*. Gorgeous art, compelling stories that are weird, playful and *genuinely mysterious*. And they really mail the ~atmosphere~ of small town eastern Canada. IYKYK. Super excited to read the new book!
It's a big day for freaks who can read! Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer is available now at bookstores and tomorrow in comic shops. Don't miss the weirdest, most compelling graphic novel of the year from Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! @hobtown.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Hobtown Mysteries are *fantastic*. Gorgeous art, compelling stories that are weird, playful and *genuinely mysterious*. And they really mail the ~atmosphere~ of small town eastern Canada. IYKYK. Super excited to read the new book!
I edit a lot of weird books. You're going to have to trust me when I say this is by far the weirdest, in the best way possible.
It's a big day for freaks who can read! Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer is available now at bookstores and tomorrow in comic shops. Don't miss the weirdest, most compelling graphic novel of the year from Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! @hobtown.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I edit a lot of weird books. You're going to have to trust me when I say this is by far the weirdest, in the best way possible.
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A great BOING BOING review of SECRET OF THE SAUCER!
Dear to my heart because I've been reading BOING BOING since I was a baby (15 or something at least)
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Dear to my heart because I've been reading BOING BOING since I was a baby (15 or something at least)
boingboing.net/2025/11/25/h...
Hobtown Mystery Stories returns with another perfectly unsettling slice of small-town high weirdness
If you’ve read the earlier books (The Case of the Missing Men and The Cursed Hermit) you already know Hobtown’s peculiarities.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A great BOING BOING review of SECRET OF THE SAUCER!
Dear to my heart because I've been reading BOING BOING since I was a baby (15 or something at least)
boingboing.net/2025/11/25/h...
Dear to my heart because I've been reading BOING BOING since I was a baby (15 or something at least)
boingboing.net/2025/11/25/h...
It's a big day for freaks who can read! Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer is available now at bookstores and tomorrow in comic shops. Don't miss the weirdest, most compelling graphic novel of the year from Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! @hobtown.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's a big day for freaks who can read! Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer is available now at bookstores and tomorrow in comic shops. Don't miss the weirdest, most compelling graphic novel of the year from Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! @hobtown.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social
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Here is me and Alex talking Hobtown with Uncanny Omar from @nearmintcon.bsky.social wearing the same clothes we had on for our last podcast appearance
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Let's talk about Hobotwn Mystery Stories! Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes Interview
YouTube video by Near Mint Condition
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here is me and Alex talking Hobtown with Uncanny Omar from @nearmintcon.bsky.social wearing the same clothes we had on for our last podcast appearance
www.youtube.com/live/tweB2U0...
www.youtube.com/live/tweB2U0...
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I double damn dog dare you to get Hobtown III TOMORROW
You owe it to yourself
You owe it to me
You swore an oath
You owe it to yourself
You owe it to me
You swore an oath
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I double damn dog dare you to get Hobtown III TOMORROW
You owe it to yourself
You owe it to me
You swore an oath
You owe it to yourself
You owe it to me
You swore an oath
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We have a TRIPLE SIZED OMAR OVERVIEW, Minties!
This one is of the Hobtown Mystery Stories Vols. 1-3 from @oni-press.bsky.social!
Check it out:
youtu.be/6LUpWIGmsUg
This one is of the Hobtown Mystery Stories Vols. 1-3 from @oni-press.bsky.social!
Check it out:
youtu.be/6LUpWIGmsUg
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We have a TRIPLE SIZED OMAR OVERVIEW, Minties!
This one is of the Hobtown Mystery Stories Vols. 1-3 from @oni-press.bsky.social!
Check it out:
youtu.be/6LUpWIGmsUg
This one is of the Hobtown Mystery Stories Vols. 1-3 from @oni-press.bsky.social!
Check it out:
youtu.be/6LUpWIGmsUg
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I've been more excited for a new Hobtown than any other comic, no joke
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I've been more excited for a new Hobtown than any other comic, no joke
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Hobtown Mystery Stories are great. Get in there!
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hobtown Mystery Stories are great. Get in there!
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Hyped to collaborate with this legend!
My cover for High Strangeness issue 5 from @oni-press.bsky.social - out February 2026
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hyped to collaborate with this legend!
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My cover for High Strangeness issue 5 from @oni-press.bsky.social - out February 2026
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My cover for High Strangeness issue 5 from @oni-press.bsky.social - out February 2026
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
Written by me based on a story from Daniel Noah , AND I’m sharing art duties with @davechisholmcomics.com in this.
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When my book came out back in September Kris Bertin was kind enough to interview me about it.
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
“We Came to Aliens Through the Lens of Folklore”: Kris Bertin on “The Secret of the Saucer”
I’m Adam Szym, cartoonist of many years and of late a hobbyist screenwriter. Last September my graphic novel Little Visitor & Other Abductions, a collection of three sci-fi horror stories conne…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
When my book came out back in September Kris Bertin was kind enough to interview me about it.
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
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HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
This is so close to funding! If you like cool, spooky comics, please check it out and consider backing. The Kickstarter strike is over and the union prevailed, so if you were holding back you can feel good about engaging again!
The DREAMHOUSE Kickstarter is doing well, but we've only got two weeks left! If you're interested in creepy stories and classy architecture, check out the campaign below!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is so close to funding! If you like cool, spooky comics, please check it out and consider backing. The Kickstarter strike is over and the union prevailed, so if you were holding back you can feel good about engaging again!
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It's getting to be that year-end time of year (great turn of phrase, dave) and I hope people consider SPECTRUM and PLAGUE HOUSE on their BEST COMICS OF 2025 lists. Two uncompromising books that absolutely rip and deserve to be on your shelves or some other surface
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It's getting to be that year-end time of year (great turn of phrase, dave) and I hope people consider SPECTRUM and PLAGUE HOUSE on their BEST COMICS OF 2025 lists. Two uncompromising books that absolutely rip and deserve to be on your shelves or some other surface
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Get your first look at High Strangeness: Book Two from Oni Press and Spectrevision, written by Daniel Noah and Zac Thompson, with art by Noah Bailey.
Oni Press First Look: High Strangeness: Book Two
Get your first look at High Strangeness: Book Two from Oni Press and Spectrevision, written by Daniel Noah and Zac Thompson, with art by Noah Bailey.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Get your first look at High Strangeness: Book Two from Oni Press and Spectrevision, written by Daniel Noah and Zac Thompson, with art by Noah Bailey.
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Reading this book in its natural habitat! If you pick up High Strangeness Book Two this week, let me know what you think!
HIGH STRANGENESS BOOK TWO: 1975 can now be found in the wild.
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Reading this book in its natural habitat! If you pick up High Strangeness Book Two this week, let me know what you think!
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Out today!
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK TWO - 1975 from
@oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
Witness a Bigfoot story for the ages. Written by me & Daniel Noah, painted by Noah Bailey and lettered by Becca Carey.
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK TWO - 1975 from
@oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
Witness a Bigfoot story for the ages. Written by me & Daniel Noah, painted by Noah Bailey and lettered by Becca Carey.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Out today!
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK TWO - 1975 from
@oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
Witness a Bigfoot story for the ages. Written by me & Daniel Noah, painted by Noah Bailey and lettered by Becca Carey.
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK TWO - 1975 from
@oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
Witness a Bigfoot story for the ages. Written by me & Daniel Noah, painted by Noah Bailey and lettered by Becca Carey.
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This WEDNESDAY.
We take a trip back to 1975 in HIGH STRANGENESS #2.
From @oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
We take a trip back to 1975 in HIGH STRANGENESS #2.
From @oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This WEDNESDAY.
We take a trip back to 1975 in HIGH STRANGENESS #2.
From @oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
We take a trip back to 1975 in HIGH STRANGENESS #2.
From @oni-press.bsky.social & @spectrevision.bsky.social
Juan Moore of the Odd Artworks YouTube channel illustrated a wraparound cover for The Autumn Kingdom: The Wraithbound Queen #1, and he created a process video of it! Take a look at how he fit so many elements of not just this new issue but the first volume into this piece. @oni-press.bsky.social
My Dream Commission: A comic cover for Oni
YouTube video by Odd Artworks
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November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Juan Moore of the Odd Artworks YouTube channel illustrated a wraparound cover for The Autumn Kingdom: The Wraithbound Queen #1, and he created a process video of it! Take a look at how he fit so many elements of not just this new issue but the first volume into this piece. @oni-press.bsky.social
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I just read OUT OF ALCATRAZ by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social & @mrtylercrook.bsky.social and it's in rare air: a propulsive, plot-driven caper AND an in-depth, lived-in character study of every player on the board. Gripping, thrilling, everyone has angles and secrets and shadows…it's a hell of a thing
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I just read OUT OF ALCATRAZ by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social & @mrtylercrook.bsky.social and it's in rare air: a propulsive, plot-driven caper AND an in-depth, lived-in character study of every player on the board. Gripping, thrilling, everyone has angles and secrets and shadows…it's a hell of a thing
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.