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award-winning publisher・manga・art comics・new literature・publisher of the coolest books you’ve never heard of. Hagiwara Rei, Imai Arata, Natsujikei Miyazaki, Mukoubi Aoi, Kusahara Umi, Oumi Konomi, Ayumu Arisaka, Yoshimi Uchida and more

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finishing some file reviews on a sunday evening
January 19, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Another glowing review of Tsugawa’s new collection D’Artagnan’s Horse!
January 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
a girl is fed to / by a black hole
(UNIVERSE FROM THE BALCONY, Oumi Konomi)
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM
They have been making comics since their student days, and are inspired by the storytelling of (among others) Moto Hagio and Miyazaki Hayao.

DETAILS:
Approx. 240 pages.
Monochrome. For release in the first half of 2026.
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
tantalizing, haunting, desolately beautiful fairy tales from which it may yet prove impossible to turn away.

Mukoubi Aoi is the author of To The Sea, a stunning dark fantasy odyssey about a girl who meets a talking dolphin at the end of the world.
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
a class mourns their departed fellow student in their own way; a scholar visits a relic site on the eve of its closing; a child says farewell to their only toy; a man visits an unfathomable, barbaric town… prepare yourself for these and many more:
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
NEW TITLE 📯📯📯
A VASE OF LIFE
Mukoubi Aoi

“When I die, will you hear my story?” From the mind of Mukoubi Aoi comes a beautiful and disturbing selection of the author’s early sci-fi flavored short stories. A princess flees a doomed town; after a funeral, a child is haunted by a shadowy woman;
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Courtney Loberg has been making comics about the countries underneath us since 2012. Their comics have been published in Exclaim!, Ink Brick, and Leah Wishnia’s Happiness anthology.

DETAILS:
Approx. 340 pages and an additional illustration gallery.
Full color. For release in the first half of 20
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
But when their best friend Jasper disappears, they are forced into the dark histories and dreamlike workings of the Gulch, and themself.

We Don’t Go Through the Angelgrass is a Doug-Wright nominated coming-of-age folktale about queer outsiders and a carnivorous, pastel prairie.
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Anyone who ventured in was not seen again.

Cornflower has lived in the town all their life. For the most part, they haven’t questioned why the townsfolk seem to hate them, why their coven-leading Mother speaks in riddles, or what really lies in the Angelgrass.
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
NEW TITLE 📯📯📯
WE DON’T GO THROUGH THE ANGELGRASS
Courtney Loberg @weedgrowneye.bsky.social

In a certain country, in a certain swath of land, there was a town in the palm of a Gulch. Angelgrass grew on the crest of the surrounding valley, pearlescent and shifting, like a rainbow made of pond water.
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Incandescent is the debut graphic novel from Mariana Pita, a young Portuguese comics artist and illustrator whose imaginative work has been published previously by Kuś / Chili Com Carne / Fantagraphics.

DETAILS:
Approx. 140 pages.
Monochrome. For release in 2026.
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Helena attempts to navigate her new powers and uncertain situation with the help of her ex-nun friend Ana and a cat who seems somehow connected to the mysterious amulet.
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Upon witnessing the beginning of a possible abuse in the parish, the amulet causes her to transform into a magical girl.

In the aftermath, the village (and country) goes into an uproar at what they believe to be an apparition of Mary, mother of Jesus.
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
NEW TITLE 📯📯📯
INCANDESCENT
Mariana Pita

Helena is a college dropout hiding away with her grandmother in a small town in the interior of Portugal when she finds a small amulet that gives her powers she cannot control.
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
DETAILS:
Approx. 200 pages.
Monochrome. For release in the first half of 2026.

ALSO – there will be a simultaneously reprint of their much loved Give Her Back To Me to coincide with the new release.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hana Chatani is a queer Japanese-Kiwi traditional painter and comic artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland NZ. Hana’s comics have been published at various outlets: ShortBox / The Spinoff / Amorcito / Kadokawa, and their artwork has been exhibited at gallery shows the world over.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
elegantly juxtapose the beauty & darkness of the human heart. This new collection includes elusive fan favorites “Pearl Hunting” and “Coppélia et Swanilda”, previously featured at the ShortBox Digital Comic Fair, as well as several new works.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
NEW TITLE 📯📯📯
FIVE WORMS TO A LINE
Hana Chatani @hanachatani.bsky.social

The long-awaited first new publication from Hana Chatani, following their popular dark novella Give Her Back To Me. Hana returns with Five Worms to a Line, a collection of five short stories which
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
in conjunction with the previous announcement, I also wanted to point out that we have two new artbooks from Saika ( @ / toshoneko on instagram and twitter )
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A book that garnered some of the strongest reader reactions for us this year, TO THE SEA by Mukoubi Aoi.
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
US MANGA AWARDS 2025 jury nominee for best production design Seaside Beta by ohuton !!
December 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
why...
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
unavoidable... inescapable
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM