The Miracle
From Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Mike Dawson comes an all-new limited-edition hardcover graphic novel collecting five of his most thoughtful and acclaimed long-form cartoon essays for the first time!
With signature humor and emotional honesty, these thematically intertwined stories explore the ways we construct our self-identities through memory, history, music, and art. Whether reflecting on taking his son to see Back to the Future on the big screen, or wrestling with Scottish identity, or revisiting a much-maligned Queen album that became unexpectedly meaningful, Dawson takes the small and familiar moments in life, and transforms them into meditations on modern living, nostalgia, beauty, regret, and belonging.
The includes the Eisner Award-nominated Life During Interesting Times, originally published at The Nib, now revised and reformatted for the page, a powerful examination of inherited fears, historical catastrophe, and the ongoing climate crisis. Together, these five essays demonstrate why Dawson has become one of comics’ most distinct autobiographical voices, combining wit, self-reflection, and formal innovation, to create essays that provoke and linger with readers long after the final page.
Beautifully produced, this limited-edition volume will serve as an ideal introduction for new readers and a definitive collection for longtime fans
Bump in the Night: A Cryptid Comic Anthology
by Paul Carroll & Various
22 comics featuring cryptids in a nature versus society collection
Editor Paul Carroll is proud to present 22 short stories into the world from creators from all over the world, for a total of 88 pages of comics. From the Jersey Devil, the Dover Demon and Mothman, to the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins, some of the world’s best known cryptids are here to show the world what goes bump in the night…
Fireproof Issue 1: Heroes and Havoc
A 28-page superhero comic that is grounded, dark, and inevitable.
On the same night Seer City spirals out of control, two men walk in opposite directions.
One is learning how to hold back.
The other is learning there’s no reason to.
Fireproof #1 is a creator-owned comic book launching the next phase of the SeerNova universe.
This issue follows two men on opposite paths after a single night changes everything:
John Benson, trying to learn control before his power destroys him
Mathew Harding, whose restraint is gone—and who has embraced what the world now calls a monster
This story is dark, grounded, and consequence-driven, focusing on choices, fallout, and escalation rather than spectacle or reboots.
State of the Monsters: A Brand-New Kaiju Series, Y’all!
Godzilla comics veteran Matt Frank finally creates his own original kaiju comic series inspired by his home state of TEXAS!
A New World of Monsters
Monsters ain’t nothin’ new.
They’ve been around for at least a century. Even more if you believe in our myths and legends.
But America’s never really had a problem with them. Those were foreign problems that happened an ocean away.
Until now…
DBA’s (Destructive Biological Anomalies) began appearing in greater numbers than ever before on the shores of these United States. And of all places, they picked Texas.
Eventually, the federal government threw their hands up and said “to hell with it.” They just let the monsters have it. Walls went up, no-fly-zones declared, and Texas had fallen.
About 15 years After the Fall of Texas (AFT), things are…different ‘round these parts. Lots of folks got out, but lots of others didn’t. The DBA’s pretty much run things, but that won’t stop crazy 49’ers with more money than sense from coming down and taking a gander for themselves.
That’s where me and my company, Texas Titan Tours, come in!
State of the Monsters is a new comic series created by kaiju comic master Matt Frank (Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Mothra: Queen of the Monsters, Redman: The Kaiju Hunter). Showdown in the Hill Country is the first book in what will hopefully be a multi-issue series that takes place after the Fall of Texas, where the state becomes a territory utterly dominated by monsters, from the very giant to the tiny-but-ferocious.
A lifelong Texan, Matt has channeled the unique cultural experience of living in the Lone Star State into a sequential storytelling project that has been simmering for the last 5 years. Now, with the help of Laguna Studios and YOU, the kaiju-comic-loving fans, Matt can finally bring this new reality to life.
State of the Monsters: Showdown in the Hill Country is over 40 pages, with the intent of creating a movie-style story set in the SOTM universe. Inspired by the classic kaiju movies from the “Monster Boom” of the 1960’s, each SOTM issue is planned to be set in the same universe while focusing on different characters and events. There will of course be connecting threads, but like the Showa-era Toho films of Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya, each story can be read as a stand-alone experience.
Julius: The Werehound Issue #1 – A Dark Fantasy Adventure
A cursed warrior, an arms dealer, and a samurai must find a way to do the impossible and kill the Devil.
He is a man out of time. He is a warrior turned into a monster. He is a soul barred from both heaven and hell. He is… Julius: The Werehound
Julius: The Werehound is a mature fantasy adventure comic series created by writer Joseph Jasionowski and artist Elton Thomasi. The brand new series follows a warrior named Julius from Ancient Rome who is cursed by Satan and merged with the beastly form of a HellHound. While in hiding, Julius meets Tomoe (a samurai) and Jack (a weapons dealer), two new allies who have each been harmed by Satan. Now aligned, the trio embark on a quest for vengeance, trying to do the impossible: kill the Devil.
Julius is a man with the power to turn into a Hellhound, a mysterious past, and a longstanding feud with Satan. He has long avoided conflict with Satan’s followers in an attempt to limit civilians being caught in the crossfire. But while hiding out in the small town of Woodhurst, a slip up causes two civilians to be caught in the middle of his war with the Satanists. Julius must now come out of hiding and The Werehound must emerge.
Good Lord! He Done… Up and Quit!? a CARTOONSHOW collection
take this job & shove it! a lean full color swan song career finale comics cache (maybe?) in 48 pages from America’s #1 cartoon dad.
This CARTOONSHOW comic strip omnibus is a nice lean 48 page, 8″ X 8″ staple bound, full-color printed with soft-touch lamination (outside) comic book for folks that make around $20k per year to read on their lunch break. Also if your parents didn’t pay for your college or if you never had anybody as a co-signer you’ll probably dig it. Well, maybe anybody could enjoy it? idk. Roll it up and shove it in a bottle filled with incendiary liquid for street use. Smack a would be attacker with it. Read it and laugh. Line a birdcage. The possibilities are endless.
Anyways, I’m exhausted. This book is about that. I think most everyone is right now. I want to quit half the time, but I can’t. This book is about that, too. I think everyone can probably identify. What’s the point anymore? I don’t know. But if I can make jokes about being hopelessly poor alone with three kids it helps. And if I can make a real goofy cartoon book about it that’s even better.
I’m fairly certain that I’m the only person making comics about the impossible task of retrieving unpaid child support, stealing pizza from a church to feed kids, or ebt fraud. Maybe? And I’d appreciate your support to keep going and keep the lights on. Publishers and paid venues for cartooning (New Yorker etc) will only run a certain type of “cute parenting” comic. Hunger, poverty, or housing precarity will not be mentioned even though MOST modern American parents are dealing with these things daily. The creators that can afford to take the low wages offered typically don’t deal with this stuff. This type of cultural gaslighting leads to feelings of isolation compounded by feelings of societal abandonment in my humble experience. I really believe this tendency goes beyond comics and extends to nearly all of media as a whole nowadays. The folks running things are too far removed to hear nor process the new average crushing poverty of everyday life. I wish it wasn’t like this, but it seems this is the state of the creative world we live in right now.
The only thing I know to do is to keep making stuff, and by supporting this Kickstarter campaign your help will be making that possible. If this goes well I already have the next 50 page comic nearly ready to go. This will hopefully be the first in a number of collections.
Hombre – The Complete Collection, graphic novels
Hombre, the complete post-apocalyptic saga by renown Spanish master artist José Ortiz & acclaimed writer, Antonio Segura is here!
“A mutated influenza virus spreads across the entire world. A world in which the greatest cities are turning into ghettos of misery. It was as though someone had decided that mankind’s end had come. And the pieces fell, colliding with one another, until they had razed to the ground everything we called… civilization.
Twenty years later, a new kind of human being moved among the ruins of cities, living off their refuse. They were the strongest, the most cunning — those who had survived a brutal selection. This is the story of one of them. Of Hombre.”
Created during the resurgence of Spanish comics between 1981 and 1984, in the years following the fall of Franco—and continuing through 1992—Hombre emerged as the most successful series of its era. The series also found a devoted audience in France, where it was published in album form by Kesselring, Magic Strip, and Soleil Productions.
English-language translations of Hombre appeared in Heavy Metal throughout the 1980s and 1990s, but only a small portion of the complete series was ever published in English.
This is the first-ever English-language edition of the complete Hombre series! Presented in our Signature Edition, this definitive collection features two hardcover volumes housed in a beautifully designed slipcase. Each set is individually numbered and strictly limited to just 500 copies.
Hellboy Book Club Presents “Brief Histories and Others”
The Hellboy Book Club Podcast has official permission to reprint Hellboy Universe “Brief Histories” stories by Matt Strackbein!
Mashbone & Grifty Vol 2: HAT STORY
Our Hilarious Homies are back in an ALL-NEW adventure that takes them around New Brownsville to uncover the story… the HAT STORY!
Friends and new friends, it’s been a while since we last spoke. Long story short, we lived, we laughed, we loved, we made comics. There were ups and downs, a couple all-arounds, and you know what? The 5 Meats are just not meant for anything else except storytelling.
As luck would have it, our previous employers probably felt the same way when it came time to wish us well in our future endeavors. Another sad casualty of greedy CEO’s newfound AI fetish.
But hey, we don’t do sad stories! We do action-packed action-comedy, and everybody knows that a shut window can be a door if you run head-first into it. With YOUR HELP, we can swim through that window, away from the sinking ship that holds the international-waters’ rat races, and find ourselves on the Island of Relevancy that is destiny: to create Graphic Novels and Comics for the world FULL TIME!
So with that being said:
5 Meats Comics, home of the funniest comics today, is pleased to announce our second Kickstarter:
MASHBONE & GRIFTY VOLUME TWO: A HAT STORY!
Our goal is to raise $6,100 to print a MEATY MONSTER of a comic, telling a story of finding ones true self in a den of doubt, danger, and yes, killer livestock!
Bats in the Attic 1 & 2 – a Sapphic Gothic Vampire Story
1898:May tends an empty manor in the middle of the woods. Trusted with a dead wife’s treasured home, May feels her presence everywhere.
May tends to the empty manor of a dead wife. Too exhausted to work in the day, she cares for the manor at night. Hearing strange sounds, catching glimpses of red out the corner of her eye.
Welcome to Bats in the Attic, our brand new Gothic sapphic Vampire mini-series, by ‘A Town by the Sea‘ author and artist Nina Poulston, and lettered by Rob Jones.
It’s time for the next Blue Fox Season – a collection of upcoming comic-book Kickstarters which give backers the opportunity to pick up multiple new comics together, thus saving on postage and import costs!
The Summer 2026 Season has a theme – Gothic Horror!
The four books are:
- Cool Air 3 – Issue 3 of our Lovecraft short story adaptation. Words by Simon Birks, art by Darja Rattik, letters by Rob Jones.
- The Yellow Wallpaper 1 – The start of our epic comic-book adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Words by Marielle Bouleau and Simon Birks, art by Nina Poulston, letters by Rob Jones.
- Bats in the Attic 2 – This Kickstarter. 1898: May tends an empty manor in the middle of the woods. Trusted with a dead wife’s treasured home, May feels her presence everywhere. Words and art by Nina Poulston, letters by Rob Jones.
- With Malicious Intent – A comic anthology collecting five stories about murder and misdeeds inspired by history. Words, art and letters by Fran Morton.
There are two versions of the Summer Season:
- The four titles, as shown above.
- A catch-up option including issues 1 & 2 of Cool Air and issue 1 of Bats in the Attic.
The Acts of Louis Debraz, Voyageur! A New Folk Horror Comic
Louis Debraz’s hunt for the Devil leads him to a local celebration where “old scratch” sets his sights on Rose Latulippe.
-Old song
HAUNTING #1-8 – Showdown at the Ghost Prison GRAND FINALE
GHOST HUNTER, Hope, must team up with Bram, the Bratty SUPERNATURAL TEEN she tried to KILL, to take down her POSSESSED EX-GIRLFRIEND
Lifeline Comics is back with the FINAL ISSUE of their Supernatural Horror Series – written by Phil Falco and featuring art by Mauricio Mora!
Wherever bratty teenage boy Bram goes, ghosts appear – restless spirits that attack the living viciously and without prejudice. Bram’s spent his entire life turning a blind eye to the destruction and death caused by his strange ability. He didn’t ask for this curse, so (by his logic, at least) none of it is his fault.
Everything comes to a head in this 24-page finale, where Bram is forced to team up with Hope, the no-nonsense Ghost Hunter who nearly KILLED him the last time they crossed paths, in order to stand up against the Possessed Caitlin who is (literally) out for his blood.
Can Bram & Hope put aside their differences long enough to escape the haunted prison they’re trapped in? Can Hope’s twin sister Faith put her burgeoning necromancy skills to good use? Or will all three of our heroes join the ranks of the dead that they fight against? Find out in HAUNTING #8!
Like every issue of HAUNTING, this installment has HORROR, COMEDY, ACTION, and HEART! If you’re a fan of character-driven horror with a sense of humor, you don’t want to miss out on this series!
DENIS KITCHEN: Three Comics Collections
Three risograph-printed issues collecting underground cartoonist Denis Kitchen’s comics from the 1960s through today.
Risography printing is sort of a cross between screen printing and duplicator machines you find in offices and Kinko’s. It was originally intended to be an inexpensive way of color photocopying for schools and businesses back in the ’80s, but artists have found it an invaluable tool for creating art prints, ‘zines, comics, and more.
Riso machines print one or two colors at a time using plant-based inks resulting in an imperfect charm: ink texture and misregistration make each print one-of-a-kind!
Demi The Demoness RARE CUTS Omnibus
Another collection of Demi the Demoness. 320 pages of Rare and Never Published Demi Tales! Carnal Comics X Discordia Publishing.
’s another collection of Demi the Demoness! 332 pages of rare and never before published Demi stories including more team-ups with many of her pals including Kit-Ra, Vampirooni, Crimson Gash, Cassiopeia the Witch, Nightingale and the Squad.
None of these stories have appeared in the other two Demi Omnibus books. Lots of stories and art that have never been published before and now completed by SS Crompton specifically for this book. Crompton also cleaned up, enhanced and toned all the art in this book, so everything in it has never been seen in this state!
The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer #1: A Comedy/Horror Series
Trained samurai, Lee, thought he had found the solitude he craved, but when his routine changes, things somehow get worse!
The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer #1 is a 20-page grindhouse action/adventure comic book printed on gloss paper stock (richer colors).
• The 1st issue.
• An imprint of Bad Bug Media.
• Physical backers will receive stretch goal rewards.
FOR FANS OF:
• ? Gritty and Bloody supernatural stories.
• ?? The Walking Dead, Lone Wolf and Cub, and The Mandalorian.
?? Manga inspired color scheming and storytelling.
• ? Out of the box art by Kit Wallis.
FREE HANDS 1-3: No Gods. No Kings. No Masters.
The last survivor of a pirate crew in colonial Boston recounts his final days at sea.
The sole survivor of a notorious pirate crew continues to recount his adventures at sea while in the shadow of the noose. In chapter 3, he tells of the ship’s most dangerous battle yet, and the “troublesome cargo” they recover.
Free Hands is a 6-issue historical noir adventure series about the small rebellions and little victories–often coupled with crimes and violence–tackling social and cultural struggles still present today, through the lens of the “golden age of piracy.”
The story comes from the perspective of Gregor, a low-level crewman awaiting execution and being made an example of by Reverend Wilson, a notoriously anti-pirate clergyman in early 18th-century Boston. Continuing his forced confession, Gregor details the heroics and debauchery of a pirate crew forced into violence or endless servitude at the hands of cruel British captains.
Free Hands looks to historical accounts of piracy and incorporates elements of westerns and crime fiction to tell a story of people finding their place in a world seemingly designed to hold them back. Drawing on the traditions of Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean, and twist-films like Se7en and The Usual Suspects, it is a story strikingly of our time while remaining faithful to it’s own.
This Kickstarter will fund part three. Both issues one and two are also available, and each are 24 pages. This issue will feature new artist J. Schiek, with variant covers by original Free Hands artist Matt Rowe and indie comics favorite Fell Hound.
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That’s a wrap for this week.
Next week, we will return with updates on these project and come back tomorrow for some creator interviews and updates on previously featured campaigns