#new comics

[pero-the-seal]

hiyaa!! Look, before you start throwing tomatoes at me, I wasn't gone for nothing, Well, it was for a good reason!!!

Stay with this majestic art and draw your own conclusions 🫴✨️

[louiejoyce]

Did you miss out on some Tales of the TMNT issues?!? Don’t fret, the first two arcs of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are releasing as collected editions later this year. A Very Mechazoid Summer releases in July and Fugitoid Frenzy in September, both available for preorder now! 🐢🐢🐢🐢🤖🤖

[dearreader-12]

"I still don't really understand their relationship."

"I think they're just Tori and Michael and as long as they're happy..."

"Nothing else matters?"

"Yeah."

[achilles-patroclus-comic]

The first 8 pages of Achilles and Patroclus, written by James T. Washburn & illustrated by Chess Amadé Albaneze, a new queer graphic novel currently in production based on Homer's The Iliad.

Achilles and Patroclus was originally a play by James T. Washburn of @magpieartistsensemble, but Chess first encountered it as an opera in the Seattle Creation Lab of 2020-21. "I was in love with the text," they said. "The music too, but there was this intimate vulnerability between these characters that survived when blown up to a grand scale. It's hard to write like that. I was in love with the poetry of it all."

When James of Magpie sought to bring the text to visual life in the form of a graphic novel, he noted that "Magpie received a lot of artist applications for Achilles and Patroclus, but once we saw Chess's, there was no question in anyone's mind. Their work is visceral yet elegant - the perfect balance for a story where violence and tenderness intertwine."

Read Part 2 here.

For now, only these 8 pages will be made public until the project is finished and in physical print. If you'd like to read the rest of each page as they update, you can subscribe to Magpie Artists Ensemble Ko-Fi or to Chess's Patreon. If you want to peek at the paneling drafts, those are available only on Chess's Patreon.

If you would like to help bring this project to life but can't afford to financially support us, please spread this post around and give this page a follow to keep up with our announcements! Getting this project in front of more eyes is more important than you know, so thank you.

James T. Washburn (he/him) is a gay, trans, and disabled Storyteller-Activist born and raised in Seattle. His work is predicated on the idea that a story is best told with many voices, and he is deeply influenced by his Queer, artistic, and Polish communities, and his experiences at the intersection of marginalized identities. He takes inspiration from folklore, mythology, and queer history. His work focuses on discovering queerness in traditional stories and reimagining familiar tropes and archetypes through a queer lens.

Washburn is the Founding Artistic Director of @magpieartistsensemble, an artistic collective focused on innovative cross-disciplinary storytelling.

Chess Amadé Albaneze (he/she/they) has been creating comics since 2009, and their current projects other than A&P include the comic @hooffellas and the queer paranormal DND-style podcast @dandiesindanger. They are an American genderfluid trans masc artist, composer, and performer whose music was performed in the SO Creation Lab and whose voice work can be heard in @janellefeng's short film La Mort de Robespierre.

[evandorkin]

Out now: CATACOMB OF TORMENT #2.

The latest issue of the EC Comics/Oni Press anthology features my first new comics work in years. My script for the story "Red Blend" was illustrated by Lukas Ketner, colored by Francesco Segala with Sabrina del Grosso and lettered by Tyler Smith c/o Richard Starkings.

The main cover is by Ariel Olivetti (above). There are multiple variant covers including one by Lukas Ketner and an EC homage by Jay Stephens.

I'll be posting more pages along with the script in a few weeks for my Patreon backers at the $5 tier and up. You can pick up Catacomb of Torment #2 at better and creepier comic shops (creepy in a positive way, not the Joe's Fantasy World way) and online shops.

If anyone has already picked up the comic, my sincere and heartfelt thanks. I hope you liked it, and our story. Lukas and I will be back in November with our second story, "Necronomicomicon", appearing in Catacomb of Torment #5.

[nedolemoelf]

THE "PERPETUUM MOBILE" IS OUT!!!

You can read it now on Webtoon and ComicFury (and soon GlobalComix too)!! WEBTOON: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/perpetuum-mobile-domed-ppl-doomed-ppl/list?title_no=1152079 COMICFURY: https://perpetuummobiledpdp.thecomicseries.com/ I would be really glad if you'd share it and read it!!

[smashpages]

Out this week: Godzilla vs. America: Texas (IDW, $7.99): 

The kaiju city-smashing anthology tour hits the Lone Star State, and since everything is bigger here in Texas, Godzilla isn’t content with just one city. This 48-page oversized issue features four 10-page stories by Texas-based comics creators, celebrating the state’s comics community while simultaneously destroying it.

See what else is coming to your local comic shop this week!