America's First School for Black Girls, 1832

Wilfrid Lupano (writer), Stéphane Fert (art)

In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a “charming and picturesque” little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents.

Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough. Until the day when the “charming school”, led by Prudence Crandall, announces that it will now welcome Black girls….

Thirty years before the abolition of slavery, some fifteen young people in the Crandall school are greeted by a wave of hostility of insane proportion. White America is afraid of some of its children.

The story of this school and its legal legacy for civil rights cannot be understated. Crandall v. State (of Connecticut) was the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in the Crandall case played a role in two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. It catapulted Ms. Crandall into a Civil Rights pioneer.

8 ½ x 11, 144pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123486

eBook: $16.99
ISBN 9781681123493

PUBLICATION DATE: February 11, 2025

Thierry Lamy, Nicolas Finet (writers) & various artists

Here is the can't-miss overview of the punk rock scene from its early inception in the seventies in New York and the UK. Includes chapters on The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and more. Punk was also the flex point for women in rock like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Blondie, The Runaways, Patti Smith and The Slits that paved the way for the Riot Grrrl movement. 

Flashing the finger against the slick corporate rock of the '70s, punk was faster, messier, and louder than anything before it. Covered here with the same raw energy, look, and attitude as the music itself!

7 ½ x 10, 176pp., full color HC, $27.99
ISBN 9781681123509

eBook: $16.99
ISBN 9781681123516

PUBLICATION DATE: March 18, 2025

To The Heart of Solitude

Lomig

What pushed John Muir to become the pioneering environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club?

1867: A sawmill is running at full speed with a terrible noise when suddenly, workers run to rescue a man on the ground. He has seriously injured his eyes. John Muir is twenty-nine years old and has to be confined in a dark room: it is likely that he may remain blind. But miraculously, after months of an almost mystical convalescence, he regains his sight.

This episode convinces him he's going to leave everything behind and embrace his lifelong dream: head south to meet the wilderness. Armed with only his courage, his youth, a magnifying glass and a botanical book, he treks hundreds of miles on foot from Indiana to Florida. Imagine an almost pristine wilderness, where only a few dangerous ex-soldiers from the South and former slaves thrown out of the old plantations roam…

This biography also covers his other life-changing pioneering trek along the Sierra Nevada Trail which now bears his name. Here, in breathtaking vistas, is the inspiration he got to found the Sierra Club, create the first national parks, and become one of America’s first and foremost environmentalist champions.

Exquisitely rendered in a sepia tone.

8 ½ x 11, 176pp., B&W HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123523

ebook: $16.99
ISBN 9781681123530

PUBLICATION DATE: April 15, 2025

Bitcoin, NFT and Other Curiosities

Daniel Villa Monteiro (writer), Nicolas Balas (art)

Dive with Alice into the mysterious and controversial world
of cryptocurrencies.

We are on the eve of Covid confinement when the young woman received
an inheritance from her grandmother and wonders what to do with this money that
her banker wants to invest for her.

By chance, she discovers that parallel currencies open the
door to another world. Misunderstood by her family and friends, she nevertheless
threw herself into it wholeheartedly.

Her online comics on her experience make her quite the
influencer, explaining crypto’s intricacies in simple terms but with eyes wide
open as to its dangers. We even travel with her to El Salvador, the first
country to accept Bitcoin as a national currency, and its cryptocurrency farms,
to understand the power and perils of Bitcoin, NFTs, blockchains and other
curiosities.

6 ½ x 9, 112 pg., full color HC, $22.99
ISBN 9781681123554

e-book: $9.99
ISBN 9781681123561

PUBLICATION DATE: May 13, 2025

Tony Lourenço, Elsa Gambin (writers), various artists

Amy Winehouse, her music, her life, her destiny told through comics.

With her unique voice, Amy Winehouse quickly established herself as a paragon of British soul at the start of the 21st century. Winning all the awards in her path after the immense Back to Black album, her career was an explosion in the world of music.

Too brief an explosion. With multiple addictions and fragile mental health, Amy died prematurely, joining the fateful ‘Club of 27’, but leaving behind a memorable body of work.

Discover in this comics biography the eventful life of this artist with such a recognizable style, still resonating throughout the world today.

Part of the bestselling series of pop musician biographies marrying well illustrated articles presenting the facts with comics chapters presenting the feel.

7x10, 128pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123592

e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123608

PUBLICATION DATE: June 17, 2025

A Comics Biography

Stephen Weiner (writer), Dan Mazur (art)

Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, through inventing the term “graphic novel” to convince a general trade publisher to publish the groundbreaking A Contract with God, you’ll follow along in Eisner’s life journey.

With the most prestigious comics awards named after him, Will Eisner is forever celebrated not only in what he created but his unerring belief in comics’ capacity to be better, to reach higher, to be a full art form in its own right. This is the life of this man of vision who helped to put comics on the map.

6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 300pp. full color hardcover, $29.99
ISBN 9781681123578

e-book: $19.99
ISBN 9781681123585

PUBLICATION DATE: July 15, 2025

Stephen Weiner (writer), Dan Mazur (art)

One of the masterpieces of contemporary French literature is brilliantly adapted to comics.

1954, Cécile, a Parisian high school student, spends the summer of her seventeenth birthday in a villa with her father Raymond, a widower, and Elsa, his mistress. Cécile and her father have a close relationship, carefree and full of pleasure. Cécile will experience her first thrills with Cyril. The atmosphere changes when Raymond announces the arrival of Anne, a friend. Different from Elsa and Cécile, Anne is a strict and moralizing woman, she appreciates culture, good manners and intelligence. As soon as she arrives, a subtle fight begins between the three women. Elsa tries to maintain the relationship with Raymond, who is also attracted to Anne. As for Cécile, she fears losing the complicity that binds her to her father, as well as their freedoms. How to avert the threat? In the burning heat of the summer, a cruel game is being prepared with tragic consequences.

A remarkable adaptation of the classic bestseller by Sagan which shocked a generation.

8 ½ x 11, 112pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123615

e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123622

PUBLICATION DATE: August 12, 2025