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Glacier Bay Books is a groundbreaking North American small publisher showcasing the cutting edge of contemporary artistic comics.

Artists with a singular vision

We create works which range from small minicomics to massive anthologies, all published with an eye towards a singular artistic experience and the celebration of the book as an intrinsic art object.

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Powerful artistic works

Focusing on the localization of artistic and idiosyncratic indie & alternative manga from Japan’s small press comics scene.

Collaborating with individual comic artists…

… as well as small and large publishers

  • End of June Update, New Partnership & Pricing

    We’ve been a little quiet this month while recuperating from the multiple festivals we travelled to in May, but here’s what else we’ve been up to: • We’ve been busy starting to get set up with a new US fulfillment partner: White Squirrel! We’re thrilled to be partnering with another small business, and hope that…

  • Kusahara Umi’s MOTHERS now available for preorder

    Like some of our other recent titles, we are running preorders for our new, 264 page book Mothers, through a crowdfunding campaign. After that wraps, the book will become available to preorder on our website here. MOTHERS is Kusahara Umi’s debut English title, collecting and translating 15 years worth of self-published short stories developed on themes of love,…

  • The end of one year…

    This last weekend (Dec 10th / 11th / 12th) marked our last shipping trip of the year. It was an enormous one, packing and posting over 600 books in one huge, final shipping frenzy! I want to take a moment and thank all of our wonderful staff, authors, readers, and fellow publishers and retailers for…

  • And We’re Back!!

    … Make that, back from a very successful trip to Short Run Comics and Arts Festival this month! It was a wonderful trip and we met lots of friends and showed our books to many new faces. But we are finally back and working on resuming our regular operations. We’ve already resumed shipping out orders…

  • SPX and MOVING

    Hello! We are currently traveling back from a wonderful SPX 2022. I’m so grateful to all of the attendees who stopped by our table to say hi, the other exhibitors I met for their kindness, and the organizers for ensuring that the SPX covid protocols were followed diligently and ensuring a safe return show. We…

  • We are at SPX!! Table W78

    You can purchase books at our table using credit cards etc through the website! Order using the purchase item here:

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