An all-new collection of 4 short stories clustered around the idea of young adulthood in a futuristic yet nostalgic world. Vampires, kaiju, ancient fish eggs, and silent underwater cities, all overlapping with the vicissitudes and precarity of starting to find your way in the world.

Ding Pao-Yen is a young comic artist from Taiwan. Their work has been making waves for several years now, even being featured and supported by the Angouleme comics artist residency. They are an invited artist at MoCCA 2025, and have recently had several major releases including their latest, CONSOLE 2073. Their books have been released in Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. This is the author’s long awaited English debut.

Target specs

• spot color printing on cover and (monochrome) interiors
• sewn binding and french flap cover design
• deluxe cream paper stock
• 92 pages

Contributions

• Lettering by Lauren Eldon
• Translation by Orion Martin & Xinmei Liu
• Design & Editing by emuh ruh

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The second volume of Tsugawa’s comic “dream journal”. Building off of ‘Mermaid Town’ yet an entirely self-contained work, D’Artagnan’s Horse expands on the narrative and stylistic variety of the first collection bringing an even wider array of polished surreal dreamlike short stories. Includes 16 short comics in a startling variety of tones & settings, as well as the author’s detailed commentary essay, preface, and an afterword / bonus comic.

A5, approx. 100 pages. The same natural paper stock as Mermaid Town and with a complementary color edge stain and two spot ink cover. Binding is sewn perfect bound.

ISBN 978-1-953629-33-3

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Natsujikei Miyazaki has been hailed as one of the most imaginative new cartoonists of her generation, and their works have been recognized on industry best-of lists and at the Japan Media Arts Festival.

…AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKY HAPPENINGS ONE DAY brings to life 33 small sci-fi fragments infused with an ecstatic sense of playfulness and wonder which slice through that mysterious, inescapable thing “everyday life”. A collection of short story masterpieces showcasing the dynamism of ordinary people under mundanely extraordinary circumstances.

A girl with near-nonexistent supernatural powers is actually just a normal kid, a potter who keeps breaking his own pottery, a man whose job is to put protective cling film on things yet struggles to protect what he treasures most, a boy who wakes up one day with a tag hanging from his ear labelled “Pull”, two people that are the only ones left on the planet and consider whether to risk meeting up in person, a group of planets return to their “home” orbit for a long overdue stardust reunion, and many, many more. Gorgeous and eclectic, these stories almost casually affirm what it means to live, and all ways of life.

ISBN 978-1-953629-34-0

Translation by zhuchka
Lettering by Tim Sun
Editing and Design by emuh ruh

Target Specifications

• Gatefold dust-jacketed cover with special under-jacket comic
• Sewn binding
• Deluxe paper stock for cover and internal text block
• Monochrome printing
• ~260 pages B6

WORDS ABOUT “…AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKY HAPPENINGS ONE DAY”

“a one woman anthology that feels like the author is doing a stand up routine of one liners in an alien language. another must by from Glacier Bay Books.” –ARTSCHOOLDROPOUT

“it was so good and so weird???? oh my god it was so weird i loved it” – Sara Mchl

“Just a bunch of weird, absurd, crazy shit that’s just entertaining. Just endlessly entertaining… I just loved this book” – Manga Machinations

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