A Plague of New Preorders

• What we’ve all been waiting for! Glaeolia volume 3 will be available for preorder shortly, with listings going live at 6pm PST, October 15th. Check out the listings for more details about the book!
  LIVE NOW: Glaeolia 3 [standard edition]
  COMING LATER: Glaeolia 3 [lettered edition]
  
  Speaking of Glaeolia, we are collecting interest in reprints of Glaeolia volumes 1 & 2 at this form. We will use this information to help determine if reprints are feasible, so please fill it out if you would like to be informed if / when a reprint occurs!
  
• Other books going up for preorder!
  
  When it rains it pours – we’ve decided to also open up preorders for MISSISSIPPI’s Invisible Parade short story collection: get it here. Containing over 12 stories and covering over a decade’s worth of work, this is the definitive collection of Kyoto-based painter and comic artist MISSISSIPPI’s comics work.
  
  
  
  

A few titles that have already been posted for preorder recently include Tada Yumi’s gorgeous full-color fairytale short story manga The Mermaid and the Prince, the print edition of which also includes an 11 page illustration gallery, as well as Imai Arata’s F, a massive 220+ page work (including an extensive contextualizing essay by translator and manga scholar Ryan Holmberg) which, set in the wake of the Fukushima earthquake and cross-pollinated with the imagery and grammar of the international political landscape of the time, imagines a radically destabilized Japan.

Some Great Indie Works Already Available

Finally, I want to take the chance to highlight some of our other titles that we’ve released over the course of Q2 / Q3 which hadn’t been posted on the front page yet but are absolutely worth your time:

ohuton’s illustrated short story Dear Sara, 1997, Summer is a sleeper hit that’s wowing everyone who picks it up. The author’s English debut, Dear Sara offers a short and poignant mystery of love.

False Stars by Sayaka Mogi is a return to the fantasy world of Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice (published by Kodansha), and presents two heartfelt episodes from the life of the adorable werewolf Mani and stoic hunter Wul. This is also the first time a title from this series is available in print!

Miyoshi’s Rabbit Game (another English debut) “feels like the psychedelic dream manga you’ve wished for but never quite see in reality.”  An inventive, gorgeously drawn surreal take on high school love, and one that evades easy answers to the mysterious events at its heart.

Each of the above three titles are available in both a print and digital edition.

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Glaeolia is a large trim 7×10 in, 250+ page RISO-printed anthology featuring a deluxe soft-touch cover laminate. This book collects stories of singular beauty and breathtaking originality from a group of twelve indie artists.

Contributing artists include: Arantoochika (@arantootika), Hiuchi tana (@hiuchitana), Kawakatsu Tokushige (@old_schooooool), Masumura Jūshichi (@masumura17), mogcom (@mogra16), Moriizumi Takehito (@moriizumii), Morita Rui (@moritarurib), Okuda Akiko, Onta Niwako (@pyonnurila), Shinnosuke Saika (@toshoneko), Yamakawa Naoto (@emikanta), and Yosomachi (@yososoyo).

The stories selected for Glaeolia include self-published works (dōjinshi), as well as works drawn from indie manga magazines & mainstream publishers. This book will release in a limited numbered print run of 300. There will be two separate listings available: A standard listing listing for the book at 25$ and a limited listing which will allow ordering a specific # from books 1–20. Each of the copies numbered 1-20 will feature an edge dye/stain on the text block. Additionally, they will be hand-stamped, and signed by one of the series editors on the limitation page. We expect it to become available for direct order on our online shop early March soon. More will be announced as the release period draws near.

The ordering period has been announced! We have high confidence the books will arrive soon and have set the ordering period to open Monday May 25 2020 at 6 pm PST (see link for important details!) The books will be available to order through these links: standard, limited.

Thank you all so much for your support! The book is now sold out! We are working on more ways to make Glaeolia available for readers in the future. In the meantime, please look forward to our other forthcoming titles.

For future updates, including notification of when listings are made available, please follow us on twitter at @glacierbaybooks.

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