From This Flame is a short (64 pg) debut collection of 8 comics from a new JP indie comic artist. FLAME is structured around ideas of myth, and of endings and beginnings.

Invisible Parade expands on MISSISSIPPI’s 2020 digital short story collection Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories which collected 5 short stories from 2014-2019 in approx. 50 pages. PARADE expands this to 160 pages and 12 stories covering the period 2010-2021, including a ton that have never been available before in English and many that are out of print in their original Japanese editions.

We also have a gorgeous limited printing of MISSISSIPPI’s artwork from Tsukiko and the Satellite (one of the stories included in Invisible Parade). Printed in 5″ square format in 3 color riso by our friends at Cold Cube Press, it’s bursting with glowing summer orange waves and teal afternoon shadows. Grab this one while it’s available, as it is a limited printing.

We will be opening up preorders for some more of our titles with a planned goal to have those release by/in May, so please watch this space and our social media closely for an announcement on this.

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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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