The third and final installment of Chris Ware’s (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Building Stories) facsimile sketchbook series is a heartwarming and, often hilarious, window into the life and work of one of the most important figures in modern sequential art.

Eddie Campbell’s (From Hell) fascinating new book is the first substantial biography of early 20th century newspaper cartoonist, Kate Carew. It’s a remarkable story of reinvention, following Mary Williams (born in Oakland, California in 1869) as she moves from gigs illustrating Sunday color comics to creating a print version of herself with the pseudonym of “Kate Carew” by stylizing her image in “oversize spectacles and a big black hat.”

Yamada Murasaki never received international acclaim during her lifetime. But now, thanks to Drawn & Quarterly’s excellent English language translations of her work, the groundbreaking manga artist is starting to get some of her much deserved recognition. Second Hand Love builds on the outstanding 2022 release, Talk to My Back, and contains two of the author’s most important stories: “A Blue Flame” and “Second Hand Love.”

The Singularity is a fascinating graphic novel collaboration between Emmy Award-winning composer Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead) and writer Mat Groom (Mighty Morphin). The book tells a story of love, loss, and redemption that spans thousands of years, but feels intimate and identifiable.

Legendary 92-year-old graphic and font designer Seymour Chwast takes a dazzling, multidisciplinary approach to Mark Twain’s 104-year-old prose poem in this slim but radical new book. Through drawing, pastel painting, type design, and computer color, Chwast breathes life into Twain’s savage rebuke of religion’s role in jingoism and violent patriotism.

In 1952 EC publisher Bill Gaines received a hilarious letter from Ray Bradbury gently requesting $50 in payment for the rights to his two stories “The Rocket Man” and “Kaleidoscope.”

Michael T. Gilbert’s fascinating new tome tells the tragic tale of Tops, the ill-fated “adult magazine of dramatic picture stories.”

All the best things in life take time, and yet it’s natural to fear that same passing. In Keeping Two, the latest graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane, and an endeavour which has appropriately been in the offing for 20 years, time is less a linear pathway than a kaleidoscope of interconnected anxieties, hopes, and dreams.

Merriam Webster defines homage as: “an expression of high regard; respect. Something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another; tribute.” The comic book industry loves homages more than an audiophile loves a good turntable set-up. Case in point, Amazing Spider-Man #300. But what happens when an homage becomes a love letter?