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New Graphic Novels for Adults January 2026 |
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The Weight
by Melissa Mendes
A rural family's cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid-century America. Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly and much of Edie's young life is spent trying to escape this tyrant. 'Why doesn't she ever cry?...Gives me the creeps.' Of course, being a child means she lives a child's life--she still has laughter-filled sleepovers and outdoor adventures with the local rat pack of kids still too young to work. But Edie's heart grows callous as her father becomes drunker and angrier. Melissa Mendes' pastoral cartooning captures the openness of rural America --soft breezes, tall grass, whirring grasshoppers, rainstorms, skinned knees. But all the while, the cruelty, the disappointment of man lurks behind the barn and in the trailer. Life can be stubbed out as easily as a cigarette tossed in the dirt. One moment all focus, next, gone without a thought. Will Edie find herself repeating a cycle or will she be free like she felt as a child?--
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Exquisite Corpses Volume 1
by James Tynion IV
Every five years on Halloween, the wealthiest families in America play a game. Twelve of the deadliest people in the world are dropped into a small town with just one goal: last killer standing wins. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine - this year's unlucky arena - the goal is much simpler. They must survive the night.--
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Lore Olympus: Volume Nine
by Rachel Smythe
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love--the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including a brand new bonus short story The Underworld has a queen Persephone and Hades are finally reunited when the banished goddess of spring returns to the Underworld to claim her rightful place as queen. Now that Hades and Persephone have defeated and imprisoned the power-hungry Kronos once more, nothing can keep them apart, and years of being separated have only made their desire for each other grow. But the other Olympians can't help but meddle, pushing the pair to make things official with a coronation--and a wedding. Ignoring the others who try to define their relationship, Hades and Persephone choose to take things at their own pace and focus on rebuilding the Underworld. They begin by investigating how Kronos was first able to escape, and they learn the horrifying truth that he has captured a powerful young god whose abilities help Kronos project his thoughts outside of Tartarus--thoughts he uses to plague Hera's every waking moment. Though Kronos's physical form is locked away, Olympus will never be free until they can rescue the child from the furious Titan's grasp. To save the realms, Persephone must figure out her fertility goddess powers and embrace her role as Queen of the Underworld--even as it takes her further from her mother's expectations and her former place in the Mortal Realm. This edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel. This volume collects episodes 207-233 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.
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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
by Ben Passmore
'You're not out in the streets with everyone else?' Ronnie asks his ambivalent son Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata, and Sanyika Shakur, among others. 'Black liberation is your fight, too.' So begins Black Arms to Hold You Up, a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and the aughts, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben--and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic-- Provided by publisher.
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The Last Time We Spoke: A Story of Loss
by Jesse Mechanic
When he was a teenager, Jesse Mechanic's mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer. In this memoir, he looks back on that time, and on the ways that experience followed him throughout his life. Struggling with school while dealing with attentional problems and the overwhelming tsunami of grief, this book tells the story of Mechanic's slow work to figure out a life for himself. It's about obsessive-compulsive disorder, intrusive thoughts, and depression-- straight-A's turning to straight F's, and smiles to blank stares. It's about what loss can teach us, and how trauma can be both debilitating and beautiful. It's about standing in dark rooms for long enough for your eyes to adjust.--Provided by publisher.
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The Hive Volume 1
by A. J. Lieberman
The Hive is nothing you'd expect but everything you'd want in a dirty, neo-noir story set in a world where some people can connect and control others like a Queen Bee in a hive. Mason Shaw is no one. A worker bee. All that changes when he crosses paths with a few stragglers trying to stay one step ahead of a queen with immense powers. There are those among us that can connect and manipulate the people around them into a hivemind state--like a beehive. These people are called Hivers. It's not hypnotism. It's not some kind of drug. It's biological. The Hive is about a group of hunted hivers struggling to remain one step ahead of their wrathful former queen who is hunting them down. But when a mysterious worker bee gets recruited it starts a series of events that puts everyone on a collision course and will end with everyone in danger... especially the Queen. Sex. Violence. And Bees. Welcome to The Hive. Collects issues #1-4.
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Witchcraft
by Sole Otero
Three mysterious sisters, dancing at the knife's edge of benevolent and malevolent, lie at the heart of Witchcraft -- a maelstrom swirling together horror and comedy, magic and religion, colonialism and indigenous folklore.
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Dark Empty Void
by Zack Kaplan
Deep in a subterranean complex, scientists have created a stable microscopic black hole to discover the truth - is it just a matter-sucking monster or a possibly gateway across the galaxy? Scientists have created a stable, microscopic black hole in a secret underground compound, but when they lose control, the black hole spews out a cosmic maelstrom, strange dangerous creatures, and most surprisingly...a mysterious human teenage girl. Now, a depressed but brilliant psychologist must help her estranged husband and the other scientists solve the mystery and close the black hole before it consumes all of Earth. Dare to witness a cosmic horror series that will amaze and terrify you, with hit comic creator Zack Kaplan(Kill All Immortals, Beyond Real, Mindset), fan-favorite artist Chris Shehan(The Autumnal, House of Slaughter), rising star colorist Francesco Segala(Nights, House of Slaughter) and Ringo-nominated letterer Justin Birch(Road of Bones, House of Slaughter).
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