NBM Graphic Novels announced its lineup of titles coming our way in the fall of 2023.
SEPTEMBER
PRINCE IN COMICS!
Tony Lourenco, Nicolas Finet
Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like “1999” or “Purple Rain,” made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world.
Here is his extraordinary destiny in a mix of colorfully illustrated articles and comics!
168pp., 7 ½ x 10″, full color HC, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-68112-298-4; ISBN 9781681123219; Ebook, $16.99; ISBN 9781681123226
OCTOBER
DUNGEON ZENITH, VOL 5.: FOG & TEARS
Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar, Boulet
The valiant duck Herbert and Isis, his beautiful and belligerent Kochaque companion’s son is born. As much as the young parents are delighted with this new arrival, tensions are not long in rising. Isis wants to submit her baby to the traditional Kochaque rite of passage. Herbert, judging it far too dangerous, tries to dissuade her. Unable to convince her, he finally decides to kidnap the infant.
In the second story, the fight to recover the Dungeon from the hands of the big bad Delacourt still keeps our heroes busy… While Horus has been trying for days to hypnotize the spirits of Terra Amata freed from the Vault of Souls by Delacourt, the Guardian calls on Marvin to come to the thaumaturge’s aid. But to get there, he will have to, willy-nilly, make an alliance with a former classmate of his new wife.
8 ½ x 11, 96pp., full color trade pb. $17.99; ISBN 9781681123165
NOVEMBER
RED HARVEST: A GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE TERROR FAMINE IN SOVIET UKRAINE
Michael Cherkas
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1933. Stalin and the ruling Communist Party began their program of forced large-scale collectivization of individual farms and farmers, including the seizure of livestock, farm implements, crops, seed stock, and other property.
Red Harvest is the fictional story, based on true stories as related to the Ukranian-Canadian author, of Mykola Kovalenko, a Ukrainian immigrant to Canada, who was the only member of his family to have survived the famine. Through his memories, we witness the horrors of what happened to his family and fellow villagers in the “breadbasket of Europe” as they struggled—not only to make sense of the war that was being waged against them—but, ultimately, to survive.
6×9, 144pp, B&W HC, $19.99; ISBN 9781681123202; Ebook, $9.99; ISBN 9781681123233
DECEMBER
ZOMBILLENIUM 5-6: BLACK FRIDAY/SABBATH GRAND DERBY
Arthur de Pins
The day after “Black Friday” at Zombillenium, the employees have carte blanche to devour the visitors, encouraged by management who intends to profit from these gains in new souls. To thwart Charlotte and Aurelian’s sinister plans with her resistance network, Gretchen must first settle accounts with her past..
And in the last culminating episode, The Zombillenium amusement park, which still keeps dozens of visitors prisoner, is coveted by many demons, each eager to become a majority shareholder. The only method of arbitration accepted by all: the Sabbath Grand Derby, a sporting event as violent as it is inventive in which five witches compete against each other and will be fed to visitors to the park… Among the candidates, a certain Gretchen, determined to play her best since she cannot count on the help of Aurelian-Baphomet… The spectators of the Sabbath Grand Derby, broadcast like an ordinary reality TV program, will get an eyeful! As for Gretchen, she’s facing a handful!
The most spectacular of the Zombillenium volumes awaits you, for an apotheosis of a finale, where the action takes nothing away from the emotion or the social criticism.
This series won the Angouleme Best Comics for Youth Prize in 2012. A bestselling series in France with over a quarter million copies sold.
9×12, 96pp., color HC, $24.99; ISBN 9781681123172; 9.99 ebook ISBN 9781681123189
ZOMBILLENIUM 3-4: CONTROL FREAKS/ROYAL WITCHCRAFT
Arthur de Pins
The set combines volumes 3 and 4 at a special price! In the third story, there’s excitement in the Zombillenium horror themed park run by actual monsters. Brought in by Behemoth himself, the vampire Bohemond Jaggar de Rochambeau IIII is brought in to consult, his mission: to increase return on investment for the shareholders, but for Behemoth that return has to be in souls.
In the 4th chapter, the park has never been better: its popularity has peaked following demonic reforms by Behemoth, who then decides to play his property in a very special competition… A witches’ Sabbath!
Gretchen, Aurelian and Von Bloodt, meanwhile, have set up an underground escape network in order to offer the damned the chance for reconversion, far from the nine circles of Hell, a dangerous secret operation not appreciated by the park’s board of directors. Determined to clean this out, they hire the services of a formidable enchantress who will turn into an arch-rival of Gretchen. Underground as in the air, the fight promises to be epic! Will the undead succeed in asserting their rights? Who will be the future happy owner of the Zombillenium Park? Not to be missed!
9×12, 96pp., color HC 2 book set, $24.99; ISBN 9781681123196