Media release — NBM publishing has revealed the release schedule for the first three quarters of 2014, including new editions of books from Ted RALL, and Nicolas De Crecy; brand new releases from Jim Benton, Jesse Lonergan, and Eric Hobbs & Noel Tuazon; and new, equated volumes of The Louvre series by Enki Bilal and Zombillenium by Arthur De Pins being released in English for the first time.MARCH 2014
All Star
By Jesse Lonergan
From the creator of Joe and Azat and flower and Fade
It’s the end of the school year in 1998. mark McGwire is racing Sammy Sosa to break the home run record, bill Clinton is being questioned about a White house intern named Monica Lewinsky, Semisonic’s closing Time is on top of the charts, and Carl Carter is leading the Elizabeth Monarchs of rural Vermont to the specify championship in his senior year. A full scholarship to the university of Maine is waiting on him, and everyone states he has a shot at the pros. He?s so good he can do whatever he wants. ?Until he makes one very arrogant mistake.?
6×9, 176pp., B&W trade pb. $13.99, ISBN 9781561638352
FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK, updated WITH AN ALL new CHAPTER!
SILK road TO RUIN: Why central Asia Is The next middle east 2nd Edition
By Ted RALL
“A sincere (yet still wry) attempt to stave off another disaster. His forte is subjecting the comic-tragic truth buried within political rhetoric.”
-Village Voice
“Stuffed with information, characterized by courage, in photos, “comic novellas,” and pictures, he serves up a travelogue of a region teetering on the brink of irreparable political and environmental failure.”
– The Boston globe
Part graphic novel travelog, part tongue-in-cheek travel guide, here are the adventures of caustic cartoonist Rall in the wild and wooly central Asian countries, a powder keg sitting on tomorrow’s oil… Combines articles with comics chapters relating his experiences retracing the old legendary Silk road starting with the sublime history of China and ending in the absurdity of the petty dictatorships of the ?The ?Stans? where Rall had the temerity -or was it blustery stupidity?- to go back, including once with a group of listeners to his radio show, on a dare. It?s exotic adventure, satire and a fun method to find out a lot more about a part of the world that looms in value with its immense reserves of oil…?”
6×9, 304pp., B&W trade pb, $19.99, ISBN 9781561638857
APRIL 2014
(May trade publication Date)
Family ties An Alaskan crime Drama
By Eric Hobbs and Noel Tuazon
From the creators of The Broadcast
Hoping to safe a future for his children, an aging Alaskan crime boss looks to retire and divide his empire amongst his three heirs. but when his idealistic kid refuses the inheritance, the old man disowns him. This turns out to be a fatal mistake when he sees his cold-blooded daughters use their new-found power and influence against him. influenced by the classic play King Lear; The Godfather satisfies Shakespearean catastrophe in this legendary tale of betrayal and loss.
6×9, 208pp., B&W trade pb., $14.99, ISBN 9781561637294
MAY 2014
(June trade publication Date)
The Louvre Collection: Phantoms of the Louvre
By Enki Bilal
Superstar European SF and fantasy comics artist Enki Bilal revisits the Louvre in twenty-two portraits… He imagines 22 fates of men, women and kids whose lives have been impacted by a work of art. 22 portraits for 5000 years of creation.?
They haunt the halls of the Louvre … they are long dead, often violently … they are a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, a German officer … Each, one day, satisfied a painter or a sculptor and was their model …
Bilal felt them, wandering the corridors of the Louvre, close to the work that tipped their life: Mona Lisa, the success of Samothrace, Christ reclining, an Egyptian mask …Bilal startlingly brings them back to life.
Both a work of fantasy and a masterful homage, this was provided in a special exhibition in the Louvre in early 2013.
9×11 ½, 144 pp., color POB, $29.99, 9781561638413
BACK IN print and IN HARDCOVER FOR THE first TIME
2007 EISNER award NOMINEE “BEST PAINTER”
GLACIAL PERIOD
By Nicolas De Crecy
“De Crecy is a gifted storyteller whose eye for body language and ear for a funny line never stops working him. He deftly combines art history, science fiction and basic philosophizing in a short but very sweet tale.”
– Publishers Weekly
“A clever upending of the durable myth that masterworks of art preserve the history and spirit of their era; the indicating of art, De Crecy suggests, belongs to the people who experience it.”
– Washington Post
With this graphic novel, for the first time in the US, ComicsLit brings over the latest enfant horrible of European comics, a mad genius, and for the first time, The Louvre museum is involved in a co-edition of a series of graphic novels, each a vision of this great museum by a different artist.
De Crecy, at the sight of the extraordinarynull