Michael VanCalbergh

Cartoonist: Dora Grents Publisher: Silver Sprocket Publication Date: June 2025 Every day feels like a new hell. The machine of sorrow that surrounds us seems to run on anything we need to survive. Which, in turn, only increases the suffering around us. I find it difficult to find anything in the real world that brings joy and a brief respite from the ongoing awfulness around me. It’s mainly why I read comics. They bring me from this world into a better, sometimes worse, one where I can turn the page.

Cartoonist: Askel Aden Publisher: FirstSecond Published: June 2025 A road trip, a distant mother, her kid yearning for connection, and a journey to find their way home. If you read enough, comics or otherwise, this story construction isn’t new. But Askel Aden’s Love, Misha is a fascinating middle-grade addition to this genre of storytelling that is well worth your time and attention.

Cartoonist: Marc Torices Translator: Andrea Rosenberg Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Publication Date: June 2025 Three hundred years ago, or maybe it was in the late 1890s but most definitely sometime in the 1930s … or potentially the 1940s? Anyway, at some point the world was introduced to Cornelius the Dog, and things were never the same.