Out this week: Devour (Abrams ComicsArt/Megascope, $24.99): 

This graphic novel by Jazmine Joyner and Anthony Pugh is about a family who moves to Alabama to take care of their matriarch, who is suffering from dementia, but the eldest daughter discovers there’s a lot more going on here, as she discovers her family’s secret legacy and their tie to the god Anansi.

Let's welcome October with inktober. Given this years madness it was obvious I was going to adapt the prompts to The Witcher universe, you were kind of warned 🤣

I drew this yesterday but it was too late to scan it, so here it is. I'm not fully content with it buut no point in shaming the first so here we go. ⚔

Tropical Screech-Owl

Burgalin Sequeira Fernando

Out this week: The Last Count of Monte Cristo (Abrams ComicArts/ Megascope, $24.99):

Ayize Jama-Everett and Tristan Roach put a new spin on The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas’s classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge and redemption. This one is set in a future “hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture.” 

Across the Tracks (Abrams/Megascope, $15.99): Fans of the Watchmen HBO series will want to check this out — this new graphic novel from Abrams’ Megascope imprint tells the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of Greenwood, Oklahoma, a.k.a. Black Wall Street.

The Eightfold Path (An Endorsement)

If anything can be said about Abrams ComicArts books, it’s that they are undeniably beautiful. Aside from what lies within their pages, the books themselves are works of art. They are portable museums. The colors, the weight and heft of the paper used, the end paper designs, the cover images chosen, these make the books worth looking at. The stories being told? These make the books worth buying.…

Smash Pages Q&A: John Jennings