SelfMadeHero Autumn 2018 GRAPHIC NOVELS & VISUAL NARRATIVES Our mission at SelfMadeHero is simple: to publish ground-breaking and beautiful work by authors and artists from across the globe, from the quirky and humorous to the political and profound. We are proud to bring readers graphic novels and visual narratives that provoke, entertain, inspire and inform. This autumn, we publish a landmark graphic biography of the king of Pop Art. In Andy: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol, published in October, Dutch author Typex traces the remarkable life and extraordinary times of a transcendent artist and master self-publicist. In September, another graphic biography, One Two Three Four Ramones, tells the story of America’s most influential punk band. In Bruno Cadène, Xavier Bétaucourt and Eric Cartier’s graphic novel, the group’s explosive story unfolds through the eyes of its creative soul: Dee Dee Ramone. Kurt Vonnegut famously said that to leave technology out of fiction is to misrepresent life. In I Feel Machine, edited by Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able, graphic novelists including Shaun Tan, Tillie Walden, Erik Svetoft and Box Brown present their reports from the digital frontier. In October, I.N.J. Culbard’s lean and thrilling adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction are collected in Lovecraft: Four Classic Horror Stories, a beautifully produced hardback for collectors and fans of weird fiction. Two works of original fiction, both released in October, complete our autumn list: Wolf by Rachael Ball is a captivating and emotive tale about childhood grief and overcoming the loss of a loved one, while Lip Hook by David Hine and Mark Stafford eschews the conventions of the horror genre to create a fresh and inventive story set in an eerie backwater of Britain. www.selfmadehero.com Wolf ■ BY RACHAEL BALL A captivating magical realist tale about overcoming the loss of a loved one SELLING POINTS ■ A gripping and emotive tale about confronting grief and overcoming the loss of a family member ■ Uses magical realism to tell a complex yet captivating coming- of-age story ■ Rachael Ball is well known for her comics work for magazines, and for her graphic novel The Inflatable Woman SPECIFICATIONS Black-and-white throughout 296 pages, 170mm x 240mm Hardback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL • FICTION t is the long, hot summer of 1976. Hugo, the youngest Ichild of three, is walking with his father in the woods. There, he comes face to face with a wolf – and from that moment on, his life will never be the same again. ISBN 978-1-910593-54-7 Soon after, a tragic accident leaves Hugo desolate and £15.99 disorientated. The family, now grieving and incomplete, moves home. Among Hugo’s new neighbours is the Wolf Man – a dangerous recluse, according to the boy next door. Spellbound by the movie The Time Machine, and desperate to return to the days before the accident, Hugo draws up plans to build a contraption that will turn back time. But only the Wolf Man has the parts Hugo needs to complete his machine, and that will mean entering his sinister neighbour’s house. Beautifully illustrated in pencil, Wolf is a captivating and poignant graphic novel about confronting childhood grief and overcoming the loss of a loved one. Rachael Ball is a cartoonist, a teacher and the author of The Inflatable Woman. Her illustrations and cartoons have appeared in Deadline, the Times Educational Supplement, the Radio Times and many other publications. 2 ■ AUTUMN 2018 Lip Hook ■ WORDS BY DAVID HINE ■ ART BY MARK STAFFORD A modern gothic thriller set in an isolated, myth-steeped English village SELLING POINTS ■ Lip Hook eschews the conventions of the horror genre to create a fresh and inventive story set in an eerie backwater of Britain ■ A carefully crafted edge-of-your- seat thriller ■ Hine and Stafford’s British Comic Award-shortlisted adaptation of The Man Who Laughs was described by Q Magazine as “a blistering attack on the hyper-rich”, while Cory Doctorow called it “remarkably streamlined and razor-sharp” SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations throughout 168 pages, 170mm x 240mm Hardback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2018 omewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a GRAPHIC NOVEL • HORROR Sneglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the village is more than the end of the road – it’s the end of the world. Beyond it, there is nothing but mist-shrouded marshland. ISBN 978-1-910593-57-8 Few travellers take the road to Lip Hook, but one foggy £14.99 night, a car speeds perilously towards the village. The driver is a dangerously beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a gunshot wound and a suitcase containing a treasure he has risked his life for. Cash-strapped but in need of a place to hide, the two fugitives seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades the innkeeper to accept payment in ALSO AVAILABLE kind. As days pass and the woman extends her services to more of Lip Hook’s men, among them the village priest, a false faith grips the community – and reason, logic and humanity begin to disappear. David Hine has written extensively for mainstream The Man Who Laughs comics, including X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman and Green ISBN 978-1-906838-58-4 Lantern. Mark Stafford collaborated with Costa Award- £14.99 winning graphic novelist Bryan Talbot on Cherubs!. He is the cartoonist-in-residence at London’s Cartoon Museum. AUTUMN 2018 ■ 3 ART MASTERS Andy THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL ■ BY TYPEX SELLING POINTS ■ Intensively researched, this graphic biography has the approval of the Warhol Foundation ■ Several years in the making, this 568-page book is the first A landmark graphic graphic novel to tell the complete life story of Andy Warhol, from biography of the his humble beginnings in king of Pop Art: Pittsburgh to his death in 1987 Andy Warhol ■ A fresh take on the life of one of the world’s most widely exhibited and universally recognisable artists SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations throughout 568 pages, 186mm x 260mm Paperback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL • BIOGRAPHY rom the thirty-two canvas Campbell’s Soup Cans Fto the Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol’s silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmicky and ISBN 978-1-910593-58-5 unafraid of repetition. Obsessed with consumerism and £24.99 the cult of celebrity, Warhol exalted the “surface of things” – and yet he was a man of deep complexity. In Andy, Typex captures the remarkable life of the king of Pop Art, from his working-class upbringing in Pittsburgh to the dizzying heights of his celebrity. Spanning a period that began with the “talkies” and ended with the advent of house music, it is also a memorable portrait of 20th century pop culture and the stars who defined it. ALSO AVAILABLE Taking in Warhol’s early career as a commercial illustrator, his relationship with the Velvet Underground and the development of his own instantly recognisable style, Andy is an exhilarating portrait of a transcendent artist and a master self-publicist. Vincent ISBN 978-1-906838-79-9 Typex is a comics artist and illustrator. His first graphic £12.99 biography, Rembrandt, was commissioned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and published in English by SelfMadeHero. He lives in Amsterdam. 4 ■ AUTUMN 2018 Lovecraft FOUR CLASSIC HORROR STORIES ■ BY H.P. LOVECRAFT ■ ADAPTED BY I.N.J. CULBARD SELLING POINTS ■ Brings I.N.J. Culbard’s four acclaimed Lovecraft adaptations into a single hardback edition that will appeal to comics fans and collectors alike Four classic ■ I.N.J. Culbard is well known tales of horror for his adaptations of classics, by H.P. Lovecraft including The King in Yellow and - in graphic The Picture of Dorian Gray ■ Lovecraft has influenced writers novel form from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman, and he continues to have a devoted readership SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations throughout 520 pages, 170mm x 240mm Hardback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: OCTOBER 2018 n Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate GRAPHIC NOVEL • HORROR Idisappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods. And in the frozen wasteland of ISBN 978-1-910593-56-1 Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past £24.99 almost beyond comprehension – and a future too terrible to imagine. Graphic novelist I.N.J. Culbard gives terrifying form to four classic tales by H.P. Lovecraft: “The Dream-Quest of ALSO AVAILABLE Unknown Kadath”, “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, “At The Mountains of Madness” and “The Shadow Out of Time”. Expertly adapted and beautifully drawn, Culbard’s lean and thrilling adaptations breathe new life into four stories that helped to reinvent the horror genre. I.N.J. Culbard is an award-winning artist widely known for his graphic novel adaptations of classics. He collaborated on a critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes series with Ian The King in Yellow Edginton, and he has worked on The New Deadwardians for ISBN 978-1-9060838-92-8 Vertigo, Dark Ages for Dark Horse, Brass Sun for 2000AD £14.99 and Wild’s End for BOOM! Studios. His first original graphic novel, Celeste, was published by SelfMadeHero. AUTUMN 2018 ■ 5 One Two Three Four Ramones ■ WORDS BY BRUNO CADÈNE AND XAVIER BÉTAUCOURT ■ ART BY ERIC CARTIER ■ TRANSLATED BY EDWARD GAUVIN SELLING POINTS ■ A brilliantly readable and historically accurate biography that tells the story of the punk quartet through the eyes of its creative soul: Dee Dee Ramone ■ A New York Times poll voted The Ramones’ debut one of the most A graphic biography influential albums of the 20th of America’s finest century punk band ■ Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the band’s impact extends far beyond popular music into fashion and beyond SPECIFICATIONS Black-and-white throughout 96 pages, 170mm x 240mm Paperback RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2018 GRAPHIC NOVEL • n the mid-1970s, The Ramones reinvigorated a lifeless BIOGRAPHY Irock ’n’ roll scene.