2025 was a big year for D&Q–not that it’s over yet, but you can hardly take us to task for reminding you about all the great books we’ve already had the pleasure of getting on the shelves.
We celebrated 80 years of Moomin by launching our deluxe editions of Tove Jansson’s classic chapter books Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, and Moomin Adventures: Book Two by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson. GARO founder Shirato Sanpei made his debut in our manga line with not one but two volumes of The Legend of Kamui translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger. Shirato joined long-time D&Q manga-kas Mizuki Shigeru (Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki’s Supernatural Parade, translated by Zack Davisson, out November 11th) and Tatsumi Yoshihiro (A Drifting Life, translated by Taro Nettleton, in stores November 4th).
Tom Gauld returned with his latest collection of science funnies Physics For Cats, as well as a handy paperback of his first-ever book You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack with an all-new cover. Two other 2025 titles are aimed right at your funny bones: Keiler Roberts’s Preparing to Bite and Nathan Gelgud’s Reel Politik (in stores November 4th).
This was a landmark year for comics fiction at D&Q, with forays into slice-of-life, romance, mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy to boot. Lee Lai’s Cannon served up a darkly funny slice-of-life tale of friendship, family, and anxiety. The Weight by Melissa Mendes broke hearts with a quiet yet powerful coming-of-age epic set in midcentury America. Short story collections by Rachel Ang (I Ate the Whole World to Find You) and Michael D. Kennedy (Milk White Steed) straddled literary genres to critical acclaim. Marc Torices’s Cornelius: The Merry Life of A Wretched Dog (translated by Andrea Rosenberg) made waves as a singular love letter to the comics medium wrapped in an absurdist mystery. Aya: Face the Music (translated by Edwige Renee Dro) saw Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie return to the Ivory Coast in the ‘80s where desperately changing times call for desperate measures.
Michael DeForge brought us his alien abduction tragicomedy Holy Lacrimony. María Medem’s Land of Mirrors (translated by Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz) took readers on an adventure into–and then out of–loneliness with the help of a magic flower. We reissued Paul B. Rainey’s instant classic Why Don’t You Love Me? with a hot new cover before bringing you his time travel love story There’s No Time Like the Present.
2025 was an equally big year for nonfiction and memoir. Guy Delisle crafted an idiosyncratic biography of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge (translated by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall). Mimi Pond delivered her magnum opus on the controversial and yet endlessly entertaining Mitford sisters Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. Pond’s PEN America Award-winning debut Over Easy also came out in paperback alongside Kate Beaton’s NYT Notable memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. In the (slightly fictionalized) Checked Out, Katie Fricas paid her respects to the rom-com with a vibrant story about love, family, struggling to make it as an artist, and yes—being a library worker.
Several memoirs tackled school life: Elise Gravel took inspiration from her tween years with the deeply relatable True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the 90s (translated by Montana Kane). Eagle Valiant Brosi revisited his unconventional, back-to-the land childhood in Black Cohosh. Weng Pixin took readers to art school with her in Wake Up, Pixoto! while Lawrence Lindell returned to Compton and his SF Zine Fest roots in We All Got Something. Raymond Biesinger rounds out the year’s roster with his forthcoming self-defense guide for independent creatives 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off (in stores October 21st).
We look forward to sharing our 2026 titles with you, but until then, here’s one last look at D&Q’s 2025 in review!
Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson • Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson • Moomin Adventures: Book Two by Tove Jansson & Lars Jansson
A Drifting Life by Tatsumi Yoshihiro, translated by Taro Nettleton • The Legend of Kamui: Volume One by Shirato Sanpei, translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger • The Legend of Kamui: Volume Two by Shirato Sanpei, translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger • Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki’s Supernatural Parade by Mizuki Shigeru, translated by Zack Davisson
Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld • Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts • Reel Politik by Nathan Gelgud • You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld
Holy Lacrimony by Michael DeForge • Land of Mirrors by María Medem, translated by Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz • There’s No Time Like the Present by Paul B. Rainey • Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul B. Rainey
9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off by Raymond Biesinger • Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond • Muybridge by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall
Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton • We All Got Something by Lawrence Lindell
Checked Out by Katie Fricas • Over Easy by Mimi Pond • True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the 90s by Elise Gravel, translated by Montana Kane • Wake Up, Pixoto! by Weng Pixin
Aya: Face the Music by Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie, translated by Edwige Renee Dro • Cannon by Lee Lai • I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang
Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog by Marc Torices, translated by Andrea Rosenberg • Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy • The Weight by Melissa Mendes