In 2026, Drawn & Quarterly has brought you the very best in fiction, humor, biography, memoir, manga and even classic kids books and comics. While we might be coming up on the finish line for the year, that doesn’t mean we’re anywhere near done!
Chris Ware’s highly anticipated The Acme Novelty Library #21 (in stores everywhere Nov. 10th) leads the pack in a year of stellar short and serialized fiction in comics. We began the year with The Woodchipper, Joe Ollmann’s hilarious study of anxiety-inducing close calls. Michael DeForge’s All the Cameras in My Room explores desire and connection in the surveillance age with monstrous humour. Founding D&Q author Seth brought us the latest instalment of his periodical Palookaville 25, featuring some of his most personal work to date.
Lisa Hanawalt’s I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex is the coming-of-middle-age memoir millennials have been waiting to read since beginning to hit middle age. Paul B. Rainey’s Murder School sees the author come to terms with unpleasant memories of the bad old days of the British school system with his signature blend of dark humour and radical acceptance. Arizona O’Neill’s Opioids and Organs interrogates the relationship between organ procurement and the opioid crisis through the lens of her first-hand experience with both upon her father’s passing. Yeong Shin-ma returned with HODO (translated by Janet Hong), a heartbreaking biography told from two distinctly different points in his subject’s life that eventually meet in the middle. While flagship D&Q author Julie Doucet’s classic of autobio comics My New York Diary returns to the shelves with its original cover (in stores Dec.1st).
In historically-minded nonfiction, Tillie Walden’s sweeping ode to the earliest documented queer couple in America, Charity and Sylvia, is also a timely portrait of a nation in conflict with itself amid polarized rhetoric, plague, and economic hardship. Frederick Noland’s Major Taylor shines a light on the first Black man to become the world’s cycling champion. The highs and lows of a professional athlete at work come to life in full color in Noland’s energetic hands. In her latest comics reportage, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim examines an unlikely contemporary in the North Korean strongman with My Friend Kim Jong Un (translated by Janet Hong), while calling attention to the long shadow still cast by the Korean War. R. Sikoryak pays homage to the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing with Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated.
D&Q re-issued Mark Alan Stamaty’s classic picture book Who Needs Donuts? Beloved by kids of all ages (and the adults in their lives too!), its timeless message of love and acceptance continues to speak to all with open enough hearts to listen. Our Moomin series grew to include two of Tove Jansson’s chapter books–The Memoirs of Moominpappa and Moominsummer Madness–as well as the latest volume in our Moomin Adventures series, collecting the very best of the classic Moomin comics by both Tove and her brother Lars Jansson. Gilbert Hernandez’s modern classic Marble Season–where the after-school highjinks of a midcentury Latino community takes centre stage–rounds out the year with a new paperback edition (in stores December 1st), while manga icon Shigeru Mizuki’s whimsical side comes out to play in The Definitive Yokai Field Guide, translated by Zack Davisson.
It was also another banner year for manga. We released two more volumes of Shirato Sanpei’s The Legend of Kamui (Volume 3 and Volume 4, translated by Richard Rubinger & Noriko Rubinger), bringing us nearly halfway through the original series. 2026 sees two of the complete mature works of the late Tsuge Yoshiharu: He Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid and A Nobody Artist (in stores Nov 10th), both translated by Ryan Holmberg. Holmberg also brings readers more of Yamada Murasaki’s gorgeous cartooning with Sassy Cats (in stores November 3rd). Finally, Hino Hideshi–the pioneering horror manga-ka who inspired Junji Ito–joins the D&Q fold with A Lullaby From Hell, ably translated by Zack Davisson (in stores October 27th).
Literary fiction had an equally robust year: Brecht Evens’s latest gorgeous opus The Jellyfish King (translated by Evens and François Vigneault) details a boy coming of age amid his father’s obsessive grief. This, following a deluxe hardcover edition of his debut The Wrong Place (translated by Laura Watkinson, reissued in January). Don’t sleep on the eye-catching debuts from Korea’s Choi Sungmin (Narrow Rooms, translated by Janet Hong), France’s Bérénice Motais de Narbonne (Metadoggoz, translated by Montana Kane), and Spain’s Lola Lorente (Mary Pain, translated by Andrea Rosenberg). Mirion Malle’s Beware Her Fury (translated by Aleshia Jensen and Isadora Jensen) examines the difference between healing and recovery while highlighting the safety to be found in joy. Nick Maandag’s first graphic novel Betas is a send-up of modern dating culture. And finally, Mooncop, Tom Gauld’s meditation on late-stage capitalism, becomes available in paperback for the first time on December 1st.
Humor was certainly no slouch, either. Anouk Ricard and Cedar Van Tassel bring the funny for flora and fauna alike with Animan and Appleguy and Beefwood, respectively. The former, translated by Montana Kane, follows an unlikely hero with the ability to transform into any animal at will, who battles his nemesis Objecto in between making time for his girlfriend Fabienne. The latter, a dynamic duo of planthropomorphic philosophers in a seemingly post-human world with nonetheless human preoccupations. Edward Steed’s second collection of masterfully crafted New Yorker cartoons Happy Hour hits the shelves this week and Nathan Gelgud returns with the Reel Politik crew for even more cinematic shenanigans in No Concessions! Jessica Campbell’s cult classic Hot or Not: 20th Century Male Artists returns in a compact, deluxe hardcover–for posterity, you understand. While Luke Healy’s Dogs on Dates delivers a heartwarming romantic comedy of errors and domestic bliss.
We look forward to our 2027 titles with you, but until then, here’s one last look at 2026 for D&Q!
All the Cameras in my Room by Michael DeForge • The Woodchipper by Joe Ollmann • Palookaville 25 by Seth • The Acme Novelty Library #21 by Chris Ware
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet • Opioids and Organs by Arizona O’Neill • I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex by Lisa Hanawalt • HODO by Yeong-shin Ma (translated by Janet Hong) • Murder School by Paul B. Rainey
My Friend Kim Jong Un by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (translated by Janet Hong) • Major Taylor by Frederick Noland • Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated by R. Sikoryak • Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
Marble Season by Gilbert Hernandez • The Memoirs of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson • Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson • Moomin Adventures: Book Three by Tove Jansson & Lars Jansson • The Definitive Yokai Field Guide by Mizuki Shigeru (translated by Zack Davisson) •
Who Needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty
A Lullaby From Hell by Hino Hideshi (translated by Zack Davisson) • The Legend of Kamui, Volume 3 by Shirato Sanpei (translated by Richard Rubinger & Noriko Rubinger) • The Legend of Kamui, Volume 4 by Shirato Sanpei (translated by Richard Rubinger & Noriko Rubinger) • He Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid by Tsuge Yoshiharu (translated by Ryan Holmberg) • A Nobody Artist by Tsuge Yoshiharu (translated by Ryan Holmberg) • Sassy Cats by Yamada Murasaki (translated by Ryan Holmberg)
Narrow Rooms by Choi Sungmin (translated by Janet Hong) • The Jellyfish King by Brecht Evens (translated by Brecht Evens & François Vigneault) • The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens (translated by Laura Watkinson) • Mooncop by Tom Gauld • Mary Pain by Lola Lorente (translated by Andrea Rosenberg) • Betas by Nick Maandag • Beware Her Fury by Mirion Malle (translated by Aleshia Jensen & Isadora Jensen) • Metadoggoz by Bérénice Motais de Narbonne (translated by Montana Kane)
Hot or Not: 20th Century Male Artists by Jessica Campbell • No Concessions! by Nathan Gelgud • Dogs on Dates by Luke Healy • Animan by Anouk Ricard (translated by Montana Kane) • Happy Hour by Edward Steed • Appleguy & Beefwood by Cedar van Tassel