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Spring is often when publishers take risks, and this season offers plenty to discover, including ambitious debut memoirs from gag cartoonists, weighty topics addressed with frank humor, and edgy sex comedy.

Teen comics this season embrace and remix genre tropes in tales starring ghosts, demons, and one bloodthirsty mermaid alongside more serious-minded coming-of-age memoirs.

Keeping up with a series is one habit we wont break in the new year, with lots of additions to longstanding sagas hitting shelves.

The publishing rights to Red Dryers debut solo graphic novel Ghosted, and a second untitled graphic novel, have been won at auction by Carolina Ortiz at HarperAlley.

Cushi is a new graphic novel about ants written and drawn by biology professor Jay Hosler, known for previous works such as Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions.

From graphic novel memoirs to sports romances and non-fiction, here's every comic and graphic novel we're looking forward to reading between now and July!

Charger County is a new YA graphic novel by Cathy G. Johnson (The Breakaways) described thus; "Liz feels like an outcast at her new high school, Charger

Lily Kim Qian, an illustrator and design assistant at Penguin Random House for Penguin Young Readers, has had the world rights to her debut graphic memoir

Tariks Bazaar Adventure by George Jreije (Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria) and by Umair Najeeb Khan (Rida & Madiya). "Based on the

The Masked Princess, written by Ted Anderson and drawn by Ollie Roswell, is an upcoming YA graphic novel where "high-schooler Noel, cosplaying his