FOC 8/12/24 from Silver Sprocket:
Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone
by Isabella Rotman, Marnie Galloway, Sage Coffey
Access to safe abortion is a human right! This short zine explains one kind of abortion: with the use of pills misoprostol and mifepristone.
Abortion is vital healthcare and part of comprehensive sexual health. This zine aims to provide readers with accessible information about the pills mifepristone and misoprostol as options to manage abortion. Created by pro-choice community members, it covers the medical abortion process step-by-step, including what to expect, precautions, access, and more. Community knowledge is power and access to abortion saves lives!
- “Essential information for anyone who wants to know how medicated abortion works, written with kindness and inclusivity, no judgment, no medical jargon, just facts and respect.”
– Emily Nagoski, New York Times bestselling author of Come As You Are
Retail: $4.99
FOC Date: 8/12/2024
In-Store Date: 9/18/2024
ISBN: 9798886200546
Product Code: 0724SP633
When to Pick a Pomegranate by Yasmeen Abedifard
“I want to tear these thoughts out of my flesh. How could I forget just how rotten I am?”
In this collection of contemplative and cathartic short comics, the pomegranate Anar and the woman Guli exist as reflections of each other — repellent to one another and yet inexorably drawn together once more. As they evolve through each story, proceeding through the stages of the plant life cycle, they take on new roles: muse and artist, gardener and seed, lover and fruit. The iterations reveal new revelations, exploring the themes of shame, grief, destiny, and survival at each turn.
Abedifard’s comic form evokes Persianate storytelling and draws on stylistic elements found in illuminated manuscripts, building an experience as rich and complex as the taste of pomegranate on one’s tongue.
- 2023 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic (Death Bloom)
“Yasmeen Abedifard does the impossible — using her mastery of form, she melts together seemingly firm panel structures with rich visuals and sparse narrative so visceral, so intimate, it rips open the casual cruelty of every day, making you feel as though the story was actually pulled from the corners of your guilty soul — she does this, and makes it look like a breeze.”
– Nadia Shammas, Squire
“Weaving together the mythological and the raw, blistering personal, When to Pick a Pomegranate cements Yasmeen Abedifard’s position as one of the most exciting cartoonists working today.” – Leo Fox, Boy Island
Retail: $14.99
FOC Date: 8/12/2024
In-Store Date: 9/25/2024
ISBN: 9798886200539
Product Code: 0724SP634
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PeePee PooPoo #1 by Caroline Cash
WINNER OF THE 2024 EISNER FOR BEST LIMITED SERIES
Four issues into the series and we finally get PeePee PooPoo #1! Was it time travel, or a marketing move? The world may never know!
In this issue: Caroline discovers a fresh start is surprisingly hard to make in “Ah, Philly.” Romance blossoms in “First Date,” a classic Alison Bechdel comic gets an update in “Femme and Butch,” and a night out turns complicated in “Stoned Again.” Caroline Cash’s gay, modern take on the ‘60s underground comic continues to make readers say “hell yeah.”
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2023 Ignatz Award Nominee for Outstanding Artist
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2023 Broken Frontier Award Winner: Best Periodical
The Night Never Ends by Steve Thueson
A horror comedy graphic novel about turning thirty… and also accidentally catching the attention of a killer cult.
On the Friday before Kate’s 30th birthday, she convinces her friends to go back to her hometown to celebrate. The plan: break into an abandoned house and hold a séance, just like she did in high school. As the friends join hands over the ouija board, an unsettlingly real scream splits the air. What started as a fun way to relive their punk adolescence before accepting the weight of adulthood turns into a night of fleeing bloodthirsty cultists. Can they find a way to get out of the suburbs alive?
“A big bucket of delicious blood-spattered popcorn with an amazing laugh-per-page ratio!” – Liz Suburbia, Sacred Heart
Retail: $19.99
ISBN: 9798886200515
Product Code: 0624SP552
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