The Autumn publishing schedule from Avery Hill Publishing has been announced and it’s a cracking one. Full details in the press release below.
Coming from Avery Hill Publishing in Autumn 2026!
Avery Hill Publishing is proud to announce their graphic novel list for autumn 2026:
John of the Night by Darryl Cunningham
Another Realm by Kristyna Baczyski
I Love This Part (10th Anniversary Edition) by Tillie Walden
Under Ismyre by B. Mure
Avery Hill Publishing Co-Publisher and Commissioning Editor Ricky Miller said of the new list:
“Darryl Cunningham is a true legend of UK comics and one of the best there’s been at creating non-fiction comics. He is always on the right side of every subject matter that he’s written about, be that economics, politics, or Elon Musk! So of course we wanted to do an irreverent sci-fi romp by him! All I can say is that it’s funny and brilliant and full of great influences, but wholly original.
“Kristyna Baczynski has long been one of my favourite comics creators, a real jewel in the UK comics scene. I’ve been picking up her comics for years, long before we published her graphic novel Retrograde Orbit. This collection of the vast majority of her comics work is part archive in order to preserve the work of a true talent, but mostly an opportunity for us to try to get some of the greatest self-published comics of the last decade to new readers.
“Nothing makes me more nostalgic for the early days of Avery Hill than the run of comics we did with Tillie Walden, and I Love This Part is probably the most iconic of them. A mini masterpiece. For the intro to the new edition, I managed to catch Alice Oseman at the right time, just after she’d finished Heartstopper and am absolutely thrilled that she agreed to write a piece for the book.
Thank you Alice!!!
“This is the final book in the Ismyre series and I can’t wait to see how it ends! We published the first book back in 2017 and year on year it’s been an absolute joy every time a new one comes along. B. Mure is a brilliant artist and his themes of ecology and protest, have only gotten more and more relevant as the years go by. I’m so proud of B. for this amazing achievement and delighted that we’ve been able to help him find the readers that love it as much as we do.”
John of the Night
Darryl Cunningham
Out 2nd September 2026
184 pages, paperback, full colour, 164 x 234mm
A scientist races against a god‑killing cult, cosmic collapse, and his witch‑queen ex‑wife to save creation—even if it costs him the person he loves most.
At the centre of all creation lies Far Eternity, where universes converge and reality is kept in balance. Scientist John of the Night and his daughter Aysha uncover a plot by The Perfection—a fanatical cult—to kill God and reboot the “flawed” multiverse into something supposedly perfect. As if that’s not enough, Medea—Aysha’s mother and a witch‑queen with a flair for drama—plans to sacrifice her to recharge her magic and avert an invasion. With cosmic forces closing in, John faces an impossible choice: save Aysha or risk the collapse of all existence.
Inspired by Jack Kirby’s grand cosmic epics, John of the Night blends humour, myth, and multiversal mayhem with themes of sacrifice, destiny, and the baffling indifference of higher powers. A cosmic adventure driven by a fraught but fiercely loyal father–daughter bond against reality‑shattering odds.
The Kickstarter campaign for John of the Night is launching soon!
I Love This Part (10th Anniversary Edition)
Tillie Walden
A brand new edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tillie Walden’s acclaimed I Love This Part!
This new edition features an all-new foreword from best-selling comics superstar Alice Oseman, the author of Heartstopper.
Out 30th Sept 2026
72 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 148 x 210mm
A slice-of-life graphic novel story of two girls and the moments of their lives that lead up to them falling in love.
Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school. They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
In her follow up to the critically acclaimed The End of Summer, Tillie Walden tells the story of a small love that can make you feel like the biggest thing around, and how it’s possible to find another person who understands you when you thought no-one could.
Another Realm
Kristyna Baczynski
Out 21st October 2026
220 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 239 x 168mm
A luminous journey through the worlds, wonders, and warm‑hearted imagination of Kristyna Baczynski.
A vibrant, career-spanning celebration of the work of British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski, bringing together her acclaimed graphic novel Retrograde Orbit with a rich selection of her self-published comics and illustrated zines.
This collection showcases Baczynski’s unmistakable visual voice—pages alive with colour, emotion, and intricate characterisation. Drawing on inspirations that range from nature and folklore to 1990s pop nostalgia and gentle sci-fi atmospheres, her work creates worlds that are warm, strange, imaginative, and deeply human. Readers will find tender autobiographical pieces, exuberant short comics, playful experiments in risograph printmaking, and the full sweep of Retrograde Orbit, her coming-of-age tale of identity heritage, and finding one’s place in the cosmos.
Across more than a decade of making, Baczynski has built a body of work that bridges independent zine culture with mainstream publishing, collaborating with houses such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton, and Canongate. This volume gathers the very best of her small-press output alongside her major long-form work, offering a definitive introduction to an artist whose storytelling is as heartfelt as it is visually distinctive.
A richly illustrated, genre‑blending collection for fans of contemporary comics, risograph art, and creators with a singular, imaginative world of their own.
Under Ismyre
B. Mure
Out 4th November 2026
114 pages, paperback, full colour throughout, 210 x 148mm
The stunning conclusion to the fantastical Ismyre series.
In the sweeping conclusion to B. Mure’s quietly powerful and allegorical Ismyre saga, the city trembles in the aftermath of the catastrophic events that closed Disciples of the Soil. With the land still shifting beneath their feet and political tensions at an all-time high, the citizens of Ismyre must confront the consequences of unchecked ambition, ecological imbalance, and years of simmering unrest.
Told with Mure’s signature tenderness, wry humour, and atmospheric watercolour artwork, this final volume weaves together themes of resistance, community care, environmental stewardship, and the fragile, ever-present hope that small actions can reshape the world.
Both intimate and sweeping in scope, it brings the Ismyre cycle to a deeply human, cathartic, and magical close—a farewell to a world of quiet wonders, uneasy truths, and the enduring strength found in solidarity.
The final Ismyre graphic novel is a poignant, beautifully crafted conclusion to one ofcontemporary comics’ most distinctive and enchanting fantasy series.
