In the age of the Anthropocene, girls are tired and jaded. And yet, we are the last reminders of glittering purity. Not dumb sexual purity, but light and love, laughing in beds, sneaking out like the most important thing in the entire world is on the other side of your parent’s driveway. We feel deeply, we express when we feel like it, we cry Heart Shaped Tears. Comics, illustrations, aliens, elves, boys who don’t text back, words, and cartoons from the sci-fi sad girl Abby Jame.

FEATURED IN THE MARGINALIAN BY MARIA POPOVA (FORMERLY BRAIN PICKINGS) • A GRAPHICS BEAT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK A debut picture book for adults about a bear that elicits immediate, deep emotional recognition. "A tender reminder that no one can save anyone, not even with love; that we only ever save ourselves when we are ready: but love is what readies us to be our own savior." —Maria Popova, The Marginalian Bear, Staffan Gnosspelius’s debut book, is a gorgeous visual meditation on depression. In this deeply affecting, wordless picture book for adults, a bear is maddeningly afflicted with a cone that covers his head and that he is unable to take off. He furiously stomps and yells and tears at the cone, he implores the skies and fate for relief, he is drawn to dark and wild and scary places. The depths of his sadness feel like a defeat. It’s a battle he wages until he’s mentally and physically exhausted. Then, one day, Bear hears notes of music, the humming of a friendly hare. The hare hovers nearby, concerned, sometimes driven away by Bear’s frustration and anger, more often staying close and gently offering support. The author began drawing a bear with a cone on his head as a way to make sense of how a person close to him was suffering from mental illness. The resulting book is both an emotional gut punch and a warm embrace, recognizable immediately to anyone who has ever suffered or loved someone who has suffered in similar dark places. In other words, all of us.

The Electric Black is a horror series set in an antique shop that travels through time and space delivering cursed objects to unsuspecting customers. written and Illustrated by Joseph Schmalke and Rich Woodall published quarterly by Black Caravan a Scout Comics Imprint. The Electric Black is a cursed antique shop, appearing in any time or space, soliciting customers it hungers to corrupt or devour. The mysterious Julius Black is the store's demonic proprietor and narrator. He, along with his psychopathic employees, regularly manipulates patrons for their own devious purposes. Inside the eerie emporium, all of the forbidden objects have secrets to unlock. The poor souls that enter never leave without something. It's dark light will shine on macabre mysteries, grisly murders, and other frightful occurrences. Dare you step within its sinister halls?

The Recount is a realistic, action thriller comic book mini-series set in an unsettlingly recognizable American political climate written by Jonathan Hedrick and illustrated by Gabriel Ibarra Núñez and Sunil Ghagre, published monthly by Scout Comics. When the US President is assassinated by one of his own security detail, a female Secret Service agent named Bree Barto must protect the Vice President at all costs from a mass conspiracy by a group calling themselves 'The Masses'. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, these two women with completely opposing political views and beliefs must work together to preserve what’s left of American democracy.

Canopus is a psychological sci-fi written and illustrated by Dave Chisholm that, within its tense narrative of an astronaut marooned, explores themes of resentment, forgiveness, memory, and identity. Helen wakes up marooned on a lifeless alien planet 300 light years from Earth with no memories beyond a hazy sense of extinction-level urgency to return to Earth. Joined by Arther, her strange robot companion, she explores the planet to find materials necessary to repair her ship. However, circumstances are not as straightforward as they seem. Along the way, Helen's most painful memories return as monstrous manifestations hell-bent on her destruction. In Canopus, author/illustrator Dave Chisholm pushes the storytelling language of the comics medium to stunning new places while retaining its psychological sci-fi beating heart, finding the sweet spot for both fans of formalist graphic novels (Asterios Polyp, Rusty Brown) and fans of trippy, pulpy sci-fi (Annihilation, Black Science, Descender).

From creators Andy Serkis and Andrew Levitas, Eternus takes Greek mythology in the murder mystery direction after Zeus is murdered and the sole witness is a 9-year-old blind priestess whose safety falls in the hands of Heracles (if he's sober enough to do it). From creators Andy Serkis and Andrew Levitas! 360 CE. The great god Zeus is long dead, brutally murdered in his own temple some thirty years prior. Heracles, Zeus's son and champion, spends his days drunk and depressed as the old gods struggle to stay alive after decades of Christian disruption. When Athena's Temple is sacked by a mysterious Centurion looking for a powerful relic that once belonged to Zeus, the old gods are convinced they have found Zeus's killer. Now the mighty Heracles must sober up long enough to keep the lone witness, a 9-year-old blind priestess, alive long enough to identify the killer and finally find justice for his dead father. Cover features beautiful Rob Prior wraparound artwork!

The saga of the Lee family continues as their true enemy is revealed. New allies, including a half-angel who can communicate with objects and listen to their history, sometimes gliumpsing a possible future, join the family. When the demon trapped within Stabbity Bunny is freed, whose side will he choose? Stabbity Bunny is a story about family. The Horror/Mystery setting is a backdrop to the relationships and strength of the females from three different generations of the extended Lee family. Stabbity Bunny is an heirloom, passed from mother to daughter, that becomes the protector of Grace, the newest little girl to hold him. There is a supernatural force that has been hunting and killing their family for almost a century and the final confrontation is near. Grace is kidnapped and though she is a resourceful girl, trained in survival, it is the unexpected intervention of her plush bunny, Stabbity, that ultimately saves her. This is just the first move on the endgame planned by the foe that either wants to completely wipe out their bloodline or recruit them. The Lee family has a secret place in the tapestry of our world's destiny and the evil entity wants to control that power or destroy them. There are many struggles as the Lee family is attacked by manifestations of each of the seven deadly sins. Ultimately, they must confront the mastermind behind all of the evil forces and the entity that lives within the plush bunny must choose a side. There is sacrifice and loss, but the Lee family has the strength of love and family, and maybe that's the most powerful force after all.

Bush Leaguers is an irreverent comedy-adventure comic book series about a down-and-out baseball team, set in the rough-and-tumble world of Gilded Age New York, written by Robert McKeon and Sam Fletcher, and illustrated by Joe Flood, published by Scout Comics. The Brooklyn Bridegrooms are the scourge of late nineteenth-century New York. The cranks hate them, the team owner is plotting to shut them down, and Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt wants to lock them up. Most of the team are indifferent to their plight, save for one player: Skip Lapwhistle, the alter-ego of a former seamstress who dons a fake mustache and a baseball cap, and traded life in the sweatshop for life on the diamond. With the team on the brink, it’s up to Skip to rally the team, stop the team owner’s plot, evade Roosevelt’s clutches, and bring back the spirit of the game to the City.