by story and art by Yuki Midorikawa (2012)
To help a kindly yokai read a ruined letter, Natsume needs the assistance of a yokai in the Book of Friends, but getting the help of a yokai his grandmother bound to the book may be difficult.
Matt Wagner, writer
"Business is booming, Ike is in the White House, and all is well in America--or so it seemed to Betty Reynolds, Upper East Side housewife. Until something terrible started bubbling inside her, turning her American drea into a nightmare. Desperate, Betty turns to the one person who can help."
Aaron Renier
With an ensemble cast straight from a box of Animal Crackers, this is a delightful tale of ambition, morality, and self-discovery drawn in a decidedly beautiful fashion reminiscent of Richard Scary and Lewis Trondheim, yet utterly unique. Renier's fully-realized and compellingly adventurous narrative is at once both achingly naive and profoundly worldly. A remarkable debut, this tightly crafted novella is the real deal, and will charm your socks off.
Shannon Watters
Five best friends at summer camp take friendship to the max when they team up to defeat the strange forces lurking within the surrounding forest. Excited to have Barney starting their first week at the camp, the Roanokes run over to the Zodiac cabin, only to find everyone turned to stone! Between strange shadows and Diane being back, it looks like April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are going to have their hands full trying to find a cure for their friends . . . as long as they don’t look the wrong thing in the eye first.
Matt Gagnon and Michael Alan Nelson
"For thousands of years, the world has been controlled by the "50 Families" -- a secret network of vampire covens engaged in a timeless struggle for power. But when the sun rises, the vampires are forced to emply the services of a human who acts as their daytime fixer and protector.. Trained for centuries to be the mortla soldiers of their vampire employers, the Day Men go forth at sunrise, alone into the world, to do the bidding of their sleeping benefactors." -- Page [4] of cover.