Fall 2024 Preview: Adult Comics & Graphic Novels

Bloomsbury, Aug. 20 ($32, ISBN 978-1-63557-953-6) In 1911 and 1912, Einstein and Kafka both lived in Prague, a serendipity New Yorker cartoonist Krimstein mines for a work that’s “irreverent yet full of tenderness for its subjects,” per PW’s starred review. 90,000- copy announced first printing. Dark Horse, Oct. 8 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-5067-4350-9) New Yorker cover artist Drooker’s latest looks at the meaning of art through an encounter between a painter and a nude model. First Second, Sept. 3 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-79653-0) This World Citizens series entry winds through the complex issues surrounding the legal and logistical routes to U.S. citizenship. Beacon, Oct. 1 ($24.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-1268-0) The American Book Award–winning history of the U.S. from the viewpoint of Indigenous peoples becomes a graphic work created by the cartoonist who previously adapted W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.