Drawn & Quarterly’s Spring 2025 catalog includes more manga from Yoshiharu Tsuge, a graphic biography of Eadweard Muybridge by Guy Delisle, and a surreal take on a dog’s life in a variety of comic styles.
The publisher’s latest Tsuge volume is He Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid, out August 2025, translated by Ryan Holmberg. This is Drawn & Quarterly’s fifth book by the author; they first brought him to English in 2020 with The Swamp (see “Manga for Adults“). This volume collects various creative experiments by the author from 1975-1981, at a time when he was struggling with mental illness. It’s $29.95 for a two-color, 272-page hardcover.
Muybridge by Guy Delisle, translated from French by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall, tells the story of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who is best known for capturing the series of images that demonstrated how a horse galloped. He created time-lapse photography, a way of freezing motion visually. Delisle has published a number of autobiographical graphic novels and travelogues with Drawn & Quarterly; he previously created Hostage, a biography (see “Drawn & Quarterly Spring 2017 Releases“). Muybridge is out April 2025 at $24.95 for a 208-page color hardcover.
Checked Out by Katie Fricas is a debut book about a NYC lesbian librarian who wants to make a graphic novel about an heroic carrier pigeon in WWI, drawn in a colorful, cartoony style. The 300-page color paperback is out May 2025, priced at $27.95.
Preparing to Bite collects Keiler Roberts’ one-page autobiographical comics about dealing with the moments of everyday life while debilitated from a disease. As a middle-aged woman, she copes with family, cooking, pets, and making comics. Drawn & Quarterly has published previous books by Roberts, including My Begging Chart and The Joy of Quitting. Out May 2025, the 164-page black-and-white paperback is $21.95.
Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog shows us the loser title character caught up in the kidnapping of his friend Alspacka. He’s an aspiring writer, hungry for success, and the story is told in a collage of comic art styles. There’s guilt, psychological horror, humor, surreality, and metanarrative. It’s translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg, and it’s a $39.95, 392-page color hardcover out June 2025.
Black Cohosh is another debut, a coming-of-age graphic novel from Eagle Valiant Brosi about a kid with a speech impediment growing up in a commune. He listens and observes all those around him and copes with bullying in scenes drawn with sparse, borderless art. The 300-page black-and-white paperback is out June 2025 at $24.95.
The graphic memoir We All Got Something by Lawrence Lindell captures a time when the protagonist is broke and living back home with his mother after moving to London with a partner. He had a promising animation career, derailed by an act of violence and the resulting PTSD and mental health issues, but community and art provide healing. Drawn & Quarterly previously published Lindell’s Blackward in 2023 (see “Drawn & Quarterly Fall 2023 Catalog“). Out April 2025, We All Got Something is a 168-page black-and-white paperback priced at $21.95.
Other works in the Drawn & Quarterly Spring 2025 catalog include:
- a new paperback edition of Kate Beaton’s award-winning Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (see “Eisner Awards 2023“, “Harvey Awards“), out May 2025
- Moomin Adventures: Book Two by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, out July 2025
- The Legend of Kamui: Volume 2 by Shirato Sanpei, translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger, out July 2025 (see “D&Q Winter 2025 Catalog“)
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