New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: LGBTQ+

Gender Queer: A Memoir – The Annotated Edition HC

Dig deeper into one of the most banned books in America with this annotated edition of Maia Kobabe’s seminal autobiographical work.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe — who uses e/em/eir pronouns—thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity — what it means and how to think about it — for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

This special annotated edition calls on voices from academic and creative communities to further shed light on the creation of Kobabe’s work—from exploring the technicalities of comic creation to highlighting personal anecdotes from a host of writers and artists discussing their own experiences growing up queer. Featuring commentary from designer and animator Phoebe Kobabe (The ABCs of Identities), cartoonist Ashley R. Guillory, Dr. Sandra Cox (associate professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University), Matthew Noe (Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian at Harvard Medical School), author Hal Schrieve (Fawn’s Blood), and many more, this beautiful hardcover edition promises to be a wonderful educational tool for years to come.

Hardcover · 272 pages · $49.99 · Unique Dimensions

Releases May 19, 2026

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Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! Vol. 1 TP

This girls love workplace rom-com by popular Twitter artist Sal Jiang features two lovestruck coworkers — who each think the other is straight!

This is a 13+ GL romantic comedy about bubbly office worker Ayaka and her boss Hiroko, who each believe their feelings for each other are unrequited.

Trade Paperback · 160 pages · $13.99

Releases Feb 17, 2026

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DC Pride: The Heart Wants HC

DC'S AWARD-WINNING ANNUAL PRIDE HARDCOVER COLLECTION RETURNS!

When a 100-year-old queer speakeasy-turned-bar-turned-restaurant-and-community-space in Gotham announces that it will soon be closing its doors, generations of patrons come to pay their respects — including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. After all, this is the place where he and his first love, Johnny Ladd, long ago carved their names into the basement wall before it all went to hell... and a love lost is never a love forgotten. But they weren't the only ones to put their names in the wall over the years, and suddenly queer heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU — the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them — find themselves spirited away to a strange alternate dimension that seems to provide everything they could possibly want... but at what cost? In this oversize story of interweaving narratives, the vanished will need to come together and look into the very depths of the Starheart itself if they hope to escape that which ensnares them in this triumphant and timely story of community amid chaos!

The DC Pride: The Heart Wants hardcover collection also features an array of additional short stories and illustrations from queer and allied talent, an autobiographical story from Black Lightning creator Jenny Blake, and a very special DC Pride letters column!

Hardcover · 168 pages · $24.99 · Case Bound

Releases May 26, 2026

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Koharu and Minato: Happy Life with My Girlfriend Vol. 1 TP

A long-distance couple finally gets to live together in this sweet, slice-of-life yuri/Girls’ Love manga—based on the author's real romantic relationship!

Koharu and Minato are two women who met online. Despite there being a ten-year age gap between them, the two fall hard and fast. Before long, they decide to load up the moving van and move in together!

Relationships aren’t always easy, but Minato and Koharu find a way to work things out. Whether it’s having a celebratory feast, taking a late-night stroll, or just enjoying their domestic bliss, the two make every minute together count!

Trade Paperback · 132 pages · $15.99

Releases Apr 14, 2026

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The Author Immortal Vol. 1: Death of the Author TP

A queer, literary fantasy about the stories that shape us—and what happens when we outgrow them.

Hector Ramirez dreamed of changing the world with words. Years later, he's given one last chance: to help reboot the fantasy series that shaped his childhood. But when he discovers the author has vanished into his own creation, Hector is pulled into a realm built from fiction and ruled by a story that refuses to end.

He's not alone. Along for the journey is Al, his nonbinary teen child searching for their place in both the real world and the story that now threatens to consume them. Alethea, once the series' bright young mage heroine, also fights alongside them as a battle-worn warrior, questioning whether she still belongs to the story she was created to serve. Together, they must uncover the forces tearing this world apart and what it means to live inside a story that no longer wants you.

As fiction and reality collide, Hector, Al, and Alethea face a painful truth: to move forward, they'll have to confront the very story that made them.

From writer FRANK J. BARBIERE (FIVE GHOSTS) and artist MORGAN BEEM (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches), THE AUTHOR IMMORTAL is a lush, character-driven fantasy for fans of Nimona , Lore Olympus, and MONSTRESS—a mythic, deeply human story about creation, queerness, and finding yourself in the ruins of someone else's myth.

Collects THE AUTHOR IMMORTAL #1-5.

Trade Paperback · 144 pages · $16.99 · Perfect Bound

Releases Mar 18, 2026