Here are upcoming titles, now being solicited in comics stores through Diamond Previews for an August 2018 release.

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The Provocative Colette
By Annie Goetzinger


Movie ‘Colette’ coming in September starring Keira Knightley!  Many biographies describe this uncommon woman and author. It is her years of formation which are focused on here, from her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce. “One dies only from the first man,” she wrote in 1909. But this death was a new beginning, and the one that signed “Colette” from 1910 on gradually opened her eyes to her condition of a woman who was an exploited writer and a betrayed wife, and who will emancipate herself by writing, and with what talent! Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and became member and then president of France’s prestigious Académie Goncourt, among many other honors as one of France’s preeminent authors. For mature readers.
7 ¾ x 10 ¼, 128pp, full color quarter-bound HC, $24.99. ISBN 978168112170352499. DIAMOND CODE: JUN181887

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Monet: Itinerant of Light

By Efa (artist), Salva Rubio (writer)


The life of the great French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, is narrated in lush comic art reminiscent of his style. From the Salon des Refuses (“Salon of the Rejected”) and many struggling years without recognition, money and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his turbulent life pursuing it.
9×12, 112pp., full color hardcover, $24.99, ISBN 978168112139052499. DIAMOND CODE: JUN181889
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The True Death of Billy The Kid
By Rick Geary

‘Being an authentic narrative of the final days in Billy the Kid’s brief and turbulent life.’ One of our folk legends of the great Wild West, William H. Bonney went from cowboy and gunslinger for a rancher to pure outlawry forever dodging justice in New Mexico when it wasn’t even a state. On the one hand, he was charming, fun-loving –often at social events like dances-, quite appealing to the ladies. Also conversant in Spanish, “Billito” was popular with the Spanish speaking crowd. On the other hand, he had no compunction to coldly kill a man, a sheriff, a deputy, anyone who got in his way rustling cattle or horses for an illicit living. He also proved hard to keep in jail even when caught. It is probably his feats of derring-do escaping from jails that made him most famous and this is the main subject of this biography following him until he is shot in pitch darkness by lawmen obsessed with getting rid of him.
8×10, 56pp., B&W hardcover, $15.99. ISBN 978168112134551599. DIAMOND ORDER CODE: JUN181890
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Billie Holiday
By José Muñoz, Carlos Sampayo


Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence…), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation, Muñoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz.
By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Muñoz’ strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute.
9×12, 80pp., B&W hc, gold stamped black and red cover $19.99 ISBN 978168112093551999.  DIAMOND ORDER CODE: JUN181888
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GREAT MOVES

By Robert Edison Sandiford with art by Geof Isherwood


3 engrossing and salacious stories. In the title story, a traveler in a bar is accosted by a very horny young woman who bewitches him with unseen circumstances! Then, a photographer is asked by her best friends to tape them having sex—only to have the camera turned on her. Finally, as he lies dying, an old woman reflects on the passionate life she has led with her husband.
8 1/2 x 11, 48pp., B&W trade pb.: $9.99. ISBN 978156163584950999.  DIAMOND ORDER CODE: JUN181892

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Attractive Forces
By Robert Edison Sandiford with art by Justin Norman

Three erotic short stories adapted to comics exploring black and multi-racial relationships.
81/2×11, 56pp., B&W, color cover, trade pb., $9.99 ISBN 978156163193350999
DIAMOND ORDER CODE: JUN181891