NBM Announces its Summer 2025 Publications

NBM Graphic Novels is has announced its Summer 2025 line-up including a fun guide to cryptocurrency, a biography of British soul icon Amy Winehouse, a biography of pioneering comics legend Will Eisner, and an adaptation of a shocking masterpiece of contemporary French literature!

ALICE IN CRYPTOLAND: Bitcoin, NFT and Other Curiosities

Daniel Villa Monteiro (writer), Nicolas Balas (art)

Dive with Alice into the mysterious and controversial world of cryptocurrencies.

We are on the eve of Covid confinement when the young woman received an inheritance from her grandmother and wonders what to do with this money that her banker wants to invest for her.

By chance, she discovers that parallel currencies open the door to another world. Misunderstood by her family and friends, she nevertheless threw herself into it wholeheartedly.

Her online comics on her experience make her quite the influencer, explaining crypto’s intricacies in simple terms but with eyes wide open as to its dangers. We even travel with her to El Salvador, the first country to accept Bitcoin as a national currency, and its cryptocurrency farms, to understand the power and perils of Bitcoin, NFTs, blockchains and other curiosities.

6 ½ x 9, 112 pg., full color HC, $22.99
ISBN 9781681123554
e-book: $9.99
ISBN 9781681123561
PUBLICATION DATE: May 13

AMY WINEHOUSE IN COMICS

Tony Lourenço, Elsa Gambin (writers), various artists

Amy Winehouse, her music, her life, her destiny told through comics.

With her unique voice, Amy Winehouse quickly established herself as a paragon of British soul at the start of the 21st century. Winning all the awards in her path after the immense Back to Black album, her career was an explosion in the world of music.

Too brief an explosion. With multiple addictions and fragile mental health, Amy died prematurely, joining the fateful ‘Club of 27’, but leaving behind a memorable body of work.

Discover in this comics biography the eventful life of this artist with such a recognizable style, still resonating throughout the world today.

Part of the bestselling series of pop musician biographies marrying well illustrated articles presenting the facts with comics chapters presenting the feel.

7×10, 128pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123592
e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123608
PUBLICATION DATE: June 17

WILL EISNER: A Comics Biography

Stephen Weiner (writer), Dan Mazur (art)

Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, through inventing the term “graphic novel” to convince a general trade publisher to publish the groundbreaking A Contract with God, you’ll follow along in Eisner’s life journey.

With the most prestigious comics awards named after him, Will Eisner is forever celebrated not only in what he created but his unerring belief in comics’ capacity to be better, to reach higher, to be a full art form in its own right. This is the life of this man of vision who helped to put comics on the map.

Includes an afterword by Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL, Tüki)!

6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 300pp. full color hardcover, $29.99
ISBN 9781681123578
e-book: $19.99
ISBN 9781681123585
PUBLICATION DATE: July 15

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Françoise Sagan as adapted by Frédéric Rébéna

One of the masterpieces of contemporary French literature is brilliantly adapted to comics.

1954, Cécile, a Parisian high school student, spends the summer of her seventeenth birthday in a villa with her father Raymond, a widower, and Elsa, his mistress. Cécile and her father have a close relationship, carefree and full of pleasure. Cécile will experience her first thrills with Cyril. The atmosphere changes when Raymond announces the arrival of Anne, a friend. Different from Elsa and Cécile, Anne is a strict and moralizing woman, she appreciates culture, good manners and intelligence. As soon as she arrives, a subtle fight begins between the three women. Elsa tries to maintain the relationship with Raymond, who is also attracted to Anne. As for Cécile, she fears losing the complicity that binds her to her father, as well as their freedoms. How to avert the threat? In the burning heat of the summer, a cruel game is being prepared with tragic consequences.

A remarkable adaptation of the classic bestseller by Sagan which shocked a generation.

8 ½ x 11, 112pp., full color HC, $24.99
ISBN 9781681123615
e-book: $14.99
ISBN 9781681123622
PUBLICATION DATE: August 12

Source: Graphic Policy