Soaring Penguin Press

Volume #1

Meanwhile... The Best

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Presenting the best stories from the first 12 volumes of Meanwhile..., the critically acclaimed anthology from Soaring Penguin Press

Issue #11

Meanwhile... 12

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This is it! The soul-crushing conclusion of Gary Millidge’s Strangehaven! Joe Latham presents the heart-warming Seed of Hope, Evgenij Iosjpe & Caleb Ady give us The Man Who Faded Away. And Sweet Wind, a new series by Daniel da Silva Lopes. Plus so much more! 152 packed pages

I Do I Don't: How to build a better marriage

I Do I Don't

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Why doesn’t marriage come with a manual? Now it does – in graphic detail! I Do I Don’t: How to build a better marriage tells the story of Ben and Grace on their journey of learning and practicing the tools and skills needed for a lifetime of intimacy. Each chapter introduces a new relationship skill, and ends with Put It Into Practice, a set of easy-to-follow exercises to help the reader develop a personal understanding of the skills needed to build and strengthen any relationship.

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Blessed Cure

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Blessed Cure is an awarded LGBTQ+ graphic novel by Brazilian author Mário César that portrays what it is like to have a life marked by homophobia and the effects of sexual reversal therapies - Conversion Therapy - that try to cure something that is not a disease. Since he was a child, Acácio do Nascimento was a different boy from others. He rather playing with dolls to playing soccer, the hula hoop interested him more than cowboy pistols. Scared by the possibility of their son was a homosexual, Mara and Galdino submit Acácio since he was five years old to several treatments for him to become a normal boy like the others.

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NORD

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A Viking King who has lost EVERYTHING, a devious plot hatched by the trickster God Loki and a quest to defeat Death itself! To seek these things...head NORTH! Blurring the line between a graphic novel and a picture book, NORD is a visual tour de force that will take you on an epic journey through myth and fantasy.

Issue #2

Salmonella Smorgasbord

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A compilation of comics, art and graphics by the cartoonist Mark Stafford, collecting his small press books, magazine strips, anthology contributions and previously unpublished works under two covers for the first time. Salmonella Smorgasbord will also contain a hefty selection of Mark’s illustration work, as well as theatre posters, record covers, beer labels and t-shirt designs, cartoons, collaborations and other flights of fancy. From the rare and unforgettable to the obscure and inexcusable, if he rendered it it will all be here. Apart from the stuff he left out.

Issue #9

Meanwhile... 11

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The Bad Bad Place

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Issue #7

Meanwhile... 10

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The final chapter of The Bad Bad Place. And the first chapter of a new series by Roger Langridge – Tanihwa! Plus Doig & Swift’s cover story, North and Home by Laurel Dundee. PLUS an original story by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, and by the legend that is Howard Chaykin. 136 pages of the finest in comic storytelling. Cover by Doig & Swift

Issue #6

Meanwhile... 9

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The Needleman, Part Two. The sense-shattering conclusion of Martin Simpson’s tour-de-force. Decisions made by Sarah Gordon’s The Collector may not be for the best – for him, for the town, for the world! Mark Stafford and David Hine present the penultimate episode of The Bad Bad Place. And featuring a special guest Strangehaven story by comic genius, Frazer Irving! Cover by Frazer Irving

Issue #5

Meanwhile... 8

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The Needleman Cometh! Martin Simpson’s creepy and compelling story of a city under absolute control. Gary Spencer Millidge provides the next Strangehaven episode as we build toward the conclusion. The Collector by Sarah Gordon becomes even more unsettling. Mark Stafford and David Hine continues the depravity in The Bad Bad Place. And so very much more! Cover by Martin Simpson

Issue #4

Meanwhile... 7

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More secrets are revealed in Gary Spencer Millidge’s Strangehaven. The Bad Bad Place by David Hine and Mark Stafford becomes more depraved. A second instalment of Sarah Gordon’s The Collector, the first installment of Gail Key’s Psychic Lost Items Helpline by Ginny Skinner and featuring Cut Out by Simone Buchert. Cover by Ginny Skinner.

Issue #3

Meanwhile... 6

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As we gather momentum to its conclusion, Gary Spencer Millidge presents another instalment of Strangehaven. David Hine and Mark Stafford’s nasty The Bad Bad Place continues. Sarah Gordon’s The Collector begins, a new story from Konstantin Komardin, plus work by Joao Fazenda, Carla Berrocal and Mariana Serra, and so much more! Cover by Sarah Gordon.

Issue #2

Meanwhile... 5

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Bigger and better than ever! 96 pages. No ads. The conclusion of Yuko Rabbit’s compelling 10 Minutes. Will Teodor finally free Judita, or is she doomed to spend her life locked in the gravity tower? Gary Spencer Millidge presents another instalment of Strangehaven and a new episode of David Hine and Mark Stafford’s chilling The Bad Bad Place. Plus a new series by Sarah Gordon, and much more!

Issue #8

Meanwhile... 11 sampler

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Roger Langridge’s Taniwha continues to build intrigue! Strangehaven from Gary Spencer Millidge draws ever closer to its senses-shattering conclusion. Mulele Jarvis demonstrates the mysticism of cats in Elbis. And Oisin Roche’s Troll is a gothic horror in the finest sense. Plus so very much more! Cover by Roger Langridge. Kickstarter campaign on until 29th October: http://spengu.in/kickstart

Meanwhile...

September 2021

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Meanwhile... is a critically-acclaimed anthology title, curated by copublisher John Anderson to meet the tastes of discerning comics readers. This omnibus edition brings together all 210 pages of the first four issues of Meanwhile...