Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels

We might have been a little quiet recently but it’s only because we’ve got lots of super exciting things coming up…

Fans of Charles Burns will no doubt already be awaiting the next installement of his trilogy - the first part of which was, X’ed Out. Those of you who don’t know anything about Charles Burns… a) where have you been?! and b) here’s something to get you started.

Put 20th September in your calendars for the weird and wonderful The Hive.

Doug is still in the netherworld. He’s working a cleaning job in the Hive’s stinking hallways, trying to ignore the screams, and reading romance comics to the breeders. But as the stories unravel on the page, frame by frame, mirrored memories plunge him back into his waking life. And that’s where the real nightmare is.

In Burns’s trademark hard-edged style, The Hive is horrifying and completely absorbing: an incredible new installment from one of the most exciting artists in the comics world.