NBM Publishing has announced their release schedule through July, including new titles from Jim Benton, Jesse Lonergan, Eric Hobbs & Noel Tuason; new translations of Enki Bilal and Arthur De Pin titles; and new editions of books by Ted Rall and Nicolas De Crecy.
 
In March, All Star by Jesse Lonergan (Joe & Azat, Flower & Fade) will release.  Set in the spring of 1998, Carl Carter, a high school senior and baseball star who has a university scholarship waiting, is about to make an arrogant mistake that could endanger everything.  B&W, 176-page trade paperback, MSRP is set at $13.99.
 
March will also see an updated version of Silk Road to Run: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East, by Ted Rall.  This is the first paperback edition, and the part graphic novel travelogue, part travel guide comes with a new chapter.  The B&W trade paperback has 304 pages, and retails for $19.99.
 
Family Ties: An Alaskan Crime Drama by Eric Hobbs & Noel Tuazon (The Broadcast) will release in April.  In a story inspired by King Lear, an aging Alaskan crime boss looking to retire seeks to divide his empire among his three heirs.  His son refuses the inheritance, is disowned, and his scheming sisters plot their father’s demise.  B&W 208-page trade paperback, MSRP is $14.99.
 



May will bring The Louvre Collection: Phantoms of the Louvre by European sci-fi and fantasy comics artist Enki Bilal (the Nikopol trilogy).  Bilal takes 22 portraits, and imagines the lives of the subjects who one day met an artist and was their model for an iconic work of art (the Mona Lisa, The Victory of Samothrace, Christ reclining).  The 144-page, color book retails for $29.99.  
 


A new hardcover edition of Nicolas De Crecy’s Eisner Nominated Glacial Period will also release in May.  The graphic novel was the first in a series sponsored by the Louvre museum, and De Crecy imagined a story set thousands of years in the future, during a glacial period where human history has been forgotten, and a group of archeologists unearth the Louvre itself.  Their observations of the artifacts they find are nonsensical and absurd.  The 80-page color book retails for $22.99.
 
In June, Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff Like That. And Cats., a collection of Reddit cartoons by It’s Happy Bunny creator Jim Benton will release.  The 96-page, color trade paperback carries an MSRP of $13.99.
 








In July, NBM will release the second of Arthur De Pins’ Zombillenium book.  Zombillenium Vol. 2: Human Resources sees the monster amusement park run by monsters deal with the friction that comes from hiring only the dead (or witches), in a region where unemployment is high, a situation compounded by security issues and the arrival of a strange visitor.  The 48-page, color book will retail for $14.99.