At the BEA Abrams Comicarts announced the March, 2017 publication of The Best That We Can Do, a memoir by artist Thi Bui, who was born in Vietnam and fled her native land at the end of Vietnam War.  Thi’s experiences as she and her family attempt to adapt to life in the U.S. will resonate with many modern immigrants, and this stunning 336-page two-color hardcover graphic novel is likely to be on more than a few “10 Best” lists for 2017.  The Best That We Could Do is a powerful and intimate look at the modern immigrant experience in America.

Due out this coming October, Si Lewen’s Parade, a new deluxe edition of a graphic work first published in 1957.  This 148-page wordless graphic novel is a passionate antiwar statement that had largely been forgotten until it was resurrected in this new two-sided accordion-fold format with an extensive overview of the artist’s career on the verso.  This deluxe edition, which has a cover price of $250, includes a hardcover slipcase and a signed print.

Also due in October of 2016 is the graphic novel biography Becoming Andy Warhol.  Writer Nick Bertozzi and artist Pierce Hargan concentrate on Warhol’s creation of “The Thirteen Most Wanted Men” mural for the 1964 World Fair when Warhol had to take on the artistic establishment as personified by urban planner Robert Moses, architect Phillip Johnson, and the art-fancying Governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller.  This 160-page, two-color hardcover biography will have a cover price of $24.95.

Originally slated for publication in the fall of 2014, Damian Duffy and John Jennings’ adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s award-winning science fiction novel Kindred, is now set for a January, 2017 release (see “Abrams Adapts Butler’s ‘Kindred’”).  The 240-page hardcover Kindred graphic novel will have a $24.95 cover price.