NBM plans an eclectic collection of graphic novels for Spring and Summer of 2021, including a Ted Rall story about journalism and social media, the stories of women who were pioneers of science, a docu-story about a French chef known for his mastery of chocolate, a biography of Janis Joplin, and comic adaptations of famed Spanish poetry.

Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science breaks gender stereotypes by presenting 20 women who made a difference in science, including Ada Lovelace (computing), Marie Curie (physics and chemistry), Mae Jamison (space exploration), Hedy Lamarr (telecommunications) to Rosalind Franklin (biology).  This full color 8-1/2" x 11" 96-page hardcover by Christelle Pecout and Marie Moinard will release in March 2021 at $19.99.

The Stringer, by Ted Rall and Pablo Calllejo tells the story of a veteran war correspondent who discovers that instead of throwing in the towel on journalism he can become wealthy and famous if he pivots to social media and abandons everything he cares about.  Set at an important turning point a few years ago, the story is a warning of technologies that allow the manufacture of truth.  The full-color 8-1/2" x 11" 152-page hardcover will be released in April at $24.99.

In The Secrets of Chocolate, Franckie Alarcon spends a year with famed chef Jacques Genin, known for his chocolates.  He spends time in the atelier above Genin’s store, tries his hand as an assistant, and travels to the Peruvian cocoa plantations where the chef sources his carefully chosen beans.  This full color 8-1/2 x 11 112-page hardcover will be released in June at $13.99.

NBM continues its line of musical biographies (see "Graphic Bios of Willie Nelson, Michael Jackson") with Love Me Please, a biography of Janis Joplin, whose five-year career as a rock singer ended abruptly with her overdose death in 1970.  A drug addict filled with doubt, Joplin ended up in San Francisco in the 1960s, a period when the counterculture flowered and her taste for excess found full effect.  This full-color 7-1/2" x 10" hardcover will release in July at $24.99.

Tobias Tak has transformed 20 of the lyrical poems from Federico Garcia Lorca’s Canciones, his masterpiece of poetry published in 1927, into comics for this collection: Canciones of Federico Garcia Lorca.  It includes an introduction by Lorca scholar, editor, and translator Christopher Maurer.  This full-color 8" x 10" hardcover will be released in August at $24.99.


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