In November 2024, after the U.S. presidential election, The Guardian reported that Cunningham was having trouble finding a U.S. publisher, quoting him as saying “Its publication in other countries looks unlikely. I’m told that there was interest from various international publishers at the recent Frankfurt book fair, but there was concern over possible legal consequences.” He told the newspaper that all the information in the book had already been published elsewhere, and that Delcourt vetted it thoroughly before publication. “But it looks like we live in a climate of fear where the worst people have immense power,” he said, “and because of this there’s a tendency for the individuals, institutions, businesses and the state to run for cover.”
Seven Stories publishes a mix of literature and fiction, including the novels of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, as well as graphic novels including Ted Rall’s graphic biographies of Senator Bernie Sanders, President Donald Trump, and Pope Francis; the Graphic Canon anthologies; and Seymour Chwast’s At War with War. They are distributed by Penguin Random House.
Bloomsbury published Cunningham’s first graphic novel, Psychiatric Tales (see “Review of ‘Psychiatric Tales’”). Two more, How to Fake a Moon Landing and The Age of Selfishness, were published by Abrams (see “Charles Kochman Interview”), and Drawn and Quarterly published Billionaires (see “D&Q Releases Winter 2021 Lineup”) and Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator (see “Drawn and Quarterly”). Billionaires won the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Fiction.
