Black Panel Press was founded in 2017 by Andrew Benteau, in partnership with Jose Jover of the French publisher Tartamudo Editions, with the intent of publishing high-quality indie graphic novels from around the world. The Black Panel catalog includes Hanging on by a Thread, Lebanese artist Noemi’s memoir of facing cancer as a young art student in Beirut; The Man in the Painter’s Room, the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s later life told through the eyes of an innkeeper’s daughter with whom he was friendly; Queer in Asia, a look at gay youth in China; and Inhuman Trials, a sci-fi tale about a scientist trying to reconstruct the human genome after a devastating war.
Frank Miller’s publishing company Frank Miller Presents inked a deal with Diamond Book Distributors earlier this year (see “Frank Miller Presents Signs on with Diamond”).