I’m excited to announce the final of three planned publications for 2026: Heartbreak Sounds Good in a Place Like This by Nadia Shammas and Jade Armstrong: Sad songs sound best when screamed in a crowd of equally-sad schmucks. For the roommate/bandmate duo WITCHTIT, it's the only
I’m delighted to announce the second of three planned publications for 2026: sunshine gao’s Slumlord Ethics: “Better us than some scummy corporation, right?” A young couple tries renting out a unit in their newly-purchased century-old home, hoping to responsibly share their housing with others. When a friend asks
I’m thrilled to announce the first of three planned publications for 2026: Maya McKibbin’s I DREAMT OF U <3 In 2099, the air teems with invisible information, everyone has a neurolink, the cats speak, and the oceans are empty. Aurora, Tristan, and Kate, three scattered thirty-somethings, navigate
We're less than a month away from one of the most exciting weekends for indie comics--the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! The lead-up to TCAF seems like the perfect time to announce our debut slate of books, so over the next 3 weeks, I'll be telling you
The publisher of Ignatz Award winner Shades of Fear is relaunching as a small press for original graphic novels! After a decade of editing comics from the Shuster Award-winning anthology Wayward Sisters to Chip Zdarsky’s Eisner winner Public Domain, Balustrade Press publisher Allison O'Toole is excited to
This is Balustrade Press, a brand new site by Allison O'Toole that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content
