Comics Bookcase
Welcome to Comics Bookcase, a fully independent publishing imprint run by Zack Quaintance.
You can learn about our comics below and sign up for our monthly newsletter here. If you’re looking for the old news/reviews site, check out the archive, and if you want to contact Zack, this is it: ZackQ@ComicsBookcase.com … thanks!
Macabre Valley #1 (2025)
A young reporter gets a job covering the night cops beat at a newspaper in South Texas. When a Border Patrol agent is gruesomely murdered, our hero must untangle a violent mystery with a beloved local priest and a werewolf at its dark center.
Macabre Valley #1 is a 30-page horror comic by writer Zack Quaintance (Death of Comics Bookcase), artist Anna Readman (2000AD, Peachfuzz), colorist Brad Simpson (Local Man, Coffin Bound), Eisner-nominated letterer Becca Carey (Absolute Wonder Woman, Exquisite Corpses), and designer Jared K. Fletcher (Paper Girls).
Checkout the Kickstarter campaign here.
Macabre Valley #1 will be available soon in the Comics Bookcase Etsy shop.
If you’re in the UK, you can find Macabre Valley #1 at OK Comics in Leeds or at Gosh! Comics in London.
Macabre Valley #2 is coming soon…
Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 1 (2024)
Death of Comics Bookcase is Comics Bookcase’s central publication, with a first volume available now, spanning 48 pages. The segments in the book feature art by Nick Cagnetti, PJ Holden, Luke Horsman, Ryan Lee, Anna Readman, & Pat Skott.
This genre-busting book is a launch pad for new series (such as Macabre Valley, above) and characters, as well as a means of following up past stories (such as Next Door, below).
Checkout the Kickstarter campaign here.
Death of Comics Bookcase Vol. 1 is now available in the Comics Bookcase Etsy Shop. And you can also find it at Anyone Comics in Brooklyn, N.Y.
News about Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 2 will be revealed very very soon.
But rumor has it you can glimpse the first art from the book in the back of Macabre Valley #1.
Next Door (2021)
The very first Comics Bookcase release, this one-shot (which has since expanded with a short in Death of Comics Bookcase) was produced in 2020 and published in 2021. It’s got a neo-noir tinged aesthetic, and a tragicomic tone that tackles housing costs, distrusting your neighbors, and the way our inability to communicate truthfully with each other can cause problems.
Next Door was written by Zack Quaintance, illustrated by Pat Skott, colored by Ellie Wright, and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. And it featured this hilarious variant cover by Anna Readman!
Checkout the Kickstarter campaign here.
Next Door is exclusively available in the Comics Bookcase Etsy Shop. With a limited print run, few copies remain for sale.
Will there be a sequel? Well, the first 10 pages of one appeared in Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 1. So, we’ll just have to see.
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The book is due out in November, and it features a long list of comics artists, including Bill Plympton, Aaron Augenblick, Peter Bagge, Steve Chanks, Danny Hellman, Felipe Sobreiro, and more.
Cartoonist Jonathan Case talks with us about making Little Monarchs, wanting to connect with nature, and much much more.
All three are getting new YA graphic novels by top-tier creative teams for this time next year.
Loved and Lost is due out June 14 via Top Shelf, collecting three of Brown’s early books about young love, putting Clumsy, Unlikely, and Any Easy Intimacy in one place for the first time.
Imagine Frankenstein walking around a post-apocalyptic frog world and you’re probably getting warm for what to expect from this book.
DC Comics announces a new one-shot with a story from writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber, the team behind the all-time great series, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen.
The 48-page comic is due out in September, with guest artists Mikel Janín, Rafael Albuquerque, and Kevin Maguire joining Smallwood on the book.
Check out eight picks for the Best Comics of 2022 — Image Comics as well as the best graphic novels and trade collections from the publisher so far this year.
The veteran comics editor talks with us about his new multi-media venture Illuminous, his vision as Heavy Metal’s e-i-c, and penning another historical music comic for the Kickstarter anthology, We Can Funk.
With AIR and Enigma both getting new printings from Berger Books, we look at some other out-of-print comics we’d like to see return.
Steve Baxi writes in-depth about the current run on the character by writer Christopher Cantwell, artist CAFU, and team.
‘There’s things in the woods. There’s some sort of demonic entity that roams the countryside. There’s lights in the sky. What do you do?’
The new team’s first issue will be Detective Comics #1062, due out July 26.
The first issue of the new series from writer Deniz Camp, artist Filya Bratukhin, and team is due out June 22 from Scout Comics.
You can follow along with this read on Twitter with the hashtag #ParaPersonality.
Lisa writes, I adore Galaxy: The Prettiest Star. The writing is sharp, funny, and poignant. The art is colorful, hip, and ebullient….
The three-issue, prestige-format book has its first chapter due out on July 26.
Image Comics has now made the release date for the next Saga trade official…
Catwoman - Lonely City, The Nice House on the Lake, Action Comics Warworld Rising, and more, plus the best new collections and trades from DC.
Featuring (as the headline implies) a rolling list of the best comics of 2022 from Marvel Comics, so don’t forget to bookmark this page.
The Cult…Dark Knight, Dark City…The Court of Owls…and more make our wish list for future Batman films.
The Department of Truth — created by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, Aditya Bidikar and Dylan Todd — comes in response to this era of Post-Truth…
The Comics Bookcase staff goes beyond the obvious choices like Batman: Year One and the Dark Knight Returns to compile a list of the best batman comics of all-time.
Check out the first edition of Lisa Gullickson’s new column about graphic novels for young adults…and the lessons they offer about growing into your life.

Hey all, some changes are underway here — namely, starting tomorrow (July 5, 2022), I’m going to be taking a role as the reviews editor with my friends over at The Beat. The Beat has always been one of my favorite websites about comics, the long-reigning champ of covering the industry…