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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