Graphic Novel
Our graphic novels feature sequential comic stories produced in premium book formats. We work directly with the artists to design and package books that serve as an extension of who they are.
Pre-order ships early December
For mature readers; contains sexual content and thematic material
-Direct from publisher price is $34.95 (cover price is $39.95)
-6.625 × 10.25”
-400 pages
-Hardcover
-ISBN: 9781640411067
-Variant cover design
-Includes the 366-page graphic novel
-Contains Poe’s original story with new illustrations
-Afterword by Wendy Pini
-Sketchbook section
A decadent far-future gothic nightmare!
Masque of the Red Death is a sweeping, 400-page graphic novel reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, conceived, written and illustrated by internationally renowned creator Wendy Pini. This definitive edition presents the full 366-page graphic novel, includes Poe’s original story The Mask of the Red Death, newly illustrated by Wendy Pini, and concludes with an afterword and curated sketchbook section.
Set in a decadent far-future world of scientific excess and looming catastrophe, the story follows brilliant geneticist Anton Prosper, whose pursuit of immortality leads to a discovery that spirals into a bio-technical plague threatening all life. When the enigmatic young prodigy Steffan Kabala enters his orbit, their bond ignites a transformative passion that reshapes both their destinies—and the fate of the world.
Developed over two decades in Wendy Pini’s imagination, this deeply personal opus draws on gothic horror traditions while blending influences from Japanese manga, anime, and Chinese donghua to create haunting, hallucinatory visions of beauty and terror. As re-envisioned here, Poe’s fatalism gives way to a radical reframing: even in the shadow of death, love endures as the ultimate force.
A tragic love story, techno-thriller, and gothic fantasy in equal measure, this long-awaited work stands as Wendy Pini’s personal, ambitious reinterpretation of Poe’s legacy, and a striking meditation on mortality, desire, and hope.
About Wendy Pini
Eisner Award and Harvey Award Hall of Fame inductee Wendy Pini has been drawing literally since the age of two, and has worked for Marvel, DC, First Comics, Comico, Ace, Berkley, Tor Books, and many other publishers. She is the co-creator, writer, artist, and colorist for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series ElfQuest, widely acknowledged as “the first American manga.” She wrote and painted two "Beauty and the Beast" graphic novels, based on the original TV series, as well as a critically acclaimed 400-page dark, futuristic reimagining of Poe's Masque of the Red Death, currently in development with an award-winning team as a thriller for the musical theatre. In 2022 she story-edited scripts for Season One of Dagaz Media and Realm.fm’s 10-episode Audio Movie adaptation of the first ElfQuest novelization, Journey to Sorrow’s End. Her award-winning motion-comic version of Masque may be seen on Amazon Prime Video.
Pre-order ships early December
For mature readers; contains sexual content and thematic material
-$75.00 cover price
-6.625 × 10.25”
-400 pages
-Hardcover
-ISBN: 9781640411135
-Variant cover
-Cloth quarter-binding
-Limited to 500 copies
-Signed by Wendy Pini
-Includes the 366-page graphic novel
-Contains Poe’s original story with new illustrations
-Afterword by Wendy Pini
-Sketchbook section
A decadent far-future gothic nightmare!
Masque of the Red Death is a sweeping, 400-page graphic novel reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, conceived, written and illustrated by internationally renowned creator Wendy Pini. This definitive edition presents the full 366-page graphic novel, includes Poe’s original story The Mask of the Red Death, newly illustrated by Wendy Pini, and concludes with an afterword and curated sketchbook section.
Set in a decadent far-future world of scientific excess and looming catastrophe, the story follows brilliant geneticist Anton Prosper, whose pursuit of immortality leads to a discovery that spirals into a bio-technical plague threatening all life. When the enigmatic young prodigy Steffan Kabala enters his orbit, their bond ignites a transformative passion that reshapes both their destinies—and the fate of the world.
Developed over two decades in Wendy Pini’s imagination, this deeply personal opus draws on gothic horror traditions while blending influences from Japanese manga, anime, and Chinese donghua to create haunting, hallucinatory visions of beauty and terror. As re-envisioned here, Poe’s fatalism gives way to a radical reframing: even in the shadow of death, love endures as the ultimate force.
A tragic love story, techno-thriller, and gothic fantasy in equal measure, this long-awaited work stands as Wendy Pini’s personal, ambitious reinterpretation of Poe’s legacy, and a striking meditation on mortality, desire, and hope.
About Wendy Pini
Eisner Award and Harvey Award Hall of Fame inductee Wendy Pini has been drawing literally since the age of two, and has worked for Marvel, DC, First Comics, Comico, Ace, Berkley, Tor Books, and many other publishers. She is the co-creator, writer, artist, and colorist for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series ElfQuest, widely acknowledged as “the first American manga.” She wrote and painted two "Beauty and the Beast" graphic novels, based on the original TV series, as well as a critically acclaimed 400-page dark, futuristic reimagining of Poe's Masque of the Red Death, currently in development with an award-winning team as a thriller for the musical theatre. In 2022 she story-edited scripts for Season One of Dagaz Media and Realm.fm’s 10-episode Audio Movie adaptation of the first ElfQuest novelization, Journey to Sorrow’s End. Her award-winning motion-comic version of Masque may be seen on Amazon Prime Video.
The Last Battle at the End of the World by Jeffrey Alan Love
Each order comes with an exclusive 8.5 x 11" signed print. (One per order.)
The cover price is $34.95. The publisher direct price is $29.95.
ISBN: 978-1-64041-083-1
128 pages
9 × 12 inches
Hardcover
Graphic novel
On the eve of the last battle at the end of the world, two brothers are sent to retrieve a legendary warrior-king who promised to return one day at earth's time of greatest need.
This first edition includes a 48-page behind the scenes section that features sketches and commentary revealing how Jeffrey Alan Love created The Last Battle at the End of the World.
The Last Battle at the End of the World by Jeffrey Alan Love
Each order comes with an exclusive 8.5 x 11" signed print. (One per order.)
Deluxe edition signed by Jeffrey Alan Love
Limited to 1000 copies
The cover price is $49.95. The publisher direct price is $44.95.
ISBN: 978-1-64041-089-3
128 pages
9 × 12 inches
Hardcover
Graphic novel
On the eve of the last battle at the end of the world, two brothers are sent to retrieve a legendary warrior-king who promised to return one day at earth's time of greatest need.
This first edition includes a 48-page behind the scenes section that features sketches and commentary revealing how Jeffrey Alan Love created The Last Battle at the End of the World.
This deluxe hardcover version comes with an orange quarter binding (custom material wrap to spine area that extends into the front and back covers) and comes signed by Jeffrey Alan Love.
The Thousand Demon Tree: Expanded Edition by Jeffrey Alan Love
This book comes signed by Jeff while supplies last.
The cover price is $34.95. The publisher direct price is $29.95.
ISBN: 978-1-64041-093-0
128 pages
9 × 12 inches
Hardcover
This expanded edition includes a 32-page behind the scenes section that features sketches and commentary revealing how Jeffrey Alan Love created The Thousand Demon Tree.
Drawn into a strange quest by a bird and a sword, a lone warrior travels across a silent landscape of smoke and dirt and bone. Transformed by what he encounters along the way, he searches for the Thousand Demon Tree, and the hope of a new world that lies beyond it.
The Thousand Demon Tree is a wordless graphic novel with printed cover boards.
Praise for The Thousand Demon Tree
“In Notes From the Shadowed City, Jeffrey Alan Love presented the reader with a myriad of haunting moments, each contributing to the sense of an overarching history. With The Thousand Demon Tree, we experience one such moment—extrapolated and expanded to an epic scale—no less enigmatic but now with dynamic, cinematic scope. Love is an inky David Lean, no less!”
—Duncan Fegredo
“Jeffrey Alan Love is a genius of stark black-and-white and the power of silence. The Thousand Demon Tree is the best kind of epic—one with action, atmosphere, monsters, a world mythos and plenty of room for the reader to dream into it.” —Jeffrey Ford
“Once again Jeffrey Alan Love demonstrates his mastery and complete grip of the imagery of the quest. The cinematic sense of the extended journey and its loneliness is very witty and effective. I love the fact that the story is silent—a song without words.”
—John Harris
“Much has been said of Love’s art. It is by turns haunting and elegiac. His storytelling is masterful as well. The Thousand Demon Tree is more of an experience than a read: It’s dreamlike, yet gritty and profound. It’s also mournful, yet cyclical—a study of mortality in a limited palette, with stark yet archetypal figures moving with great purpose. Love’s work takes an honored place on my walls and on my shelf.”
—John Hornor Jacobs, author of The Incorruptibles and Southern Gods
“A graphic narrative in its purest form—strong images, visual rhythms, shapes, marks, a sense of motion close to animation—creating a timeless fable.”
—Dave McKean
“Who needs a thousand words when a picture can tell the same story? And Jeffrey’s pictures do that and more. This is another ambitious, beautiful and engrossing book that sweeps you up in its bold, inky world.”
“Wonder how sequential art would have looked if Ingmar Bergman had made comics instead of films? Jeffrey Alan Love’s The Thousand Demon Tree is the answer.”
—John Picacio
“Two quick takes regarding The Thousand Demon Tree: 1) Jeffrey Alan Love is one hell of a storyteller. He has created a rich, emotional, totally immersive epic composed completely of imagery. And 2) any serious student of design should be paying attention. I know I am!”
—Mark Schultz
“Jeffrey Alan Love’s The Thousand Demon Tree is absolutely stunning. It’s a wordless graphic novel. Each image, each page, each spread speaks volumes, from the faintest whisper to a deafening roar. It’s magical.
“I’ve been reading and re-reading it, and I cannot get enough. It’s one of those rare pieces of art that somehow feels like it has always been there, inside all of us, waiting to be experienced. It’s that primal, that universal.
“This is one for the ages.”
—Bill Sienkiewicz
“Jeffrey Alan Love’s The Thousand Demon Tree is breathtaking in its simplicity and power. Being immersed in the silent narrative is like taking part in the most vivid and disturbing of nightmares—but in a good way! A book that I’ll most certainly go back to again.”
—Thomas E. Sniegoski, New York Times best-selling author of The Fallen series and the Bone: Quest for the Spark trilogy
“The Thousand Demon Tree is incredible. What Jeffrey Alan Love has done with this book is to firmly cement himself as one of the most important artists making ominous and fantastical narrative work today.
Full of shadows and terror and razor-sharp edges, this gorgeous book will sweep people into its dark and paralyzing world.”
—Gerard Way
Pre-order ships early December
For mature readers; contains sexual content and thematic material
-Direct from publisher price is $24.95 (cover price is $29.95)
-6.625 × 10.25”
-400 pages
-Paperback
-ISBN: 9781640411050
-Includes the 366-page graphic novel
-Contains Poe’s original story with new illustrations
-Afterword by Wendy Pini
-Sketchbook section
A decadent far-future gothic nightmare!
Masque of the Red Death is a sweeping, 400-page graphic novel reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, conceived, written and illustrated by internationally renowned creator Wendy Pini. This definitive edition presents the full 366-page graphic novel, includes Poe’s original story The Mask of the Red Death, newly illustrated by Wendy Pini, and concludes with an afterword and curated sketchbook section.
Set in a decadent far-future world of scientific excess and looming catastrophe, the story follows brilliant geneticist Anton Prosper, whose pursuit of immortality leads to a discovery that spirals into a bio-technical plague threatening all life. When the enigmatic young prodigy Steffan Kabala enters his orbit, their bond ignites a transformative passion that reshapes both their destinies—and the fate of the world.
Developed over two decades in Wendy Pini’s imagination, this deeply personal opus draws on gothic horror traditions while blending influences from Japanese manga, anime, and Chinese donghua to create haunting, hallucinatory visions of beauty and terror. As re-envisioned here, Poe’s fatalism gives way to a radical reframing: even in the shadow of death, love endures as the ultimate force.
A tragic love story, techno-thriller, and gothic fantasy in equal measure, this long-awaited work stands as Wendy Pini’s personal, ambitious reinterpretation of Poe’s legacy, and a striking meditation on mortality, desire, and hope.
About Wendy Pini
Eisner Award and Harvey Award Hall of Fame inductee Wendy Pini has been drawing literally since the age of two, and has worked for Marvel, DC, First Comics, Comico, Ace, Berkley, Tor Books, and many other publishers. She is the co-creator, writer, artist, and colorist for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series ElfQuest, widely acknowledged as “the first American manga.” She wrote and painted two "Beauty and the Beast" graphic novels, based on the original TV series, as well as a critically acclaimed 400-page dark, futuristic reimagining of Poe's Masque of the Red Death, currently in development with an award-winning team as a thriller for the musical theatre. In 2022 she story-edited scripts for Season One of Dagaz Media and Realm.fm’s 10-episode Audio Movie adaptation of the first ElfQuest novelization, Journey to Sorrow’s End. Her award-winning motion-comic version of Masque may be seen on Amazon Prime Video.