Iron Circus Comics Catalog 2020 Spring/Summer - Banned Book Club & Penultimate Quest & The Harrowing of Hell

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Iron Circus Comics Catalog 2020 Spring/Summer presents trade paperback comic and graphic novel offerings for young adult and mature readers, including Banned Book Club, The Complete Penultimate Quest, and The Harrowing of Hell. Each title is positioned through editorial highlights such as starred reviews, audience fit, format specifications, and clear thematic hooks. The catalog emphasizes genre-defying storytelling: rebellion and forbidden reading under authoritarian rule, an existential dungeon-crawler quest about escape from repetitive life, and a densely illustrated Christian apocrypha-inspired political allegory.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryComic

FormatPDF

Pages40

Reading Time15 min

AccessFree to download

Spring/Summer 2020

Banned Book Club

The Complete Penultimate Quest

The Harrowing of Hell

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BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTION AM CONTE NT G ROU P | Spring/Summer 2020 • comics & graphic novels / memoir • black & white art • 200 pages • 6” × 9” • trade paperback • available April 2020 • young adult readers • starred review in School Library Journal • starred review in Booklist • starred review in Publishers Weekly • starred review in BookDragon • Amazon “Teen & Young Adult Asian History” \#1 New Release • Junior Library Guild Selection • School Library Connection Top 6 Picks for January • LINKcat Don’t Miss List US $15.00 CAN $20.00 978-1-945820-42-7 Banned Book Club Written by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju A true-life memoir about rebellion, friendship, and the power of the forbidden. The gripping true story of a South Korean woman’s student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading. • URGENTLY TIMELY: Against the backdrop of a recently empowered authoritarian regime, Kim’s story reveals the small ways life begins to change, almost imperceptibly, for people under the thumb of an oppressive reactionary government. Kim and Estrada explore similarities to present-day global politics in much the same way Timothy Snyder did in On Tyranny. • CROSS-SHELVING POTENTIAL: While Banned Book Club is both a memoir and a graphic novel for young adult readers, it sits equally wellin Current Events and Politics sections, reaching a broad readership interested in government, literature, activism, and 20th century history. • FAST-PACED PLOT: Much like Kim during the events of the story, readers don’t get too much time to soak in a leisurely conversation about literature in Banned Book Club, which quickly shifts gears to page-turning political thriller after its opening chapter. • BRIGHT TONE AND MESSAGE: Far from a doom-and-gloom “lost cause” tale, Kim’s story is told through lighthearted moments of humor, budding romance, and adolescent drama that contrasts what would bean otherwise frightening look at totalitarianism, making it easier to absorb for younger readers. • AUTHENTIC MANHWA ART: A graphic novel about Korea that looks the part, Banned Book Club’s action jumps off the page with bold, clear, expressive manhwa (Korean comics) art by Ko Hyung-Jo. • comics & graphic novels / fantasy • color art • 320 pages • 9” × 6.75” • trade paperback • available July 2020 • young adult readers The Complete Penultimate Quest Written and illustrated by Lars Brown, colored by Bex Glendining US $25.00 CAN $33.00 978-1-945820-50-2 “Why are we going down there, anyway? Some mystery to uncover, treasure to find? Why are we here?” In a witty, genre-defying tale of magic, mystery, and philosophy, brave warriors must learn the difference between diversion and escape as they try to break the cycle of a penultimate quest in which the final fantasy never arrives. • UNEXPECTED DEPTH: Cloaked in a traditional dungeon-crawler fantasy story, Penultimate Quest is a much deeper meditation on the meaning of a life based on repetitive tasks, and the challenges one must face when trying to break free from it. Equal parts Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Dostoevsky, and Super Nintendo, this is a fun-filled, monster-haunted quest through existential philosophy. • NEW COLOR ART: Previously serialized as a popular webcomic, this will be the first one-volume print edition of the complete story in full color; a treat for both online fans and new readers looking for an engaging literary exploration of the fantasy genre. • GAMER-CENTRIC: Steeped in the language and tropes of roleplaying games, the characters are humorously aware of the game and its trappings—hit points, potions, spells, level numbers—and they reflect several types of real-world players and playing styles. • ABSO

FAQs

该目录的时间范围与发行形式是什么？

目录涵盖 Spring/Summer 2020，并以 trade paperback（平装贸易版）形式发布，标注了各作品的上市月份与页数尺寸。

Banned Book Club 讲述的核心主题是什么？

Banned Book Club 是关于反叛、友谊与“被禁止的阅读”力量的真实回忆录，聚焦 1980 年代早期韩国在威权体制下学生生活及对审查制度的反抗。

The Complete Penultimate Quest 的主要类型与卖点有哪些？

作品以魔法、神秘与哲学为主线，将传统地牢冒险与对重复任务人生意义的深层思考结合，并强调幽默、吸引人的新彩色艺术与 RPG 语言梗的游戏化呈现。

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