Northwest Press

08/03/2024

Our sister-from-another-mxster press, Stacked Deck Press is running a campaign to fund their new book A GOOD SPORT by Soizick Jaffre. If you already backed Ed Firth's book with us and are just hungry for more q***r stories, check this one out.

A Good Sport is a graphic memoir from French cartoonist Soizick Jaffre about her participation in the 2018 Gay Games and her personal search for freedom! Crowdfunding now on Zoop! Back it today!

https://zoop.gg/c/agoodsport

08/03/2024

We're well over the halfway hump! It might be because we added a few new unique and limited edition things. :-)

If you're outside the U.S., there's even some stuff for you!

07/03/2024

NEW REWARDS!

We're a little less than halfway to our funding goal, with less than half the campaign time remaining. Even we can do the math on that (and we went to art school.)

We've just added some new limited edition and totally unique rewards to our Kickstarter campaign to publish Ed Firth's acclaimed graphic novel in the U.S. and introduce it to a new audience, but we need your help to do it!

Please back the project and help spread the word. It's very hard to reach readers with important work like this that deals with s*xuality in a frank way. Anything you can do to pitch in would be so welcomed.

05/03/2024

Ooo, the project I'm pushing on Kickstarter right now just got a "Projects We Love"!!

05/03/2024

Our new promo for Ed Firth's book "H***y & High, Volume I", on Kickstarter now! https://northwestpress.com/kickstarter

29/02/2024

A slightly modest-ified preview of Ed Firth's "Chillout", in H***Y & HIGH, VOL I, that I'm currently Kickstarting to bring to U.S. and Canadian readers. (Let's see if Facebook freaks out about it. :-/ )

18/02/2024

I’m really excited to be releasing Edmund’s series “H***y & High” in the U.S.. starting with Volume I. We’re doing the presale thing starting today on Kickstarter and I’m super jazzed about it. It’s an amazing series that paints a vivid portrait of s*x and drug culture that feels fresh and alive and foreboding. It’s speaking with a frankness that appeals to me on a deep level, and I’m so glad to help expose the series to more readers.

There’s been increasing downward pressure on adult material in comics lately. Great companies like Class Comics have been struggling with having their payment processors drop them and making it near impossible for them to do business at all. The big online stores for comics are increasingly rejecting any adult books outright, and making it harder to reach readers with this material. Now that ComiXology has been fully integrated into Amazon, the future for distributing adult-oriented books through them looks less possible, too.

Why does it matter?

It matters because there are a lot of people out there, especially q***r folks, who will never get any information about s*x—at least the s*x they themselves are going to be having—as they’re growing up. They are not learning how to integrate s*x into their lives healthily and they are not getting unvarnished advice about what to be careful about, beyond perfunctory STI and HIV warnings. They are getting basic info about how to survive, but not about how to thrive as a complete s*xual being.

I came out relatively early for my generation, and immersed myself in the community and I still find myself struggling against bad ideas drummed into me when I was younger.

I want younger adults today to be able to see s*x as a normal part of their lives, with rewards and dangers and complexities that they don’t have to just stumble into. I want them to learn from their peers through open talk about s*x. I want the movies and video and books they take in to give them what they probably didn’t get from their family and spare them a lot of grief later on.

So check out the book today if you can! (I’ll get a link posted in the comments.) Share it around your corners of the internet. Talk about why it’s important to *you* that adult material not be stifled and stigmatized. It’s the only way these voices are going to be heard. ❤️

I’m going to be at Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest today and Ed will be there too! Come by and say hi, and check out the book!

10/02/2023

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Prism Comics and Stacked Deck Press are collaborating to bring you a new comics anthology, We Belong! Edited by veteran comics creators Viktor T. Kerney (Strangelore) and William O. Tyler (Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Q***rs, Stress Fracture), We Belong is devoted to all-Black, all-q***r sci-fi and fantasy stories! If you would like to submit your pitch for a story to the editors, more information can be found here:

https://stackeddeckpress.com/call-for-submissions-we-belong-a-black-q***r-sci-fi-and-fantasy-anthology-is-looking-for-comics-creators/

09/12/2022

Our latest graphic novel, A HOME WITHOUT by Don Gaddis, is available for preorder now from Diamond PREVIEWS with code DEC221539.

If you're a retailer who's ordering copies for your store, let us know so we can send our readers to your shop, and send you a coupon to stock up on other Northwest Press titles at a low price!

04/12/2022

We’ll look what we have here! Looking forward to sharing Don Gaddis’ debut graphic novel with the world! Ask your local shop!

Growing up in the Bible Belt of the 1980s as a creative, colorful, and sensitive young boy is hard enough, but it's especially hard for River. His hot-tempered father, Mitch Garrison, fights constantly with his wife Rosemary and resents his son's softer side. As River and his sisters come of age, th...

02/10/2022

It’s the final hour to support A HOME WITHOUT on Kickstarter!

30/09/2022

Thanks to a whole bunch of wonderful backers, we've met our minimum goal for the A HOME WITHOUT Kickstarter campaign! There are two days left for you to pledge and get a copy of the book. We're so grateful to everyone who pitched in!!

14/09/2022

Details from the forthcoming A HOME WITHOUT, by Don Gaddis. Link in bio!

05/09/2022

Paper dolls celebrating the release of our upcoming book A HOME WITHOUT by Don Gaddis.

04/09/2022

Thrilled to be releasing a new book this fall, our first since 2020! It’s an autobio graphic novel by Don Gaddis called A HOME WITHOUT.

31/05/2021

Chatted with Fernando Velez about his project Class 6 on a new episode of the INQ Podcast!

28/05/2021

Coming up on the fifteen-year anniversary of my interview with Abby Denson, after her appearance in Seattle at Elliott Bay Book Company on her TOUGH LOVE: HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL book tour!
What’s that, you missed that interview? Maybe that’s because it was lost and never released. But it’s up now on the new Features section of the Northwest Press website, as the final episode of Superfag Radio!

09/10/2020

DASH is now available for order in October PREVIEWS, using item number OCT201498!