Beloved indie publisher Glacier Bay is working on it again. Their New Manga Slate – Fall 2025 programme will be the final weeks of Kickstarter reservations for five new titles in September: True Blue Never Fades, The Space of Balcony, Box Garden Beetle, The Cursed Body, Baku Chan. At a glance, the Glacier Bay cartoon is far from it. Books lined up on shelves at chain stores. A bizarre and unusual reading seeker: You found it.
The 2025 Fall Program book includes working class love triangles, stories of historically influenced ghosts, and casually psychedelic dream comics. A kind of thing. On the one hand, these indie manga titles have many similarities with what readers of indie comics and small pressbooks meet and pursue. On the other hand, manga tends to intersect genres. Perhaps because genres tend to be defined by “Western” conventions. Therefore, you can fulfill your aesthetics without following it, not the cartoon you are expecting. Prove that the most personal is the most universal.
1. True blue will not decline due to Tada Yuku
“We go back to Tada Yumi’s early masterpieces, a classic adult drama about truckers, waitresses, and lovers crossed by false stars. Bonnie and Mickey are young and in love, but Mickey is married to the life of a long-distance tracker. In orbit, things start to change slowly… Originally published in Japan in 1995, this title was lovingly and painstakingly restored for our edition.”
Translated by Matthis Hirsch, written by Lauren Eldon. Printed in A5 format, sewn bindings, cream tone paper stock with black ink. Over 200 pages.
2. Space from the balcony by Oumi Konomi
“It is certainly inspirational and delightful to gather together the mind-blowing panoramas of Oumi Konomi’s early short stories: etheric beings slipping into the universe, the faint smell of goldfish bowls, the spirit journey of wordsless plants, the short and impossible love, the mermaid who forget how to swim.”
Translated by Mattis Hirsch by Tim Sun. Printed and sewn bindings in A5 format, tactile – interior stock of Lecido (bibliography should explain it to me), and metalworked covers. Over 180 pages.
3. Fujino’s Box Garden Beetle
“The unfolding field of morning glory and batony polka dots. Wormholes in cabinets of childhood memories and magical curiosity. Barreck bands of shadows that creep up with laughter and creeping up. Army of insects and doppelgangers. The master alternative manga artist, Box Garden Beetle, whose early works were published by the famous Alt-Manga publisher Seirinkogeisha and praised by masters like Hayichi, is the first full volume (Akondoh Akino’s) Manga translated into English.
Translated by Ryan Holmberg. In an essay by Seiichi Akiha. Printed in A5 format, this jacket features lay flat sewing bindings, cream stock interiors and textured dust jackets. Over 200 pages.
4. Cursed Body by Kawasaki Tokushige
“The first solo English publication from the highly influential cartoon artist, editor and historian Kawaminami tokushige had previously published stories in the anthology of Greoria. The Cursed Body gathers two long stories from Kawaka’s “mystical cartoon” magazine key. They “crying more and more for me, and they’re going to be more and more unstable. Tradition.”
In an interview with the author by Ryan Holmberg. Printed in A5 format, a deluxe cream stock interior with lay flat sewing binding, spot color ink, and textured dust jacket. Over 270 pages.
5. Baku Chan (original version) by masumura joushichi
“The author of the devastating, beautiful short comic about the tapirs of immigrants on Earth (Glacier Bay Books, 2021) by the author of Mu-Town. Bakuchan is a young tap who has migrated to Tokyo, from Earth to Earth, Earth, and the star of distant stars. The various challenges, uncertainties, and the humorous and beautiful moments of their new life as immigrants are glasses of our own appearances, portrayed in the wake of the escalating global politics of the 2010s.
A new piece was created for this edition. Printed in full color, spot color, A5 size, sewn bindings and dust jacket. Over 60 pages.
Glacier Bay also offers many of its back catalogues as Kickstarter add-ons. I know how this works. Newer people to publishers can go to Bonkar, and enthusiasts can fill in the gaps in their collections. As you can see from the variety offered here, the mix is roughly, magically, creatively and in a singular range. Read the beat reviews of mothers, go back to her to me, one day, strange and funky events, and pass it to the sea. You can also find Glacier Bay on my list of the best cartoons of 2023 and 2024, as well as my list of complacent gourmet cinemas. If you need to hype even more.
So, what are you still doing here? Get that manga!
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