Though breathtakingly beautiful, the darker corners of the Appalachian wilderness are house to hellish crimson eyes that linger on Lamont, a younger man suffering from his previous and grappling together with his future in Ravi Teixeira’s gripping new graphic novel Heaven, West Virginia. “A singular and seductive meditation on the complexity of grief, therapeutic, and the ability of the pure world,” Heaven, West Virginia might be launched on November eleventh from Oni Press, and we have been supplied with an unique excerpt that exhibits how generally the shadows of the forest have sharp enamel… particularly whenever you’re haunted by voracious internal demons out of your previous.
Under, you may learn our unique preview of Heaven, West Virginia, and we even have the official press launch with extra particulars!
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From the Press Launch: Lamont’s father was not man. And now Lamont’s father is useless. Oni Press, the a number of Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writer of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to announce HEAVEN, WEST VIRGINIA, a narrative for anybody battling each internal and outer demons. An authentic graphic novel from Ravi Teixeira (A Fast & Simple Information to Coming Out), HEAVEN, WEST VIRGINIA is a strong and compelling story that offers with the fallout from tragedy, and the sometimes-terrifying journey to therapeutic.
When Lamont arrives within the tiny Appalachian city of Heaven, West Virginia, its lush panorama feels stubbornly at odds with the roiling anxiousness that is come to outline his internal life. Dwelling there and studying the artwork of foraging and tea-making from his form, stoic aunt LaToya needs to be idyllic — even a paradise. However within the shadows of Heaven’s woods, Lamont sees a darkish, hulking determine, lengthy, glimmering enamel, and piercing crimson eyes. Nobody else appears to see this beast . . . not his aunt, and never the good-looking cowboy, Coyote, whose light voice evokes the comforting, electrical aroma of LaToya’s brews. Escaping its voraciously hungry pursuit feels not possible, and Lamont must face greater than the darkness of the woods to take action.
“Lamont is me, Lamont is you, Lamont is my very own father and his father, and anybody who has struggled with shedding somebody they could not love, and who could not love them,” mentioned cartoonist Ravi Teixeira. “HEAVEN, WEST VIRGINIA is my love letter to discovering love whenever you’ve been denied it, being haunted by your previous, and the rolling hills and luxurious, historical forests of Appalachia.”
Teixeira is a Cape Verdean American transgender cartoonist dwelling overseas in Canada whose comics tackles trans and homosexual sexuality and grief throughout powerful occasions. Their work has been nominated for the celebrated GLAAD Awards. In 2019, their work was featured within the Prism Award profitable DATES anthology, revealed by Margins. In 2024, Oni Press revealed their acclaimed graphic novel A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE TO COMING OUT and their work was featured within the BECOMING WHO WE ARE anthology (AWBW), which was really helpful by the New York Instances.
A singular and seductive meditation on the complexity of grief, therapeutic, and the ability of the pure world by cartoonist Ravi Teixeira. Neglect “Virtually.” HEAVEN, WEST VIRGINIA is about to reach in bookstores on November eleventh, 2025.
Creator bio:
Ravi Teixeira is a Cape Verdean American transgender cartoonist dwelling overseas in Canada. Their work has been nominated for the celebrated GLAAD Awards. In 2019, their work was featured within the Prism Award profitable DATES anthology, revealed by Margins. In 2024, Oni Press revealed their acclaimed graphic novel A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE TO COMING OUT and their work was featured within the BECOMING WHO WE ARE anthology (AWBW), which was really helpful by the New York Instances. Ravi Teixeira’s comics tackles trans and homosexual sexuality and grief throughout powerful occasions. They love cowboys, gothic horror, and telling tales about homosexual intercourse.
About Oni Press
Based in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year historical past as one of many business’s most revered and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comedian books and graphic novels with titles together with Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Okay. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Improve Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and plenty of lots of extra. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning unbiased comedian e book writer based by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of many largest, unbiased libraries of comics content material wherever in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified international media firm, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes greater than 60 authentic and licensed graphic novels yearly, along with an in depth checklist of periodical comics.
