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a woman's face with text in front of it, text reads: An interview with Maggie Umber, I find it frustrating that a thing drawn in a cartoony style or with word balloons is a comic, but a thing with panels that lacks word balloons and a cartoony style is not.

☞ Chrysanthemum Under the Waves officially drops tomorrow!

Last Wednesday, my interview on the substack Autobiographix went up. It begins with this introduction:

I (Nora) came across Maggie Umber’s work in the latest Rust Belt Review. As someone interested in the intersection of comics with other genres, I was immediately struck by her work as something harnessing the rules of poetry, painting, and more in a comic. To find out more about Umber’s origins and approach, check out her interview below, just in time to pre-order her latest work, the graphic novel Chrysanthemum Under the Waves.

Click here to read the full interview.

a shelf in the London Gosh! Comics store, which includes the books of Maggie Umber
Thomas Campbell of Comics Blogger at Philly Comics Expo with Death Spark 2 and Chrysanthemum Under the Waves on his table

Two more bookshops (Wig Shop Web Shop in Denver, CO and a mysterious shop in Massachusetts) ordered Chrysanthemum Under the Waves. Gosh! Comics in London, UK got their order - you can see some of my books on their shelves and Comics Blogger now has CUTW in stock online as well (pictured here at Philly Comics Expo).

Domino Books and Partners and Son have sold out of CUTW! I'll let you know if they get more in stock.

Partners and Son sold out of Chrysanthemum Under the Waves and Jonesy by Maggie Umber

You can preorder CUTW on maggieumber.com, get it at the book launch at Tangible books on Friday, at SLICE (St. Louis Independent Comics Expo) in St. Louis, MO on Saturday or from your favorite retailers here:

🖤 Maggie

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