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AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 365: Angélique Roché on First Freedom: telling the full, human story of Juneteenth in comics This week’s show dives into new standout stories, spotlights the best KAPOW moments, and wraps with killer cover picks featuring Black Cat and Moon Knight.

🎙️ New podcast episode is live!
We sit down with @angeliqueroche.bsky.social to talk First Freedom (out Feb. 10) and her approach to telling Dr. Opal Lee’s story through #comics 📚✨
@oni-press.bsky.social #comicsky
Listen to the conversation on research, collaboration, and adapting real history:

Exclusive Preview: Get to know Dr. Opal Lee in FIRST FREEDOM – THE STORY OF OPAL LEE AND JUNETEENTH A first look at First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, a biographical graphic novel from Oni Press.

Exclusive Preview: Get to know Dr. Opal Lee in FIRST FREEDOM – THE STORY OF OPAL LEE AND JUNETEENTH

A first look at First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, a biographical graphic novel from Oni Press.

Big scoop by THR's @boryskit.bsky.social: Alex Ross' next book is Marvel Dimensions from @abramscomicarts.bsky.social.

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Tripwire Talks To Creators Marc Guggenheim And Sedat Oezgen Talk About New Comic The Whisper War A New Secret War Tripwire editor-in-chief Joel Meadows spoke to creators Marc Guggenheim and Sedat Oezgen about their new comic series The Whisper War coming in February from Comixology Originals… MAR...

Marc Guggenheim and Sedat Oezgen Talk Comixology Originals' The Whisper War
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It was an honor to interview the legendary cartoonist, storyboard artist and character Ricardo Delgado about reading Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, and his prized, signed M.R. James book.

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The Crown: A Tale of Hell, Dark Horse's latest Hellboy series, shines a spotlight on the iconic hero's brothers and mother. See an exclusive preview of the first chapter. https://bit.ly/4avOKFY

Exclusive: ‘The Beast’ brings Marsupilami to American comics for the first time A beloved European comics icon finally comes to America as Oni Press and Magnetic Press debut 'The Beast' a powerful reimagining of the Marsupilami from Zidrou and Frank Pé.

EXCLUSIVE: A beloved Franco-Belgian icon finally hits U.S. comics!
The Beast reimagines the Marsupilami in a powerful post-WWII story of friendship, survival, & animal trafficking from Zidrou & Frank Pé, Vol. 1 arrives May 12 from @oni-press.bsky.social.
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Matt Kindt's paranoid psychic-espionage comic book series "Mind MGMT" returns this June Former Mind MGMT agents face a twisted killer in Matt Kindt's new series launching June 2026 from Oni Press.

You Are Reading MIND MGMT Again… Or Is It Reading You?

🫶 MIND MGMT #1 🫶
Coming this June!
By @mattkindt.bsky.social

FIRST-EVER PREVIEW IS BELOW. ⬇️ MORE INSTRUCTIONS TO FOLLOW.
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Get in the Fight with Opal Lee, Angélique Roché, and the Action Comic First Freedom We chat with Angélique Roché about First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth.

We chat with Angélique Roché about First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth. The book arrives from @oni-press.bsky.social on 2/10. www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/opal-le...

Oni Press and PRH partner for distribution Distribution realignment continues as Oni Press moves to Penguin Random House Publisher Services as an exclusive

ONI and PRH partner for distribution: Distribution realignment continues as Oni Press moves to Penguin Random House Publisher Services as an exclusive

Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

Oni Press Inks Distro Deal with PRH Beginning in August, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will take over sales and distribution for the comics and graphic novel publisher’s frontlist and backlist trade books, as well as single…

Oni Press Inks Distro Deal with PRH

‘American Psycho’ Folio Society Limited-Edition Would Like To Show You Its Business Card The new edition is on sale now.

American Psycho is getting the limited edition Folio Society treatment, complete with a Patrick Bateman business card.

Exclusive: AMERICAN PSYCHO Joins The Folio Society With First Ever Illustrated Edition Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial cult classic novel AMERICAN PSYCHO is officially joining the Folio Society with a beautifully blood-splattered limited edition hardback - we’ve got all the exclusive details.

FYI: Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial cult classic novel AMERICAN PSYCHO is officially joining the Folio Society with a beautifully blood-splattered limited edition hardback - we’ve got all the exclusive details.

THE FIRST FREEDOM: THE STORY OF OPAL LEE AND JUNETEENTH Author Angélique Roché on Her Impactful Graphic Novel We spoke to writer Angélique Roché about the origins behind her new graphic novel The First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth.

Happy Black History Month! Thanks @writertaigooden.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to interview the legendary @angeliqueroche.bsky.social about Oni Press' new Juneteenth graphic novel The First Freedom nerdist.com/article/the-...

Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 2026 – Including First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, Tortured Hearts #1, All the Living and More! – Broken Frontier 'First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' is our Comic of the Month as the BF team look forward to February 2026 releases.

They're back! Broken Frontier Staff Picks for Feb 2026 – Including First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, Tortured Hearts #1, All the Living and More! @oni-press.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @dandq.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social
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Black history centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources Black history centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources

Black history centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources

Dave Baker and @nicolegoux.bsky.social have made something 🎸 truly special 🎸 with PUNK'N HEADS. @redgoldsparks.bsky.social, Cecil Castellucci, and @kierongillen.bsky.social got an early look at the graphic novel and their excitement makes me want to read the book all over again.

Exclusive: Punk heartbreak, bad decisions, and loud guitars collide in ‘PUNK’N HEADS’ A horror-punk band, a flophouse full of feelings, and the beautiful disaster of being young and lost.

Broken hearts, bad choices, and loud guitars 🎸🎃
PUNK’N HEADS by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux is a DIY punk love letter about flophouses, horror-punk bands, and kissing the wrong people. From @topshelfcomix.bsky.social.
Check out quotes from @kierongillen.bsky.social, @misscecil.bsky.social, & more:

SCOOP: Oni Press goes all-in at ComicsPRO with Archie, Matt Kindt, and a wave of 2026 exclusives From a bold new Archie era to paranoia-fueled debuts and signed graphic novels, Oni Press is bringing its biggest guns to ComicsPRO 2026.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨
@oni-press.bsky.social is going big at ComicsPRO with @archiecomics.bsky.social, @mattkindt.bsky.social's FLUX HOUSE, Murder Drones, creator signings, and exclusive 2026 giveaways. Retailers get the first look at what could be Oni’s most ambitious year yet. #comicsky #ComicsPro
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Get in the Fight with Opal Lee, Angélique Roché, and the Action Comic First Freedom We chat with Angélique Roché about First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth.

🎉New Episode🎉

Journalist, Podcaster, & Comic Book Writer @angeliqueroche.bsky.social joins us to discuss FIRST FREEDOM: THE STORY OF OPAL LEE AND JUNETEENTH.

Quit doomscrolling & get in the fight with this Action Comic from @oni-press.bsky.social: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/opal-le...

When @kellysue.bsky.social talks, I listen.

(Happy birthday, Alan Alda.)

Oni Press' Murder Drones series is making its way to comic shops soon, and we've got a new preview of this stylish adaptation. https://bit.ly/4bjYp3v

Exclusive Preview: Oni Press’ ‘The Demon of Beausoleil’ out today, a queer gothic romance of exorcism and desire A devil-may-care exorcist, his exhausted bodyguard, and the one battle neither of them is ready to face: falling in love.

Exorcisms are easy. Feelings are harder. 😈❤️
Read an exclusive preview of @oni-press.bsky.social' The Demon of Beausoleil, a gothic queer romance by @marinscos.bsky.social about half-demons, Victorian streets, and the bodyguard who knows Hell better than anyone. #comicsky
Read it:

The creator-packed, crossover jamboree TOXIE TEAM-UP lands in bookstores today!

Read the first chapter by @manruss.bsky.social and @rpace.bsky.social for free at @comingsoon.net.web.brid.gy, in which the Toxic Avenger and Jesus Christ team up.

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From epic fantasy and sci-fi adventures to teen relationship drama, Iron Circus Comics has something for everyone in their 2026 slate of graphic novels. https://bit.ly/4k3363L

Iron Circus Comics Reveals 6 New Graphic Novels for 2026 - IGN From epic fantasy and sci-fi adventures to teen relationship drama, Iron Circus Comics has something for everyone in their 2026 slate of graphic novels.

The ⭐Iron Circus 2026 crowdfund schedule⭐ has just debuted on @ign.com ! Books from @johannamation.bsky.social, @rustymarcum.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com, @mgillman.bsky.social, @jayeatonart.bsky.social, @glassshard.bsky.social, @secase.bsky.social!

Who's excited?!

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Oni Press Exclusive Preview: Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection New Edition Read an exclusive preview from Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection New Edition from Oni Press, written and drawn by Colleen Coover.

Read an exclusive preview from Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection New Edition from Oni Press, written and drawn by Colleen Coover.

I had the pleasure of interviewing the incomparable @angeliqueroche.bsky.social about First Freedom, her upcoming graphic novel, written by Roche & published by @oni-press.bsky.social. The research & care she put into this is clear, and a reminder of how vital works like this are now more than ever.