I hope 🌟 to finish the final touches 🔦 on our upcoming ⚡️ kickstarter campaign 🐍 this week.. publishing long-awaited indie manga work from Kijitori Byu (
@byuooo
), Mukoubi Aoi (
@toyamayuri
), ohuton (
@nyr50ml
), Sayaka Mogi (
@mogi_sayaka
), perhaps more..
ANNOUNCEMENT
GIVE HER BACK TO ME by Hana Chatani is available for preorder
Tragedy follows those whose lives are linked by a family heirloom and the strange curse it bequeaths... and the trauma and loss wreaked upon each generation by the last.
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I’m so excited to announce the forthcoming third volume of our indie manga anthology series Glaeolia. As in the past, it will be a 7x10 format print release, featuring a soft touch cover lamination.
#smallpressmanga
The new volume runs approximately 400 pages, and
📯ANNOUNCEMENT📯
#smallpressmanga
STAR CLOCK LIDDELL
One of the beloved classic cartoonists from the 70's & 80's active in Ribbon & Bouquet magazines yet to see English publication we are excited to announce we will release Uchida Yoshimi's masterpiece Star Clock Liddell in print
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GIVE HER BACK TO ME by HANA CHATANI
Planned for a 2023 release, in print and digital.
A digital debut at 2022's Shortbox Comics Fair (
@SBComicsFair
), we are very proud to announce we will be releasing it in print and digital editions.
NEW LICENSE
Announcing “Mothers” by Kusahara Umi (
@umikusahara
), an illustrator and indie manga artist who self-publishes their works as part of Japan’s small press manga scene.
Hello. We are Glacier Bay Books, publisher of cutting edge artistic comics. To celebrate our account’s revival, we present an excerpt from Natsujikei Miyazaki’s masterpiece sci-fi comics collection …AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKY HAPPENINGS ONE DAY, available for preorder soon.
ANNOUNCEMENT
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOUDS by Yoruno Hitsujigumo is now available for preorder
A young girl moves to the seaside town of Kumogaura. Wandering under dazzling sun and ever-changing stars, she searches for meaning in an item from her past...
What better way to kick off the new year than a surprise giveaway! We are doing a giveaway for a set of four of our short comics~
HOW:
Follow
@glacierbaybooks
Reply to this tweet + tag a friend
Like & RT this tweet
ENDS: January 21st @ 9PM PST
There will be one lucky winner.
📯NEW TITLE📯The Other Side of the Clouds by Yoruno Hitsujigumo ✨ (JP edition published by HOUBUNSHA). Approximately 180 pages, publication is planned for Q2 2022.
Giveaway to celebrate our NEW KICKSTARTER!!
Open until 11PM CT, a rare chance to win 3 of our books: F (Arata Imai), Rabbit Game (Miyoshi), and Give Her Back To Me (Hana Chatani)!
To enter: follow us, like, retweet, and comment which Kickstarter title you’re most excited for.
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TO, ARU HI NO SUGOKU FUSHIGI by NATSUJIKEI MIYAZAKI
Planned for a late 2023 print release.
A profoundly creative voice from a new generation of artists, we will release their English debut SF short story collection filled with zany moments of whimsy and beauty
Long anticipated, Glaeolia 3 has been undergoing editing and I can share that the end is in sight. Glaeolia 3 will become available to preorder Friday October 15th at 6pm PST.
We are currently expecting Glaeolia to ship out in/by December 2021. (Hopefully earlier..!)
#glaeolia
Aaa!! Glaeolia 2 just won the 2021 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology!! I’m so excited & thankful for all of the Glacier Bay Books staff, and the incredible, amazing authors that contributed to Glaeolia 2. Thank you all, and thank you so much to everyone who voted for us!✨🎉
Good evening! With the recent Ignatz award “Outstanding Anthology” nomination and announcement of Glaeolia 3, there seems to have been some renewed interest in reprinting Glaeolia 1 and 2. I’ve created a form to collect interest in reprints HERE
Preview of our newest
@toshoneko
comic Micchan, just being finalized
You can preorder on our website. There’s also a bundle including the previous two Sleepy Child stories
≫ We’re doing a limited reprint of Tonio so preordering is the best way to get it
📯📯ANNOUNCEMENT📯📯
#smallpressmanga
Juuji and Aichi by Yoshitomi Junko
"Hidden in my right pocket… were all of my sins." A historical mystery about two men, an unsellable mangaka and a popular fantasy novelist, set in the fictional boarding house "Ryokukan" in the Meiji and
Two pages from Uchida Yoshimi's STAR CLOCK LIDDELL, which is planned for a 2024 release. Those interested will keep watch for when preorders go live on our website.
ANNOUNCEMENT The first new title for this event is “The Mermaid and the Prince” by Tada Yumi (
@tadayumi
). A modern retelling of the classic Mermaid fairytale displaying Yumi’s entrancing painterly style. 24 pg, full color in print + digital. PREORDERS OPEN SOON.
#smallpressmanga
A Favorable Wind on Full Sails
Author: Arantoochika
Beautiful & tremulous youth comics. A young artist informed by the Gekiga masters, a book for lovers of Seiichi Hayashi, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Shinichi Abe, Tadao Tsuge, Osamu Kanno: artists mining from an expressive, personal vein.
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PANDORA The Receding Sound of Footsteps・2022
Hagiwara Rei
A 250+ p collection painted in full color
"Tell me God, why did you bring suffering to the world?" Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. The new coronavirus runs rampant
A young girl moves to the seaside town of Kumogaura. Wandering under dazzling sun and ever-changing stars, she searches for meaning in an item from her past. CLOUDS is a record of those hazy, dream-like days in the mysterious little town by the sea.
Hello, please enjoy this flipthrough of Glaeolia 3. A unique collection of stories from all-star indie manga authors, this volume keeps to the very high bar set by the first two books. We are collecting inventory, and will begin preparing to ship out preorders shortly.
#glaeolia
📯ANNOUNCEMENT📯
#smallpressmanga
Very proud to share that we are continuing Shinnnosuke Saika's "Sleepy Child" series with the release of a new story. In "Tonio", Saika revisits the slightly mysterious character first introduced in "That Child", and spools out their prior life,
"I’ll Be Waiting at the Solution" by ohuton. In progress – based on the tentative schedule I've received from printers, most likely a print version would have to come in 2022.
Meanwhile, their "Dear Sara, 1997, Summer" is available now
(print and digital)
I’m very excited to announce a new title Glacier Bay Books will publish. We are collaborating with stalwart veteran of the alt manga scene translator
@mangaberg
to publish the English edition of F (2015) by
@arataimai
, a contemporary underground manga little discussed or known
Panels from MOTHERS by Kusahara Umi... very nearly finished –– it should be ready to send to print very soon. We will hopefully be announcing more shortly.
Their English debut, MOTHERS collects 12 heartfelt stories exploring the emotionally fraught nature of human relations.
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We've been secretly working on a second story by
@nyr50ml
!! Announcing the new work "Dear Sara, 1997, Summer", an approximately 44 page picture book / short story. A full color work drawn in a unique style, intermingling time travel and youthful love & regret.
This giveaway for 2 copies (2 winners total) of
@ohuton
Dear Sara, 1997, Summer is open until May 15, 11:59 pm PST. To enter, just like and retweet this post. This giveaway is open to anywhere in the world!
To celebrate the anniversary of our 1st publication Sleepy Child by
@toshoneko
, we are running a giveaway for a copy signed and sketched in by the author. Open until Nov 21st 8pm PST. To enter, like & retweet this post, and make sure you’re following us! Open internationally! 🥳
Please look forward to this Saturday, Jan 21st.
Glacier Bay Books and Star Fruit Books will be announcing some new publications for 2023.
See you then~
Hello! I have an announcement for EU fans 🇪🇺 🇪🇺 ⚡️ ⚡️🪞🪞
Thank you for your patience while we worked on this - there is now an option to preorder our new book Give Her Back To Me by
@hanpanmangaki
through the
@SendaiEditora
site here:
We've reached 1000+ followers! To celebrate, I'm hosting a book giveaway event! To enter, follow us and like & retweet this post. Raffle closes 5pm PST January 22. The winner will receive a copy of Ripples by Hagiwara Rei & the Tsukiko and the Satellite collection by
@missippippi
This indie manga giveaway is open for 2 weeks, until 9pm March 7th. To enter, make sure to:
🧊 Follow
@glacierbaybooks
.
🧊 Like and retweet this post.
🧊 Comment and tag a friend.
2 winners (1 domestic, 1 international) will be contacted via DM after the giveaway ends.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We have received the advance samples of MOTHERS by Kusahara Umi. The print edition is absolutely gorgeous. The rest of the print run is on the boat from the printer, so please wait a little longer. Once they arrive we will start filling orders ASAP.
ANNOUNCEMENT ––– NEW TITLE
MICCHAN by Shinnosuke Saika is available for preorder
One hot summer day Akira unearths a tin mysteriously connected to someone known as “Micchan”. Far afield, can Akira help a lost spirit discover the connection to Micchan...
You can order the second issue of our brand new, groundbreaking indie manga anthology Glaeolia from our webshop here!
Glaeolia 2 ~
Also available with a bundled print.
NEWS Glacier Bay will now distribute
@popotame_shop
’s POPOCOMI indie manga anthologies 1 & 2 in the USA / West. Retailers, please contact if you’re interested: great wholesale pricing available, small orders are OK! We’ve updated our catalogue too.
#publishing
#indiecomics
#manga
Glacier Bay currently stocks Popocomi (
@popotame_shop
). It’s difficult for stores to import internationally right now, so I am looking into feasibility of assisting Popotame in distributing to other shops. Please let me know if your shop would be interested in carrying copies!
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SEASIDE BETA
by ohuton
The author of DEAR SARA & WAITING AT THE SOLUTION, ohuton's newest work retains his playful scifi roots transposed into a long-form comic narrative. In the center of the city is a tower utterly impenetrable... or is it?
#glacierbaybooks
UPDATE📯📯📯
We haven't posted an update on STAR CLOCK LIDDELL recently so we wanted to let readers know where we are. Translation & lettering is ~complete. Currently we need to complete editing & QC for approvals, after that we can start coordinating prepress.
#glacierbaybooks
We also have a few copies of these books (the first three) that will be posted soon!! There is only one copy of Lighthouse, so it will not be posted - inquire if interested!
New books arrived today! Restocking Magician A (from
@TheBeguiling
) and Popocomi 1 English edition (from
@popotame_shop
). In fact, they've already been posted to the webshop!
We're also adding a limited number of new books shortly!!
ANNOUNCEMENT Following up on last year’s notice, I’m happy to share
@arataimai
’s F will be at the printers shortly. 220+ pg, including an essay by
@mangaberg
Ryan Holmberg. Available in print, publication set for September.
Preorders open TONIGHT!
#smallpressmanga
NEW LICENSE
“One Hundred Views of Reality: The Collected Short Stories of Kijitori Byu” (
@byuooo
).
Byu (VIEW) is an independent cartoonist active in the Comitia doujin scene. Their style mixes surreal & sometimes humorous situations with abstract subject matter & simplified line
ANNOUNCEMENT D'ARTAGNAN'S HORSE
by TOMOHIRO TSUGAWA
Planned for a late 2023 release, in print and digital.
Tsugawa's sequel to their dream journal short story collection MERMAID TOWN, prepare for more curious dream episodes + author commentary.
ANNOUNCEMENT 4
The latest from printers is Glaeolia 3 will be printed around March/April. Here's a preview of the
@wadachizu
print from Cold Cube Press.
Also…
📯📯Glaeolia 1 will be reprinted in 2022📯📯
Still working out logistics on this, more to be announced later
#glaeolia
ANNOUNCEMENT:
I’ve been sitting on this for a while now, and I am so, so excited to finally reveal that we will be publishing a new book! 🥳😊🥳 We are proud to announce ~Glaeolia~, a large trim 7x10, 250+ page volume, the first from our new series of indie manga finally
📯NEW TITLE📯Meet Me in the Unkept Garden.
32 pages, publication planned for Q2 2022. The debut comic work from young Japan-based illustrator Soejima Asuka✨
ANNOUNCEMENT We’ve been quietly sharing details about this one for a little while, but I’m happy to formally announce the expanded print collection MISSISSIPPI (
@missippippi
) is taking form.
#smallpressmanga
ANNOUNCEMENT📯
I'm thrilled to finally share
@masumura17
's Children of Mu-Town. Available in print & digital editions, we are opening print preorders now:
For a limited time, this includes a preorder-only bonus print. The book will release & ship in April
Published in a 6" square format full color release with a semi-opaque textured dust jacket with gold ink printing, this 44 page work depicts a mystery of time travel, and the youthful love & tragedy at its heart.
We expect to ship out preorders starting this weekend / next week!
We will publish Arantoochika's (
@arantootika
) debut collection A Favorable Wind on Full Sails (working title). 160 pages of beautiful and tremulous youth comics. A young artist informed by the Gekiga masters, this is a book for lovers of Seiichi Hayashi, Yoshiharu Tsuge, (cont.)
DEKOBOKO visual arts zine, an illustration & comics collection based out of Taiwan! We have the editor's FINAL COPIES of
#3
on our website right now, as well as
#4
which just released! They're both really awesome (and issues 1+2 long sold out) so grab 'em while they're available!
The manga that inspired a hit anime is finally being released in English. The amazing
@tsuchikamanga
, who we previously published a rare 2-part story from in GLAEOLIA 3, will finally have their hit series widely available! Definitely check out this series when it releases!
Brand-new license announcement! THE CONCIERGE AT HOKKYOKU DEPARTMENT STORE by Tsuchika Nishimura. Retail work has never been wilder than in this award-winning manga that inspired the anime movie! 🦣🛍️
Very excited to share the brand new cover for Sleepy Child: Dream Another Dream by Shinnosuke Saika ! It will debut at upcoming festivals. Dream Another Dream collects the first 3 stories from Saika’s Sleepy Child. Preorder on our website! There is also a new limited bonus 1/2
Hello everyone. Thank you all for waiting patiently for so long. I will have some exciting news to share with you Friday, March 22nd (tomorrow).
🌊 🎨 👓 🐺 🐢 🌦️ 🐾 🧊
The Glaeolia 1 reprint is live!
We set the goal as low as possible because we really want to make this happen!! Hopefully we can go above this though, let's make a big reprint, as big as possible!
By the way, we put in a few really nice preorder rewards!
Help! Our car broke down last Friday. I have to take it in for repairs now. I’ve gotten a rental to drive in to the US and make shipping today + tomorrow. In the meantime, I made some discounted bundles to help raise funds to cover car repair expenses.
Announcement:
I am so excited to share that we have just released
@missippippi
's first English-language digital story collection "Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories". Available NOW at our site &
@itchio
(on gumroad soon)
We are releasing Saika's new comic "Tonio" as part of our next batch of releases. Please look forward to it, their storytelling is just as tender, playful, and emotionally heartfelt as their artwork.
Our first announcement.... THE MERMAID AND THE PRINCE by Tada Yumi
@tadayumi
The print edition of this full color title is NOW AVAILABLE for preorder
Anticipated to ship in November.
The digital edition will be available to order on the 23rd of October.
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THE CURSED BODY
by Kawakatsu Tokushige
Our first solo release from
@old_schooooool
, The Cursed Body collects two stories (~260 pg!) created for their "mysterious manga" magazine Kakū
#glacierbaybooks
Also looking for more reviewers! Had a lot of books come out recently and more coming out soon… here’s a short thread of stuff that could really use some reviews!
False Stars by
@mogi_sayaka
has finally arrived! Translation by
@Anna_Translates
and lettering by
@danicantabil
. Editing + design by
@quanticat
. Should be shipping preorders out around the 10th (tcaf orders are shipped separately from their warehouse, so they will come in later).
My apologies everyone, it got busy today and I wasn’t able to make the announcement earlier. We are launching our Kickstarter campaign for a new line of titles tomorrow, Saturday March 23rd. There will be a variety of special rewards available through the campaign - see you then!
Hello everyone. Thank you all for waiting patiently for so long. I will have some exciting news to share with you Friday, March 22nd (tomorrow).
🌊 🎨 👓 🐺 🐢 🌦️ 🐾 🧊
The printer just sent me some pictures of the GLAEOLIA 1 reprint. They should send the book to our fulfillment partner this month at which point we‘ll begin shipping preorders!
You can preorder GLAEOLIA on our website now!
Please email for retail orders.
Hello, were you hoping for even more new books from us? The wait may be shorter than you think... look Forward to an announcement this month about some new upcoming releases. Thanks always for your Patience. More soon~
ANNOUNCING Rabbit Game by Miyoshi (
@yoshimachi44
), English translation by rkp. Planned for Q1 2021 release, print and digital formats, approx 80+ pages. The perpetually winding, emotionally erotic turmoil in youth’s meddling heart...
One of our beloved authors and my dear friend Shinnosuke Saika is receiving tendonitis treatment at the hospital! Please donate directly to support their medical care. I'm working on a digital bundle to help support donations for their treatment (will post a follow up shortly).
UPDATE ⚡️⚡️⚡️
We've got several exciting projects at various stages of development at Glacier Bay. I'm thrilled to share that we will be putting out new announcements this week – tentatively scheduled for WEDNESDAY OCT 26, noon PST.
Looking forward to sharing more then!✨
Hello... so yesterday's launch didn't go so great. However, the site is cautiously up again, and I've posted the Glaeolia 3 preorder listing
NOTE: Lettered edition preorders are not available. I will coordinate a later launch date for these. Thank you~
ANNOUNCING I’ll Be Waiting at the Solution by ohuton (
@nyr50ml
), English translation by rkp. Planned for Q2 2021 release, print and digital formats. approx 50+ pages illustrated short story. A student of physics living perpetually within the interiors of his own devising.
SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT 2: In addition to the 52 lettered Glaeolia 2 volumes, we are offering a super-special lettered bundle for a 53rd “Æ” lettered copy of Glaeolia 1 + Glaeolia 2. There is only one “Æ” copy of Glaeolia 1 & 2 available, and this is the only remaining lettered
I’m very excited to share that Mitsuhashi Kotaro’s new story collection The Karman Line is now ready & will be shipping soon. Some of the most compelling original art comics in recent memory. Printed in stunning blue ink, prepare to be enthralled by the world of… The Karman Line
ANNOUNCEMENT📯📯📯
ONE STRANGE DAY
by Shinnosuke Saika
The newest story from Saika's beloved Sleepy Child series. One Strange Day sees Mato and two of their classmates end up back at the health clinic with a case of stomach cramps from ill-advised food.
#glacierbaybooks
New Release!
@tadayumi
's The Mermaid and the Prince digital edition now available
A prince cast overboard in the midst of a fierce storm. Washing ashore a desolate island, his life is staked to the mercy of the lovely & mysterious mermaid who rescued him.
I’d like to introduce a few of our new titles just arrived from the printers. Invisible Parade is the first solo publication collecting over a decade of MISSISSIPPI’s (
@missippippi
) manga work. Printed in blue ink, with a dust jacket and underneath a separate cover design.
Hello. We are the publisher of the print edition of
@hanpanmangaki
‘s GIVE HER BACK TO ME. Through the end of February 100% of Glacier Bay’s GHBTM websales will go directly to the author to support their family member’s medical treatment
Purchase here
PP had a lump removed, which turned out to be mammary gland cancer.
Please help us cover the surgery fee while we decide what our next step is going to be 😭
From GLAEOLIA 3 | The Invisible Woman vs The Master Swindler | Nishimura Tsuchika
A two-parter with impact! Indie cult favorite Nishimura is back, this time with a subtle story about a “master liar” and an effortlessly unnoticeable office lady.
#glaeolia
#glacierbaybooks
#manga