Avery Hill Double Launch Party With Kristyna Baczynski and Darryl Cunningham

Our friends over at Avery Hill Publishing have got some many excited releases on the horizon! We're thrilled to celebrate a double launch party celebrating two of their latest books on Thursday 29th October 2026, from 7-9pm. We'll be welcoming Kristyna Baczynski who will be releasing Another Realm and Darryl Cunnigham releasing John of the Night. Here's what Avery Hill say about the comics:

Another Realm

A vibrant, career‑spanning celebration of the work of British‑Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski, bringing together her acclaimed graphic novel Retrograde Orbit with a rich selection of her self‑published comics and illustrated zines.

This collection showcases Baczynski’s unmistakable visual voice―pages alive with colour, emotion, and intricate characterisation. Drawing on inspirations that range from nature and folklore to 1990s pop nostalgia and gentle sci‑fi atmospheres, her work creates worlds that are warm, strange, imaginative, and deeply human. Readers will find tender autobiographical pieces, exuberant short comics, playful experiments in risograph printmaking, and the full sweep of Retrograde Orbit, her coming‑of‑age tale of identity, heritage, and finding one’s place in the cosmos.

Across more than a decade of making, Baczynski has built a body of work that bridges independent zine culture with mainstream publishing, collaborating with houses such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton, and Canongate. This volume gathers the very best of her small‑press output alongside her major long-form work, offering a definitive introduction to an artist whose storytelling is as heartfelt as it is visually distinctive.

A richly illustrated, genre‑blending collection for fans of contemporary comics, risograph art, and creators with a singular, imaginative world of their own.

John of the Night

A scientist races against a god‑killing cult, cosmic collapse, and his witch‑queen ex‑wife to save creation — even if it costs him the person he loves most.

At the centre of all creation lies Far Eternity, where universes converge and reality is kept in balance. Scientist John of the Night and his daughter Ayshea uncover a plot by The Perfection — a fanatical cult — to kill God and reboot the “flawed” multiverse into something supposedly perfect. As if that’s not enough, Medea — Ayshea’s mother and a witch‑queen with a flair for drama — plans to sacrifice her to recharge her magic and avert an invasion. With cosmic forces closing in, John faces an impossible choice: save Ayshea or risk the collapse of all existence.

Inspired by Jack Kirby’s grand cosmic epics, John of the Night blends humour, myth, and multiversal mayhem with themes of sacrifice, destiny, and the baffling indifference of higher powers. A cosmic adventure driven by a fraught but fiercely loyal father–daughter bond against reality‑shattering odds.

You can meet the pair here at the shop and pick up their new books on Thursday 29th October, from 7pm. You can pre-order signed copies of Another Realm by clicking here and John of the Night by clicking here.

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