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PORTLAND, Ore. 08/01/2025 — The critically-acclaimed YA graphic novel Anzuelo by Eisner Award winning cartoonist Emma Ríos (Pretty Deadly, Mirror, I.D.) will be available in trade paperback this November from Image Comics.
In Anzuelo, the Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that’s been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid harming any living creature.
A gorgeous and brutal story that revolts against the notion of violence as the only response to a life without hope. Anzuelo is a breathtaking, cli-fi/dystopian story with an expansive scope and style perfect for fans of the organic universes of Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram’s Little Bird and Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s Daytripper or the dreamy nostalgia of apocalyptic novels like Pink Slime and Station Eleven.
Anzuelo trade paperback (ISBN 978-1534330160) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 19 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 2.
Anzuelo hardcover (ISBN: 979-8368809267, Lunar Code 0924IM243) is available at local comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones.
Anzuelo is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Select praise for Anzuelo:
“A sweeping magical-realist coming-of-age story set after the apocalypse.” —The New York Times
“Ríos pits a group of teens against a changed world in a bid to survive in this stunningly rendered postapocalyptic eco-horror graphic novel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Visually stunning.” ―IGN
“One of the year’s best-looking comics.” ―AV Club
“Echoing the transformative odysseys of Octavia Butler and the speculative resilience of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Emma Ríos’s Anzuelo is a story of survival, connection, and evolution that resonates with the depth and mystery of the ocean.” —Kelly Sue DeConnick, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel
“Emma is a master of her craft, an absolute beast of an artist with the delicate touch of a poet. There is no one who makes comics with as much lyrical beauty, with such dreamy elegance, as Emma Rios.” —E.M. Carroll, Through the Woods
“Beautiful and surreal… Anzuelo is an absolutely beautiful-looking work, one that really shows off Ríos’s stunning watercolour art in full effect.” ―Games Radar
“Aesthetically deft and emotionally powerful… Haunting and beautiful.” ―Animation Magazine
“Anzuelo beckons us on a walkabout and asks us to listen to the sea and know Earth’s creatures as our collaborators in what is to come. You are in good hands with master storyteller Emma Ríos. It’s a beautiful ride. A must-have graphic novel.” —Ann Nocenti, Daredevil, Longshot
