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PORTLAND, OR (January 16th, 2026) – INSPIRED BY MOEBIUS AND MIYAZAKI, JIM BISHOP’S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL IS A MASTERPIECE. Oni Press and Magnetic Press – the Eisner Award-winning publisher celebrating prestige graphic novels from around the globe since 2013 – are proud to announce INFANTOMS, French cartoonist Jim Bishop’s new YA anime-inspired graphic novel. This beautifully drawn celebration of imagination will be released in the spring of 2026, on April 21.
“A modern tale with a horrific twist, Infantoms is part of a thematic trilogy by author Jim Bishop centered around childhood and the transition to adulthood,” says Magnetic Press’ Director of Publishing Mike Kennedy. “With this work, Bishop demonstrates his creative prowess following Lost Letters and My Dear Pierrot. A tribute to manga as well as a nod to our inner child, this intimate graphic novel highlights the difficulties of social integration, society’s expectations, and the value of self-confidence and friendship. A gripping album that will haunt you long after the last page.”
In a world built on conformity, there’s no room for dreamers, but two audacious teens are determined to put that to the test… even if it kills them in Infantoms. At school, “Pizza Face” doesn’t exactly shine with his report card. On the contrary, he’s one of the worst dunces in school. He dreams of opening a video game store, but that’s about the extent of his ambition. He’s summoned into the guidance counselor’s office, along with a rebellious girl named Mims. Mims loves manga and doesn’t care about the system. But both of their futures are at stake this decisive year… If they fail, their parents are authorized to literally kill them! The pressure of this strange new policy begins to weigh on the teenagers’ shoulders, and their parents begin to slowly mutate into monsters. Can their parents really kill them if they fail classes? Pizza Face and Mims bond to face this existential threat, but soon the situation spirals out of control, and their race for merit becomes a race for survival, a downward spiral in a conformist world that leaves little room for imagination.
Published around the world, French cartoonist Jim Bishop has earned a passionate fanbase for heartfelt storytelling and jaw-dropping anime-inspired artwork. American audiences first encountered Bishop’s work in Magnetic Press’s Lost Letters and My Dear Pierrot. In Infantoms, the artist revisits similar themes while throwing readers headfirst into a brand-new world that’s as dangerous as it is whimsical.
Infantoms
Written By: Jim Bishop
Art By: Jim Bishop
Cover By: Jim Bishop
On Sale: April 21, 2026
Price: $29.99
Format: 244 Pgs., HC
Interior Art by Jim Bishop
About The Creator
Born Julien Daniel Jacques Bicheux in 1985, Jim Bishop grew up inspired by the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Osamu Tezuka with the dream of someday making his own comics. The youngest of three siblings in a modest blended family, he kept and nourished that dream privately, taking normal jobs while drawing stories for his own self-exploration. Eventually, nearing the age of 30, he decided to pursue his dream for real, resulting in his first book, Nubo, the Cloud Guardian, published in 2015 under the pen name Jim Bishop. This surreal adventure tale filled with adolescent gravitas drew the attention of Ankama Editions, for whom he next wrote Jill and Sherlock with artist Yo One. That seemed to settle his professional concerns enough to focus on what would be his first widely celebrated opus, Lost Letters. Filled with a vibrant and engaging cast of characters occupying a dreamlike island community, like something out of a Miyazaki film, Lost Letters drew readers in with its inviting illustrations before hitting them over the head with some profound plot twists and an emotional, melancholic ending.
About Magnetic Press
Magnetic Press is a subsidiary of Polarity that publishes graphic novels, art books, and periodicals curated with a focus on internationally recognized content and talent, presented with premium quality design and production value. The Magnetic brand was founded by writer and video game veteran Mike Kennedy in 2013 as the independent publishing company Magnetic Press, Inc, featuring creators both new and established from around the world, sharing their stories with an English-language audience often for the first time. Their award-winning library includes such celebrated titles as the Love series of wordless wildlife graphic novels, as well as Eisner-nominated books Mister Invincible, The Monkey King, Aster of Pan, Pistouvi, Irena, Stay, A Sea of Love, Watersnakes, Herakles, Doomboy, A Glance Backward, Little Tails, The Ghost of Gaudi, and Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands Omnibus. Magnetic has earned a total of 31 Eisner Award nominations in their first ten years of eligibility, winning its first trophy in 2024 for Best Production Design of Dracula/Frankenstein Boxed Set. Magnetic also won the Gold Medal of Excellence in the graphic novel category of the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards for Love: The Fox.
In 2021, Magnetic launched Magnetic Press Play, an imprint dedicated to gaming and new media endeavors. Their releases to date include Carbon Grey, based on the Image Comics series by Hoang Nguyen, and The Official Planet Of The Apes RPG developed in cooperation with Disney and 20th Century Studios. Other as-yet-announced licenses and projects are forthcoming.
About Oni Press
The Loudest Thing In Color Since ’97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens’ Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong’s Covenant, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive roster of periodical comics for globally recognized properties including Adventure Time, Biker Mice From Mars, Choose Your Own Adventure, Cult Of The Lamb, EC Comics, Murder Drones, Rick And Morty, and more.