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First Look at Mike Hawthorne's Graphic Memoir, Happiness Will Follow

Published Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:30:15 -0600

Announced back in September, explosive publisher BOOM! Studios will publish the graphic memoir of acclaimed artist Mike Hawthorne next year. Though that release date is half a year away, BOOM! has released a first look at interior art from the book. Happiness Will Follow hits stores in July from BOOM!'s Archaia imprint. Check out the latest press release and preview below.

LOS ANGELES, CA (December 18, 2019) – BOOM! Studios is proud to reveal a first look at brand new graphic novel HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW from Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated cartoonist Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool, Superior Spider-Man) as he tells the true and tragic story of enduring abuse and discovering a love of art that helped him to build the home he never had in this graphic memoir about family, survival, and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America.

Mike Hawthorne's mother Blanca Otero, was a proud though atypical Puerto Rican woman from Santurce, San Juan who moved to the mainland, where she became a single mother and struggled to raise her son alone in New York City, a place that tormented them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to a death curse—a haunting sign of the old country that his mother could never truly escape—she begins a series of events that drive him away from her both physically and emotionally, leaving him to grapple with his complicated relationships with his mother, identity, and heritage.

HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW is the latest release from BOOM! Studios' ambitious Archaia imprint, home to graphic novels such as Mouse Guard by David Petersen; New World by David Jesus Vignolli; Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón Pérez; About Betty's Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau; and the upcoming Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane; and We Served the People: My Mother's Stories by Emei Burell, as well as licensed series including Lev Grossman's The Magicians: Alice's Story by Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak; Jim Henson's The Power of the Dark Crystal and Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation.

Print copies of HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW will be available on July 15, 2020 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one), on July 21, 2020 at bookstores, or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.

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