by Charles LePage | March 10, 2024
Oni Press and Sophie Campbell will celebrate 20 years of WET MOON with brand-new omnibus collections.
The press release follows:
Media Release -- Before Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Sophie Campbell's acclaimed, headline-making work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jem & the Holograms, and Glory, there was her singular and seminal debut: WET MOON. Now 20 years after its initial publication, Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comic books and graphic novels since 1997 – is celebrating the landmark series WET MOON with the first in a new series of three omnibus collections beginning this November. The WET MOON 20th ANNIVERSARY OMNIBUS VOL. 1 re-presents the stories "Feeble Wanderings" and "Unseen Feet," now in a larger trim size with newly illustrated covers and a never-before-seen introduction from Campbell herself.
An unusually usual day-to-day story in the Deep South, set in the Gothic, swampy southern town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teen angst, and shadowy rednecks. As Cleo Lovedrop heads off for college at the local art school, she's haunted by her melancholic past. Elsewhere, Trilby deals with unsettled emotional and sexual issues, and keeping her secret habits hidden from everyone. And Audrey comes to the realization that, despite all her efforts, she always causes her friends distress, while Fern, a peculiar girl who lives in an isolated mansion in the bayou, begins to notice Cleo and her friends. Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other can be found in the pages of Wet Moon.
"I can't believe it's been 20 years since I did the first Wet Moon book. I am so old," says writer Sophie Campbell, "How I feel about my work on Wet Moon has always been super complicated for me both as a person and an artist, but putting these omnibus editions together feels like maybe it'll be closure, in a way, emotionally and creatively. I'm tempted to go back and change all sorts of stuff like the CGI additions in the old Star Wars movies but I'm hoping it'll be cathartic to have it all out there in one place warts and all."
WET MOON 20th ANNIVERSARY OMNIBUS VOL. 1 arrives in comic shops and bookstores everywhere on November 26th!
WET MOON 20th ANNIVERSARY OMNIBUS VOL. 1
WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY SOPHIE CAMPBELL
$34.99 | SOFTCOVER | 384 pgs. | B&W
ON SALE NOVEMBER 26, 2024
IOC: 9/26/2024
FOC: 11/4/2024
PRAISE FOR WET MOON & SOPHIE CAMPBELL
"Sophie Campbell is one of the best artists on the planet."—The Mary Sue
A " beloved queer series."—THE ADVOCATE
"Body positivity of very diverse shapes is celebrated in the book. The story starts in the town of Wet Moon, focusing on Cleo Lovedrop and friends Trilby Bernarde, Audrey Richter, and Mara Zuzanny, all art students. There is courage in the portrayal here of sexual violence and its survivorship."— ELECTRIC LIT
"One of the most talented and unique artists and writers in comics today."—AUTOSTRADDLE
"But if much of Wet Moon is unfamiliar territory, that's part of the thrill; its characters are helplessly human, and with a stunning cliffhanger ending, the goal has been accomplished—it's difficult to imagine any reader not wondering "What happens next?" — Foreword Reviews
About the Creator
Sophie Campbell has worked in comics professionally since Oni Press's Too Much Hopeless Savages all the way back in 2002. Since then she's gone on to do 7 volumes of Wet Moon, Shadoweyes for Iron Circus Comics, a couple graphic novels for Tokyopop and DC, a few issues of her self-published fantasy comic Mountain Girl, 12 issues of Glory for Image, 13 issues of Jem & the Holograms for IDW, over 50 issues for IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a bunch of other stuff she can't remember. She lives in upstate New York with her cat Rambo and an ever-growing hoard of Japanese monster toys.
About Oni Press
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler's Sheets trilogy, 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 list of periodical comics.
