To set up an interview with Shannon or Jim or for a promotional copy of the book, please email press@nomediakings.org.

• The previous book in the post-Rapture world, Therefore Repent!, was nominated for a writing award, was a Canadian bestseller for graphic novels, and was name-dropped by a Pulitzer Prize winner. It was released as a free download to promote this new book.
• Sword of My Mouth is a co-publishing venture between IDW (America’s fourth largest comics publisher) and No Media Kings (Canada’s one-person indie press).
• The first 22 pages of the novel was published by IDW last year as a printed comic book — the subsequent 5 issues have been online-only, available to people who pre-order the graphic novel, and include commentary by the creators. This digital publishing model garnered this Globe and Mail article.
• The book is being launched in Toronto on Thursday May 6 (7pm, Tequila Bookworm, free) as a part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, with a Detroit launch Saturday May 15 (7pm, Leopold’s Books, free) with Gayla Trail.
• Check out our promotional seed packets, Facebook Faces and other promotional gambits.

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Ella’s baby isn’t quite right. But since the righteous floated into the sky and magic started working, not much is.

A stand-alone story continuing on from the acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent!, Sword of My Mouth moves the focus from Chicago, under siege by angels with machine guns, to the urban prairie of Detroit. Folks in the D have banded together to turn land with burned-out crackhouses into farming tracts, and seem to be on a road to self-sufficiency… until Famine rides into town.

Advance Praise for Sword of My Mouth

“Jim Munroe’s done for the Book of Revelation what Ronald D. Moore did for Battlestar Galactica.”
— Peter Watts, author of the Hugo-nominated Blindsight

“If you love tales of the apocalypse but want something smarter and more character-driven… you must read this comic.”
— Annalee Newitz, io9.com

Praise for Therefore Repent!

Joe Shuster Award Nominee for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer 2008

“It’s completely nuts… It’s a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that’s all I’m gonna tell you.” —Junot Díaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

“Therefore Repent! is an absolutely boundless piece of fantasy that he wisely grounds in very human relationships… to say it’s an imaginative work would be an understatement: ‘unhinged’ is probably more accurate. I can’t wait for more.”— Robert J. Wierseman, Quill & Quire

“The art is extraordinarily fluid and the storyline ingenious and sharply intelligent.” —Jeff VanderMeer, Realms of Fantasy

“Therefore Repent! is impressive, layered, and in places surprisingly funny. I didn’t think it would be my sort of thing, but I enjoyed it.” —Jim Ottaviani, author of FALLOUT: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

“Now, just dealing with the Rapture might be enough of a hook, but Jim and Salgood do a great job of characterization from the very beginning. The two protagonists are so interesting that I had to keep turning page after page to see what and who they were. And yes, Salgood can draw like nobody’s business… I give this book two thumbs up.” —Chris Pitzer, AdHouse Books

“The tale’s offbeat anarchy and peculiar, parodic charms will win you over. It’s like one of those church pamphlets about salvation gone terribly, terribly wrong.” —John Burns, The Georgia Straight

Bios

Illustrator/Letterer Shannon Gerard works in a variety of media. She writes and draws comics, crochets soft sculptures, binds books and makes prints. Two current projects are the online illustrated serial Unspent Love (or Things I Wish I Told You) for Top Shelf Productions and the conclusion of her autobio series Hung. Sword of My Mouth is Shannon’s first collaborative graphic novel.

Writer/Creator Jim Munroe is an indie culture maker and community organizer. He’s spent the last decade making lo-fi sci-fi movies, teenage outcast videogames, and a half-dozen novels. As a byproduct of this medium-hopping he’s provided DIY publishing resources, delivered presentations like Time Management for Anarchists, and helped start Toronto’s videogame coalition, The Hand Eye Society.