By Katie Skelly. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 100 pages, Colour, 2026. Four young women investigate a vanishing strip club in this supernatural, surreal graphic novel. Out past the edge of town, there exists a strip club called Heaven that only some can find. Some say it's a mirage. Others say you can't miss the giant neon heels lighting up the desert night skies. Dolly can't find a place to belong. After losing her identity as a gymnast and navigating family turbulence, she's adrift from school and friends. When a mysterious presence beckons her to Heaven, she wonders if she may just have found her place -- but just what does it want in return? Katie Skelly's first graphic novel since her acclaimed Maids in 2020, Heaven finds out what happens when the artist's quintessential cool girl characters let their guards down and let the world in. With a supernatural strip club backdrop and an eye-popping sense of color that would make Dario Argento proud, Heaven reinforces Skelly's place as one of the most distinctive voices working in contemporary comics today. PRAISE "Skelly once again tosses cute, sexy, gruesome, and strangely touching comics stylings into a witches' brew of canny feminist horror." — Publishers Weekly "The theme Skelly expresses in every layer is our tendency — or need, really — to underestimate anyone and anything we can't immediately assimilate: girls, comics, comics about girls." — NPR "Katie Skelly has become one of the most distinctive voices in the US alt comics and minicomics scene over the last few years." — Broken Frontier "Katie Skelly delivers a haunting coming-of-age story wrapped in neon lights, supernatural mystery, and emotional uncertainty." — AIPT "Beneath the horror, glamour and mystery lies a deeply human yearning for a place where you can be yourself." — American Nature Presents
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