Acclaimed graphic novelist Gou Tanabe is set to publish the first episodes of his latest Lovecraft graphic novel. He’s tackling the “Short Stories from the Dreamlands”. First as a series which will be published as usual in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Beam magazine, which seems to be sort of Japanese version of the old Heavy Metal magazine. His first episode will be in Japanese in the November 2023 edition, and then the series will be ongoing.

Fairly soon after series completion there should be a fat Japanese trade paperback (his graphic novels are long). If past form is anything to go by, it will then appear in French, then Italian, and (after a grindingly long wait, likely of two years) finally in English. Which raises the perennial question… why is English publication of desirable Japanese or French/Belgian graphic novels so slow? And very often, not done at all?

Anyway, Tanabe’s earlier “Shadow Over Innsmouth” completed its serial run in March 2021. It should be officially published in English at the end of November 2023 and is pre-ordering now.

Tanabe’s “The Dunwich Horror” was completed in May 2023, so I guess we can expect that book in English perhaps at Halloween 2025. The new “Dreamlands” will perhaps complete in May 2024, for an English single-volume publication at Halloween 2026?