Oni Press and Magnetic Press are making January a super month for French graphic novels. Here's a new edition of a book from the artist of White Shadows HC, which I previewed earlier today. Remember, if you like what you see, ask your local comic shop to order a copy by January 5, 2026.
Here's all the info:
NILS: TREE OF LIFE
WRITTEN BY JEROME HAMON
ART BY ANTOINE CARRION
COVER BY ANTOINE CARRION
ON SALE JANUARY 20th, 2026 | $24.99 | 192 PGS. | PB
FOC: 1/5/2026
In partnership with Oni Press, Magnetic Press
– the Eisner Award-winning publisher celebrating prestige graphic
novels from around the globe since 2013 – is publishing a stunning new
edition of NILS: TREE OF LIFE by writer Jérôme Hamon (Dreams Factory) and artist Antoine Carrion’s (White Shadows).
The new edition of this beautiful fantasy graphic novel includes a new
cover, as well as all-new bonus material, including additional artwork
and concept design. The poignant and powerful graphic novel NILS: TREE OF LIFE will be published on January 20th, 2026.
“This ecological future fantasy features a supernatural
conspiracy, a high-tech kingdom, the pursuit of eternal life, and the
return of long-forgotten (and jealous) gods,” says Magnetic Press founder Mike Kennedy. “It is an epic father-son story for the ages: bold, surreal, and worthy of Wagner.”
NILS: TREE OF LIFE
introduces a dystopic Nordic fantasy world, where spirits of light are
the key to life, but seemingly have abandoned the world. Young Nils and
his father set out to discover why the ground has grown infertile. They
head north, where the drought seems worse, desperately hoping to
survive.
NILS: TREE OF LIFE combines high
fantasy adventure, science-fiction, and pseudo-spiritual magic to
create a potent tonic and an unforgettable battle between man and
nature. Humanity’s desire to play God plays out like never before in the new softcover edition of NILS: TREE OF LIFE, available in bookstores on January 20th and in comic shops on January 21st, 2026, from Magnetic Press.
Now, let's take a look inside:
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Thanks to Oni Press, Magnetic Press, and Superfan Promotions for sharing this preview with us.
About the Creators
Jérôme Hamon
was born in 1977. A graduate of the Rouen Business School and a
university in the United States, he began his professional life in New
York as a financial analyst. Two years later, convinced that his future
was elsewhere, he left the world of finance and traveled around the
world for a year. It was during these reflective travels that his
imagination ran wild, giving birth to many stories that would haunt him
for years. Returning to France, he worked in cinema and video games for a
bit before finding himself working at France Télévisions. He took this
opportunity to develop some of his ideas into several short film and
comic book projects. In 2008, he presented his first comic book scripts
in Angoulême and met the cartoonist Marc Van Straceele, with whom he
would sign his first project a year later -- Yokozuna,
a graphic novel about the sumo world in Japan. Following that
publication, he began working on NILS with artist Antoine Carrion. Since
then, he has written several popular books including Dreams Factory and Green Glass.
Launching his career under the pseudonym Tentacle Eye, Antoine Carrion entered comics in 2012 with the release of No Parasan (They Shall Not Pass),
which immediately led to a nonstop string of projects lasting to this
day. He has collaborated with Antoine Ozanam on numerous books,
including Song of the Sabers and To Love (as Tentacle Eye), followed by The White Shadow and Temudjin (under his real name). He has since illustrated the dystopic fantasy Nils: The Tree of Life,
written by Jerome Hamon, and is currently writing and illustrating a
graphic novel adaptation of the classic Henrik Ibsen play Peer Gynt (which itself inspired the classical score by Edvard Grieg).
About Magnetic Press
MAGNETIC PRESS
is a subsidiary of Polarity that publishes graphic novels, art books,
and periodicals curated with a focus on internationally recognized
content and talent, presented with premium quality design and production
value. The Magnetic brand was founded by writer and video game veteran
Mike Kennedy in 2013 as the independent publishing company Magnetic
Press, Inc, featuring creators both new and established from around the
world, sharing their stories with an English-language audience often for
the first time. Their award-winning library includes such celebrated
titles as the Love series of wordless wildlife graphic novels, as well as Eisner-nominated books Mister Invincible, The Monkey King, Aster of Pan, Pistouvi, Irena, Stay, A Sea of Love, Watersnakes, Herakles, Doomboy, A Glance Backward, Little Tails, The Ghost of Gaudi, and Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands
Omnibus. Magnetic has earned a total of 31 Eisner Award nominations in
their first ten years of eligibility, winning its first trophy in 2024
for Best Production Design of Dracula/Frankenstein
Boxed Set. Magnetic also won the Gold Medal of Excellence in the
graphic novel category of the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards for Love: The Fox.
In 2021, Magnetic launched Magnetic Press Play,
an imprint dedicated to gaming and new media endeavors. Their releases
to date include CARBON GREY, based on the Image Comics series by Hoang
Nguyen, and THE OFFICIAL PLANET OF THE APES RPG developed in cooperation
with Disney and 20th Century Studios. Other as-yet-announced licenses
and projects are forthcoming.
