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.
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