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Queen Kodiak

Colorist Dearbhla Kelly / Illustrated by Riccardo Faccini / Letterer Justin Birch
Published by Maverick
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

After the death of her mother, an embattled 17 year old moves in with her father on Alaska’s Kodiak island where she befriends a legendary 3000 lb. bear. Unfortunately, the bear’s inevitable capture upsets a millenia-old kaiju grizzly named Queen Kodiak, who will destroy everything in her path to collect her cub.

Following in the massive footsteps of legends like Godzilla and King Kong, comes QUEEN KODIAK, a colossal, super-charged Kodiak grizzly bear... one who survived from the ice-age and whose been irreversibly enhanced by a mysterious geo-thermal energy pulsing in the unknown depths of an Alaskan ice cave. And although QUEEN KODIAK’s been asleep for thousands of years, melting ice and subsequent tectonic activity has disturbed her hibernation. And in her debut graphic novel, she wakes up to find her only cub missing.

But as much as we want to meet her and watch her wreck shop on the pacific northwest (sorry Seattle), our story actually centers on JOEY FOX, an embattled 17-year-old girl, and natural empath, who befriends Queen Kodiak’s cub after a tectonic shift in her own life -- the recent passing of her mother. As a result, Joey’s been sent to Alaska’s Kodiak island to live with the man who left them ten years ago, her state trooper father. In many ways it’s a story about how families survive overwhelming odds.

About The Author

CHRISTOPHER GREENSLATE is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose work has been featured at film festivals worldwide and been highlighted by The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and National Public Radio.

About The Illustrator

Riccardo Faccini is an Italian artist who has dedicated his adult life to the world of comics and graphic novels. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Art in Turin, Italy, he has gone on to work with writers and publishers around the world, including Dark Horse Comics, Scout Comics, Leviathan Labs and Shockdom. Most recently, he has had the pleasure of collaborating with Dark Horse comics on Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories, as well as working on the award winning series Fractured Shards.
In addition to the USA and Australia, he has also published in the Franco-Belgian market with the French publisher Editions Petit á Petit.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Maverick (January 13, 2026)
  • Length: 168 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781545821015

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