Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) Omar Khouri and belonging—until a brutal attack

and belonging—until a brutal attack tests everything they know about friendship and family

Published by Balustrade Press

This is an anthology of short comics stories by up-and-coming Spanish cartoonists

Fans of Maria Bamford’s acclaimed quasi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite

it became something of a must-have at all comics conventions that year and it was nominated for the Best Self-Published comic at the Greek Comics Awards

Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) Omar Khouri and belonging—until a brutal attackBy Manchn Magan and Megan Luddy. Published by Gill. Hardcover, 256 pages, Colour, 2025. Meet the naladir (cloud watchers) and radir (stargazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met ireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and sea for signs of weather change. The sheer richness and variety of terms they amassed reveal the closeness with which they observed the world around them. Swallows flying low