If Ella didn’t have her baby, she’d go crazy from the loneliness. But she might still go crazy from the guilt, because the baby isn’t quite right. The world was simpler before the righteous floated away into the sky, and magic started working. A stand-alone story continuing on from acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent! (“It’s completely nuts.... It’s a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that’s all I’m gonna tell you.” —Junot Díaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction), Sword of My Mouth moves the focus from Chicago, under siege by angels with machine guns, to the urban prairie of Detroit, where a different kind of struggle is faced. Folks in the D have banded together to turn land with burned-out crack houses into farming tracts, and seem to be on a road to self-sufficiency...until Famine rides into town.

Jim Munroe is a “pop culture provocateur” according to the Austin Chronicle, and an “independent press icon” to Time Out Chicago. After leaving HarperCollins for political reasons, he founded No Media Kings and published five books, the most recent one a post- Rapture graphic novel called Therefore Repent! He also started The Perpetual Motion Roadshow, an indie touring circuit that sent 100 artists on the road between 2003 and 2007, and currently he is running the Artsy Games Incubator, a writer’s-circle style group helping creators without programming skills make video games. He lives in Toronto with a crafty ladyscientist and their bafflingly attractive baby.

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SHANNON GERARD works across a variety of media. She writes and draws comics, crochets soft sculptures, binds books and makes prints. About her collaboration with No Media Kings' Jim Munroe on the graphic novel Sword of My Mouth, boingboing wrote: "Gerard's stellar illustrations are jagged line drawings that play with time-series and an expressivity of posture to convey emotion with unexpected punch." See more at www.shannongerard.org.

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