DEBUT CREATORS NICHOLAS AFLLEJE AND SARAH DELAINE ANNOUNCE NATIONAL BOOK TOUR THIS MAY FOR NEW LITTLE GIRLS GRAPHIC NOVEL

In celebration of Little Girls hitting shelves, debut creators Nicholas Aflleje and Sarah DeLaine will go on a 12 city national book tour this May—with events featuring live band performances—to promote the release of this haunting new standalone graphic novel. Little Girls tour dates and locations: April 27 - Jacksonville, Florida Coliseum of Comics - Riverside featuring Sleepless and Glazed May, 6 - Orlando, Florida BAMF! Comics & Collectibles featuring Vivian K and Body Heat May, 7 - Charlotte, North Carolina Heroes Aren't Hard To Find featuring Petrov and more May, 8 - Washington, D.C. Fantom Comics featuring BRNDA and more May, 9 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Brave New Worlds - Old City [bands TBA] May, 11 - Brooklyn, New York Anyone Comics [bands TBA] May, 12 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania New Dimension Comics - Waterfront at 3 Rivers Comicon May, 13 - Chicago, Illinois Challengers Comics + Conversation featuring KACHI the BAND and Gentle Heat May, 14 - St. Louis, Missouri Apotheosis Comics & Lounge featuring Jr. Clooney and more May, 16 - Dallas, Texas Red Pegasus Games & Comics featuring Two Knights and more May, 17 - Austin, Texas Austin Books & Comics featuring Luvweb and Mean Girls May, 18 - New Orleans, Louisiana Crescent City Comics [bands TBA] About the Little Girls graphic novel: Something hunts people on the outskirts of town… Sam and Lielet are two new friends living in Ethiopia. They’re dealing with the kind of problems that all kids have: judgmental social cliques, condescending adults, alienation… and a legendary brain-eating monster straight out of folklore. Sure, it’s not going to be easy, but all they have to do is live through it. Showcasing a quietly unsettling plot and building tension similar to Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina and Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying, Aflleje and DeLaine construct a poignant story of otherness and mystery. Little Girls (ISBN: 9781534310599, Diamond Code: FEB190018) hits comic shops on Wednesday, April 24 and bookstores on Tuesday, April 30. You can pre-order your copy now at your local comic shop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, IndieBound, Indigo. For digital readers, Little Girls will be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.

ABOUT SARAH DELAINE Sarah DeLaine has performed many roles within the comic book industry for over a decade, but she prefers creating comics best of all. Her work has been featured in Aftershock’s Shock Anthology, and she has contributed to such titles as Roche Limit and Enormous. Little Girls, her original graphic novel collaboration with writer Nicholas Aflleje, is set to debut through Image Comics in April 2019. ABOUT NICHOLAS AFLLEJE Nicholas Aflleje writes fiction late at night from within the confines of his residence in Jacksonville, Florida. His debut graphic novel is Little Girls, a collaboration with artist Sarah DeLaine, set to be released through Image Comics in April 2019. ABOUT IMAGE COMICS Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has six individuals on the Board of Directors: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and Eric Stephenson. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.