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The Editors | May 22, 2026

Is the promise of a mirage-like velvet darkness the only thing getting you through the school day? You are not alone, just as you've always suspected.

Thank you to Fantagraphics and you're welcome to you, dear readers, so please enjoy this excerpt of Heaven, the latest fanged femme fatale fiction from Katie Skelly. A description from the publisher:

Out past the edge of town, there exists a strip club called Heaven that only some can find. Some say it's a mirage. Others say you can't miss the giant neon heels lighting up the desert night skies.

Dolly can't find a place to belong. After losing her identity as a gymnast and navigating family turbulence, she's adrift from school and friends. When a mysterious presence beckons her to Heaven, she wonders if she may just have found her place -- but just what does it want in return?

Katie Skelly's first graphic novel since her acclaimed Maids in 2020, Heaven finds out what happens when the artist's quintessential cool girl characters let their guards down and let the world in. With a supernatural strip club backdrop and an eye-popping sense of color that would make Dario Argento proud, Heaven reinforces Skelly's place as one of the most distinctive voices working in contemporary comics today.