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Marissa Paternoster gets graphic

Posted by Loren on January 10, 2024

Marissa Paternoster gets graphic
Marissa Paternoster & Joe Steinhardt - Merriment

On March 19, Don Giovanni Records will release a graphic novel from Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females) and Joe Steinhardt (Don Giovanni Records). Titled Merriment, it will be distributed by Microcosm Publishing in hardcover.

As the jacket notes:

Mack is having a hard time coping with life in New Jersey. Watching her friends figure their lives out while she is stuck living at home, Mack is looking for any kind of lifeline out of her Mom’s house and into the City where she is convinced she will be happy. Then again, it's hard for anyone to be happy these days, a fact her mother will not let her forget. And what's worse: she thinks she might have committed a murder. And that maybe, just maybe, the FBI is spying on her?

Merriment follows Mack on her quest for happiness and/or sanity, through the horrors of life, as she navigates existential dread, real life dread, and all the dread in between.

Preorders are available now.

Marissa Paternoster gets graphic
Marissa Paternoster & Joe Steinhardt - Merriment

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