PRE-ORDER: 'The October Girl' by Matthew Dow Smith

THE OCTOBER GIRL is a moody, coming-of-age tale filled with fairies, ogres and magic galore. It's perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Nimona.

The October Girl Vol. 1

Writer/Illustrator/Letterer Matthew Dow Smith

A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore.

Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic and princesses who defeated dragons, but now that she’s eighteen and facing a future stuck behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop, she’s starting to wonder if this is all there really is to her life.

But then she meets her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, in the alley behind the coffee shop one night. Autumn’s entire world is turned upside down.

Drawn into the strange and mysterious world of the Night Folk, fantastic creatures that inspired all of humanity’s myths about gods and monsters, Autumn is about to discover that there is more to her world than she ever dreamed of as a little girl, and that world is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. With the help of Barnaby and Evan Fade, the tragic young boy who inherited the local bookstore, Autumn has to protect herself from the coldly terrifying Mr. Balloon long enough to discover the truth about the Night Folk and her own past.

Publication Date: October 21, 2025

THE OCTOBER GIRL VOL. 1 is now up for preorder through bookstores, comic shops (FOC: October 6, 2025) and the Maverick site. It will be in bookstores October 21, 2025 and comic shops October 22, 2025.

“The October Girl is a very special project for me. It’s a story I’ve wanted to tell for more than 30 years, and now, thanks to Mad Cave/Maverick, I finally can.

I’ve spent the last 30 years drawing people in tights fighting each other, and as much fun as that can be, my head was full of people in long coats and skeleton trees and strange little creatures. There just wasn’t a place for the kinds of stories I wanted to tell. But now, with a growing audience for comics outside of tights and capes, I could finally let all these things out of my head.

For me, the most important thing about this book was to capture that feeling of being young and looking at the future stretched out ahead of you and the world you’re growing into and wondering if this is all there is. I’ve been a reader and a dreamer all my life and I often find myself wishing our world was as magical and full of wonder as the worlds in the books I read. This book asks the question, “Well, what if it was?” – Creator, Matthew Dow Smith

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