The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store, 2 University of Alberta Press built a billion-story building

built a billion-story building

while the alchemical retro-future of Morganna performs an autopsy of modern life’s horrors

Contributors include: Emma Fitzgerald

Maddy Court made the leap from creating niche lesbian memes on Instagram to writing and distributing a series of zines

—Carmela Ciuraru

The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store, 2 University of Alberta Press built a billion-story buildingBy Tsuchika Nishimura. Published by Seven Seas. Softcover, 146 pages, B&W, 2024 (originally printed in Japanese in 2017) THE CONCLUSION TO THE STORY OF THE UNIQUE DEPARTMENT STORE WHERE ALL THE CUSTOMERS ARE ANIMALS! Akino, the new concierge, continues to work to meet the challenging whims of her animal customers, including a Barbary lion on the hunt for the perfect perfume to give to the girl he has his eye on, a dodo who is in the throes of despair