AIPT can exclusively spotlight new promotional graphics for the upcoming graphic novel from Eisner-nominated collaborators Dave Baker (Mary Tyler MooreHawk) and Nicole Goux (This Place Kills Me), featuring standout blurbs from Maia Kobabe, Kieron Gillen, and Cecil Castellucci. The graphics, designed by Goux herself, capture the book’s raw, DIY spirit ahead of its April release from Top Shelf Productions.
PUNK’N HEADS reunites the Los Angeles–based creative duo behind Fuck Off Squad, Forest Hills Bootleg Society, Everyone is Tulip, and more, for a raucous, heartfelt story about a campy horror-punk band whose personal lives are as tangled as their chords. They play together, live together, and—inevitably—make everything worse when two of them start sleeping together. What follows is a loud, funny, and deeply relatable love letter to youthful messiness, creative ambition, and the painful process of figuring out who you are.
“Punk’n Heads is a book for all the broken-hearted losers out there,” said writer Dave Baker. “The kids who wanted to accomplish great things and then ended up playing shitty back-room punk shows. If you’ve ever broken up with someone in the back of a van, right before six idiots in Doc Martens are about to pile in, this is the book for you.”
Artist Nicole Goux added, “For anyone whose journey hasn’t been a straight path, Punk’n Heads might just bring you a little solace. Join Hannah, Jerry, Morgan, and Birdie in their quest to make something cool, make it big, or maybe just be a little less sad.”
The story centers on Hannah Lipsky, whose carefully imagined future collapses after a breakup. Once set on becoming a fine art painter, Hannah drops out of art school, moves into a flophouse, and suddenly finds herself fronting a horror-punk band—complete with costumes. Things get even messier when she reconnects with Jerry, her housemate, bandmate, and unresolved high school crush.
“Hannah’s relationship is a failure, and so apparently is her budding art career,” Goux said. “When she moves into a house with her past ‘what if?’ Jerry and his group of ragtag friends/bandmates, her life takes an unexpected direction. Will she follow the path or cling to the past?”
At its core, PUNK’N HEADS is a coming-of-age story about music, failure, friendship, and choosing what comes next—even when you’re not ready.
Check out the graphics below.
PUNK’N HEADS hits shelves this April from Top Shelf Productions, loud, messy, and unapologetically alive.
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