James Tynion IV‘s Tiny Onion will make a big splash at the upcoming New York Comic with multiple panels, signings, and exclusive merchandise. The publisher will also arrive with its very own brand-new newspaper.

Tiny Onion revealed via The Empire of the Tiny Onion newsletter that it will release the inaugural issue of its newspaper, Tiny Onion Presents #1, available for a dollar at newspaper stands inside the Tiny Onion booth (HB907) and the official NYCC Merch booth. Tiny Onion describes T.O.P #1 as a celebration of print, featuring expansive articles, including Silver Sprocket and the Return of Indie Comics, A Conversation with Josh Hixson and Tyler Boss, and SKTCHD’s David Harper of SKTCHD’s interview, James Tynion IV Reflects Back on the First Nine Months of Tiny Onion.

Tynion Onion founder Tynion discussed the new Tiny Onion Presents newspaper’s function with Popverse. “T.O.P. serves a lot of functions. We wanted people to get a feeling for the personality of the Tiny Onion team,” he said. “We wanted people to have a fun place they can hear about our next big swings before anybody else. We wanted to make a product for comic conventions that feels really exclusive and special. But most importantly, we made T.O.P. to show our readership how much we love the full breadth of the comics medium.”

T.O.P. editor Courtney Mernard enjoyed the experience of working on the project. “Working on T.O.P. with the Tiny Onion crew was wonderfully cathartic,” the Tiny Onion production director said. “Witnessing each contributor’s playfulness and creativity was like a jolt of energy straight to the brain, and the result is a beautiful, inky peek into what we love about comics. Make zines with your friends.”

Tiny Onion and Dark Horse will release an anthology collection of black-and-white short comics, True Weird Vol. 1 on January 28, 2025. The stories, originally featured as bonus stories in Tynion and Michael Avon Oeming’s Blue Book series 1 and 2, are based on true accounts and describe encounters with various paranormal phenomena, cryptids, ghosts, medical oddities, and other strange occurrences. For instance, the ‘Coney Island’ short story, set in Brooklyn in 1889, sees the emergence of a strange creature in the daytime sky.

True Weird Vol. 1 will include twelve of the strangest “true” stories from Blue Book. The 120-page paperback will feature an all-star lineup of creators that includes Tynion, Avon Oeming, Klaus Janson, Chris Condon, Ming Doyle, John McCrea, Genevieve Valentine, Aditya Bidikar, Anand RK, Gavin Fullerton, and many more.

Tiny Onion’s newspaper, Tiny Onion Presents #1, will be available for a dollar at newspaper stands inside the Tiny Onion booth and the official NYCC Merch booth.

Source: The Empire of the Onion and Popverse