Rizoli New York is set to publish a graphic novel by Paris street artist Fafi. Titled “The Carmine Vault”, it is sure to please the fans and convert the uninitiated. Hitting the shelves in April of 2012.

Centered around a character called Birtak and his desire to join the Paris Opéra Ballet, The Carmine Vault brings to life Fafi’s colorful and irreverent world for the first time in a lavish graphic-novel format. Combining comic book elements with the prestige and allure of art books, the book employs elegant compositions and innovative printing effects to reproduce vivid, never-before-seen work from this celebrated artist.

Juxtapoz reports that UK-based illustrator James Jarvis “is set to release his first graphic novel in five years, De Profundis, with Brooklyn publisher, PictureBox. The graphic novel follows a beaked artist who travels through a wilderness to arrive at an abandoned city. Wandering the empty streets there, he encounters a mysterious, priestly being who commissions him to decorate a temple to a nameless god.”

The graphic novel, which features a hardcover and 80 pages of illustration, is due November 1.

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Barnaby Ward is a graphic novelist from Barbados. He has produced three prints for Pictures on Walls, made with a metallic and pearlescent printers ink. The names are “Myrtle & Gurtle,”  “Igor,” and  “Bosley” respectively. All prints are in limited numbers and signed.