PORTLAND, OR (February 18, 2026) – THIS SUMMER … MUTT UP OR SHUT UP! In advance of the upcoming Comics PRO Comic Book Industry Meeting in Glendale, CA, Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to announce SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS #1 (of 4) – a monstrous new milestone from superstar-in-the-making Curt Pires (Lost Fantasy, Fireborn) and powerhouse artist Juan Gedeon (DC: The Jurassic League, COW-Boys of Moo Mesa) beginning with a double-sized, 40-page introduction to a brand-new team of raucously rowdy, anthropomorphic anti-heroes with TEETH this July!
“It’s been thrilling to watch Oni Press reach new heights the last couple years under the tenure of Hunter [Gorinson, President & Publisher], Sierra [Hahn, Editor-in-Chief] and the whole team—and I couldn’t be more excited to be bringing them one of my best ideas ever,” said writer Curt Pires. “This is a book that is big, bombastic, and heartfelt, one that’s capable of bringing newb folks into comic shops—and I’m ecstatic to be creating it with my masterful collaborator Juan Gedeon.”
“SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS is the kind of book I grew up loving and dreaming about making,” said artist Juan Gedeon. “It’s loud, weird, funny, and full of heart, with characters you want to protect even when they’re causing chaos. Working with Curt and the team at Oni Press has been a blast, and they’ve given us room to go big and take risks. I’m excited for readers to finally see these dogs unleashed and tearing through the page.”
One year ago, a fragment of an inter-dimensional civilization collided with Downtown L.A. – creating an impregnable no-man’s-land where the laws of physics no longer apply. Convinced that no human being could survive the terrain within, the US government’s most morally compromised contractors decided to explore the area codenamed “The Gleam” by sending in four research animals in the hopes of capturing its precious technological wonders. They were hoping to find a new kind of weapon. What they got instead was four radically transformed dogs with minds and a mission all their own. WOLF! FRANKEE! GRIFFY! FREDDY! Together with their brilliant mentor MOJO, the SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS are going to bring justice back to the avenues and alleyways where out-of-control federal forces and gangs powered-up by pilfered alien technology now reign. They thought they could put this band of outlaw misfits on a leash… Now the world is going to discover what happens when these mutts BITE BACK.
“It’s a love letter to Jack Kirby’s Kamandi, Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Grant Morrison’s We3—packed with the kind of ambitious worldbuilding and white-knuckle tension those classics are known for,” said series editor Karl Bollers. “But at its core, SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS is a story about four anthropomorphic canines who just want one thing: a normal life.”
This summer, prepare to face the fur and fury as four new comics icons enter the fray and clamp their jaws down tight on the dirty underbelly of the City of Angels! Who are they? What have they become? And can they ever truly find their way home? Find out only in SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS #1 (of 4) – on sale in comic shops everywhere in July!
Plus: don’t miss Pires and Gedeon signing a CLASSIFIED art print at the ComicsPro Comic Book Industry Meeting in Glendale, CA from February 18th to February 21st!
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SUPER MONDO MEGA MUTTS #1 (of 4)
Written by CURT PIRES
Art & Cover by JUAN GEDEON
ON SALE IN JULY! | $6.99 | 40 pgs.
About Oni Press:
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more.
In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.
