Fanbase Press is thrilled to announce that Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition, the expanded hardcover edition of its Eisner-nominated Graphic Medicine series, has been honored with a silver medal win for the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) in the Graphic Novel category. The IPPY Awards aim to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles published each year.
The expanded deluxe edition of the book features all-new contributions from some of the biggest names in comics. Ripple Effects follows the adventures of a superhero whose invincibility is offset by an acute case of type 1 diabetes and a defective pancreas that must be monitored and treated daily. The gripping and inspirational story about living with an invisible illness is inspired by writer Jordan Hart’s own lived experience with thrombophilia, an incurable blood-clotting disease.
“Ripple Effects was created to remind those with invisible disabilities, and their loved ones, that they are not alone, that they’re unique, and that they’re special,” notes Jordan Hart. “I have so much joy when a reader says, ‘I’ve waited so long to see someone like me as a superhero.’ Watching the impact this story has on others with invisible disabilities has been the highlight of my career, and I hope that The Deluxe Edition will only widen that impact.”
Ripple Effects was created, written, and colored by Jordan Hart (The Cabinet, Dread the Halls), illustrated by Bruno Chiroleu (El Borde, Mara and Samu), flatted by Shane Kadlecik, lettered by Oceano Ransford (Eisner Award-nominated Rikki, The Sequels, Haphaven), and features cover art by Justin C. Harder (CLAUS Studios) and a foreword by Matthew Noe (librarian, Harvard Medical School).
Striving to increase awareness and representation for individuals with invisible illnesses and disabilities, Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition features:
- a foreword by Eisner and Harvey Awards-winning writer Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Batgirl, Uncanny X-Men)
- a foreword by actor/writer Todd Stashwick (Star Trek: Picard, 12 Monkeys)
- an afterword by Eisner Award-winning writer/illustrator John Jennings (Silver Surfer, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation)
- study guides by Eisner Award nominee and educator Tim Smyth (Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels) and comics literacy advocate Creators, Assemble! Inc.
- an art gallery pairing youth artists who have invisible disabilities and illnesses with superstar comics artists including Drew Zucker (Canto), Ray-Anthony Height (Midnight Tiger), Liana Kangas, Don Aguillo (Spawn), and Manual Martinez (DC/Marvel)
The deluxe hardcover also features “Unseen Ripples” essays written by individuals with invisible disabilities and illnesses who relate Ripple Effects‘ events to their own lived experience, ranging in topic from paranoid schizophrenia to diabetes.
Ripple Effects was the winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics in 2023, as well as being nominated for an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award. The series was included in the American Library Association’s (Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table) 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List and was named the winner of the 25th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Graphic Novels & Comics category.
Ripple Effects: The Deluxe Edition is available via digital distribution platforms Hoopla and Comics Plus and may be purchased in print from Fanbase Press and Amazon.
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As a GLAAD Media Award-winning and an Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated comic book publisher and geek culture website, Fanbase Press produces new and distinctive works, as well as daily reviews, interviews, and podcasts, that span the pop culture spectrum and give voice to the themes, ideals, and people that make geekdom so exceptional.
Fanbase Press’ previous titles, including the 2024 GLAAD Media Award-winning Four-Color Heroes, the 2023 Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Ripple Effects, the 2022 International Latino Book Award-winning Nuclear Power, the 2018 Eisner Award-nominated Quince, and the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award-winning Quince: The Definitive Bilingual Edition hardcover, are available online at www.fanbasepress.com and on Amazon, as well as digitally through Hoopla Digital, ComicsPlus, and Kindle.
