Exclusive: Meredith McClaren’s MEAT EATERS to Bite into Comic Shops and Bookstores in July 2025 from Oni Press

"Let it be said that dying is rough. Nineteen-year-old Ashley Moore found this out the hard way." A teenager reluctantly discovers a supernatural side to her previously ordinary world when she wakes up dead one morning with a taste for really fresh meat in Meredith McClaren's Meat Eaters, and Daily Dead is thrilled (and chilled) to exclusively share preview pages and announce that the graphic novel will take its first bite into comic shops and bookstores in July 2025 from Oni Press!

Press Release: PORTLAND, OR (September 25, 2024) – Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 –is proud to announce the next stunning installment in its summer 2025 graphic novel lineup: Meat Eaters. From cartoonist Meredith McClaren—co-creator of the acclaimed series Black Cloak—comes a punishing and poignant original graphic novel about the monsters that lurk both in the darkness beyond—and within us all . . .

Let it be said that dying is rough. Nineteen-year-old Ashley Moore found this out the hard way.

All Ashley wanted was to keep her head down and work hard until she could escape the small town where she felt she was stagnating. But after waking up one night covered in blood—and irrevocably dead—Ashley finds her foolproof plan for getting out has gone up in smoke, and something within her has changed.

Without a heartbeat and with a disturbing craving for fresh—preferably bloody—meat, Ashley finds herself privy to a world that exists just beneath our own: a world of ghouls and monsters and things that go bump-in-the-night. Despite her desire to be left alone—and to not think about the night of her death at all—Ashley is slowly drawn into the realm of the unusual, getting advice from ancient vampires, dodging angry pack leaders, and becoming the reluctant big sister to werewolves Motley and Harrison. As she does, she finds it increasingly difficult to put away the parts of herself she wishes to ignore—namely, what happened that fateful night she stopped breathing. The truth, it turns out, can’t stay buried forever.

“MEAT EATERS is an ode to all the teen horror television I lovingly consumed over the years,” said Writer and Illustrator Meredith McClaren. “Where there are bad things in the world, sometimes they hurt you, and sometimes that makes you change in ways you do not like.”

In this visceral story about the effects of trauma and anxiety, dying is indeed hard. But getting on with it? That can be worse. Don’t miss this deadly debut when Meat Eaters takes its first bite in comic shops and bookstores everywhere on July, 2025!

About the Creator

Meredith McClaren is tired. When not safely in her bed, cocooned in a burrito of comfort, she has worked on stories like BLACK CLOAK , HEART IN A BOX, HOPELESS SAVAGES, and SUPER FUN SEXY TIMES.

Sometimes while still in bed.

You can find her website at: meredithmcclaren.tumblr.com

Her Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/meredithmcclaren

And her twitter at: @IniquitousFish

But you might have to get out of bed to check those websites.

Best not risk it.

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.