After making her escape to the Moon and freeing stolen souls, Madeline Tock (aka the girl in the graveyard) and her friend Nura the Lamplighter will return for another magical adventure in The Night Mother Vol. 2 from writer Jeremy Lambert (Goosebumps), artist Alexa Sharpe (Lumberjanes), and letterer Becca Carey (Nullhunter). The anticipated second volume will be released by Oni Press on April 28th, 2026, and we're thrilled to share the first details on the next chapter of Maddy's journey, as well as Alexa Sharpe's stunning cover art and captivating unlettered interior art from The Night Mother Vol. 2!
Press Release: PORTLAND, OR – Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is thrilled to announce the second volume of THE NIGHT MOTHER! Storytellers Jeremy Lambert (Goosebumps) and Alexa Sharpe (Lumberjanes) reunite to weave an evocative and magical tale of a young woman discovering what’s faithfully in her heart. Almost two years after the release of critically acclaimed volume one, the visually-stunning series makes its long-awaited return on April 28th, 2026!
The moon is stuck. Sunlight is a distant memory. And the Night Mother, who once represented harmony between the living and the dead, has been thwarted by the girl who lives in the graveyard named Madeline Tock.
But after their daring escape to the Moon, Maddy and her new friend, Nura, have accidentally shattered the Night Mother’s lantern and the stolen souls within it have escaped, including the soul of Maddy’s father. Maddy and Nura follow the souls into the cavernous city spiraling down into the Moon’s largest crater. There, Maddy and Nura will face nightfire, the dreaded Sleep Ensemble, and the many crooked corridors of the Night Mother’s Lunar Mansion. If they survive, they just might be able to right the wrongs of the Night Mother and free the souls she took from the living. But their journey will bring everything to bear on Maddy, who has an impossible choice to make: become the next Night Mother and rescue her father’s soul . . . or stay true to herself and risk everything.
“In Volume 2, Maddy and Nura the Lamplighter race against time to return the souls of the living and bring daylight back to the world, facing the many mysteries of the Moon City and the darkest depths of the Night Mother’s Lunar Mansion itself in order to do it,” said author Jeremy Lambert. “We can’t wait to pull the curtain back even further on this fantasy world and introduce you to all manner of Moonfolk! (Just do us a favor and be particularly careful around the Sleep Ensemble).”
See the light and escape the night with Jeremy Lambert and Alexa Sharpe’s THE NIGHT MOTHER Vol. 2 when it phases into bookstores on April 28th, 2026!
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PRAISE FOR THE NIGHT MOTHER
“This entire graphic novel is begging to be turned into a full-length animated feature. Every page felt like a glimpse into a gorgeous movie universe, and if Disney or Pixar or Sony or somebody doesn’t pick this up, they’re really missing out. (And if any studio bigwigs happen to be reading this, ya girl’s fully available to read stories all day and flag any good ones for you; just saying.)”—BOOK RIOT
“The story is, like the best fairytales, a little spooky. Its structure, length, and art remind me of a few of my favorite European graphic novels. I can’t wait for the next volume.”—LIBRARY COMIC
“This gothic graphic novel will appeal to young readers who want to branch out from the popular tropes of middle grade stories.”—SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
“The art was so beautiful and the story was compelling and creepy, but not scary. I really liked the storyline and how it managed to be both sweet and a little frightening at the same time.”—CROSSROADS REVIEW
“A haunting yet poignant story with a cliffhanger ending that will leave readers hungry for more.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Myth-making with a majestic monster at its heart, laced with style and suspense.”—KIRKUS
“Giving off vibes of a gothic version of Ponyo crossed with A Wrinkle in Time, this fantasy from a Buffy comics writer and a Lumberjanes artist takes place in a coastal town stuck in eternal eve.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Beautiful.”—DYNAMIC FORCES
Creator bios:
Jeremy Lambert is a writer and filmmaker from Bowie, Maryland. He’s known for his comics work on Doom Patrol, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellmouth, Dungeons & Dragons, Goosebumps, The Hollywood Special, and his stories for Warhammer, among others. As a film producer, his productions for Breakwater Studios, Ltd. have won an Academy Award and James Beard Award.
Alexa Sharpe is a Los Angeles—based book illustrator who has worked on Lumberjanes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rolled & Told, and Uncanny Magazine. Her art is a window into dreamlike worlds that frighten and delight in equal measure.
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 Clayton 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.
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Check out our exclusive reveal of Alexa Sharpe's cover art and unlettered interior art for The Night Mother Vol. 2 below, and to keep up with the latest from Oni Press, visit: https://www.onipress.com/
COVER BY ALEXA SHARPE:
THE NIGHT MOTHER VOL. 2 UNLETTERED INTERIOR ART BY ALEXA SHARPE:
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Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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