Bloom County
On October 25, 2017 IDW published "Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat: 1980-1989", collecting the complete run of "Bloom County" in two volumes. An "Ultimate Collectors Set" was also released, including the original art from a daily strip featuring Opus, a page from Breathed's sketchbooks, and a personalized sketch of Opus on the slipcover.Published by The Library of American Comics, an imprint of IDW Publishing.
Benjamin January mysteries
The "Benjamin January mysteries" are set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place. The first book was published in 1997, and the series is still on-going. The first eight books in the series were published by Bantam Press, with the subsequent four being published by Severn House Publishers. The second book in the series, "Fever Season", was named a New York Times Notable Mystery Book of 1998. Seven books in the series ("Fever Season", "Dead Water", "The Shirt on His Back", "Ran Away", "Good Man Friday", "Crimson Angel", and "Drinking Gourd" ) have received starred reviews from "Publishers Weekly".
The "Benjamin January mysteries" series consists of sixteen novels and five short stories to date.
All the short stories are also available for download on Hambly's website.The series, beginning with "A Free Man of Color", follows Benjamin January, a brilliant, classically educated free colored surgeon and musician living in New Orleans during the "belle epoque" of the 1830s, when New Orleans had a large and prosperous free colored "demimonde". January was born a slave but freed as a young child and provided with an excellent education; he is fluent in several classical and modern languages and thoroughly versed in the whole of classical Western learning and arts. Although trained in Paris as a surgeon, he has returned to Louisiana to escape the memory of his dead Parisian wife. As he is a very dark-skinned black man, in Louisiana he cannot find work as a surgeon. Instead, he earns a modest living by his exceptional talent and skill as a musician.