Christian Ward signs a three-book deal with Oni Press beginning with THE FOREVER HOME
Oni Press has announced a multi-project collaboration with Eisner Award-winning creator Christian Ward, starting with the series “The Forever Home” debuting in September 2026.
The press release follows:
Media Release – In advance of Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to announce it has brokered a new, multi-project deal with multiple Eisner Award-winning creator Christian Ward (Event Horizon, Batman: City of Madness).
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Extending beyond the upcoming release of THE FOREVER HOME #1 – Ward's startling six-part series with artist and co-creator Sami Kivelä (Abbott), beginning in September – the new deal will include three new creator-owned projects featuring Ward's talents as both a writer and artist in various capacities.
The first of three new series will debut in 2027. Creative details for all three are being kept under wraps.
"Over the course of almost two decades I've been fortunate to have enjoyed working with every major publisher, so it's with authority when I say Oni Press is one of the very best of them,” said Christian Ward. “This last 18 months working with Sierra, Hunter, and the whole ONI team has been fantastic. Everyone is so passionate about making bold and distinctive comics and the support myself and Sami have received on our book has been second to none. So much so that whilst working on Forever Home I didn't want my collaboration with Oni to end and I'm now beyond thrilled to be working with Oni Press on three news titles (all just as ambitious and exciting as The Forever Home) for 2027 and beyond.”
“When Christian and I first met nearly three years ago, we quickly found common ground over the kinds of comics that excited us most--left of center stories that gave readers something thrilling and unexpected. Christian and Sami Kivelä's THE FOREVER HOME delivers on every front,” said Sierra Hahn Oni Press editor in chief. “I'm pinching myself that we now have three, completely original, highly compelling new series to explore alongside Christian and his co-creators in 2027 and beyond.”
This September, join visionary creators Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä as they prepare to challenge the limits of time, technology, and human endurance itself as one family’s refuge from the end of the world becomes an eon-spanning nightmare – only in THE FOREVER HOME #1.
Infamous billionaire scientist Henry D'mour could have saved the world. But he didn't. Instead, in a desperate bid to save himself, his wife, and their two children, he constructed The Forever Home — an ark of luxury and ultramodern convenience insulated from the agony of the planet’s death throes outside its walls ... and even time itself. Inside The Forever Home, only 29 minutes pass for every year on the outside ... allowing the D’mour family to slowly enact their plans for a new world as their automated environment and robotic companions keep them safe. Safe on the inside. Always inside. Until a childish misstep accidentally breaks The Forever Home’s barrier ... and what’s outside decides it wants back in ...
“Christian has been one the industry’s most acclaimed and sought-after creators for more than a decade, but, with THE FOREVER HOME, he is truly reaching the apex as a storyteller. As soon as the first issue began circulating internally at Oni, we knew that Christian and Sami had delivered one of the most powerful and mind-blowing new series not just of the year, but in Oni’s three-decade history,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “This is a series that practically pulsates with the kind of raw creative energy and psyche-shattering ideas that epitomize the greatness of the comics medium. We are beyond more excited to share with readers – and to extend our collaboration even further in the years ahead.”
To further discuss THE FOREVER HOME and the newly inked deal, Ward will be joining Oni Press at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 on Thursday, June 23rd at 11 am PT as a guest for the Oni Press: The Loudest Thing in Color panel presentation, alongside fellow creators Tyler Crook (Archie in Hell, Out of Alcatraz), Juan Gedeon (Super Mondo Mega Mutts), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Tradd Moore (Touch Me Someplace Nowhere), Curt Pires (Super Mondo Mega Mutts), and more.
Ward will also be signing copies of the new HIGH STRANGENESS DELUXE EDITION (featuring Ward's stunning artwork alongside contributions from Daniel Noah, Chris Condon, Dave Chisholm, and more) and free copies of the THE FOREVER HOME/FORT PSYCHO PREVIEW BOOK at the Oni Press booth (#1829) at the following times while supplies last:
Thursday, July 23 | 12 noon – 1 pm
(with Tyler Crook, Juan Gedeon & Curt Pires)
Saturday, July 25 | 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(with Tradd Moore)
THE FOREVER HOME #1 (of 6) will arrive in comic shops worldwide on September 9, 2026.
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The Forever Home #1 (of 6)
Writer: Christian Ward
Artist: Sami Kivelä
Cover A: Christian Ward
Cover B: Frany
Cover C: Sami Kivelä
Cover D: Sketch Variant Cover
Foil Variant Cover ($8.99): Christian Ward
Full Art Variant (1:10): Frany
Incentive Variant (1:20): David Rubín
Incentive Variant (1:50): Miguel Mercado
On Sale: 9/9/2026
$4.99 | 32 pgs. | FC
FOC: 8/3/2026
ONI PRESS
THE LOUDEST THING IN COLOR SINCE '97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens' Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong's Covenant, 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.
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