Soi Books publishes bold, visually-led titles across subculture, art, and storytelling.
Below is our current line-up for 2026/2027, available for international rights, and licensing.
Tifo: The Art of Football Fan Stickers
Stories from football’s underground fan art
By: Ryo Sanada & Suridh Hassan
Format: 272pp • 210 × 148 mm • Hardcover
Release: April 2026
Status: Final stages of production
Opportunities: Co-editions, translation rights, press coverage
Overview:
This revised and expanded edition builds on the success of the original Tifo — a breakout bestseller for Soi Books in 2024. Tifo reveals Europe’s underground football stories through vivid fan-made stickers and graphics, chronicling passions, rivalries, and political alliances across more than one hundred clubs — just in time for the World Cup.
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The original Tifo was one of Soi Books' top sellers in 2024. This new edition features updated content, new clubs, and exclusive stickers from the U.S. and Asia.
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Tifo is the only book devoted to Europe’s underground sticker and graphic culture, uncovering stories and art seldom documented by mainstream football titles.
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Timed to arrive just before the 2026 tournament, the book taps surging global interest while fans are actively seeking fresh, collectible content.
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More than one hundred European clubs represented, each paired with behind‑the‑scenes anecdotes that turn the imagery into trivia gold for ground‑hoppers, historians, and quiz‑night regulars.
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Appeals equally to football devotees, design enthusiasts, and pop‑culture readers — ensuring placement in Sport, Graphic Design, and Gift sections and widening sell‑through potential.
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Cimarron: The Wild One
By: Dwayne Fields
Art: Shuning Ji | Script:** Sophie McVeigh
Format: 192pp • 250 × 180 mm • Hardcover
Release: Spring 2027
Status: Final art & editorial underway
Opportunities: Co-editions, translation rights, educational partnerships, festival promotion
Overview:
Cimarron is a bold, visually rich graphic novel inspired by the life of polar explorer and TV presenter Dwayne Fields — the first Black Briton to walk to the North Pole.
From a Jamaican childhood to 1990s North London and across Arctic ice, this is a story of trauma, resilience, and mythic self-recovery.
Painted by rising artist Shuning Ji and scripted by Canneseries winner Sophie McVeigh, Cimarron fuses memoir and vision, echoing classics like Persepolis and March.
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Dwayne Fields’s journey brings documentary weight to the graphic novel form — an inspirational true story grounded in survival, wilderness, and inner strength.
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As the first Black Briton to reach the North Pole, Fields offers a fresh, underrepresented hero in outdoor and graphic literature — timely, powerful, and classroom-ready.
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Fields is a television presenter, UK Chief Scout, and a sought-after speaker. Planned school visits, book festivals, and expedition-themed events ensure sustained buzz and community engagement.
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Combines gritty urban memoir, high-stakes adventure, and visionary art — appealing to YA readers, educators, graphic-novel fans, and outdoor/environmental audiences.
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Cimarron connects personal freedom to wild landscapes — a compelling theme for today’s climate-aware, socially engaged readers.