--The first graphic title by Vivek Shraya, the celebrated trans writer/musician/artist and the author of four previous books published by Arsenal: the YA illustrated story collection God Loves Hair (2014), the novel She of the Mountains (2014), the poetry collection even this page is white (2016) (Publishing Triangle Award for Trans Literature winner), and the children's picture book The Boy & the Bindi (2016). Another book, an essay entitled I'm Afraid of Men, is being published by Penguin Canada in the fall of 2018. Vivek is also half of the music duo Too Attached, whose recent album Part Time Woman has been longlisted for the Polaris Prize, Canada's most prestigious music award. As an artist, her photo installation "Trisha," in which Vivek poignantly recreates photos of her mother in her youth, won wide acclaim in Canada in 2017 and made its US debut at New York's Ace Hotel in the summer of 2018. Vivek is also the curator/editor of VS. Books, Arsenal's imprint dedicated to new Indigenous and Black writers and writers of color; its inaugural title, Shut Up You're Pretty by Tea Mutonji, is being published this season as well.

--In light of her growing profile, especially when she announced her transition in 2016, Vivek has also had endure the wrath of homophobic and transphobic haters online. In the fall of 2017, evidence of this hatred escalated when a stranger took to making death threats against her. As is her way, one of strategies Vivek employed to deal with it emotionally and intellectually was to turn it into art, the result of which is this comic book collaboration with acclaimed Toronto artist Ness Lee (who has 36,000 followers on Instagram).

-- Death Threat includes the actual threats made by the perpetrator and Vivek's visceral responses to them, ranging from fear and anxiety to anger and resolve. The book explores the present-day ramifications of online bullying and threat-making, in which anonymous strangers can take hold over another's life with words.

-- Death Threat marks Vivek's sixth genre over six different books (young adult, children's, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and now graphic nonfiction/comic book).