Ever since we first got our hands on the original German edition of Ulli Lust’s highly-acclaimed Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (winner of the 2011 Angoulême “Revelation” prize), we’ve known we wanted to publish the English version. Now that’s a big step closer to actuality as we’ve just sent the files, with Kim Thompson’s translation, off to the printer. In this autobiographical tale, told with a keen eye for events, environments and emotions, Lust traces the steps of her teenage self and her wild friend Edi as they hitchhike across Italy one summer, a trip fraught with sex, drugs and some violence, and all the danger and excitement they entail. The book is due in April — previews are in the works, and pre-order is on now.