Evan Lorenzen created a 1-centimer book full images and text to join a lunar “gallery” that will launch later this year.

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Bob Beason sits surrounded by comics and his own original artwork in Captain Bengal’s Comic Cove, a comic book shop he opened ...