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Fran Meneses Auctions Rights To The Book Of Agnes Graphic Novels

Fran Meneses auctions rights to The Book Of Agnes Graphic Novels to First Second

Published Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:03:03 -0500

Last updated Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:09:06 -0500

Article Summary

Fran Meneses’ YA graphic novel series The Book of Agnes sells North American rights to First Second.
The Book of Agnes follows a teen navigating life, identity, and art as things get complicated.
Publication for the first two books in Meneses’ series is set for 2028 after a competitive auction.
Fran Meneses is a queer Chilean creator based in Brooklyn, known for illustration and stationery design.

The Book of Agnes by Fran Meneses is a new YA graphic novel series about a teenage girl questioning her place in the world when life and art get messy. Samia Garcia-Fakih at First Second has acquired North American English rights to The Book of Agnes series at auction. Publication of The Book of Agnes is scheduled for 2028. Fran Meneses' agent Daniel Lazar at Writers House did the deal for the first two books.

Fran Meneses Auctions Rights To The Book Of Agnes Graphic Novels — Instagram comics by Fran Meneses

Fran Menenes is a queer illustrator, author and content creator currently living and working in Brooklyn, born and raised in Chile, moving away in 2013, designing stationery for her online store We Are Nice Humans

First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. It also publishes graphic non-fiction for young readers, including the Science Comics and History Comics collections, and for adults, including the World Citizen Comics, a line of civics graphic books, and biographical works such as The Accidental Czar. Some of First Second's biggest hits include the seven-figure print runs of the InvestiGators series and the Real Friends trilogy, as well as the Adventure Zone graphic novel series, The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi, Delilah Dirk by Tony Cliff, Demon by Jason Shiga, Cucumber Quest by Gigi D.G., American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, the first graphic novel ever nominated for a National Book Award, and the first ever to win the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award. and This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, the first book in any nominated as a finalist for both the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Award and the American Library Association's Edward L. Printz Award.

Writers House is one of the largest literary agencies in the world. Based in New York, it was founded by Al Zuckerman, a former novelist, TV writer, and teacher of playwriting at Yale.

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