Agent Archives

Tony Patrick's agent Cecile Barendsma at Cecile B Literary Agency represented them while Goñi Montes represented themselves. Make Me A World is an imprint owned by Random House Children's Books which states that it is "dedicated to exploring the vast possibilities of contemporary childhood We strive to imagine a universe in which no young person is[...]

Jenn Woodall did not use an agent for the deal. Space Trash, Jenn Woodall's First Graphic Novel, Picked Up By Oni Press For 2022 Jenn Woodall announced the deal on Twitter, saying "Space Trash announcement from Publishers Weekly  So much thanks to @AriYarwood who gave my book a home and also helped to edit my rough drafts[...]

Kay O'Neill's agent, Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker represented them for North American rights. Initially publishing on Tumblr, Oni Press picked up their webcomic Princess Princess, published as Princess Princess Ever After in 2016, and then published their follow up Tea Dragon trilogy, which has won two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, and a Dwayne[...]

Agent Charlie Olsen at Inkwell Management brokered the deal Here is the song that the comic book is based upon. Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys She's just a girl and she's on fire Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway She's living in a world and it's on fire Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly[...]

Rex Ogle and Joe Casanova's agent, Brent Taylor at Triada US negotiated the two-book deal for world rights. Editor at DC Comics from 2008 to 2011, Rex Ogle also worked as a Senior Editor at Scholastic from 2011 to 2014 where he edited the Star Wars: Jedi Academy trilogy by Jeffrey Brown, and the DC Comics:[...]

The agent Anna Olswanger at Olswanger Literary represented Martin Lemelman. Born in Brooklyn, living in South Florida, Martin Lemelman trained in art at Brooklyn College, where he received undergraduate and Masters of Fine Arts degrees, and since 1976 he has been a freelance illustrator He has illustrated over 30 children's books as well as The New[...]

It'll be a retelling of experiences I've had, featuring my best friends, romance, and a magical bear that follows me around Thank you thank you to my amazing agent Jess Errera and wonderful editor Marisa diNovis for helping make this happen I'm still in awe I get to work with you two I'm excited to[...]

Not Light, but Fire: The Story of Mary Bowser (W.T.) written by Jamie McGhee (writing as Jay Leslie), and drawn by Charlot Kristensen is a YA historical

While Marvel Comics' Star Wars: The Old Republic Omnibus Volume 1, collecting the Dark Horse Comics series Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic by John Jackson Miller and Brian Ching, was July's best-selling graphic novel. Marvel's X-Men tops the Top 200 Comics And Graphic Novels Ordered Through Diamond, July 2021 TOP 200 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced[...]

Kay Davault's agent Britt Siess at Britt Siess Creative Management brokered the Oddity Woods deal for North American rights. Oddity Woods by Kay Davault  Atheneum Books is a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to become The Scribner Book Company in[...]

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic book artist and creator of the Webtoon strip Humdrum, Robin Easter, has seen their debut middle-grade graphic

Rachel Elliott's agent Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Literary ran the auction and negotiated the deal for world English rights. HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan The company is headquartered in[...]

Wendy Mass's agent Ginger Knowlton at Curtis Brown Ltd represented the author, and Gabi Mendez represented herself. Random House Graphic (RHG) is a new imprint dedicated to publishing graphic novels for kids and teens of every age and interest, fiction and nonfiction, and launched its first list in Spring 2020, young chapter books to YA, reflecting[...]

Originally from Miami, he now lives in Tampa, Florida, and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of South Florida. Random House Graphic (RHG) is an imprint dedicated to publishing graphic novels for kids and teens of every age and interest, fiction and nonfiction, and launched its first list in Spring 2020, young chapter[...]

Clive Hawken's agent Alex Slater at Trident Media Group negotiated the deal for world rights. Proof of concept art for Clive Hawken's YA original graphic novel, Walker  Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City and one of the oldest publishers in the United States It was founded in 1866[...]

None of the diversity in the book will serve as a source of shame, they will simply exist." Punk Rock Karaoke will be published by Viking in the summer of 2023 and Bianca Xunise's agent Linda Camacho at Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency brokered the deal Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by[...]

Squire & Knight is a graphic novel about a brainy young squire who solves mysteries involving monsters and magic, but the overbearing knight he serves takes the credit every time.  Squire & Knight will be published in 2023 and Scott Chantler's agent Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency negotiated the deal for world rights Another one to[...]

Tim McCanna's agent Caryn Wiseman at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency brokered the deal – and I'll be adding it to the big graphic novel/agents list Andrea Brown Literary Agency has become a familiar name to Bleeding Cool,  a mid-sized agency specializing in children's and adult literature, celebrating thousands of titles sold since their founding[...]

The other week, Bleeding Cool ran a guide to graphic novels that have been sold by agents to book publishers over the last couple of years We have been keeping it updated adding more entries sent in to richjohnston@bleedingcool.com and we have additional news about one of the deals done Bleeding Cool previously reported that[...]

I'm writing it for 12-year-old me, who just wanted to know there were other siblings like me out there going through the same stuff.  It's looking to be about 300 pages long and I've done about 250 pages in draft pencils so far. It's the longest thing I've ever written and boy, it's super mentally taxing[...]

And our friendly neighbourhood agent Britt Siess at Britt Siess Creative Management represented AJ O Mason and Dominic Bustamante for world rights. Queer Space Opera Graphic Novel Series, Kloud 9, Picked Up By IDW AJ O Mason tweeted out "In late 2020, @Dommnics and I were looking through the recent deals for graphic novels, dreaming of getting[...]

Boya Sun is one of a number of artists who work on the graphic novel series called 5 Worlds and co-writer and artist on the graphic novel Chasma Knights. JT Petty's agent Jackie Eckhouse at Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo and Boya Sun's agent Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency negotiated the deal And another[...]

Last year, Christine Mari Inzer ran a Kickstarter for the release of Kokoro, a book filled with her viral Instagram comics as well as new unreleased ones.

Mari enters an essay contest to get her town featured in a magazine, hoping it will bring more tourists to support the townspeople's struggling businesses— but it turns out that the writing contest is actually a campaign by a real estate developer to choose a town to be the home of a luxury resort!  However,[...]

Rotem Moscovich acquired the books while at Disney, and Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown will edit the series. Minh Lê's agent was Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Management Chan Chau's agent Molly O'Neill at Root Literary, and Jade Feng Lee's agent Kurestin Armada, also at Root Literary, negotiated the deal. In 2019, Little, Brown had the directive to expand[...]

A compilation of every announced graphic novel from a major publisher over the last year-and-a-half, arranged by which agent negotiated the deal – if they did The bookstore graphic novel market has been booming, and so many deals for 2022, 2023, and 2024 are being done through the lockdown and pandemic Speaking with many major[...]

Mel Hilario, Lauren Davis, and Katie Longua, the team behind Debian Perl, Digital Detective, have auctioned their latest graphic novel, Agent Cupcake, won by Grace Scheipeter at Oni Press Agent Cupcake is a middle-grade graphic novel about a 12-year-old Miguel Mangayayam who has always been obsessed with magical creatures, so he's thrilled when he's recruited[...]

Amina Mucciolo's as-yet-untitled graphic novel will be published in the summer of 2023 and her agent Melissa Edwards at Stonesong negotiated the deal for world rights. Amina Mucciolo merchandise PR shot. Amina Mucciolo hit headlines firstly when a hotel chain was accused of copying her interior designs, and then when a toy company was accused of creating a[...]

Kathy Macleod's agent Chad Luibl of Janklow & Nesbit Associates negotiated the deal for world rights. Kathy Macleod posted on Instagram, saying "I'm so excited to finally share this news! I'm working on a graphic novel about my childhood for @01firstsecond I'm so grateful to @cmluibl and to @paperrobyn for taking a chance on me based[...]

Their agent Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights. Shawn Pryor wrote middle-grade graphic novel series Cash and Carrie and sports graphic novel Force from Action Lab Entertainment, as well as Ignition, Nat Turner's Rebellion, several books for Capstone's Jake Maddox Sports, and Adventure series, and the Kids Sports series[...]