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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[...]

Kelsey Wroten's agent Edward Maxwell at Sanford J Greenburger Associates negotiated the deal for world English rights. 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 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypold, and currently, the[...]

Their agent Claire Draper at the Bent Agency negotiated the deal for world rights. DC SuperHero Girls Team Reunite On Kenzie's Kingdom From Vault Shea Fontana is the showrunner for Monster High series for Nickelodeon and Mattel and is known for writing DC Super Hero Girls movies, TV shows, and comics, animated shorts, as well as Polly[...]

She didn't use an agent but represented herself. Blue Bronco Books Jr is the early-reader-grade imprint of The Little Press, a traditional publisher based in New Jersey, specializing in books that promote the social & emotional well-being of our youth They state that their books are intended to help children navigate through the often uncertain and[...]

)" Sylvia Bi tweeted out "TRULY cannot wait to share more of this amazing world with y'all (but get ready for loads of glorious crowd shots and the smashing of the patriarchy)" Marieke Nijkamp's agent Suzie Townsend at New Leaf Literary & Media and Sylvia Bi's agent Natascha Morris at Tobias Literary Agency negotiated the deal[...]

Rather than using agents, the authors represented themselves. New Graphic Novel Unicons by Smallville's Daniel Sulzberg & Neil Sadhu Blue Bronco Books the middle-grade imprint of of The Little Press, a traditional publisher based in New Jersey, specializing in books that promote the social & emotional well-being of our youth Their books help children navigate through the[...]

Lora Merriman's agent Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary did the six-figure deal for world English rights. 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 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypold and currently, the company[...]

Macmillan was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994, and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for children's books in the 2000s. Sachi Ediriweera's agent, Gordon Warnock at Fuse Literary negotiated the deal for world English rights Fuse Literary is a full service literary agency based in the Silicon Valley, with offices[...]

The Greater Good is a new graphic novel written by Whit Taylor, with art by Joyce Rice about “public health and the policy and infrastructure that

Claire Easton began her publishing career at Painted Words in 2012 as an assistant and worked her way up to Agent She is currently seeking picture book submissions from author-illustrators She loves stories with humor and heart, relatable characters, unpredictable endings, and books that reflect the diversity of children's experiences. Josh Crute and James Rey[...]

Cassandra Federman's agent Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary did the deal for world rights. Princess Sparklepuff & Her Crew of Lady Pirates by Cassandra Federman Cassandra Federman writes "I've been a huge comic nerd since childhood and now I get to make a GN for kids just like me! Thank you to my agent, @marchsoloway[...]

Blood City Rollers is the debut graphic novel from writer/artist team Veronica Park Anderson and Tatiana Hill. Pitched as a tween Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mel Valentine Vargas' agent Elizabeth Bennett at Transatlantic Agency brokered the deal for world rights, and Jen Rofé at Andrea Brown Literary represented Meg Medina. Candlewick Press was founded in Massachusetts in 1991, and calls itself "the world's leading creatively led independent publisher of books and content for children today." Their imprintWalker Books US launched in[...]

Emma Hunsinger's agent Molly O'Neill at Root Literary brokered the two-book deal for world English rights. How To Draw A Horse by Emma Hunsinger Martha Milhalick tweeted out the news, saying "Alert alert! You are going to NEED this book in your life! I am SO THRILLED to be working with @edhunsinger on it and can't wait[...]

Knopf Books for Young Readers is an imprint of Random House Children's Books and Rotem Moscovich is its Editorial Director, after previously working at Disney Hyperion. Lauren Stohler Sells Three Early Reader Graphic Novels, Gnome And Rat Lauren Stohler's agent, Thao Le of Sandra Dijkstra & Associates brokered the three-book deal Thao represents picture books and graphic[...]

Chronicle Books will publish Milk Tea Magic in the spring of 2024 and the authors represented themselves rather than use an agent. Kat Yao, Tiffany Mau and Maureen Kang have sold their new Graphic Novel, Milk Tea Magic, to Chronicle Books Tiffany Mau with a BA in Communication and Media Studies & Psychology from UC Berkeley, and[...]

Joshua Ulrich's agent, Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary, handled the deal for world rights. Joshua Ulrich is the creator of the Webtoon series Newman, a descendant of the first comics he ever created 15 years ago, and the WebToon series Jackie Rose. Razorbill is an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, and is dedicated to publishing the[...]

Sarah Mai's agent's Claire Easton and Lori Nowicki at Painted Words, negotiated the deal. Illustrative work by Sarah Mai Sarah Mai is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she developed a passion for graphic novels She is also drawing[...]

Feiwel and Friends is defined and guided by our principle: Our books are friends for life." Scout Hunderhill's agent, the very influential Britt Siess at Britt Siess Creative Management sold North American rights in the two-book deal Siess set up her own agency, Britt Siess Creative Management, in 2020, a Seattle-based full-service literary agency with an[...]

Eunnie's agent, Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary did the two-book deal for world rights. Sapphic Rom-Com Graphic Novel, If You'll Have Me, Sells For 6 Figures Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House It was founded in New York City on March 1,[...]