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Noha Habaieb is a Tunisian artist and cartoonist who studied graphic design at the Arts et Métiers de Sfax in Tunisia and then in comics at the Saint Luc Liège school in Belgium, created the comics magazine Lab619 in 2013, and the Arabicity cards. Representative art by Noha Habaieb from Instagram Rosie Ahmed at Dial has bought[...]

And now Lucky Scramble! Nancy Mercado at Dial has bought North American publishing rights to Lucky Scramble, from Peter Raymundo's agent Daniel Lazar at Writers House to be published in the autumn of 2023. Dial is an imprint owned by Penguin Books USA (but then again, isn't everyone these days?) and which publishes books for children young and old[...]

The world English rights to this supernatural romance OGN have been picked up by Michelle Lee at Dial Books. Circe Moskowitz & Caleb Hosalla, via Dial Books PR Originally pitched as Schitt's Creek meets HGTV, Black vampire Theo trades in the city and her coven for a quiet, New England inn only to find it more rundown[...]

Huda Fahmy, creator of webcomic @YesImHotInThis on Instagram is publishing a new YA graphic novel, after auctioning it to publishers Dial Books Huda F Are You? is described as being loosely inspired by Fahmy's own high school years, follows Huda through her first year of high school in Dearborn, Michigan, where she's just one of many hijabi[...]

Again based on real events, this will follow an older Chang as she saves an elephant forced to work in the logging and tourism industries for 50 years. Macmillan Picks Up Trang Nguyen & Jeet Zdung Non-Fiction Graphic Novels Russell McLean, the publisher at Kingfisher, bought world rights excluding Vietnam, and in all languages excluding Vietnamese, from[...]

ADHD Alien is a webcomic by comic book creator and animation visual development artist, Pina Varnel which has now been picked up by Lauri Hornik at Dial as a debut YA graphic novel Won at auction, ADHD Alien follows a girl with ADHD during the pivotal summer when she gets diagnosed and finally makes sense of[...]

Cabaret Macabre is a new graphic novel by Mercedes Acosta that has been bought at auction by Kate Harrison at publisher Dial Cabaret Macabre is set in a New Orleans rich with magical realism and characters inspired by legends around the world, with a supernatural family drama that features 13-year-old Kara, who discovers that a troupe[...]

Cartoon Pedro Martin has sold his middle grade-graphic memoir Mexkid to Kate Harrison at Dial "Recounting the winter that Pedro's family piled into a Winnebago and drove down to a small town near Guadalajara with a mission—bring their Abuelito back to America—the memoir is a family story going back generations to the Mexican Revolution in[...]

Huda Fahmy, creator of webcomic @YesImHotInThis on Instagram has successfully auctioned Huda F Are You?, a new YA graphic novel, for six figures to Dana Chidiac at Dial for publication in the autumn of this year, Huda F Are You? is described as being loosely inspired by Fahmy's own high school years, follows Huda through her[...]

Lebanese comics artist and teacher Fouad Mezher has a new debut YA graphic novel, Suraya, for publication in 2024 from Dana Chidiac at Dial, acquired at auction,  Suraya is set in post-pandemic Beirut, with a 16-year-old physics prodigy and YouTube star dreaming of becoming a rocket scientist, only for her dreams to be interrupted when[...]

Now, it's time to move forward into new projects, and I'm open to new opportunities."   But now it has been announced that Nancy Mercado at publishing house Dial has acquired, at auction, Raise The Bar! as a middle-grade graphic novel In which Sam dreams of becoming Chile's first Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting and leaves home to[...]