graphic novel Archives

Cosplay Famous by Asia Miller is their debut middle-grade graphic novel about an "anime-obsessed eighth grader who is bent on making it big in the cosplay world Her journey to cosplay fame takes a turn when she discovers a classmate's secret social media page with a massive online following." Mabel Hsu at Sourcebooks/Stonefruit Studios has[...]

The series focused on a high school reimagining of Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Katana, and Bumblebee, joined by  Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Star Sapphire, Beast Boy, Cheetah, Hawkgirl, and Catwoman, with Amanda Waller featured as the principal of Super Hero High. DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis was the first of many[...]

Leila Lives Again and Again is a new YA graphic novel by Sloane Leong and Leslie Hung, about a girl whose exciting new friend turns out to be bad news Calista Brill at First Second has bought world publishing rights to Leila Lives Again and Again, for publication in 2028, and Ivan Taurisano will edit[...]

Body Count is a YA graphic novel written by Andy Schlebecker, his husband David Chippendale and drawn by their friend V Vireak The story follows Noah and Kevin, a new college couple whose spring break road trip is derailed by a zombie apocalypse – leading the pair to find romance and revenge, confronting their homophobic[...]

Critically acclaimed cartoonist Katia Vecchio of Silver Vessels and Painted will make her Image Comics debut with the forthcoming original graphic novel, Memories of Giselle, a hard-hitting coming-of-age tale for July 2026. "As Memories of Giselle unfolds with quiet inevitability, a brother and sister move through the fragile terrain of a childhood marked by hidden abuse,[...]

Marc Craste's Picatopia is a new graphic novel he has been working on for years that grew out of Marc's original Bafta/Cartoon d'Or-winning short JoJo in the Stars And using AKA Studios' Realtime rendering with the Unreal Engine  The graphic novel is the first in a series about "two siblings as they make their way[...]

Perfect Season is a new YA graphic novel written by authors and filmmakers Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry and drawn by Fern Roberts Pitched as Friday Night Lights meets Scream, the book follows the new girl in town as she investigates the high school football team that would do anything to maintain their winning streak—including human sacrifice[...]

Next year sees a graphic novel adaptation of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries as The Princess Diaries: The Graphic Novel by Meg Cabot and Bethany Crandall, to be published in April 2026 by HarperAlley, who have given it a print run of 150,000 copies. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid[...]

Edgetown News is a new middle-grade graphic novel series by Adam Shaughnessy and Jacob Chabot This story follows a boy who moves in with his aunt in a sleepy, creepy New England town and begins documenting the many eerie happenings in an online blog, only to find that nothing in Edgetown News is as it[...]

Tales of Lake Eerie is a new middle-grade graphic novel series by David M Booher and Sarah Turner The first book follows three best friends who investigate strange happenings around their Lake Eerie small coastal town and try to unravel the mystery of a lake monster nobody in town believes exists[...]

Baby Teeth is a new fantasy graphic novel by Sarah Mensinga, creator of Kindred Dragons, pitched as Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet meets Luke Pearson's Hilda In the story, two rebel fairies steal the power source that hides their kind from humans – triggering a heist, a cover-up, and a queen's ultimatum. Charlotte Greenbaum at Abrams/Amulet has acquired[...]

The graphic novel adaptation of Princess Academy by the creators of the Diana: Princess of the Amazons series from DC Comics, Shannon Hale and Victoria Ying, is getting a 250,000 print run from Bloomsbury when it is published in April next year Which is more than those Wonder Woman graphic novels got The original Princess[...]

Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano, the creative team behind Illegal, Global and the Artemis Fowl graphic novels, are creating a new graphic novel, War, to be published by the publisher of the first two, Hachette Children's Group Harriet Wilson, fiction brands and classics publisher at HCG, acquired world rights in a deal made[...]

TOKYOPOP is expanding its print catalog as it announces it has licensed the girls' love manhwa series, Unnie, I Like You. The series, by creator Jeongussi, currently runs on WEBTOON and is set for a full-color graphic novel adaptation under the LoveLove imprint in 2026 The series is an acclaimed slice-of-life Girls Love series about two women[...]

Food and love are two great things that taste great togther, as discovered in Love Recipe, a new graphic novel by Myra Rose Nino about coming of age, grief, the growing pains of adolescence, and the recipes that make us who we are. Random House Lovely Recipe – Where Food and Romance Meet In this savory and sweet[...]

Scholastic has announced Snowlands: A Blood Moon, the first in a new series of graphic novels by Morr Meroz and Collin Fogel for young adults, a saga of animals forming a pack in the wilderness to survive and fight a force that threatens them all The creators originally self-published the story before Scholastic picked it[...]

Alongside independently publishing his own comics, Dan collaborates with author David Gaffney, producing the graphic novels The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head,  Rivers, and an as-yet-unannounced third book His interview podcast, Make It Then Tell Everybody, ran from 2012 to 2023, looking at the minds and methodologies of hundreds of artists at various stages of their careers[...]

Puffin Graphics announced the winner of the 2025 Puffin Graphic Novel Competition at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend: Lulubelle by Leo Marcell The Puffin Graphics Competition was launched in May this year with the aim of "seeking out and nurturing graphic novel creators from under-represented communities, to ensure every child can see themselves reflected[...]

Sophie Aldred, best known for playing Ace in Doctor Who, has lent her likeness for the Partheni, the cloned army of soldiers in the Salvation's Child original graphic novel Salvation's Child is the debut graphic novel written by science-fiction and fantasy writer Adrian Tchaikovsky, published by Comixology Originals and Cosmic Lighthouse, a new publishing company[...]

Joe Sacco's UK Launch for Once And Future Riot graphic journalism at Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival

Comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Melissa Villaseñor has created Cat and Lola, an early reader graphic novel series with Mexican artist Jimena Sánchez Sarquiz The series follows the "mismatched adventures of spunky, free-spirited Lola and her prim and proper cat, Cat, showing kids how friendship shines brightest when you embrace yourself, your differences—and[...]

A Quick And Easy Guide To Healthy Relationships, the latest in the Oni Press A Quick & Easy Guide graphic novel series, arrives on the 2nd of December, from cartoonist Mariah-Rose Marie (Cook Like Your Ancestors, Be Gay Do Comics) and hitting FOC for comic book stores this weekend… which is how Bleeding Cool has[...]

Emmy Award-winning animator Dan Krall has a debut middle-grade graphic novel series, The Adventures of Seraphina Strange, about young heiress Seraphina Strange, who, with the help of her loyal manservant Atherton, follows in her great-grandfather's footsteps to discover the world's rarest monsters as featured in myths from across the globe. Dan Krall is a storyboard artist, background designer, art[...]

Graphic novelist Christina L Chan's middle-grade graphic novel series, Alex Dweeby and the Wild Wetlands, tells the story of Alex Dweeby, a young nature lover determined to save his home and nearby wetlands from the town's pompous mayor and his destructive construction plans, who teams up with quirky, larger-than-life local wildlife to enter (and hopefully[...]

Timothy Schaffert, José Villarrubia, and Jean Frédéric Koné's graphic novel collaboration Easy To Love is a fictionalised portrait of pioneering queer Black cartoonist Matt Baker to be published in February 2027. Clarence Matthew Baker was an American comic book artist working in the forties and fifties on romance comics and on  Phantom Lady, influential on Dave Stevens[...]

Ink & Blood: Poetry and Power in the Lives of Emperor Li Yu and Chairman Mao is a new graphic novel written by Chun Yu and drawn by Sungyoon Choi The graphic novel tells the tale of the 10th-century Chinese emperor, whose dynasty collapsed due to his love of poetry, and the 20th-century Communist leader, who[...]

Comic book convention organiser and podcaster Andy Luke had a new video with Hannah Berry interviewing Darryl Cunningham about his new graphic novel, Elon Musk: American Oligarch, recorded at the Caption comic art festival in Oxford, both of which you may have read about on Bleeding Cool Posting it on YouTube, Luke planned to pay[...]

Drawn and Quarterly launches Woodchipper, a new graphic novel by Joe Ollmann, as well as the latest Fielder #4 by Kevin Huizenga, in Drawn & Quarterly's January 2026 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Woodchipper by Joe Ollmann Fielder[...]

Abrams Books launches second omnibus volumes for City Hunter and Cat's Eye, The Art Of Star Wars; The Acolyte and 50 Years Of Industrial Art And Magic art volumes, the first When Monsters Wake graphic novel, Children Of The Night, and Leo Rising by Archie Bongiovanni of A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns. #gallery-1[...]

Love Letters to the Dead, written by Ava Dellaira, and published in 25 territories, is to be adapted into a YA graphic novel with Dellaira and artist Talia Dutton This story about 15-year-old Laurel begins with an assignment for English class—write a letter to a dead person—and turns into an epistolary exploration of grief, family, friendship, and[...]