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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[...]

The Transformation of Noah Mendez, a YA graphic novel by Kevin Casas and Ria Martinez, is about a guy who is struggling with high school, liking his best friend, and being a newly turned werewolf. Kiara Valdez, while at First Second, acquired world rights to The Transformation of Noah Mendez. Ivan Taurisano will edit, and publication is scheduled for[...]

Back in 2021, Bleeding Cool reported that the author-illustration team Dan and Jason, behind the Blue, Barry & Pancakes series and creators of Rocket Monkeys, had come up with a hell of a hook for the middle-grade graphic novel series Barb The Berzerker, beginning with Barb the Brave and they were pitching it as She-Ra and the Princesses of Power meets Dav Pilkey's Dog Man[...]

Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD, are launching a new all-ages graphic novel, Peaches' Creatures, a comedy monster heist story.

Science Comics: Computers: How Digital Hardware Works published by First Second tomorrow, gets a 50,000 print run

The graphic novel debut of up-and-coming comic book creator Michèle Fischels, is to be published next year by Oni Press Outline, following a group of teens in their senior year of high school, will "portray that special yet human phase in which we cautiously leave childhood behind and look to the future with uncertainty and[...]

Comic book journalist Camila Kerwin's new non-fiction graphic novel Soft Targets: On Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire is to be published by Street Noise Books in the summer of 2026. The debut work of graphic journalism "unpacks the history of American gun culture and legislation to analyse how guns became[...]

Blythe Russo has auctioned the publishing rights to their debut original graphic novel series, Dessert Island, won by Charlotte Greenbaum at Abrams Fanfare Dessert Island "channels a supportive warmth reminiscent of The Great British Bake-Off, as a young accidental hotelier begins to crumble under the pressure of trying to run his great-grandmother's famed island inn,[...]

Guilherme Petreca and Mirtes Santana are creating a new graphic novel, Superpunk, coming out from Oni Press in May 2026, and based on a zine published by Petreca in 2017, inspired by his preadolescence, when he walked around with his Walkman and believed in invisible monsters It tells the story of a thirteen-year-old podcaster/skateboarder named[...]

Toonimated's wildy popular Webtoon is now in print for with a never-before-seen short story! For fans of Anatomy: A Love Story and Lore Olympus comes a graphic novel romantasy about the love triangle between a necromancer, a resurrected bride, and her very-much-alive groom In the city of San Guadario, necromancy has been banned for one hundred[...]

Chris Hazeldine is currently drawing The Island With No Name for Phoenix Comics Weekly and, as Brotacon, is the creator of Golf Girl and The Templars of the Shifting Verse from Webtoon. And together Ed Caruana and Chris Hazeldine fight crime have sold off the world rights to their upcoming middle-grade graphic novel series, Star Breakers,[...]

The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair by Max Brallier and Douglas Holgate is the latest in a series of graphic novels published by Viking Press It will have a 250,000-copy print run when it is published in November We have a preview of the book below. The Last Kids On Earth And The Destructor's Lair The Last Kids[...]

Penguin Books has announced two Young Adult graphic novels for Halloween as part of their celebration of the spooky season: the graphic novel adaptation of the popular Witches of Brooklyn YA series and the LGBTQ YA horror graphic novel Cry Out Loud. Penguin Books Witches of Brooklyn: Curse and Reverse by Sophie Escabasse On sale 9th September Everyone's favorite[...]

The graphic novel Besties: Set Sail by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino and Kristina Luu, part of the World Of Click graphic novel run, has just got a 100,000 print run from Clarion, ahead of its 11th of November release. Besties: Set Sail by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino and Kristina Luu, Besties: Set Sail by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey[...]