graphic novel Archives

We Walked in Clouds is a YA graphic novel written by Deborah Noyes and M Duffy, an interpretation of the 1692 Salem witch trials based on primary source documents, "a graphic-novel telling of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, creating a narrative out of the historical context and what we can imagine of those accused." World rights to[...]

Quinnelope is a graphic novel series co-created by Kayla Coombs and HF Brownfield and "follows three friends, Quinnelope, Bub, and Star, who live in Pleasant Towne and join in a series of colorful and imaginative adventures." Grace Scheipeter at Oni Press has bought world English-language rights for the first three volumes of the series and the[...]

Michelle Wong has just sold her debut YA graphic novel, Terminal Hope, at auction to Kiara Valdez at First Second "For fans of Marissa Meyer and Marie Lu, about an orphaned teen who must team up with a rogue android to survive the underbelly of mankind's last remaining sanctuary and thwart city enforcers when he[...]

Dracula's Brunch Club is a debut middle-grade graphic novel by Brian Gonsar and Keenan Gaybba "In this origin story of why vampires crave blood, Count Dracula risks losing his prized brunch club when all the jelly in the land mysteriously disappears, robbing the vampires of his famous energy-giving, blood orange jelly donuts". Grace Scheipeter at Oni[...]

Abrams' Amulet Books imprint has picked up rights to publish graphic novels based on old Nickelodeon kids horror TV series Are You Afraid of the Dark? The original series ran on Nickelodeon from 1992 to 1996 Though has been revived a couple of times since, in 1999 and then again in 2019. Publisher's Weekly quote Anne[...]

Jeff Smith has signed a deal with David Saylor and Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix for a new Bone graphic novel to be published in the autumn of 2023  Bone: More Tall Tales is to be a graphic anthology of stories written by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski, and drawn by Jeff Smith, Stan Sakai, Katie[...]

Welcome to Dandelion Port is the debut graphic novel by Lily Joiner "It tells the tale of a feline fortune-teller who uses cursed tarot cards on a mysterious canine traveller binding their fates together in the absurd city of Dandelion Port". #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:[...]

Dan Watters and Ario Murti are creating a new graphic novel and boardgame with the Swedish heavy metal band, The Great Heathen Army from Z2 Comics Amon Amarth: The Great Heathen Army is a new graphic novel and board game collaboration based on the band's last album of the same name. Channeling the thunderous epic poem[...]

Turning Twelve by Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks is a semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel and sequel to their previous hit Growing Pangs from May 2022 Turning Twelve "tells the story of homeschooled Katie; it's 2004 and turning 12 brings big changes for Katie—bras, her period, her first babysitting job, and the realization that she has a crush on a[...]

The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang is an upper middle-grade graphic novel by comic book creator Stan Yan, pitched as Turning Red meets Goosebumps "Eugenia's party has never been celebrated on her actual birthday, April 4, because of Mom's belief in the Chinese superstition that four is an unlucky number, which Eugenia thinks is ridiculous[...]

Author-illustrator Adam Foreman's Slice of Mallow, is to be a young middle-grade graphic novel series based on his Webtoon and Instagram webcomic of the same name, about an excitable but pessimistic marshmallow who has slice-of-life adventures with his friends Pizza, Doughnut, Potato, and Ghost. Erinn Pascal at Andrews McMeel has acquired world rights to Slice of Mallow, to[...]

Goat Magic is a graphic novel by Washington Post and The Nib cartoonist Kate Wheeler, pitched for fans of Wolfwalkers and Mooncakes, about two girls on an adventure—one a reluctant goatherd, the other a goat who happens to be an enchanted princess—and how their friendship blossoms into something more amid treachery against the throne. Trill is a young herder with a gift for goat[...]

#FakePitMad" Comic book artist Sean Rubin replied "I wouldn't not illustrate this?" Elyse replied herself, saying, "Ha, world's most esoteric children's picture book, or graphic novel interspersed with sudden illuminated manuscript pages?" Sean Rubin answered, "My usual approach is… both?" Now renamed Copy Cat by Elyse Martin and Sean Rubin, it is a new middle-grade graphic novel set during[...]

A brand new original graphic novel Carrie Vaughan is writing, and Renae DeLiz is drawing George R R Martin Presents Wild Cards: Now and Then, being published by Bantam on the 25th of July, 2023. George R R Martin Presents Wild Cards: Now and Then A Graphic Novel by Carrie Vaughn and Renae DeLiz Two heroes revisit[...]

Frank Marraffino and Ryan Dunlavey are creating a new graphic novel with the late Chris Farley's brother Kevin Farley, telling the story of Chris Farley's childhood, Growing Up Farley from their performances together at Red Arrow Camp to sets at the Arc Theatre in Wisconsin, all the way to improv club The Second City in[...]

Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler is a new middle-grade graphic novel written by Michael Northrop, author of the TombQuest series and YA novels, Gentlemen, Trapped, and Rotten He also wrote the DC MG graphic novels Dear Justice League, Dear DC Super-Villains, and Teen Titans Go! Undead And it is drawn by Sam Lotfi, artist on[...]

Clark & Lex is a new middle-grade graphic novel being published by DC Comics out on the 1st of August 2023, by  Brendan Reichs , author of the Project Nemesis, Darkdeep and Virals novel series, and Jerry Gaylord, artist on artist on Fanboy Vs Zombies, Bill & Ted and Loki: Ragnarok & Roll Telling the[...]

Crow Girl, a new middle-grade graphic novel, has been sold at auction by its author Charlotte Woo for six-figures. Chris Hernandez at Razorbill won the auction and Crow Girl, which Charlotte has been working on since 2019, is planned to be published in the spring of 2025. Crow Girl is described as having echoes of Studio Ghibli,[...]

In 2019, Dynamite Entertainment published a Sweet Valley High graphic novel, based on the popular YA novels of the same name Originally announced in 2016, written by Katy Rex and drawn by Devaki Neogi, it was meant to be the first in a series of such volumes, but it was not to be In the[...]

Announced in 2019, DC Comics' middle-grade graphic novel starring an original character Primer, returns next year, in a second volume which sees her trying out to be in the Teen Titans Primer: Clashing Colors, will be published in comic book shops and bookstores on the 5th of September 5, 2023. Primer Tries to Join Teen Titans[...]

Dark Horse Comics is to publish a new graphic novel, The Rock Gods of Jackson Tennessee by Rafer Roberts, Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua and Crank! Rafer Roberts & Mike Norton Creates The Rock Gods Of Jackson Tennessee The heartwarming coming-of-age tale of four high school outcasts who start a band to gain fame and popularity…but have to[...]

Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II by VC/Private Equity advisor for FinTech Ralph Shayne and Danish psychologist and comic artist Tatiana Goldberg, is a new middle-grade graphic novel in association with the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During[...]

"From resistance against colonialism to the fight for independence and the self-determination to make a life in an almost stateless place, Postcards From Congo depicts how the Congolese people have resisted and survived in order to take control of their lives and the country they call home." And it is done in a style that[...]

Last summer, cartoonist Ira Marcks saw his debut graphic novel Shark Summer, a middle-grade book inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie Jaws. Today has seen him take that inspiration further with Spirit Week, a graphic novel based on Stanley Kubrick's movie interpretation of Stephen King's The Shining And yes, it's still a middle-grade graphic novel, aimed[...]

Abrams ComicArts is to translate and publish The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World  in hardcover by Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée and Denis Rodier to be published in July next year. Didier Alcante is the French comic book creator of Pandora Box. Laurent-Frédéric Bollée is a French  journalist and writer of forty graphic novels, including for[...]

Past Tense is a new graphic novel by Jason McNamara, Alberto Massaggia and Paul Little coming next year from Dark Horse Comics "Ashley is a tour guide at PAST TENSE, a company that sends camera drones into the past to view history's most depraved events When Ashley discovers Silas Green, an unknown serial killer working[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition has come out from Oni Press. Initially marketed toward older audiences, winning an American Library Association Award in 2020 for "books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new edition comes out from Oni Press. The Cowboy State Daily reports that a meeting of the Natrona County School Board in Casper, Wyoming, saw police step in after a substitute teacher was called a[...]

Sarah Mensinga has sold her new graphic novel Kindred Serpents to Charlotte Greenbaum at Abrams for six figures Pitched as Wings of Fire meets Nimona,  Kindred Serpents is a graphic novel about a girl who longs for a dragon of her own, but instead helps an elderly dragon reunite with his lost human and discovers her unique calling along the[...]

Drawn to Change the World is a middle-grade nonfiction graphic novel anthology written by #KidLit4Climate founder Emma Reynolds of Amara and the Bats This book features profiles of 16 youth climate activists who have been campaigning for change all over the world And each profile is drawn by a different artist or artist teams, Derick Brooks,[...]