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Mille of the Manor, is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Karina Evans and Andrea Bell that follows 11-year-old Millie as she navigates her crushing social anxiety when she's invited to a murder mystery birthday party After an auction between five publishing houses, Andrew Arnold at HarperAlley got the world English rights to Mille of the[...]

He has written 140 books but until now never a graphic novel He has written shorter comics released as children's books before such as Red Ted and The Lost Things, and Send for a Superhero, but now Michael Rosen and artist Cole Henley have worked together to adapt Michael's 2005 kids novel You're Thinking About[...]

Netflix's series Heartstopper premiered on April 22nd with a fan base already behind it that came from those who had been reading the graphic novel of the same title from which it was adapted The graphic novels, with the fourth volume out now, are written by Alice Oseman with illustrations from her that closely connect to moments[...]

Michael Green has joined Marble Press as acquisitions editor for picture books, graphic novels, and middle grade He was previously president and publisher of Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers / Penguin Random House. He is most closely associated with The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, the Ranger's Apprentice novels by John Flanagan,[...]

Skybound Comet, the new original graphic novel imprint aimed at Young Adult (Ages 12+) and Middle Grade (Ages 8-12) audiences, today announced its star-studded lineup of all-new OGNs launching in Spring and Summer 2023 everywhere books are sold. #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: 0; } /* see[...]

The series of novels, Sweet Valley Twins is to be adapted as a series of graphic novels by Nicole Andelfinger and Claudia Aguirre. First published in 1986, the series was a spinoff of Pascal's series Sweet Valley High, a series of young adult novels credited to Francine Pascal, who ran a team of ghostwriters, about the[...]

They is a new middle-grade J-Pop graphic novel written by MariNaomi and drawn by Trung Le Nguyen "A chance befriending of two members of a popular nonbinary J-pop band They helps Yuko, long othered for being half Japanese in a mostly white school, learn to reconcile the two halves of her American and Japanese identity[...]

Scott Bryan Wilson and Madeline Corrette-Bennett are going to adapt the prose novel InterWorld as a middle-grade graphic novel, to be published by Rosemary Brosnan at Quill Tree Books in the winter of 2025. Scott Bryan Wilson is known for writing Trve Kvlt, Pennyworth, Batman: Gotham Nights, Altered Carbon and more Madeline Corrette-Bennett is a  senior[...]

The Good Boye Guild is a new middle-grade graphic novel by comic book creator  Megan McKay "This D&D-inspired dogs vs cats fantasy-adventure tells the origin story of the Guild, a band of pups on a quest to find the collar of the Rabid King from a figure known as the Regent, while an "evil" opponent—a[...]

Humanities 101 is Myisha Haynes' YA graphic novel about Hakeem, a boy who moves to a strange town with mysterious supernatural occurrences and falls in love with an alien She posted on Twitter "So happy to finally share what I've been working on for over a year! It's got it all: queer black kids, aliens,[...]

Corpse de Ballet is Megan Kearney's new YA graphic novel about two students at a private ballet academy who investigate the disappearance of another dancer, who they believe has been murdered, all while being haunted by an unseen force. Corpse de Ballet, Megan Kearney's New YA Graphic Novel For 2024 Megan Kearney is a Toronto-based cartoonist with a[...]

Graphic novelist Tillie Walden won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel Spinning, making her one of the youngest Eisner winners ever She has published five graphic novels with Avery Hill Publishing and First Second as well as the Eisner nominated webcomic On a Sunbeam She works as a professor[...]

On Guard, a semi-autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel from debut author-illustrator Kay Rose about a 12-year-old Grace as she navigates her rocky relationship with her mother after her parents' messy divorce and finds her people through the fencing club after going through a brutal friendship breakup It has been bought by Shana Corey at Random House in[...]

The Night Mother is a new middle-grade graphic novel trilogy by Jeremy Lambert and Alexa Sharpe,  "when the Night Mother casts her town in perpetual night to sap the souls of the living, it's up to the girl who lives in the graveyard to stop her." Bought by Oni Press, The Night Mother Book[...]

Hello Sunshine is a new upcoming YA graphic novel by Keezy Young ab0ut a boy in search of his boyfriend "When Noah returns from a summer at church camp, he is shocked to discover that his (secret) boyfriend Alex has gone missing Now Noah must now enlist the help of an unlikely team of worried[...]

Deadman Tells The Spooky Tales is a Hallowe'en-timed DC Comics graphic anthology with middle-grade Hallowe'en audiences in mind. And here's a look inside

A Little Princess is a new graphic novel adaptation by Ivy Noelle Weir and Melanie Kim "Although she is far away from her home in South Korea, military child Sara Crewe makes friends with ease at her new boarding school in Los Angeles However, she struggles to get into the good graces of the school's[...]

Noodle and Bao, is the debut middle-grade graphic novel by author-illustrator Shaina Lu An ode to Chinatowns everywhere, this book follows one girl's plan to save her community from gentrification when a hip new cafe threatens the livelihood of her favourite humble food cart, with an untitled middle-grade graphic novel to follow". Shaina Lu auctioned Noodle[...]

The Legion of Forgettable Supervillains is a new kids' graphic novel written by J.E Bright of Batman & Robin Adventures, Wonder Woman: The Way of the Amazons and drawn by… well that's a thing Publisher Dynamite Entertainment and Curiosity Ink Media credit it to ComicUp! Which sent me down a google rabbit hole[...]

Constantine: Distorted Illusions takes John Constantine, as created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch, back to his punk rocker days as established by Jamie Delano, of the band Mucous Membrane but, for the purposes of the upcoming YA graphic novel, has been transposed from Liverpool and London to Washington, D.C Apparently, he has[...]

She has now negotiated a deal as a debut writer for The Dark Room,  an upcoming YA horror graphic novel series drawn by Savanna Ganucheau of Bloom fame The Dark Room is about a young photographer named Mina whose interest in a mysterious shipwreck brings her into the dark orbit of Raf, the brooding new kid who[...]

Right to Left by Coco Fox, is a new middle-grade graphic novel memoir debut about a sixth-grader who's determined to make friends on her school's basketball team—even after she breaks her dominant right hand and is forced to play with her left. After it was announced on Publisher;'s Weekly, Coco posted to Instagram saying "Wahoo! @harperalley acquired my[...]

When the Stars Came Home is a new graphic novel for next year by Dr Brittany Luby and Natasha Donovan about an Anishinaabe child's feelings of homesickness after moving to the city, and his parents' ingenious projects that strive to make the city feel like home. Dr Brittany Luby of Anishinaabe descent is the author of[...]

The Hollow is a new YA horror graphic novel by Che Grayson and Taylor Keith The Hollow is set in the Great Smoky Mountains, follows Ruby James, a young podcaster who takes a trip with her three best friends to her ancestral home, the mysterious ghost town of Cure, where urban legends are real and[...]

And I brought a few friends along with me for the ride" says FairSquare Comics publisher and We Can Funk contributor Fabrice Sopolsky. The We Can Funk Kickstarter campaign comes with a B-Side, a companion cookbook inspired by legends of Funk: The Funky Cookbook, inspired by these legends of funk, created by French chef and funk fanatic Sarah Benlolo[...]

The Firelight Apprentice in the new middle-grade graphic novel by Bree Paulsen, creator of Garlic And The Vampire The Firelight Apprentice is about a girl whose older sister hesitantly allows her to take an apprenticeship with a duo of magicians to help her control her own magic, until rumours of a dangerous lich begin to run[...]

Earth to Chris Cleevy! is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Christof Bogacs and Hannah Krieger about the life of 11-year-old Chris as he navigates the emergence of his OCD alongside meeting his mother's new boyfriend, Phil—who Chris is convinced is an alien in disguise Christof Bogacs tweeted out "So excited to be able to[...]

Self-Made Hero continues its line of award-winning international graphic novels that we might not otherwise hear about with Days of Sand, the award-winning depiction of the American dustbowl by Aimée de Jongh that has sold over 40,000 copies in France and won multiple awards. "Days of Sand" cover art, SelfMadeHero. Days of Sand won the Best of[...]

And in lockdown, has created and published three graphic novels that translate the works of William Shakespeare into the events and landscape of nineteen seventies Great Britain He created a bunch of pop star colouring books He has put on comic book conventions, with his Bristol shows taking over in the UK comic national landscape between[...]

Knuckle Jones is a new graphic novel series of mysteries The first book, Bog Gone!, follows Finder, a young frog and aspiring detective, and her friends as they investigate why everyone in the bog has mysteriously gone missing, while self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Detective" Seymour Warts stumbles along in comical attempts to solve the case. Husband and[...]