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The Marshfellows, is the debut middle-grade graphic novel by Anna-Laura Sullivan Something's fishy in Slumber City, and it's not the local half-gilled residents Elderly couple Marvin and Pearl join forces with an angsty orphan named Urchin to solve the city's dark mysteries and save its inhabitants from the Mayor's evil plans Picked up by Megan[...]

Alex Schumacher is pitching his middle-grade graphic novel The Ill-Effects of Pickled Herring, as Raina Telgemeier meets Jeff Kinney from a Jewish author-illustrator It follows the tumultuous year-long preparation for introverted 12-year-old Micah Gadsky and his outgoing sister Alana's joint B'nai Mitzvah (Bar and Bat mitzvah), as they struggle to make sense of family changes[...]

Their first First Second graphic novel was MAKER COMICS: Create a Costume! graphic novel, from First Second Books and they recently worked on a piece for the "Votes for Women" comic anthology from Little Red Bird Press, which was nominated for a Ringo Award (Best Anthology) You can see some of their other comic book work on their website[...]

As revealed at the Image Comics night at London Piccadilly's Waterstones bookstore yesterday, Zoe Thorogood of the graphic novel The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, and the series Joe Hill's Rain has a brand new thing for November It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth is an original graphic memoir that "records six months[...]

The Pander Brothers are returning to the world of their 2015 graphic novel GirlFIEND with a sequel graphic novel GirlFIEND in Paris: A Bloodthirsty Bedtime Story This original graphic novel is written in poetic verse from the vampire heroine Karina's perspective and includes a new GirlFIEND pin-up gallery. Pander Brothers' New Graphic Novel GirlFIEND In Paris, For[...]

Faraway: The Moon Festival, is the first book of a debut middle-grade graphic novel series by Jeremy Melloul and by Renan Nuche Faraway tells a story "about grief and living with loss, Corin, a young explorer hoping to discover a way into the Spirit World to find her lost brother, arrives in the town of[...]

Trung Le Nguyen has sold his new contemporary YA graphic novel Angelica and the Bear Prince to Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic Angelica and the Bear Prince tells the story of Angelica, " a 17-year-old overachieving high school student learning to rebalance herself after burning out When she commits herself to a theatre internship,[...]

Wombats! is the a debut early graphic novel by author-illustrator Maddie Frost, which tells the story of a wombat couple Albert and Pickles, and their friend Platters, tackle camping and face a Wholly Moon Beast The two Wombats! books that have been won at auction by Aneeka Kalia at Viking will be published in the spring of[...]

Dan Of Green Gables is a new YA graphic novel by Rey Terciero and Claudia Aguirre that gender flips the original Anne Of Green Gables, and tells the story of a queer, half-Mexican teenager named Dan who is forced to live with his grandparents in rural Tennessee when his mother abandons him With the help[...]

Gene Luen Yang is to write a series of YA graphic novels based on The Clash gaming franchise from Supercell The series title is The Books of Clash: Legendary Legends Legendarious Achievery, it has been picked up by Mark Siegel at First Second and the first of eight books will begin releasing in spring 2023[...]

Wolf's Class series, has sold a yet-untitled middle-grade graphic novel by Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix, to be published in the summer of 2024. Aron Nels Steinke's unnamed graphic novel will tell the story of a seventh-grader has a social anxiety disorder called selective mutism and does not speak at school; she starts to use her[...]

Ghost Circus by Adrienne Kress and Jade Zhang is their debut middle-grade graphic novel, about the story of a 12-year-old boy, a creepy ghost girl, an adorable poltergeist, and a group of spirited circus performers, as they spend one freaky night trying to evade the Headless Horseman and solve the mystery of the Ghost Circus. Adrienne Kress is the author[...]

Wake Now In The Fire, is a new graphic novel by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo based on Dapier's investigative reporting into school bans of another graphic novel, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi The story follows a group of Chicago high school students who take on the censors when Persepolis is banned from their school system. Jarrett Dapier was[...]

Stars in Their Eyes is a queer YA rom-com graphic novel by Jessica Walton and Aśka about two teens who meet at a fan convention, and—among crowds of cosplay and celebrity appearances—connect with each other in ways they never expected It has been picked up for publication in the spring of 2023 by Megan Peace at Scholastic/Graphix. [...]

Taka is the debut YA graphic novel by Harvey nominated Megaman artist Ryan Jampole which has been picked up by Megan Brown at IDW for publication in the spring of 2024 The graphic novel tells the story of  Taka, a notorious delinquent, who struggles to right her wrongs after unwittingly releasing a horde of evil[...]

Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer is a new middle-grade graphic novel, which has been successfully auctioned for publication in 2024 It will tell the story of two non-binary violists, one a virtuoso cracking under the pressure and the other a passionate novice, who meet at a summer orchestra camp As they help each other become better musicians, they[...]

Eisner Award-nominated author-illustrator Jason Walz has sold his new YA graphic novel, The Flip Side, which explores grief, depression, and mental health, packaged as a thriller, to Lauri Hornik at Rocky Pond Books The pain and sadness of losing his best friend to cancer has turned Theo's world upside down Literally Now he just needs[...]

Listen Along with Izzy McKenna by cartoonist Aubrey Nolan is her debut YA graphic novel. Listen Along with Izzy McKenna tells the story of 15-year-old Izzy McKenna who, having spent her life wrestling with anxiety and depression, finds herself uniquely equipped to save her seaside town of Port Juniper from an alien invasion[...]

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, the creative team behind Monstress, have sold their latest project, a three-volume graphic novel series The Night Eaters, to Abrams ComicArts And the first volume The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night already has an announced 100,000 print run.vMonstress has remained a strong seller for Image Comics, and the[...]

Banned Book Club creators Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada have signed a deal for their next project together, a new YA graphic novel series called No Rules Tonight, based on Hyun Sook's real-life experiences Pitched as Persepolis meets Love Actually, No Rules Tonight takes place in 1980s South Korea under the brutal Fifth Republic and follows a group of students as[...]

Bex Glendining is a British illustrator and comic book colourist, who now has her own debut YA graphic novel, Indigo Port, set to be published Indigo Port is the story of a young woman, Alex, struggling with the grief of losing her estranged grandmother While cleaning out her grandmother's apartment, the girl discovers there was[...]

The only comic book or graphic novel to be shortlisted in any category, published in the UK by Hodder Children's Books, and soon to be a Netflix series. The fourth instalment in the YA series works as a standalone, with the graphic format enabling new readers to dive into the lives of the characters Alice Oseman[...]

Author-illustrator Daniel Wiseman is making his author debut with Lunch Buddies, an early reader graphic novel series about a kid called Marco and his best friend, a talking sandwich Wiseman has previously illustrated 20 picture and board books with various major publishers One of which hit the top spot on the NYT bestseller list, The World[...]

This Halloween, Z2 Comics and Grammy-winning rock band Halestorm will be adapting the band's songs into comic books for the Hyde Manor graphic novel, described as "a harrowing descent into one woman's fight with the darkest parts of herself" as Halestorm seek refuge in the Hyde Manor—a sprawling gothic estate perched on the remote end of the Oregon Coast[...]

Author-illustrator Lucy Brown has sold her debut middle-grade graphic novel, The Nightwoods, and an additional untitled graphic novel, to Kate Meltzer at Roaring Brook The Nightwoods follows Flora, a lonely girl who lives in an antique shop at the edge of the woods When items from the shop start to go missing, she's drawn to[...]

Her light, joyful attitude is easily conveyed through her artwork, which covers a vast array of personal creations of her own to recognizable characters such as Avatar, The Last Airbender." Since then it has been a webcomic, and was recently Kickstartered into print, but has now been picked by Rebecca Taylor at the original graphic novel[...]

Comic book illustrator Corey Egbert has been signed to adapt and illustrate Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza four middle-grade novels into graphic novel form Originally published between 1998 and 2015, these novels about a middle-school boy surmounting challenges with ADHD and his off-the-wall family were National Book Award finalists and a Newbery Honor Awarded book Publication[...]

Judge Dredd by Mick McMahon Apex Edition is an upcoming deluxe limited edition collection of legendary 2000 AD artist Mick McMahon. His work will be

She deserves a long career illustrating graphic novels, as her work makes Black Mass Rising one of the classier-looking books in TKO Studio's catalogue. Black Mass Rising would have been better if it was shorter and more condense Instead, it wears out its welcome by being too slow, too long and appealing only to readers who[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the new DC Comics kids graphic novel My Buddy, Killer Croc written by Sara Farizan, and drawn by Nicoletta Baldari, to be published on the 30th of August 2022 And now that it has been featured in the new DC Comics solicitations, we can be the first to[...]