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X-Men and Star Wars star Oscar Isaac announced at San Diego Comic-Con@Home 2020, a new graphic novel he'd been developing, Head Wounds: Sparrow A project that had come from Isaac, Bob Johnson and John Alvey, who have been friends since childhood, and was inspired by a dream of Johnson's that came following his diagnosis with[...]

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star is a new original YA graphic novel from DC Comics, the existence of which Bleeding Cool scooped when it was to be written by Jadzia Axelrod and Cait Zellers – though the artist was later switched to Jess Taylor, that was solicited thus, after Bleeding Cool also scooped a first look[...]

Debut comic creator and animation director Sabrina Cotugno has auctioned off their YA graphic novel, The Glass Scientists, based on their webcomic of the same name, for a whopping six figures Not bad for a first book off the block The Glass Scientists was picked up by Chris Hernandez at Razorbill, as an ongoing Gaslamp Fantasy[...]

Into the Bewilderness: The Short-Sighted Adventures Of Luis & Pablo is the debut graphic novel by Gus Gordon (Herman and Rosie), the short-sighted adventure of a bear named Luis and a mole named Pablo who inexplicably receive Broadway tickets and venture bravely into the unknown of the city on a journey dotted with surprises, nonsensical revelations and silly[...]

The graphic novel memoir about Snyder's life between age eight and ten, when she believed in fairies and hunted for them constantly, though everyone told her they weren't real At eight, Laurel wasn't sure what "real" was anymore—not her parents' disintegrating marriage, and not the flashes of light and colour that swirled around her, that[...]

Scholar's Mate is a new YA graphic novel by Chris Kindred and Coleman Engle about the valedictorian at a science and tech high school who discovers a passion for competitive chess in his senior year, putting him into conflict with his parents' plans for his future Kiara Valdez at First Second has bought publishing rights to the graphic[...]

ABLAZE will be publishing two graphic novels by award-winning Filipino creator Manuel Luis "Manix" Abrera, starting with the release of his acclaimed book, "12" on June 28th Then his 2nd wordless comic anthology of supernatural stories, "14", which won the Philippines National Book Award on September 27th These graphic novels push the boundaries of wordless[...]

Jose Pimienta, creator of the graphic novel Suncatcher and the upcoming graphic novel Twin Cities is also creating a new middle grade contemporary graphic novel, Halfway to Somewhere And it has been picked up by the legendary Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic And if editorial ever gets round to approving the Bleeding Cool Power[...]

Skip! is a middle-grade graphic novel by British debut author-illustrator Sarah Burgess, pitched as Raina Telgemeier meets slice-of-life manga, and has been picked up by Erinn Pascal at Andrews McMeel The comic tells the story of anxious poet Jay who joins a Double Dutch team and uses their rhymes to navigate complicated feelings surrounding their[...]

Cai Tse, a professional lion dancer as well as a cartoonist, has sold her debut middle grade graphic novel, Lion Dancers, to Celia Lee at Simon & Schuster's Simon KIDS imprint Lion Dancers, tells the story of the cultural ancestry of Chinese lion dance and its traditions, told through the lens of a pair of former best[...]

Charley Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides, writer/producers of Immortals and Blood of Zeus, have hired screenwriter Dan Gordon and writer/artist John Stanisci to develop a new property based on the bloody gladiator battles of first-century Rome with Gladiatrix, in simultaneous development as an original graphic novel and television series And Bleeding Cool gets a look inside[...]

Brian Bendis has announced his new multiple-graphic novel series drawn by André Lima Araújo and coloured by Chris O'Halloran from proper book publisher Abrams ComicArts called Phenomena, beginning with the first book Phenomena: The Golden City Of Eyes, and be published on the 13th of September in hardcover. "Everyone tells you [...]

And Jim Broadbent's graphic novel made only a very attractive ripple in a small puddle So where will Jamie Lee Curtis' entrance into graphic novels and comic books, Mother Nature , land?  Jamie Lee Curtis Does A Keanu Reeves With New Graphic Novel, Mother Nature Mother Nature is a new eco-horror by Jamie Lee Curtis, co-written with[...]

As Maus by Art Spiegelman became the best selling graphic novel in the USA forty years after release, even one of the best-selling books overall, after one small school board decided to take it off the literature curriculum over concerns expressed by parents, so media and public interest in the book has soared The first[...]

But will it come out from Boom at all? Random House Graphic Grabs Afrofuturist Manga Kudzu From Boom Studios I only ask because Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic has acquired world rights to Dustin Bolton's Kudzu as a middle-grade sci-fi fantasy graphic novel trilogy series And states that the first volume will be published in 2024[...]

Hear that guitar riff; it's another rock bio graphic novel coming on the horizon Hendrix: Electric Requiem is a new biography of the late, great Jimi Hendrix by Mattia Colombara and Gianluca Maconi coming out on May 18th. HENDRIX: ELECTRIC REQUIEM, by Mattia Colombara and Gianluca Maconi • MSRP: $24.99 Release Date: May 18th Hendrix: Electric Requiem explores[...]

Gung Ho is another entry in Young Adult post-apocalyptic fiction, this time from European creators Benjamin von Eckhartsberg and Thomas von Kummant in the

Ryan Utterback was in the news last year, campaigning for the North Kansas City School District to remove gay-themed books from school libraries, including the graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel But it has now been reported by local media that in December, he was charged over allegations of child molestation and domestic assault[...]

Diana, Princess Of The Amazons by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Victoria Ying has been a hit kids graphic novel for DC Comics, and to that degree later this year, they are publishing the sequel, introducing a familiar DC Comics Wonder Woman character to the mix, in Diana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons. DC To[...]

Vicky Fang, former Google product designer and author of the Layla and the Bots and the Friendbots series, has sold her latest illustrated chapter book/graphic novel hybrid series Ava Lin to Sarah Ketchersid at Candlewick after receiving multiple offers Ava Lin features an optimistic and creative six-year-old Chinese American girl with a knack for getting[...]

Bleeding Cool was the only comic book press invited to the launch of Balmain Dreams 10:OR, a high-end boutique graphic novel anthology created by French fashion house Balmain, its Creative Director Olivier Rousteing, Z2 Comics and a number of major comic book creators including Colleen Doran, David Mack, Dani, Alitha E Martinez and Bengal This[...]

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy is a new romantic YA graphic novel about a hotheaded hockey player who falls for the cool, calm boy in drama club, written and illustrated by Eisner winner Faith Erin Hicks Bought by Calista Brill at First Second, Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy will be published in 2023[...]

Team Trash: A Time Traveler's Guide to Sustainability is a new graphic novel written and drawn by Kate Wheeler and co-written by Trent Huntington To be published as part of the Books for a Better Earth program, the graphic novel features science fair partners whose project about trash and recycling brings them up close and[...]

As well as Todd McFarlane getting a double, James Tynion IV saw The Department of Truth Volume 1 from, Image as the year's most ordered graphic novel as well as House Of Slaughter doing so well Indeed two volumes of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Something Is Killing the Children from Boom Studios placed in the year's top ten. However, as we previously noted,[...]

Secret of Athria: The Inventor's Eye, a new graphic novel by Brandon Hoàng and Kevin Hong has been sold to IDW Publishing as the first in a series. Brandon Hoàng is best known as writer of The Ghost & Molly McGee and the upcoming Gloria Buenrostro Is Not My Girlfriend Kevin Hong is a Korean-American illustrator[...]

Taki's Belt by Fumio Obata is a new middle-grade contemporary graphic novel about a boy named Taki who takes up martial arts lessons when his classmates begin bullying him But when things start to get out of hand and new friendships are on the line, Taki must figure out what strength truly mean[...]

is a young reader graphic novel series, pitched as Strange Planet meets The Investigators Marshmallow Martians follows a group of Martian friends and their misadventures as they travel to Earth and discover weird, wacky, and wonderful things Heidi Kilgras at Random House has acquired world rights to three titles and the publication of the first book, Show[...]

Accomplished author & social commentator Roxane Gay is set to adapt her graphic novel The Banks for a television series take, alongside TKO Studios and New Regency Written by Gay and illustrated by Ming Doyle, the work focuses on the women of the Banks family who are the most successful thieves in Chicago But during[...]

Of course, she would make the transition from games to comics and is now the main character of her own graphic novel series. "Clementine Book One" cover art from Image/Skybound Image/Skybound unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming Skybound Comet release Clementine Book One, the new Young Adult graphic novel from award-winning writer/artist Tillie Walden (Spinning, On A[...]

Gender Queer: A Memoir is a graphic novel by Maia Kobabe, first published by Lion Forge in 2019 and now republished from Oni Press But in recent weeks it has become a hot topic, and targetted as a book to be banned in public libraries and school libraries, generally by people who have not read[...]