graphic novel Archives

Bob Fingerman's new graphic novel Printopia pitches up in Cosmic Lion's October 2024 solicits and solicitations, as do some classic forgotten Matt Howarth comics from the nineties with Termite Mound. As well as the launch of the new series Frankie Boy Monster by Morgan Herron, and graphic novel Fourth Dimensional Summer Of Fun by Seraji.   #gallery-1[...]

Sean Gunn of Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Suicide Squad and The Gilmore Girls is a surprise guest at San Diego Comic-Con's Dynamite Entertainment 20th anniversary panel later today. As he is writing a new, original graphic novel from Dynamite called Shepherds Nick Barrucci, the owner of Dynamite Entertainment, tells us, "this is a story that Sean has been working[...]

Robert Venditti's Tankers graphic novel about a group of brave soldiers who don lethal mechs and time travel back to save the dinosaurs but end up fighting the dinosaurs and then also fighting space-traveling ancient aliens, is hitting Kickstarter courtesy of Bad Idea ahead of San Diego Comic-Con. Joining him are some of the bigger comic[...]

It's a story Suzie and I have been working on and really wish to publish and turn into a graphic novel Fingers crossed!!" Well that worked out Suzanne Samin and Amalas Rosa have sold North American rights to new YA graphic novel Fear of Falling for an undisclosed six-figure sum to Ruta Rimas at Putnam, at[...]

Macmillan Publishers has announced the launch of 23rd Street Books, a new imprint dedicated to publishing graphic novels for adults Mark Siegel will be the Vice President, Executive Editorial, and Creative Director for both First Second and 23rd Street Books Editorial Director Calista Brill, who joined First Second in 2008, will work closely with Siegel[...]

The Gravestone Sessions is a new YA graphic novel by Jeremy Holt and Dave Cole that follows "Ezra, a nonbinary high school student and sculptor struggling with their senior art thesis of identity When they find a way to communicate with the dead, they become obsessed with exploring their lineage to try to lend context to their[...]

The Night Fox is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Anna Staniszewski and Del Hahn about grief and memories and the pain of moving on, and about a magical fox who can make it all go away, for a price Chris Staros at Top Shelf Comix, part of IDW, has acquired world rights to The Night[...]

Finish Lines is a new YA graphic novel by Sarah Broyles and Hanna Schroy about a high school junior who joins her grandfather for a locally famous canoe race in their home state of Texas. Calista Brill at First Second has acquired world rights to Finish Lines, which will be co-edited with Nachie Marsham for publication in 2026[...]

Priced at $8.99 USD / $11.99 CAD, Catalog of Wonders is the newest title selected from the popular Tsubasa Bunko line to join JY for Kids. JY is thrilled to add this new horror novel to its fun and varied middle-grade lineup, which currently includes popular graphic novels such as Svetlana Chmakova's Berrybrook Middle School series and manga[...]

Black Bird is a new graphic novel by Sonny Liew that has been picked up by Chip Kidd at Pantheon Books He has bought world rights aside from France from Sonny Liew's agent Nicolas Grivel at Nicolas Grivel Agency Kidd said Black Bird is the "brilliant and tremendously ambitious" story of "a young cartoonist in Singapore who receives a[...]

A Little Bit Gringa is the debut middle-grade graphic novel of writer/artist Andrea Cañizares-Fernandez, told in journal entries across three summers in Ecuador as a girl navigates her Latina identity Michelle Lee at Dial bought world publication rights, with publication intended for the summer of 2026 Andrea's agent, Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary negotiated the[...]

Last Night I Dreamed of Home by Sophie Li, is an upcoming YA graphic novel about two college students originally from China who fall in love and who must grapple with their identities and the expectations of their families. World English rights were won by Simon Boughton at Norton Young Readers at auction, and publication is[...]

With Inside Out 2 still topping the box offices, and hitting a billion dollars in revenue, there is plenty of spinoff merchandise around, including graphic novels A two-in-one book that retells both films from Random House, which recently acquired graphic novel rights for Disney animated features The second is The New Adventures of Inside Out[...]

Dark Horse puts Alex De Campi, Skylar Partridge and Kelly Fitzpatrick's magical realism webtoon comic Reversal into print next year

Scholastic, the biggest comic book publisher in the English language, announced the publication of The Cartoonists Club, a new graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, for the 1st of April 2025 The Cartoonists Club intends to teach readers how to create their own comic books and cartoon strips It has a first printing[...]

The Week Junior Book Awards, run in partnership with The Bookseller, alongside WHSmith, World Book Day, and LoveReading4Kids, have launched the shortlists for this year's awards including Children's Graphic Novel Of The Year Judges include graphic novelists Dave McKean, Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph, Ricky Boleto, Joseph Coelho, Sophie Dahl, Jess French, S F Said, Nadia Shireen, [...]

K-Fai Steele of A Normal Pig and All Eyes on Ozzy! has just auctioned the world rights to her debut middle grade graphic novel Best Buds, about a friendship that blooms between two girls over their love of gardening, library books, and crows, while exploring the roles they play in community care. Joanna Cárdenas at Kokila[...]

Sea Legs is a new middle grade graphic novel by Jules Bakes and Niki Smith, a graphic memoir about a girl who lives and travels with her family on a schooner the size of a school bus, encountering new cultures, turbulent friendships, and hurricane season along the way Jules Bakes spent her childhood sailing around[...]

The Ernest franchise is getting a revival for the first time in decades as a graphic novel written by Corey Perkins and announced on Ernest Day, the 8th of June Yes, apparently, Ernest has a day Launching on Kickstarter later this year, there is a holding page for now.   I am told that pretty much everyone[...]

She left the party in 2018. She wrote and illustrated the children's book Maja z Księżyca, nominated for the City of Warsaw Literary Award, was published by The Nib and the New Yorker, and worked on art for video games at 11 bit studios. She contributed to Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison,[...]

Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar, considered by many to be the godfather of Palestinian hip-hop, is writing two books, the second to be a graphic novel, 2 ATMs, due out in 2028, set in the author's hometown of Lyd, Israel, and features "a man caught between his day job as an upstanding bank clerk and his night[...]

Chasing Sunspots is Victoria Ying's upcoming YA graphic novel about a high school girl who, in her attempt to find validation for her art and chase her dreams to enter the comics industry, finds the strength and self-worth to overcome a manipulative relationship with a much older cartoonist Ying says that she "wrote the story in[...]

It's meant so much to me to be able to write this story the way I was able, and it just tells me that Ablaze really values it, too. Thank you, Mark.  Thanks for talking to me. The Kickstarter for the Traveling to Mars graphic novel collection is running until June 26th. Traveling to Mars is one of[...]

Kami Garcia and Brittney Williams are creating a new middle-grade graphic novel together, Mixed-Up, that follows Stella, a fifth grader who loves her friends, her favourite animated series, and school, until she struggles to keep up with reading and discovers she has dyslexia It will be published by Calista Brill at First Second. "New York Times[...]

Unfinished by Nidhi Chanani is a new YA graphic novel interweaving a contemporary story of family grief with a historical story in a way that highlights the process of comic book making In group counselling, 15-year-old Sanjay Lal sets out to finish a historical comic his older brother began before his death about a group of Indian[...]

Rocking Spurs: The Anti-Bullying Tour, is a graphic novel adaptation of the novel Rocking Ten by author KD Beckett, and drawn by Robert Plante Intended to investigate Indigenous identity in Canada, nearly 1,500 copies have been sent to schools across the country for educational purposes But the book has drawn outrage from Métis leadership[...]

Quiet Appetites is an upcoming YA graphic novel by Casey Gilly and Morgan Beem, about a family who moves to the rural English countryside and is haunted by something ancient As someone living in the English countryside right now, and feeling rather ancient myself, it may have much to appeal Samia Fakih at First Second has[...]

Heartache is the debut graphic novel work of Kelsi Jo Silva as both a writer and artist A YA graphic novel about overcoming and surviving domestic abuse with the help of found family, follows a young witch who accidentally transforms her father into a literal monster during a fight and must partner with her nemesis-turned-friend[...]

Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout is an upcoming YA historical fiction graphic novel with two intertwined timelines: one a modern-day family drama, the other a courageous tale of art and resistance under Nazi occupation Mark Siegel at First Second has bought world rights to Song of a Blackbird, excluding Dutch, in a[...]

The Dream Frontier is a new shounen-inspired YA graphic novel series written by Tony Weaver Jr and drawn by Irene Yeom The story follows Sygnus, a Black teen who uses a mysterious virtual reality competition game to help understand himself and his place in the world. Tony Weaver Jr is the CEO of Weird Enough Productions,[...]