graphic novel Archives

Fantagraphics is to publish the final, complete Keeping Two graphic novel by Jordan Crane, in March, twenty years in the making, and including previous versions of the comic book Crane created the comics anthology NON, and the all-ages graphic novel The Clouds Above In Keeping Two, Crane uses comics to thread several timelines and the[...]

The follow up to his Eisner Award–winning My Brother's Husband, it's another queer drama set in contemporary Japan, featuring a closeted young painter with synesthesia. A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the breakout hit My Brother's Husband Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda, a[...]

Fordham also previously adapted Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and drew Philip Pullman's debut comic,  The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship for Phoenix Weekly Comic. Fred Fordham Adapts Brave New World As A Graphic Novel Available in graphic novel form for the first time, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth[...]

Other Ever Afters is a new graphic novel by comic creator and scholar Melanie Gillman, a collection of feminist, queer original fairy tales Other Ever Afters asks the question: what if the monsters, mermaids, and witchy old women in fairy tales all found the happily ever afters they deserve? It will be published in the autumn[...]

The Stretcher Bearers is a new graphic novel by Reid Beaman and Ryan Beaman to be published by Dead Reckoning in April which memorializes WWI "stretcher bearers" through the character Maxwell Fox and his fellows of Fourth Infantry Ivy Division, tasked with the harrowing duty of carrying wounded fighters to safety while risking their own[...]

Fans of the film and the music inspired an alternative movement, that later became the annual Afropunk Festival beginning in 2005. James Spooner is now turning his 1980s teen fandom experiences and earlier punk experiences into a new graphic novel, The High Desert: Black Punk Nowhere to be published by Harper/Mariner Books on the 17th of[...]

Rhea Ewing's debut graphic novel Fine: A Comic About Gender will be published by Liveright in Apr 2021, Based on interviews of 56 different people throughout the US, Ewing states that the book resists the urge to oversimplify, and you will find no handy charts or graphs to summarize a person's experience of gender Instead,[...]

And together they have a new graphic novel, announced at this weekend's C2E2, Three Little Wishes, published by Legendary. Three Little Wishes, A New Paul Cornell & Steve Yeowell Graphic Novel The fantasy romcom original graphic novel follows a contract lawyer, who upon discovering a fairy that grants three wishes, attempts to fix the world, and will[...]

Space Story is the graphic novel debut of Fiona Ostby, from West Margin Press, to be published in print in June 2o22 It was previously published digitally by Tapas, but that is now no longer available in that format. Space Story, a Debut Graphic Novel by Fiona Ostby, For June 2022  A quietly powerful graphic novel of[...]

Alternative cartoonist Noah Van Sciver is to create a graphic novel, to be published by Abrams ComicArts in May 2o22, about the early history of Mormonism, called Joseph Smith And The Mormons. Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints[...]

Whitney Leopard may have just sold her own graphic novel to Knopf But she is also still Senior Editor at Random House Graphic And has bought, in an exclusive submission, a contemporary middle-grade graphic novel trilogy by Sina Grace The first book, The Big Deal, features young Sasan Rad as he tries to navigate his Persian[...]

Mossy and Tweed: Crazy for Coconuts is Mirka Hokkanen's graphic novel debut, about stubborn gnomes' whose friendship is put to the test as they try to crack a coconut Sally Morgridge at Holiday House acquired this graphic novel and its unnamed sequel Mossy and Tweed: Crazy for Coconuts will be published in the summer of[...]

New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh has been working on their middle-grade graphic novel Red Scare for quite some time Set in 1953, amid rumors of Communist spies undermining the country, a girl struggling to recover from polio finds a mysterious artifact that gives her the power to fly, and she finds herself dodging unscrupulous FBI agents—and[...]

The Ghostkeeper is Johanna Taylor's debut graphic novel, which tackles issues of mental health, toxic positivity, and grief, while following the exploits of a young paranormal therapist with the ability to see the dead, whose job gets much trickier when the key to Death's Door goes missing and all ghosts end up stranded in the[...]

Patch by Boya Sun is an upcoming graphic novel series about a child whose favorite soft toy comes to life when he mends it with magic fabric he finds in the attic of his new home Strange things start to happen, and our world and the dimension toys belong to start warping into each other[...]

The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves is an upcoming a middle-grade graphic novel by Dora M Mitchell (The Haunted Serpent) The story features perfectionist Millicent Graves, who discovers a room of puzzles representing people's lives and starts rearranging pieces to improve her family and friends The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves was bought at auction by[...]

Larson (author of A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything) and Barbara McClintock (Adèle and Simon) is their debut middle-grade graphic novel And tells the story about the heroism of Rose Valland, who, through masterful spying during WWII, managed to help locate and save over 60,000 famous works of art.  Emily Feinberg[...]

Officer Clawsome, written by filmmaker Brian "Smitty" Smith and drawn by G-Man creator Chris Giarrusso, is a middle-grade graphic novel series about a crime-fighting lobster named Clawsome and his starfish partner Stariana solving a mystery in Caper Cove Andrew Arnold at HarperAlley has acquired world rights to the Officer Clawsome series The series is set[...]

Sangu Mandanna and Pablo Ballesteros have a new middle-grade graphic novel nogether, Jupiter Nettle and the Seven Schools of Magic which follows a 12-year-old girl who has dreamed of learning magic her whole life, only to find that her new school isn't as fun or rewarding as she hoped Jupiter Nettle and the Seven Schools of Magic[...]

Dear Rosie is the debut middle-grade graphic novel by two animation background artists Meghan Boehman is the background designer on The Animaniacs, Bento Box, Fantastic Furry Freak Brothers and DC Super Hero Girls Rachael Briner is background painter/designer on Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Alpha Betas, HarmonQuest, Mr Pickles and spin-off Momma Named Me Sheriff[...]

Love Light by Mela Rogers, is a debut YA graphic novel set in a world where a beacon of light connects each person's heart to their soulmate's; Meredith's parents are Light fanatics, so she is shocked when she falls for a girl who is not her soulmate, and when she meets her actual soulmate, Meredith must choose[...]

Mask up though… Exhibitions BLACK is a special exhibition to celebrate Black History Month, exploring the story and world of the graphic novel of the same name – an unflinching but uplifting graphic memoir by Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith BLACK is the true story of Tobias's life, growing from a child raised in social care in[...]

Random House Graphic Senior Editor Whitney Leopard, who has been featured many times on Bleeding Cool has now sold her own graphic novel to a rival publisher with artist Connie Hernandez. Now Whitney Leopard Creates Own Graphic Novel With Connie Hernandez Fitting In is the debut middle grade graphic novel by the pair and story follows half-Filipina seventh-grader[...]

Lionharts is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Mike Lawrence (Star Scouts) which has been sold, with an untitled second book, to Charlotte Greenbaum at Abrams/Amulet who has acquired world rights Lionharts is a comic about the Lionhart family, where adventuring isn't just in the blood—it's the family business When Alder and Flynt's parents go missing after[...]

Rashad Doucet has a new middle-grade graphic novel Art Club lined up, in which Dale Donovan recruits talented artists at his school to create an after-school art club after the art programs are cut And world rights have been picked up by Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown to be published in the autumn of 2023. Rashad Doucet is[...]

Eowulf and the Descendant Dilemma by Mike Cavallaro, is a middle-grade graphic novel spinoff of the Nico Bravo graphic novel series, bought by Mark Siegel at First Second Eowulf and the Descendant Dilemma follows Eowulf, pint-size descendant of the monster slayer Beowulf, who played a major role in Nico's adventures and now stands poised to take center[...]

The second Dog Man spinoff, Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey, just had its second volume, Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives, published by Scholastic

Silk Hills is a new original graphic novel written by Ryan Ferrier and Brian Leve, drawn by Kate Sherron and lettered by crank!, published by Oni Press in the summer of 2022. When Beth Wills comes to Silk Hills, a small Appalachian town that's seen better days since the mines were abandoned, she expected a bit[...]

Z2 Comics and Judas Priest are creating a new graphic novel, Screaming For Vengeance Described as an original sci-fi epic based on the band's highest-selling album which is coming up for its 40th anniversary, from writers Rantz Hoseley and Neil Kleid, and artist Christopher Mitten It will also be released for San Diego Comic-Con 2022[...]

Myth Valley Medical by Australian cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, is an upcoming comedy middle-grade graphic novel, pitched as Scrubs meets Fantastic Beasts As a young doctor-in-training for mythical creatures must find the courage to treat the one creature in Mythica that her mother said never to help – a human. Gavin Aung Than is creator of Zen Pencils,[...]