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The graphic novel adaptation from Soaring Penguin Press tells Tobais' story through from the care homes of 1970s Britain, to prison, to discovering a passion for literature and turning his life around As well as an in-person event I am hoping to attend, the museum will also be holding a free online panel event, discussing[...]

Aaron Alexovich has sold the publishing rights for an undisclosed six-figure sum to his new middle-grade graphic novel Shock City, to Dana Leydig at Viking Shock City has been pitched as a younger reader Beetlejuice as uses characters from his previous graphic novel series, It's Not Scary. Aaron Alexovich Sells Shock City Graphic Novel For Six Figures Shock City[...]

Nicole Valdez, formerly marketing and publicity manager for the kids, middle-grade and YA graphic novel publisher Random House Graphic, has been named senior publicity manager at children's publicity at Simon & Schuster Valdez previously worked for three years in publicity at DC Comics before launching the Random House Graphic imprint from Random House Children's Books[...]

We know it had 497,000 orders, so by that yardstick, X-Men: Trial Of Magneto #1 got around 120,000 orders, and X-Men #2 landed at just under 99,000… Top 400 Comics & Graphic Novels Ordered From Diamond In August 2021 Top 400 Comics Ordered From Diamond In August 2021 QtyRank RetailRank Index Product description Price Publisher 1 1 590.57 KING SPAWN #1 $5.99 IMAGE COMICS 2 2 144.39 X-MEN TRIAL OF MAGNETO #1 $4.99 MARVEL[...]

Super Boba Café is a middle-grade graphic novel series by Nidhi Chanani about Aria who, after a traumatic event at middle school, spends the summer with her grandma at her boba cafe in San Francisco She doesn't realize that her grandma uses the boba to placate the hill monsters—avoiding an earthquake But Aria thinks there[...]

Peculiar Woods, is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Wawawiwa comic book creator Andrés J Colmenares, who currently lives in Colombia.Picked up by Lucas Wetzel at Andrews McMeel, it has been pitched as Adventure Time meets The Brave Little Toaster The whimsical and adventurous tale of a lonely boy who teams up with a chair and blanket to[...]

Girls Give Me Butterflies is a debut middle-grade graphic novel by Dresden Douglas, pitched as a sapphic Lizzie McGuire, about young Brooke who begins to feel flustered and tongue-tied around other girls while struggling to tune out the voice of Sprout, an excitable little figment who manifests all Brooke's innermost thoughts Picked up by Mekisha Telfer[...]

As the third book is published this week, the first is now being turned into a graphic novels series, by Robert Venditti and Olivia Stephens Here's a preview of the volume, to be published in the autumn of 2022 by Read Riordan. Robert Venditti & Olivia Stephens Adapt Tristan Strong Graphic Novel Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents[...]

Tang is creating a debut middle-grade graphic novel, Parachute Kids, inspired by her own childhood, with three siblings who emigrate from Taiwan to California and find themselves on their own to face language and cultural barriers when their parents unexpectedly return home Parachute Kids has been picked up by Tracy Mack at Scholastic/Graphix for publication in 2023. Parachute[...]

Everyone Is White On The Internet is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Nadia Shammas and Molly Murakami set in the early 2000s and based on a true story, follows Nora, an Arab American girl from Brooklyn who takes on the secret persona of a white girl in her online fandom community in order to[...]

The Harrowing, is a new YA graphic novel by Kristen Kiesling and Jen Hickman Pitched as Minority Report meets I Hunt Killers, it's a near-future story about a psychic teen girl who is forced to use her powers to track down killers, until she discovers her boyfriend is her next target It asks questions about how far[...]

Well, now Chris Grabenstein is getting a graphic novel adaptation of his middle-grade novel, and first in the series, Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library by Douglas Holgate, artist on The Adventures of Commander Zack Proton, Cheesie Mack, The Last Kids On Earth, The Amazing Joy Buzzards, Red Sonja, The Regular Show, and Wires And Nerve. Chris[...]

The John Lee Hooker Estate and Z2 Comics announce the graphic novel John Lee Hooker: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, documenting the life of the legendary blues musician, told by Gabe Soria and Jarrett Williams and drawn by the legendary Kyle Baker, known for The Cowboy Wally Show, Why I Hate Saturn, Birth Of A Nation, Damage Control,[...]

Steam is a new YA graphic novel by Shaenon K Garrity and Emily Holden Dickson about the adventures of Ruby, a "hypercognitive humanoid" designed to solve science's greatest problems, who escapes from a university lab and finds a job as a barista in a kooky coffee shop, where she finds plenty of problems to solve[...]

Jeff in the Jurassic is the first of a young middle-grade graphic novel trilogy by the creator of Rust, Royden Lepp. Jeff is an alien with a mission, but nothing ever goes the way he wants it to Now he's crash-landed on the very planet he's supposed to destroy, and he's stuck with the locals—the local[...]

Hashitate is a coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel dealing with immigration, social pressures, and family expectations centered around 12-year-old Sumie, who becomes insta-famous when an embarrassing video goes viral and she is forced to reconcile who she is online with who she wants to be in real life On Twitter, A.Y Hashitate posted "my heart is so[...]

Caitlin Like's new middle-grade graphic novel, The Hundredth Voice, has been picked up by Brett Israel at Dark Horse Comics Inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and The Little Mermaid, this story follows a boy determined to break his family's curse which causes every singer to lose their voice When he arrives at his grandfather's exclusive—and haunted—academy,[...]

Now it is getting adapted into a graphic novel for June 2022. Now adapted into graphic novel format—the "riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking" (The Guardian) New York Times bestselling companion to the critically acclaimed Showtime documentary about the largely unknown true rise and decline of the American empire Since its initial publication in 2012, the New York[...]

He is now working his debut middle-grade graphic novel North for the Winter, in which an 11-year-old girl must team up with the boy next door and his teenage sister to outsmart a hunter and dodge U.S military planes, so they can return a flying reindeer to the North Pole to save Christmas before it's[...]

Youth Group by Jordan Morris and Bowen McCurdy is a new YA graphic novel about a cynical young goth who reluctantly joins the youth group at her local mega-church, only to discover that the Christian youth are sneaking out at night to slay actual demons Familiar face at Bleeding Cool, Calista Brill, First Second's Editorial Director has bought Youth[...]

Silenced Voices is a new YA graphic novel by Eisner-nominated and Miles Morales: Shockwaves artist Pablo Leon, about two sisters who find their way back to each other after being separated during a military raid on their village during the civil war in Guatemala in 1982 It has been picked up by Andrew Arnold at[...]

Fae and the Moon by Franco Aureliani of Tiny Titans, Superman Family Adventures, Hellboy is writing a new middle grade graphic novel with artists Catherine Satrun and Sarah Satrun Fae and the Moon tells the story of a girl who pulls her missing mother's adored Moon from the sky, and finds herself in a world of mystery and darkness battling[...]

Stunt Girl by Nora Neus and Julie Robine is a new historical fiction YA graphic novel about Nell Nelson that's been picked by Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown Stunt Girl is the story of the real-life historical figure Nell Nelson, one of the early undercover female journalists called stunt girls, who investigates working conditions in the garment factories[...]

While it's their past that unites them, it's their fabricated online identities – some more dangerous than others – that lead to their "real" lives colliding years later. Originally published in 2010 by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Other Lives is Bagge's first post-Hate original graphic novel and has been out of print for several years Fantagraphics[...]

Have you got graphic novels inside you, just bursting to find a home? Then this is definitely for you.  Twenty years ago, Janna Morishima began her career in publishing as the assistant to creative director David Saylor at Scholastic Two years later, she co-founded the Graphix imprint with Saylor and editor Sheila Keenan, to publish graphic novels for kids, and[...]

A graphic novel that mourns both 9/11 and the political uses to which it has been put Published 7th September 2004. Ex Machina by Brian K Vaughan and Tony Harris, published by Wildstorm/DC, is set in a world in which a superhero called the Great Machine becomes mayor of New York after intervening in the September 11 attacks,[...]

Mai K Nguyen is a UX designer, whose debut graphic novel, Pilu of the Woods, was published by Oni Press in 2019, after two self-published titles over the last decade, Little Ghost and Coral & the King And she has just auctioned the rights to her latest middle-grade graphic novel Anzu and the Realm of Darkness[...]

Hellaween is a middle-grade graphic novel series by debut graphic novelist Moss Lawton The first book follows an aspiring witch and her two best friends—a werewolf and a vampire—whom she's only able to hang out with on Halloween, as the teenage trio tries to have a night of fun and mischief while also contending with[...]

Good Girls Don't Make History by Elizabeth Kiehner, Kara Coyle, Keith Olwell, and Micaela Dawn is a graphic novel that attempts to amplify American women's voices from 1840 to the present day. Good Girls Don't Make History, But Make A Graphic Novel Reliving moments from the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B[...]

ABLAZE Publishing is expanding its range of titles with a children's and middle-grade graphic novel to be released on November 24th. BALBUZAR is an unforgettable fable about freedom, resistance, and power, and an ode to nature and the sea Gérard Moncomble's prose deftly balances action, humor, and poetry as the stunningly detailed illustrations by artist Frédéric[...]