graphic novel Archives

Publisher's Weekly reported the rise in sales of children's graphic novels in 2020 and 2021, with a 123% rise since 2020 in YA graphic novel sales. YA Graphic Novel Sales Rose 123% In Bookstores Between 2020 and 2021 That noted the middle-grade graphic novel success of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham's Friends series, now getting seven-figure print runs[...]

And among other things, they will be turning them into comic books. Scholastic To Publish Spy Ninjas and Hunt A Killer Graphic Novels Spy Ninjas with 400 million monthly views and more 38 million subscribers gets more than one million views in the first hour of going live As well as a tie-in toyline from Playmates, they[...]

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic book artist and creator of the Webtoon strip Humdrum, Robin Easter, has seen their debut middle-grade graphic novel Upstaged picked up by Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown Upstaged sees Ashton, a nonbinary stagehand, struggle to confess their feelings to their best friend Ivy during their last summer at[...]

Expanding from the original film, Barnes and Alexander's Blacula intends to build a bridge from the seventies' version of the iconic bloodsucker to our present-day world and all of its complications. Rodney Barnes & Jason Shawn Alexander Adapt Blacula as Graphic Novel Barnes states "I first saw Blacula as an 8-year-old at the Capital Theater in Annapolis,[...]

Rachel Elliott has sold her very first graphic novel The Real Riley Mayes at auction to Donna Bray at HarperCollins/Balzer and Bray, The Real Riley Mayes is a middle-grade graphic novel that about "first inklings of identity and belonging in a small town When rumors fly about a queer crush, Riley, with the help of new[...]

Monday is the Final Order Cut-Off date for the third Reckless hardcover original graphic novel, Destroy All  Monsters from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips And Ed Brubaker, when he's not thinking about Jed Mercurio, is happy, He writes in his newsletter. Orders for the second book were much bigger than the first one, and initial orders[...]

This week saw the release of Jed Mercurio's new graphic novel, Sleeper Mercurio is the writer and creator of massive hit BBC TV show Line Of Duty and one of many tipped to be the new showrunner of Doctor Who The first volume was co-written with one of his actor regulars Prasanna Puwanarajah and was drawn by Coke[...]

Mister Miracle: The Great Escape time! Varian Johnson, Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of The Parker Influence, and Afro-futurist artist Daniel Isles, known as @DirtyRobot, are creating a new graphic novel for DC Comics YA line. And DC Comics has released a first look at the book due out in January, as advance orders are now due. Mister[...]

Lo And Behold is a new middle-grade graphic novel written by Wendy Mass, and drawn by Gabi Mendez. Mendez is a graduate of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Sequential Art Master's program at SCAD, this would be her first major graphic novel project Her calling card runs below. With her life recently[...]

Hugo And Dino, a chapter book graphic novel series by Red Panda And Moon Bear creator Jarod Roselló, about a boy who can change the world around him just enough to go on magical adventures with his best friend, Dino Hugo And Dino has been bought by Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic, to be[...]

Writer and creator of hit TV show Line Of Duty, and one of many tipped to be the new showrunner of Doctor Who, Jed Mercurio, also has his first graphic novel out this week Sleeper is co-written with actor Prasanna Puwanarajah and drawn by Coke Navarro as a sci-fi space epic, the first volume of[...]

Walker is a new debut YA graphic novel by cartoonist and trans comic book creator Clive Hawken, about a transgender teenager who hits the road in search of a monster Though it doesn't attract the same attention as Mothman or Sasquatch, the "Plains Walker" is a legendary cryptid, feared and beloved in its own right;[...]

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Punk Rock Karaoke, is a new YA graphic novel by cartoonist Bianca Xunise And in an auction with bids from five publishing houses, it has been picked up by Aneeka Kalia at Viking for a six-figure sum for North American rights for the book and its sequel. Bianca Xunise's Punk Rock Karaoke OGN Sells For 6[...]

Scott Chantler has seen his middle-grade graphic novel Squire & Knight and its sequel, picked up by Mark Siegel at First Second Squire & Knight is a graphic novel about a brainy young squire who solves mysteries involving monsters and magic, but the overbearing knight he serves takes the credit every time.  Squire & Knight will be[...]

Peach & Plum is a new early graphic novel series written and illustrated by Tim McCanna, about two best friends who rhyme all the time. Rachel Poloski at Little, Brown acquired world rights to the first two books. Tim McCanna is an actor, musician, musical theatre writer, graphic designer and creator of picture books, including Teeny Tiny Trucks,[...]

The other week, Bleeding Cool ran a guide to graphic novels that have been sold by agents to book publishers over the last couple of years We have been keeping it updated adding more entries sent in to richjohnston@bleedingcool.com and we have additional news about one of the deals done Bleeding Cool previously reported that[...]

Oh Brother, is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Australian autobiographical cartoonist Georgina Chadderton that has been picked up simultaneously by three publishers across the English-speaking world Gina Gagliano at Random House Graphic in the USA, Ben Horslen and Katie Sinfield at Penguin Random House Children's in the UK, Lynne Missen at Tundra Books for Canada,[...]

IDW Publishing is getting into the YA graphic novel line, with a new three-book deal for AJ O Mason and Dominic Bustamante's new graphic novel series Kloud 9 The pitch was bought by Erika Turner at IDW, for publication in 2023 Kloud 9 is a "queer space opera is about Kal, a lonely orphan trying[...]

Mochikoa is a new three-book debut young reader graphic novel series written by JT Petty and drawn by Boya Sun, that has been acquired by Mark Siegel at First Second to be published in the autumn of 2023 Mochikoa tells the story of an ambitious koala-like character who tries to become a ping-pong champion. JT Perry is the writer[...]

Now Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown has acquired Kokoro, as a YA graphic memoir of Christine Mari growing up and negotiating her place in two worlds—America and Japan—while navigating the mental and emotional legacy of being a "hafu"—half Japanese, half American. Little, Brown To Publish Kokoro Graphic Novel by Christine Mari Two years ago, I created my[...]

Amanda Weidman had sold her first comic book Mari and the Cloud Princess, as a middle-grade graphic novel, to Grace Scheipeter at Oni Press for publication in 2023.  Mari and Cloud Princess are friends across dimensions, brought together by their curiosity and mutual yearning for adventure Cloud Princess, known as "Cloud" for short, is the avid[...]

Minh Lê, creator of the picture books Lift and Drawn Together, and writer of the Green Lantern: Legacy graphic novel drawn by Andie Tong is now creating two new middle-grade graphic novels The first, Enlighten Me is being drawn by Baby-Sitter's Club artist Chan Chau and tells a fantastical account of Minh's childhood experience attending[...]

Marvel Legends is a new line of comic books launching from Marvel Comics as a serialised line of mini-series, intended to be collected and for the main audience, middle-grade graphic novel readers in bookstores, book fairs, and libraries, each retelling or rebooting the origin of a well known Marvel character, under Marvel Senior Editor Lauren[...]

A series of graphic novels telling an anthropomorphic steampunk alternate history Victoriana detective mystery action-adventure, it plays with the traditions of French graphic novels, with British sensibilities and references, and happens to be utterly gorgeous And this week published in the US by Dark Horse and next month in the UK by Jonathan Cape, the[...]

Adult graphic novels saw sales increase 178.5% in the first half of the 2021, totalling 16.2 million copies sold and making graphic novels the second-largest adult fiction subcategory Publisher's Weekly reports that graphic novels made up nearly 20% of adult fiction unit sales in the first six months of 2021, compared to 9.3% last year[...]

Last year, Bleeding Cool announced a new graphic novel by Blur's Graham Coxon, Superstate, based on his new album of the same name Both are released, separately to together on the 27th August 2021, in association with Z2 Comics And you get to listen to one of the comics, or read one of the tracks,[...]

Black Cotton Star is a graphic novel written by XIII and Blake And Mortimer writer Yves Sente, drawn by Blackjack artist Steve Cuzor, published by Dupuis in 2017 as Cinq Branches De Coton Noir , and translated into English by Pegasus Books this time last year It has now been picked up by ZQ Entertainment[...]

A compilation of every announced graphic novel from a major publisher over the last year-and-a-half, arranged by which agent negotiated the deal – if they did The bookstore graphic novel market has been booming, and so many deals for 2022, 2023, and 2024 are being done through the lockdown and pandemic Speaking with many major[...]

Mel Hilario, Lauren Davis, and Katie Longua, the team behind Debian Perl, Digital Detective, have auctioned their latest graphic novel, Agent Cupcake, won by Grace Scheipeter at Oni Press Agent Cupcake is a middle-grade graphic novel about a 12-year-old Miguel Mangayayam who has always been obsessed with magical creatures, so he's thrilled when he's recruited[...]