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Shakti is the debut graphic novel written by SJ Sindu, and drawn by Nabi H Ali The middle-grade graphic novel follows an Indian-American girl who unleashes the power of the Hindu goddess Kali Ma when she confronts a coven of mean-girl witches Shakti was acquired by Clarissa Wong at HarperAlley and is slated to be[...]
Last week, Bleeding Cool ran an article, When Graphic Novels Volumes Just Don't Stack Up On The Bookshelf It was rather popular And inspired many others to get in touch and show their most egregious examples of when collected graphic novel series offend even the least OCD amongst us.
Fabian Charlton sends us a shot of[...]
Susie Yi has sold at auction, her new graphic novel Paper Girl, about an 11-year-old girl who journeys to South Korea for her halmuni's (Korean grandmother's) funeral while trying to figure out how to reverse a wish gone wrong in her attempt to fit in A simple wish goes awry when a Korean American girl[...]
And he has just sold two new YA graphic novels to Krestyna Lypen at Algonquin Fishing, drawn by Nia Palmer and Basketball IQ, drawn by Laura Molnar with storyboards by Nia Palmer as well.
Fishing demonstrates how incarcerated people communicate and build networks through the unique form of attachment known as "fishing" and will be published[...]
I'm so unbelievably thrilled and excited that HIDE will be adapted as a graphic novel with @TenSpeedPress
! More details as we get further in the process, but until then, that unnerving, high pitched, unending squeal you hear is just my happiness."
Kaitlin Ketchum at Ten Speed Press bought the pitch, represented by Kiersten White's agent Michelle[...]
The best-selling comic book of 2021 will be Asterix And The Griffin. That is now pretty much a given. It will have a higher print-run than Dav Pilkey's
Last year, Berlin-based comics creator EPHK (AKA Nicolas Peyronnet, AKA Clandestine Republic successfully crowdfunded his sci-fi graphic novel on Kickstarter Mawrth Valliis is desrcibed as "a trippy sci-fi adventure inspired by '70s Mexican Historietas, and told entirely in Martian Ironically, its illegibility makes it readable for just about anyone Although major narrative details are sparse[...]
When I went to Paris a lifetime ago, I walked along its comic store street, Rue Dante, where I saw how the American graphic novel was translated and re-presented to French audiences, and what a glorious display of OCD-level neatness and consistency it was But the original books? Less so In a private Facebook group[...]
Which includes a new line of graphic novels called Disney Remix, with each story based on a Disney live-action film.
The first graphic novel in this line will be written and drawn by National Book Award–finalist graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson. Operation Parent Trap, based on the Disney movie and remake, The Parent Trap[...]
Unhappy Camper is a new middle-grade graphic novel by Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu, to be published in the summer of 2022 Picked up by Clarissa Wong at HarperCollins, Unhappy Camper follows two sisters who rebuild their bond and learn more about their culture after going to a Taiwanese American summer camp.
Social media image by Ann[...]
Penguin is a new graphic novel by Helaine Becker and Kevin Sylvester, to be published in the autumn of 2023.
Puffin vs Penguin is a middle-grade graphic novel about friendship and collaboration and was picked up by Katie Scott at Kids Can Press,
Helaine Becker has written over ninety children's books, including A Porcupine in a Pine[...]
Twelfth Grade Night and King Cheer are the first two Shakespeare-based YA graphic novels in the Arden High series by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm and Jamie Green They have been bought by Kieran Viola and Rachel Stark at Disney-Hyperion to begin publication in the autumn of 2022.
Shakespeare YA Graphic Novels – Twelfth Grade[...]
Sorry, I mean, together they are writing MPLS Sound, an original graphic novel about Prince and his musical legacy, drawn by Meredith Laxton And focusing on a Minneapolis band that did not exist, Starchild,
MPLS Sound
When Prince burst onto the pop scene in 1978, he put Minneapolis on the music map Many up-and-coming bands followed the[...]
Indonesian singer and actress Agnez Mo is creating an all-new original graphic novel Don't Wake Up I say, creating, Z2 states that it is written by Karla Pacheco, and drawn by Peter V Nguyen and Andres Labrada.
They quote Agnez Mo as saying "I've always enjoyed storytelling, whether through my songs when I write them or through my music videos[...]
New York Times Metropolitan Diary cartoonist and illustrator Agnes Lee is making her graphic novel debut with 49 Days, a YA graphic novel inspired by a Buddhist belief regarding death and the afterlife 49 Days is about a Korean American girl who has died and must journey for 49 days.
49 Days will be published by Nick Thomas at[...]
Chrissie Krebs has sold her new young graphic novel series Bizard, The Bear Wizard to Margaret Ferguson at Holiday House She has sold the world right to the two first Bizard, The Bear Wizard books, that will be published in the summer or 2023 and then the spring of 2024.
Bizard, The Bear Wizard features a bear[...]
Debbie Fong has sold her debut graphic novel Next Stop to Gina Gagliano at Random House Graphic.
Next Stop is a middle grade contemporary graphic novel that follows Pia as she deals with her brother's death and embarks on a magical road trip that changes her life.
Debbie Fong's Debut Graphic Novel Next Stop From Random House Graphic
Debbie[...]
Book designer Maggie Edkins Willis has sold two middle-grade graphic novels at auction for a six-figure sum to Megan Abbate at Roaring Brook, Smaller Sister and Cheer Up Roaring Brook Press is part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, distributed by Macmillan, and already has a graphic novel imprint First: Second.
Maggie Edkins Willis' Smaller Sister graphic novel
Smaller Sister, scheduled for the spring[...]
On the 27th of February, Bleeding Cool posted an article referencing a then-current meme, Publish An Alan Moore Comic Without Saying It's An Alan Moore
– Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt.
Grace Ellis co-created and co-write the Boom Studios series, The Lumberjanes, author and creator of the series Moonstruck from Image Comics and is the writer of the upcoming graphic novel, Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge for DC Comics And now she is writing a new graphic novel to[...]
Martina And The Bridge Of Time is a new graphic novel by marine paleobiologist and staff scientist of Smithsonial Tropical Research Institiute, Aaron O'Dea, and illustrator and science communicator Ian Cooke Tapia.
Martina And The Bridge Of Time – A Smithsonian Graphic Novel
During a very boring school morning, Martina notices that her history book only starts[...]
Mercy is a new graphic novel by John Zuur Platten and Atilio Rojo, to be released by Image Comics on the 26th of October, 2021.
From the writer of Jurassic World Revolution, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena and Wanted: Weapons of Fate comes a revenge tale that spans millennia! No good deed goes unpunished Mercedes[...]
ADHD Alien is a webcomic by comic book creator and animation visual development artist, Pina Varnel which has now been picked up by Lauri Hornik at Dial as a debut YA graphic novel Won at auction, ADHD Alien follows a girl with ADHD during the pivotal summer when she gets diagnosed and finally makes sense of[...]
Speak Up! by author-illustrator Rebecca Burgess is a new contemporary middle-grade graphic novel, bought by Karen Chaplin at HarperCollins/Quill Tree, for publication in the autumn of 2022 It tells the story of an autistic girl who finds friendship where she least expects it and learns how to express her true self in a world where everyone is determined[...]
In March last year, Bleeding Cool reported that Kay Davault – better known as Kay D – had seen her debut graphic novel, Journey to Stars, picked up by Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic for publication in 2023 The comic will be about a young frog prince named Tad and his task of returning the fallen Star King[...]
Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadski's House of El Book One: The Shadow Threat graphic novel was published by DC Comics in January 2021 Telling the story of pre-Superman Krypton through the eyes of two young people on opposite sides of the same extinction-level event Zahn, one of Krypton's elites: wealthy, privileged, a future leader, and[...]
Magnetic Press has announced their latest exciting Kickstarter graphic novel campaign to follow their successful offerings of PARIS 2119, ASTER OF PAN, BRINDILLE, WAHCOMMO, and MONOLITH — a dark sci-fi fantasy tale for grown-ups called SMALL WORLD, written by JD MORVAN and illustrated by celebrated mangaka TORU TERADA!
"Small World" Kickstarter key art, Magnetic Press
Described as "a Cyberpunk fairytale" and "Peter Pan meets Akira," Small World mixes elements of[...]
Victoria Grace Elliott has sold her new nonfiction middle-grade graphic novel Yummy: A History of Tasty Experiments to Whitney Leopard at Random House Graphic A sequel to her upcoming debut graphic novel Yummy History: a Story of Desserts, it will be published in 2023.
Victoria Grace Elliott Sells Yummy Graphic Novel Sequel to Random House Graphic
Focused on[...]
It is like an ultimate antihero slash very proud villain tale and the people in this world who are come out with superpowers out of these near-death experiences are called Extraordinaries or EOs and so I have a brand new comic book series coming soon that focuses on a group of young EOs".
So we have[...]