graphic novel Archives

Rory McConville (Judge Dredd), Joe Palmer (2000 AD) and Chris O'Halloran (Ice Cream Man) have created a new original graphic novel being published by Image Comics in February Write It In Blood is a tragicomic crime tale aimed at exploring family loyalty and broken dreams. Write It In Blood, a New Crime Noir Graphic Novel Published[...]

The Mexican border is a hot-button issue, and ripe for a thriller. That’s what Jason Starr and Will Conrad dived into with their miniseries, Red Border.

Jarrett Williams is creating a new middle-grade graphic novel series, Harper Sharp, which has been picked up for a three-book deal by Random House Graphic Publishers Weekly reports that Harper Sharp is a comic book about "a boy named Harper is determined to help solve the mysteries that happen around his school and neighborhood." Random[...]

And next year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is to publish the graphic novel Paranothern, written by Stephanie Cooke. Publishers Weekly reports that Mari Costa has sold a two YA graphic novels, the first titles Belle of the Ball Described as a comedic, lesbian love-triangle story between a wallflower, a star athlete, and a head cheerleader is set[...]

We mentioned that Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla were adapting The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, as a contemporary middle-grade graphic novel, The Secret Garden On 81st Street, from Little, Brown Children's in September 2021 But it's just one of two such books that Noelle Weir is writing – and has sold. She is[...]

Hallmark filmed an adaptation in 1987, a cartoon version by AVS in 1994, and a longrunning anime adaptation by NHK in 1991. And now – a graphic novel, updated to contemporary times The Secret Garden on 81st Street is a middle-grade graphic novel modern retelling of The Secret Garden by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla[...]

He also adapted the William Gibson screenplay for Alien 3 as a comic book for Dark Horse, and drew the Angel Catbird series of graphic novels, written by Margaret Atwood. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now living in Vancouver, British Columbia, this busy guy is about to be even busier. Johnnie Christmas headshot from[...]

We teased this was coming earlier, now it is all official – Reckless from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips – and the beginning of something. This is our next project, a series of graphic novels, each one a fully self-contained story, and we're releasing three of them over the next year The books are much longer than[...]

The Sapling's Curse, is a Young Adult graphic novel written by first-time author James Persichetti and drawn by L Biehler Publisher's Weekly describes it as thus, "in this inclusive twist on the legend of Arthur, knights Lancelot and Tristan set out on a quest to find the missing magician Merlin, but instead discover an[...]

Expedition Backyard is a new nonfiction young chapter book graphic novel by Rosemary Mosco and Binglin Hu, the latest in a line of new publications picked up by Gina Gagliano, Publishing Director of Random House Graphic Expedition Backyard, tells the story of a gregarious Vole and more retiring Mole, who explore their suburban environment—until they accidentally move to[...]

Marissa Moss of the Amelia's Notebook series, where she helped pioneer the diary hybrid graphic novel format, has a STEM-friendly two-book series of illustrated hybrid graphic novels The first book is tentatively titled Make It Count, and will follow a math-loving middle schooler who finds that being the only girl on the mathletes team brings strain[...]

But now he's done his own deal. Eric Gapstur Sells Sort Of Super Graphic Novel For Six Figures. Publisher's Weekly reports that he has sold world rights to a new graphic novel and its sequel, called Sort Of Super And that Liesa Abrams at Aladdin bought the project for a six-figure sum before anyone else had the[...]

Reimena Yee has a new middle-grade graphic novel, My Aunt Is a Monster, which Random House Graphic will be publishing in 2022 My Aunt Is a Monster is about blind orphan Safia, who dreams of being an adventurer When it's discovered that Safia has a living relative, the reclusive Lady Walteranne Whimsy, Safia is[...]

The deal also includes a second graphic novel about a queer girl's many loves. Photo courtesy of Laura Gao. Laura's agent Brenda Bowen at the Book Group managed the auction and the deal. Laura Gao is a comic book creator, animator, designer, writer and plenty other things – and a product manager for Twitter living in San[...]

Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan has re-imagined the Zoot Suit riots for an unconventional YA graphic novel that is published this coming week And it remember another time, that seems suddenly rather familiar Across America, there's widespread unrest and growing racial tensions On the morning of August 2, 1942, the body of José Gallardo Díaz is[...]

On the Boom Studios panel currently playing out on Comic-Con@Home we got the news that Sabaa Tahir, co-creator of the A Thief Among The Trees: An Ember in The Ashes Graphic Novel published a couple of weeks ago and based on her Ember In The Ashes novels She told the assembled global crowd "there will[...]

Click is a series of graphic novels by Kayla Miller, currently comprised of Click, Camp and a third chapter Act out this past week, all published by HMH Books for Young Readers But how can HMH get more books out of Miller when there is clearly a demand and too few hours in the day?[...]

They also have a graphic novel from First Second lined up for 2022 called Weirdo. They have now created a middle-grade graphic novel called Lunar Boy, of which Carolina Ortiz at HarperAlley has bought world English rights to the first two books Lunar Boy follows Indu, a boy from the moon who deals with culture[...]

I've studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. They both had a comic book featured in the Eisner award-winning comic magazine Panel X Panel, and together have successfully auctioned their first graphic novel together, a young adult reader title, called Frontera, to be published by HarperCollins in 2023. In a supernatural borderland story that combines social[...]

Mika Song's Donut Feel The Squirrels comic book is published by Random House Graphic in September, the first in her Norma & Belly series, and her first published graphic novel, but she is already working on something totally different. Night Chef is a brand new a middle-grade graphic novel by Mika Song Restaurants around the world[...]

Well next year, it's growing up as it is getting a graphic novel sequel Stick & Stone: Friends Forever It's one of four graphic novels that the same creative team has sold to Kate O'Sullivan at HMH. In the Stick & Stone: Friends Forever graphic novel, Stick goes looking for his family tree, only to discover[...]

But he is now moving into the world of graphic novels His first title, a middle-grade graphic novel The Man Who Lives Inside His Head will be published by Liza Kaplan at Philomel Penguin Book along with a second unnamed second title. Cassi's grandpa has dementia Cassi doesn't know what that means but she knows her grandpa[...]

Growing Pangs is a new memoir-style middle-grade graphic novel written by Kathryn Ormsbee  (The House in Poplar Wood ), and drawn by Molly Brooks (Sanity & Tallulah series) to be published in the Spring of 2022 by Random House. The graphic novel Growing Pangs "follows 12-year-old Katie as she navigates life as a homeschooler, forms[...]

Kathleen Gros is a cartoonist living in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is the creator behind the upcoming graphic novel Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of) from HarperCollins in September. Well, Gros seems to have now sold a thematic graphic novel sequel (sort of) with Anne, a contemporary middle-grade graphic novel inspired by the classic Anne[...]

And, with Bart Davis, Alejandra Green and Fanny Rodriguez, he is creating a series of middle-grade graphic novels called The Morning Tribe. Photo by Greg2600 – CC BY-SA 2.0 www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600/41258970552 The series follows 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl named Dusk and Dawn, who live in the Amazon River Basin and fight to protect their homeland[...]

ComiXology has announced a new digital graphic novel, Virtually Yours by Jeremy Holt (Before Houdini, After Houdini, Skip to the End) and Elizabeth Beals with lettering by Adam Wollet about dating in the 21st Century, to be published next Tuesday on July the 14th. "We live in a world where the dating app is the preferred tool[...]

but she has now sold her very first graphic novel – and a series of them, to boot. The Brinkley Yearbook is a series of middle-grade graphic novels, Picture Day, School Dance, Tryouts, Class Trip, and an interactive journal, which was auctioned amidst ten editors and six publishing houses to Marisa DiNovis at Knopf, with the first book scheduled[...]

There are two graphic novel imprints called Myriad Which seems quite apposite One is from Vault Comics in the US and Myriad Editions is from Brighton in the UK, who have been around for a little longer And Myriad Editions has been running their First Graphic Novel competition for some years now, and have published[...]

You can see some of his work here. Well, he has now sold his first graphic novel, a middle-grade book The Treasure in the Lake at an auction, bought by Andrew Arnold at HarperAlley Publisher's Weekly describes the graphic novel thus; Iris and Sam, once best friends, now growing apart, discover a hidden city in a mysteriously[...]

This week it was announced that they had both had another graphic novel on the way, Buzzing, tacquired by Andrea Colvin at Little, Brown Buzzing by Samuel Sattin and Jen Hickman is a new middle-grade graphic novel to be edited by Aria Balraj, and published in the winter of 2023 Publisher's Weekly describe it as[...]