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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[...]

Award-winning Graphic Novelist Svetlana Chmokova is back in the fantasy world with The Weirn: Be Wary of The Woods Chmokova has come a long way since she first burst into the world of graphic novels in the mid-2000s She created the fantasy world of The Weirn in her Night School graphic novels in 2009, which[...]

Paradise Villas is a new YA graphic novel by painter Salman Toor and co-writer Alexandra Atiya A coming-of-age story that follows 14-year-old aspiring artist Ozzy and explores issues of queerness and class while bringing its setting of Lahore, Pakistan to life They have been working on the project since at least 2015. Salman Toor is best[...]

Rhiannon is a middle-grade graphic novel by married writer-illustrator team Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki, about three friends who spend a summer in a trailer park in a sleepy Southwest town. Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki also sold their Beatles-inspired graphic novel together, Lucy In The Sky, to First Second, to published in 2021, in[...]

Playdate is a new graphic novel for younger readers by the creator of Firefighter Duckies, Frank W Dormer. Playdate tells the story of four friends, a duck, a snake, a bear, and a land-based narwhal, as they figure out the ups and downs of friendship and problem-solving at the playground. Frank Dormer is the author-illustrator of The[...]

She has created comics for DC Comics and The Nib, while her debut graphic novel, Crossplay from Iron Circus was a Lambda Literary Award nominee This year saw the publication of her graphic novel The Deep & Dark Blue from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, though her tour to accompany it had to be cancelled[...]

She currently lives in Brooklyn and works from her studio in the Pencil Factory. And now Jessica Olien has her graphic novel debut scheduled for 2023 Fox Hall is a middle-grade graphic novel that Publishers Weekly describes as "when 12-year-old Nora is sent away to one of the first boarding schools for girls in Victorian England,[...]

Which states that "Ay Mija! follows Christine as they spend two weeks with their family in Mexico, experiencing their history and finding their voice". Christine Suggs' agents Melissa Edwards and Alyssa Jennette at Stonesong negotiated the deal for both graphic memoirs. Last year, Little, Brown had directive to expand their graphic novel list for years going ahead,[...]

Maybe Someday is a new graphic novel anthology from A Wave Blue Press from Steve Niles, Joe Glass, o, Alisa Kwitney and many more.

Having produced his debut graphic novel in March, Findlay Macbeth, Kev had lined up book and comic festivals galore to promote it at Then came lockdown So, with no schools to visit either, he had no choice but to start work on a thematic sequel. The Prince Of Denmark Street is set in London's Tin Pan[...]

Suspense and thriller novelist Ridley Pearson is writing a new original graphic novel trilogy, The Indestructibles, drawn by Berat Pekmezci, coming from DC Comics in August next year The middle-grade graphic novels will follow a 12-year-old boy, who manifests an inexplicable power after entering a wildfire on a heroic mission; alongside new friends with similar afflictions,[...]

I thought I was the HEIGHT of fashion and honestly I'm not sure I was wrong?" Maybe it began a spark? This week, Publishers Weekly mentioned in one of their rights roundups that Kate Leth's Mall Goth is a new YA graphic novel being published by Simon & Schuster in the spring of 2022 The comic[...]

She was also an editor at Lion Forge Comics, where she worked on the first 12 issues of the comics and tabletop gaming magazine Rolled and Told until 2019, which all should make for excellent Side Quest research. Samuel Sattin is a graphic novelist and writer of comics like Legend, Glint, Bezkamp, and The Silent End,[...]

James Patterson is the best-selling author in the world today, author of the Alex Cross novels as well as Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard, and Private series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, romance novels and graphic novel and manga adaptations of his work His[...]

Anne Camlin and Isadora Zeferino have just sold the rights to a graphic novel queer modern retelling of Jane Austen's Emma as Mismatched. Camlin is a New York-based writer of fiction and comics including the young adult novel, Young Magic and has had comics and prose work featured by Lucky Juice Press and Sparkler Magazine[...]

In August, Oni Press will be publishing her graphic novel Seen: True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers, Edmonia Lewis, with art from Bex Glendinning, about the first sculptor of African-American and Native American heritage to earn international acclaim during the Civil War It just popped up in Oni Press' latest solicitations, for August 2020 but you can[...]