Dark Horse puts Alex De Campi, Skylar Partridge and Kelly Fitzpatrick's magical realism webtoon comic Reversal into print next year
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Scholastic, the biggest comic book publisher in the English language, announced the publication of The Cartoonists Club, a new graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, for the 1st of April 2025 The Cartoonists Club intends to teach readers how to create their own comic books and cartoon strips It has a first printing[...]
The Week Junior Book Awards, run in partnership with The Bookseller, alongside WHSmith, World Book Day, and LoveReading4Kids, have launched the shortlists for this year's awards including Children's Graphic Novel Of The Year Judges include graphic novelists Dave McKean, Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph, Ricky Boleto, Joseph Coelho, Sophie Dahl, Jess French, S F Said, Nadia Shireen, [...]
K-Fai Steele of A Normal Pig and All Eyes on Ozzy! has just auctioned the world rights to her debut middle grade graphic novel Best Buds, about a friendship that blooms between two girls over their love of gardening, library books, and crows, while exploring the roles they play in community care.
Joanna Cárdenas at Kokila[...]
Sea Legs is a new middle grade graphic novel by Jules Bakes and Niki Smith, a graphic memoir about a girl who lives and travels with her family on a schooner the size of a school bus, encountering new cultures, turbulent friendships, and hurricane season along the way Jules Bakes spent her childhood sailing around[...]
The Ernest franchise is getting a revival for the first time in decades as a graphic novel written by Corey Perkins and announced on Ernest Day, the 8th of June Yes, apparently, Ernest has a day Launching on Kickstarter later this year, there is a holding page for now.
I am told that pretty much everyone[...]
She left the party in 2018.
She wrote and illustrated the children's book Maja z Księżyca, nominated for the City of Warsaw Literary Award, was published by The Nib and the New Yorker, and worked on art for video games at 11 bit studios.
She contributed to Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison,[...]
Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar, considered by many to be the godfather of Palestinian hip-hop, is writing two books, the second to be a graphic novel, 2 ATMs, due out in 2028, set in the author's hometown of Lyd, Israel, and features "a man caught between his day job as an upstanding bank clerk and his night[...]
Chasing Sunspots is Victoria Ying's upcoming YA graphic novel about a high school girl who, in her attempt to find validation for her art and chase her dreams to enter the comics industry, finds the strength and self-worth to overcome a manipulative relationship with a much older cartoonist Ying says that she "wrote the story in[...]
It's meant so much to me to be able to write this story the way I was able, and it just tells me that Ablaze really values it, too.
Thank you, Mark.
Thanks for talking to me.
The Kickstarter for the Traveling to Mars graphic novel collection is running until June 26th.
Traveling to Mars is one of[...]
Kami Garcia and Brittney Williams are creating a new middle-grade graphic novel together, Mixed-Up, that follows Stella, a fifth grader who loves her friends, her favourite animated series, and school, until she struggles to keep up with reading and discovers she has dyslexia It will be published by Calista Brill at First Second.
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Unfinished by Nidhi Chanani is a new YA graphic novel interweaving a contemporary story of family grief with a historical story in a way that highlights the process of comic book making In group counselling, 15-year-old Sanjay Lal sets out to finish a historical comic his older brother began before his death about a group of Indian[...]
Rocking Spurs: The Anti-Bullying Tour, is a graphic novel adaptation of the novel Rocking Ten by author KD Beckett, and drawn by Robert Plante Intended to investigate Indigenous identity in Canada, nearly 1,500 copies have been sent to schools across the country for educational purposes But the book has drawn outrage from Métis leadership[...]
Quiet Appetites is an upcoming YA graphic novel by Casey Gilly and Morgan Beem, about a family who moves to the rural English countryside and is haunted by something ancient As someone living in the English countryside right now, and feeling rather ancient myself, it may have much to appeal Samia Fakih at First Second has[...]
Heartache is the debut graphic novel work of Kelsi Jo Silva as both a writer and artist A YA graphic novel about overcoming and surviving domestic abuse with the help of found family, follows a young witch who accidentally transforms her father into a literal monster during a fight and must partner with her nemesis-turned-friend[...]
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout is an upcoming YA historical fiction graphic novel with two intertwined timelines: one a modern-day family drama, the other a courageous tale of art and resistance under Nazi occupation Mark Siegel at First Second has bought world rights to Song of a Blackbird, excluding Dutch, in a[...]
The Dream Frontier is a new shounen-inspired YA graphic novel series written by Tony Weaver Jr and drawn by Irene Yeom The story follows Sygnus, a Black teen who uses a mysterious virtual reality competition game to help understand himself and his place in the world.
Tony Weaver Jr is the CEO of Weird Enough Productions,[...]
Yevgenia Nayberg writes and draws My Chernobyl Year, a middle-grade graphic memoir about Soviet life in Ukraine during the Chornobyl disaster
Guerra was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the category Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2023.
She is now creating a new YA graphic novel, Frostbite, with her husband, Ian Boothby, and they have sold the world rights to Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic Graphix Megan Peace will edit "In this YA graphic novel thriller, siblings Jen[...]
Paul Davidson and artist Julian Hanshaw have sold world rights to their latest graphic novel, H2O, to Top Shelf Productions editor-in-chief Chris Staros, through IDW Entertainment, in a pre-emptive purchase, representing themselves.
"H20 is a sci-fi fable about a young man born into a sterile, conformist dystopia, until mysterious events – his house inexplicably filling with[...]
In January, Bleeding Cool reported on The Graphic Novel Prize, a new annual prize from the UK wing of Scholastic, the biggest comic book publisher and distributor in the US and the UK, with a monetary award for each winning graphic novel of £1,000, but also that shortlisted titles had to pay £1750 towards promotion[...]
Camp Prodigy is a new Atheneum for Young Readers graphic novel by Caroline Palmer about two teenagers who meet and bond at a music summer camp and bond over their musical talent and gender identities After attending an incredible concert, Tate Seong is inspired to become a professional violist There's just one problem: they're the[...]
And has now sold the rights to his new graphic novel series, Dadbot to Piccadilly Press Ruth Bennett, editorial director, at Piccadilly Press, acquired world rights in a three-book deal from Jack Noel's agent Claire Wilson at RCW The first book in the deal, Dadbot, will be published in March 2025 Jack Noel calls it[...]
Founder member of the first rockstar-style comedy troupe, Mary Whitehouse Experience radio and TV shows, Newman & Baddiel, Fantasy Football League, co-writer/performer of Three Lions On A Shirt, and author of Jews Don't Count, Baddiel is now writing a graphic novel.
Flying South, to be published by HarperCollins Children's Books is drawn by the graphic novel's[...]
In an exclusive report from Deadline Hollywood from earlier today, Fifth Season has acquired the rights to adapt writer John Wagner (Judge Dredd co-creator, A History of Violence) and illustrator Arthur Ranson's (Sapphire & Steel, Judge Anderson: Psi Division) graphic novel Button Man This isn't the first effort to adapt the work – with names[...]
Svetlana Chmakova is one of the most beloved creators in the world of middle-grade graphic novels due to her Berrybrook Middle School series, which includes Awkward, Brave, and Crush Prior to her rise in the middle-grade category, Svetlana Chmakova was known for her young adult graphic novel series Nightschool, a supernatural tale published by Yen Press over[...]
Because three years after that last post, and five years after it was first announced, Robbie Morrison and Charlie Adlard's graphic novel Heretic is being published by Image Comics in September/October this year, and spotted in the Image Comics July 2024 solicits and solicitations and listed on Amazon.
HERETIC HC (MR) September 24, 2024
(W) Robbie Morrison[...]
Kim sends Fantastic Frog and The Amazing Tad Lad on a mission- Retrieve the Legendary Sawgrass Blade! They are going to need it if they want to defeat a mysterious, unknown swamp baddie terrorizing a nearby earthworm colony." Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad has now been picked up by Peter Phillips at Tundra[...]
Now he has a new graphic novel, Flesh And Blood, s folklore horror tale set in the Scottish Highlands, which has been seen at comic book conventions this year, but now coming to comic book stores worldwide in August, written by novelist and screenwriter Simon Lewis described as "Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber's Whiteout meets[...]
Rebis: Born and Reborn by Irene Marchesini and Carlotta Dicataldo, is a new YA graphic novel about a runaway child and an alleged witch whose lives are forever changed when they meet in a medieval forest.
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