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Peter Lantos' memoir, The Boy Who Didn't Want To Die is to be adapted as a graphic novel by Victoria Stebleva and published by Scholastic. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a survivor of Bergen-Belsen Paperback – 2 Jan 2025 A story of survival, of love between mother and son and[...]

And maybe it's a suggestion that graphic novel publishers need to slowly shift emphasis from Middle-Grade titles to Young Adult books as 2023 saw YA sales as a whole increase 6.2%, while sales in the juvenile category remain lackluster, withasles down 2.9% in fiction and off 3.4% in nonfiction. But nevertheless, the Dog Man comic book[...]

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[...]

At turns laugh-out-loud hilarious and heartbreakingly poignant, this stunning graphic memoir charts both the turbulence and joys of growing up." They sold world English rights, at auction to Maya Marlette at Scholastic Graphix, a two book deal with publication of Sea Legs for February 2025 Jules Bakes and Niki Smith's agent Charlie Olsen at InkWell Management handled[...]

Failing a cataclysmic cultural quake – or the book being delayed a month – Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, the thirteenth volume by Dav Pilkey will be published on the 3rd of December by the biggest comics publisher in the USA, Scholastic, ahead of the animated movie out in January Which might drive sales even[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Mob Entertainment revealed they have penned a new multi-year deal with Scholastic to release a new series of Poppy Playtime books Based on the video game franchise of the same name, these books will offer a more in-depth look at the story behind the title Starting with the Poppy Playtime Orientation Notebook, taken from the[...]

Studying at the Dublin Institute of Technology, as well as graphic design in Colaiste Dhulaigh, Aoife Dooley specialises in observational comedy in Dublin, and as well as publishing books anf graphic novels like How To Be Massive, How To Deal With Poxes, Frankie's World and Finding My Voice, her webcomic Your One Nikita, was adapted[...]

As you may have guessed. Jim Smith Auctions His Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary Graphic Novel Series But what isn't smelly is that Scholastic beat off five other publishers in an auction for the series Polly Lyall Grant, Scholastic's fiction editorial director won  world rights for three books from Jim Smith's agent Caroline Sheldon at the Caroline[...]

The Graphic Novel Prize is a new prize from the UK wing of the biggest comic book publisher and distributor in the US and the UK, Scholastic, and will be awarded in three categories: Graphic Novel for Younger Readers (6-8); Graphic Novel for Older Readers (9-12); and Graphic Novel for Teens There is a monetary[...]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on a new policy from Scholastic regarding their popular book fairs, with 120,000 held  in schools and libraries across the country, that would allow schools to opt out of providing diverse books that scholastic publishers, including Black Panther graphic novels licensed from Marvel Comics This came in the light[...]

Scholastic is the vast provider of these, with 120,000 across US schools It is also the reason that it is the biggest graphic novel publisher in North America, by far, Earlier this month, librarians posted that Scholastic had a new policy that would allow schools to opt out of providing diverse books at Scholastic book fairs,[...]

Fox19 reports that a group of parents in Maineville, Ohio, want a special committee to screen books sold at book fairs, after complaining about the presence of Heartstopper graphic novels by Alice Oseman after copies were sold at Little Miami School District's Scholastic Book Fair in August. They report one parent Silas Shelton who states, "It's more than[...]

Refugee: The Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz and Syd Fini is a graphic novel adaptation of Gratz's prose novel Refugee which follows "three young people from different time periods, all seeking refuge—Josef, fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939; Isabel, escaping Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1994; and Mahmoud, leaving war-torn Syria in 2015—and how their stories unexpectedly intertwine." Alan Gratz[...]

Scholastic has announced the 19th of March 2024 for the publication of Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder, in a series which has more than 60 million copies in print, has been translated into 45 languages and is basically America's answer to Asterix The initial publication will be in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and[...]

Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers is the new Dog Man spinoff graphic novel by Dav Pilkey and is set to be one of the best-selling comic books in the English language – but will probably come second this year to Dog Man himself! Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers will be published by Scholastic Graphix on[...]

My Tokyo Summer by Abby Denson of Cool Japan Guide and Utomaru, who previously collaborated with her on Kitty Sweet Tooth, is a YA graphic memoir in which Abby, an art student based in New York City, embarks on a life-changing adventure when she enrolls in a summer session in Tokyo and collaborates on a comic with her Japanese[...]

Disney and Marvel like to keep things tight, even though this book is being published by the biggest comics publisher in the English-speaking world, Scholastic. Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur TV show Previous Scholastic Marvel graphic novels include the Avengers Assembly, Shuri and Miles Morales series, Ms Marvel: Stretched Thin and Captain America: The Ghost Army[...]

On the 28th of March, Scholastic Graphix will release Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea, the eleventh graphic novel in the series that already has more than 60 million copies in print That's an average of six million copies for each volume, though most volumes sell around five million, and the first volume[...]

Cebulski will be there to pass it on to David Gabriel. Flickr: /Jiuguang Wang  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Companies planning to attend will include 2000 AD/Rebellion Publising, A Wave Blue World, Anomaly Productions, Bad Idea Comics, Battle Quest Comics, BCW Supplies, BINC, Book County Clearance House, Boom Studios, CEX Publishing, Comic Shop Assistant, Comic Hub, DC,[...]

Much of her children's book illustration work is inspired by nature and science. Megan Peace at Scholastic/Graphix has bought Diary of a Nature Nerd in an exclusive submission Diary of a Nature Nerd will be published in the spring of 2025 Tiffany Everett posted on Instagram "This feels completely surreal to finally share… I'm writing and illustrating[...]

Bleeding Cool reveals today that Shang-Chi and the Quest for Immortality by Victoria Ying is an upcoming original graphic novel from Scholastic, licensed from Marvel Comics, and starring the Shang Chi characters who featured prominently in the recent Shang Chi movie. Victoria Ying works in animation and graphic novels with film credits including Tangled, Wreck it[...]

Scholastic has paid a six-figure sum in an auction for the world publishing rights to Saachi's Stories, a new middle-grade graphic novel written by Maia Kobaba and drawn by Lucky Srikumar for the Scholastic Graphic imprint, to be edited by David Leviathan Saachi's Stories is a "coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel follows aspiring author Saachi, who struggles to[...]

Jeff Smith has signed a deal with David Saylor and Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix for a new Bone graphic novel to be published in the autumn of 2023  Bone: More Tall Tales is to be a graphic anthology of stories written by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski, and drawn by Jeff Smith, Stan Sakai, Katie[...]

"As dangers mount, Grace, Nate, and friends go on the offensive and wake the other Dragon Kings, but as they fly to wake the eastern king, miscommunication leads to disaster—as they deal with death, grief, and healing." David Saylor, vice president and creative director at Scholastic Book Group has bought the City of Dragons: The[...]

Chris tries to fit in at school despite his limited English, constant bullying, and a class project about personal heritage that makes him feel like he's standing out for all of the wrong reasons. Chris Choi Has Auctioned How To Be American To Scholastic Graphix Chris Choi Has Auctioned How To Be American To Scholastic Graphix Chris Choi[...]

Kickturn is a middle-grade graphic novel by Brie Spangler of the upcoming Fox Point's Own Gemma Hopper, this time about a 10-year-old girl travelling the

Alongside the just-announced Dog Man: Twenty-Thousand Fleas Under The Sea, next year Scholastic will publish a 26-year anniversary edition of the first Captain Underpants book, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, featuring a bonus 32-page all-new comic mash-up starring Dog Man and Captain Underpants, bringing together two characters in a never-before-told story. Dog Man To Meet Captain Underpants[...]

Alongside the announcement of the eleventh Dog Man graphic novel  by Dav Pilkey, Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea  the best-selling superhero comic book series in the world, publisher Scholastic Graphix has launched a new online portal to encourage kids to create their own comic books. Dav Pilkey Launches Online Epic Comic Club to[...]