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My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary
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[...]
Scholastic UK Announce A New Graphic Novel Prize
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[...]
Black Panther Graphic Novel Joins Scholastic Book Fair 'Segregation'
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[...]
Black Panther Graphic Novel Joins Scholastic Book Fair 'Segregation'
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,[...]
Now Ohio Parents Object To Heartstopper in Scholastic Book Fair
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
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[...]
Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder,
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, One Of 2023's Biggest Selling Comics
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[...]
Kitty Sweet Tooth's Abby Denson & Utomaru on My Tokyo Summer OGN
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[...]
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur Get A Wreck & Roll Graphic Novel For 2024
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[...]
Preparing For a New Volume of America's Best-Selling Superhero Dog-Man
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[...]
All Four Distributors Together For The First Time At ComicsPRO
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,[...]
Diary of a Nature Nerd
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[...]
Cover image for SHANG-CHI AND THE TEN RINGS 1 CHEUNG VARIANT
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[...]
Gender Queer Maia Kobabe's New Kids Graphic Novel, Saachi's Stories
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[...]
A New Bone Graphic Novel from Jeff Smith For 2023
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[...]
Scholastic Buy Rights to City of Dragons Graphic Novels for 6 Figures
"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[...]
How to Be American
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[...]
Dog Man To Meet Captain Underpants In New Dav Pilkey Comic
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[...]
Dav Pilkey Launches Online Epic Comic Club to Get Kids Creating Comics
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[...]
Scholastic Editor Calls For YA Books & Graphic Novels About Abortion
Y'all @Variety @CondeNast are in a unique position to possibly Help if you choose to do so." Emily Seife, PR shot It was an excellent point, will such companies so more than pay lip service to this issue? Well, Emily Seife, Senior Editor at Scholastic Press, the biggest publisher of comic books in America, and who recently[...]
Dreamer: Akim Aliu Autobio Comic Coming in 2023 from Scholastic
Scholastic is teaming with Kaepernick Publishing — yes, the publishing company of football player Colin Kaepernick — to publish Dreamer, an autobiographical novel by and about Akim Alui, the Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian pro hockey player and activist, "about his life growing up in Ukraine and Canada, the systemic racism he faced throughout his childhood and hockey career,[...]
Aron Nels Steinke Mr. Wolf's Class
Wolf's Class series, has sold a yet-untitled middle-grade graphic novel by Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix, to be published in the summer of 2024. Aron Nels Steinke's unnamed graphic novel will tell the story of a seventh-grader has a social anxiety disorder called selective mutism and does not speak at school; she starts to use her[...]
How Marvel Comics First Overtook DC Comics In 1972
Today, the best-selling publisher of comic books in America is Scholastic The second is Random House But in the last half of 1972, that was suddenly Marvel Comics for the first time One of the earliest comic book retailers and comic historian Bob Beerbohm (author of Comic Book Store Wars) set up the Californian comic book store and[...]
 Liam Francis Walsh's middle grade graphic novel Red Scare.
He tweeted out this cover back in 2014. Liam Francis Walsh's Red Scare Graphic Novel to be published in the spring of 2022 And tweeting out "This is Peggy, the protag of my #graphicnovel in progress, #RedScare! #comics" Liam Francis Walsh's Red Scare Graphic Novel to be published in the spring of 2022 Or this panel from 2019… Liam Francis[...]
Next Million-Selling Superhero Comic, Cat Kid: On Purpose, For April
The second Dog Man spinoff, Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey, just had its second volume, Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives, published by Scholastic Graphix, with a print-run of around two million copies And a third volume has now been announced for the 5th of April, 2022, Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose., in[...]
Scholastic Buys Fahmida Azim's Graphic Novel Mega Megha At Auction
Eight different publishers were in the bidding, which was won by Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix The first of the two books, Mega Megha, follows "spunky American preteen Megha Malik, who seeks to prove how grown-up she is by fasting for Ramadan for the first time as she navigates the stresses of awkward school lunches,[...]
Parachute Kids, a New Middle-Grade Graphic Novel by Betty C. Tang
Parachute Kids has been picked up by Tracy Mack at Scholastic/Graphix for publication in 2023. Parachute Kids, a New Middle-Grade Graphic Novel by Betty C Tang Betty C Tang is a New York Times bestseller illustrator whose work includes the Jacky Ha-Ha graphic novel series She earned her BFA from CalArts and after a successful animation career, she is now concentrating on[...]
Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter Sell Scholastic Two New OGNs
Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter, creators of Allergic and the upcoming Squished graphic novels have sold two more to Scholastic. Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix has acquired world rights to their two standalone middle-grade graphic novels, Luna and Ouch In Luna, a 12-year-old girl and her father have moved to the town where her late mother grew up, and[...]