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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[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 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, 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[...]

Scholastic has acquired publishing rights to two licensed mystery-solving licenses, the YouTube franchise Spy Ninjas and the murder-mystery game Hunt A Killer And among other things, they will be turning them into comic books. Scholastic To Publish Spy Ninjas and Hunt A Killer Graphic Novels Spy Ninjas with 400 million monthly views and more 38 million subscribers[...]

Amina Mucciolo, founder of Studio Mucci and artist, designer, and entrepreneur, has sold her autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel to Erinn Pascal at Scholastic The fictionalized autobiographical story follows Amina's experience in middle school when she started braiding her hair with bright colors as a way to cope with bullying, body image, and neurodivergence, forging a[...]

Mixed Up, Mixed Bag, and Mixed & Matched were bought by Megan Peace at Scholastic/Graphix and Mixed Up is tentatively slated for the autumn of 2024. Sara Amini & Shadia Amin Sell 3 Mixed Graphic Novels To Scholastic Sara Amini is a writer/actor on Misery Loves Company, writer on The Twilight Zone, voice actor on the Miles Morales: Spider-Man[...]

Two-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and Joanna Cacao have sold two graphic novel memoirs,  The Tryout and its sequel, The Squad, at auction, They were picked up by Tracy Mack at Scholastic/Graphix. Christina Soontornvat & Joanna Cacao Sell The Tryout and The Squad The Tryout and The Squad are middle-grade graphic novel memoirs based on Soontornvat's life about being the only Asian[...]

Danny Lore and Seth Smith have auctioned their debut middle-grade graphic novel by Kicks, picked up by Cassandra Pelham Fulton at Scholastic/Graphix. Kicks is a contemporary quest story with themes of family, friendship, and queer romance that features a pair of Black siblings and their best friend, who must travel and battle their way through the five boroughs of[...]

Including a preview to the Adventures Of Bailey School Kids from Debbie Dadley, Marcia Thornton Jones and Pearl Low – and a preview to that preview below. FCBD Preview: Adventures of Bailey School Kids from Scholastic Graphix FCBD 2021 ADV OF BAILEY SCHOOL KIDS GRAPHIX APR210026 (W) Debbie Dadley, Marcia Thornton Jones (A) Pearl Low Mrs[...]

Including Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter's new graphic novel, Allergic, coming from Scholastic Graphix and being previews on Free Comic Book Day And that preview being previewed below… FCBD Preview: Allergic GN by Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter FCBD 2021 ALLERGIC GRAPHIX APR210025 (W) Megan Wagner Lloyd (A) Michelle Mee Nutter A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring[...]

Recently,   the world's best-selling comic book creator, Dav Pilkey and his publisher Scholastic chose to pull their ten-year-old graphic novel Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Caveman From The Future from sale The publisher and creator decided, in the light of changing attitudes, that they were going to pull the Captain Underpants spin-off over the[...]

It has been picked up for a four-book deal by Jenne Abramowitz at Scholastic and Yasmin Morrissey at Scholastic U.K. Publishers Weekly states that it was "pitched as Toy Story meets SpongeBob, the graphic chapter book series introduces four inflatable pool floats making waves, hatching up air-brained schemes, and having a whole heap of inflatable fun[...]

Tapas Media is a Korea-based, creator-driven digital channel featuring short-form storytelling, and has already distributed 30 episodes of the webcomic, which Scholastic will now adapt into a graphic novel, Magical Boy, for publication later this year. Magical Boy by The Kao Debra Dorfman, Scholastic VP and Publisher – Global Licensing, Media and Brands told Publisher's Weekly that[...]

And she has now sold another graphic novel, Mimi & Penelope, for early readers, to  Scholastic Graphix editor Megan Peace editor and Scholastic Graphix Creative Director of Editorial, David Saylor. Mimi and her magical toy dog, Penelope, live in a bustling apartment in the city, and through their interactions with neighbors and a little sprinkling of[...]

Invisibles by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and The Baby-Sitters Club artist Gaby Epstein is a new bilingual middle-grade graphic novel about what Publisher's Weekly describes as "five very different Latinx students who form an unexpected bond after being forced together to complete community service hours." Scholastic Graphix logo Gonzales and Epstein have sold Invisibles, which is unrelated to[...]

Scholastic is reprinting Anne M Martin's The Baby Sitter's Club series of novels, alongside the released of the Netflix TV show adaptation, and is also catching up with their graphic novel adaptations that first introduced Raina Telgemeir to the wider world So while they have just brought the ninth novel back into print this month,[...]

Scholastic Graphix is the biggest publisher of graphic novels in North America It dwarfs the likes of Marvel and DC in bookstore sales And now, for 2021, is expanding to create titles specifically designed for 7 to 10 years olds, with a new line called Graphix For Younger Readers They already publish books that appeal[...]

Nicholas's work discusses topics such as bullying and violence while providing alternative, positive portrayals of black individuals. Scholastic Graphix to Publish Jamar Nicholas' Leon Graphic Novels In September 2017, Baltimore Comic Con announced Nicholas's launch of Leon: Protector of the Playground, which made its debut at the 2017 Baltimore Comic Con in October At the end of the[...]

We reported last year the gossip that Marvel Comics had been talking to Scholastic, the biggest publisher of graphic novels in the USA with big plans to come – well this is the result. The new multi-year line of middle-grade original graphic novels kicks off with a Miles Morales: Spider-Man story in Spring 2021 New stories[...]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a film based on the popular 90's series of books by K.A Applegate is in active development from Scholastic and Picturesmart "The main plot of Animorphs follows five teens — Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias — who can morph into any animal they touch They use their powers to[...]