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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[...]
Scholastic To Publish Spy Ninjas and Hunt A Killer Graphic Novels
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 Sells Autobiographical Graphic Novel To Scholastic
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[...]
Sara Amini & Shadia Amin Sell 3 Mixed Graphic Novels To Scholastic
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[...]
Christina Soontornvat & Joanna Cacao Sell The Tryout and The Squad
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 & Seth Smith Auction Kicks Graphic Novel to Scholastic
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[...]
FCBD Free Comic Book Day 2021 Preview
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[...]
FCBD Free Comic Book Day 2021 Preview
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[...]
Ook and Gluk Sells For $160 On eBay After Dav Pilkey Pulls It
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[...]
The Inflatables
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[...]
Scholastic To Publish Transgender Tabas Webcomic, Magical Boy
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[...]
Scholastic To Publish Megan Peace and David Saylor's Mimi & Penelope
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[...]
Christina Diaz Gonzalez & Gaby Epstein Sell Invisibles to Scholastic
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[...]
The Baby Sitter's Club Vol 9 For February - Claudia And New Girl
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,[...]
Graphix
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[...]
Scholastic Graphix to Publish Jamar Nicholas' Leon Graphic Novels
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[...]
Marvel and Scholastic Launch Young Readers Original Graphic Novels
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[...]
Animorphs Film In Development, As Well As A Graphic Novel Series
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[...]
Auto Draft
Blizzard and Scholastic have teamed up to bring you a new Overwatch novel based on Efi and Orisa called The Hero Of Numbani The book was announced clear back in October 2019 as being in the works, but we didn't see anything about it at BlizzCon 2019 or heard anything since then until today Now[...]
Scholastic & Cosmic Forces Announce Goosebumps:
Scholastic, Sony Pictures Consumer Products, and Cosmic Forces have teamed up to announced a new video game in Goosebumps: Dead Of Night The game will be a survival horror experience title based on the film series and the R.L Stine's book series Reimagined for consoles and PC, the game followed of events from their hit[...]
Chris Grine Adapts Animorphs as a Graphic Novel for Scholastic
Get ready to relive your 90s childhood, Millennials, as Animorphs is returning, this time as a Scholastic graphic novel by cartoonist Chris Grine How does that bittersweet nostalgia feel? Does it make you feel old? Better get used to it It's all downhill from here. Grine revealed the news in an access journalism EX-X-XCLUSIVE on AV[...]
bone
With Smith (SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil, RASL) set to oversee production, the streaming series follows the exploits of the Bone cousins as they cross a vast, uncharted, harrowing desert into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Scholastic/Jeff Smith Having worked with the characters since he was 10, Smith saw Bone first published[...]
Dav Pilkey's Dog-Man to Party Like It's 1991 With 5 Million Copy Print Run
Following a 3 million copy print run for August's most recent entry in the popular Dog Man comic series by superstar creator Dav Pilkey, comic book publisher Scholastic has announced a 5 million copy print run for Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild, threatening to usher in a new speculator boom like the 1990s which could[...]
RWBY is Getting Its Own YA Book Series from Scholastic
At RTX 2018, Rooster Teeth announced they would be partnering with Scholastic to release a Young Adult book series based on RWBY The series is called After The Fall and will be written by some experienced and award-winning author E.C Myers (Fair Coin, The Silence of Six), along with consulting writing from RWBY head writers[...]