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Freshman Year, a debut YA graphic novel by Sarah Mai, was picked up by Jessica Anderson at Little, Brown/Ottaviano to be published in the winter of 2024 Described as a book pitched at fans of Check, Please! and Heartstopper, this coming-of-age story inspired by the author's life chronicles the humor and anguish symptomatic of the college transition, all through the eyes[...]

Amazon's original new series, Panic, an adaptation of a popular YA novel of the same name by Lauren Oliver, premiered recently…and I struggle with wanting to continue if another season arrives The potential I saw in this series going into it was fairly good It had a unique sense of tension filling the storyline, an[...]

Forging a friendship that will change the course of their society, Fife and Neitya take their first steps on an epic adventure through an unforgettable world. "The story of a shared journey is one that feels timeless," said creator Sam Beck "It isn't the promise of adventure or the fantastical things you unearth that draw us[...]

A thrilling new series, developed from the adaptation of a YA novel, is headed to Amazon Prime Video next month This will be the adaptation of the young adult novel Panic by Lauren Oliver The setting has a familiar, almost Hunger Games style, as some small-town Texas teens compete in their senior year for a chance at[...]

Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadski's House of El Book One: The Shadow Threat graphic novel was published by DC Comics in January 2021. Telling the story of

On November 29th, courtesy of the Vine And Roses online zine dedicated to the DC Comics character Poison Ivy, ran news about a new YA novel, Poison Ivy: Thorns written by Kody Keplinger and illustrated by Sara Kipin, which "from the description, it looks like a queer gothic romance starring Poison Ivy" Utterly by coincidence, Newsarama[...]

Scheduled for early April 2021, DC Comics has cancelled all retailer orders for the DC YA original graphic novel Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend by Alys Arden, Jacquelin De Leon and Ariana Maher DC Comics has told retailers that the graphic novel will be resolicited for release at a later date, but for now, the book[...]

Bleeding Cool first mentioned Whistle, a new DC Comics YA graphic novel written by E Lockhart and drawn by Manuel Preitano  back in the summer of 2019, a much more innocent age. DC Comics announced upcoming graphic novels yesterday, including my new hero, WHISTLE #dccomics pic.twitter.com/kMRouCGu6E — E Lockhart (@elockhart) June 22, 2019 In August this year, we[...]

Phil Briones is launching a new Kickstarter campaign for his new YA graphic novel Twin Kings Battle this Thursday It covers LGBTQ themes and also influences from manga and Chinese fantasy TV series Without further ado, we present his official press release: "AFTER THE OUTSTANDING SUCCESS OF THE "NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK" ANTHOLOGY, FAIRSQUARE COMICS[...]

Making sweet and spooky comics with horror and fantasy elements, YA comics, and autobiographical stories, she now has a YA graphic novel, The Hills of Estrella Roja, coming from HMH in 2023. Ashley Robin Franklin's YA Graphic Novel 'Hills Of Estrella Roja' A mysterious email lures Kat to a small Texas town to investigate the strange red[...]

I've studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. They both had a comic book featured in the Eisner award-winning comic magazine Panel X Panel, and together have successfully auctioned their first graphic novel together, a young adult reader title, called Frontera, to be published by HarperCollins in 2023. In a supernatural borderland story that combines social[...]

Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo had the best selling book from the Zoom/Ink graphic novel line with Teen Titans: Raven, hitting the bookstore bestseller

A semi-autobiographical YA graphic novel, Out of Left Field, in which a gay teen boy, determined to excel at baseball but decidedly more at home in a history book, discovers his true self. The comic will be published in three years time, in the summer of 2023 His agent, Chad Luibl at Janklow & Nesbit negotiated[...]

Rotante Art: Brittney Williams, Matt Herms, Jack Morelli Cover: Brittney Williams 978-1-64576-985-9 $14.99 US/$17.99 CAN 6 x 9 TR 144 pp, Full Color Direct Market On-Sale Date: 4/22 COSMO THE MIGHTY MARTIAN #5 (of 5) The Martian crew has been captured by the Venusian Queen Hesper and her Battle Princesses! Cosmo is faced with a difficult choice when Hesper offers him a position[...]

Here's the list of PR plans that DC Comics has told retailers that they have arranged for the release of new YA titles Anti/Hero from Kate Karyus Quinn (Another Little Piece), Demitra Lunetta (The Fade) and Maca Gil, and Lost Carnival: Dick Grayson by Michael Moreci (Roche Limit, Suicide Squad Most Wanted) and Sas Milledge (Buffy[...]

Based on comic book writer/artist Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns) and writer/producer Tom Wheeler's (Puss In Boots) upcoming illustrated young adult (YA) book of the same name, the series highlights the Lady of the Lake, a key figure in King Arthur legend Zetna Fuentes (Ray Donovan, Jessica Jones) will direct and serve as an executive producer[...]

Credit: Netflix Netflix went double-dipping on Thursday with two announcement videos: one for an all-star charity event; and the other, for a highly-anticipated YA thriller adaptation First up, the streaming service announced the lineup for Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity comedy special, taping Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium for an April airing; and we also have a[...]

The steady stream of YA novel adaptations continues to flow London-based Big Talk Productions is moving forward with a television adaptation of Jonathan Stroud's best-selling Lockwood & Co series It's been a good week for the supernatural adventure series: the series announcement comes at the same time that The Empty Grave (the fifth and final[...]

What happens when five people enter detention, but only four people end-up walking back out again? Who's guilty? Who's innocent? And how will things change once everyone's dark secrets begin to surface? "Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and[...]

 I was expecting your average panel where authors speak about their upcoming books and the YA genre as a whole, and maybe if you are lucky, you can aquire a freebie or two  What it actually ended up being, was a room with several round tables set up with assorted piles of books in the[...]

Ashleigh Jay is an all-ages writer for Bleeding Cool. She has been reporting from Denver Comic Con and is 12 years old. Given the huge amount of

And the entire project has been so much fun, particularly working with my editor, the divine Beth Brezenoff. Newspaper reading… Lois Lane? Capstone publishes a number of DC Comics-licensed projects, including the Yale Stewart Superman kids books. UPDATE: DC Women Kicking Ass have the full confirmation of Fallout, a YA novel starring Lois Lane, written by Bond for release[...]