Tag: First Second
Scott McCloud’s The Sculptor is coming in 2015
The NY Times has the first official look (aside from iPad sightings over the years) of Scott McCloud's The Sculptor, his first sustained fiction in quite some time. First Second, the publisher, also...
Danica Novgorodoff on The Undertaking of Lily Chen: “I Had to Go On Quite...
Out today from First Second is the latest project from writer/artist Danica Novgorodoff, whose previous works included Slow Storm and Late Freeze. A slight departure from her prior stories, The Undertaking of Lily Chen...
First Second makes its Fall line-up official with Pope, Doctorow, Dalrymple, etc.
First Second just sent out a reminder of its Winter Fall books and here they are, all in one place for your perusal. Everything looks good but our personal favorite is the Doctorow/Wang book, Just...
FIRST LOOK: Ben Hatke’s New First Second Book ‘Little Robot’
With the final part of his 'Zita the Spacegirl' trilogy hitting stores in May, you might have been wondering what Ben Hatke's next project would be. Well wonder no more! Because First Second have...
First Second on their picture books program
First Second is well known for their graphic novels—many of them aimed at young readers— but in an email from markting manager Gina Gagliano, the compay laid out its plan for actual picture books,...
First Second Announce Graphic Novel from Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
First Second have today announced that one of their next big projects will come from the creative team of Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks, who'll be working on an as-yet-unnamed graphic novel together....
Webcomic alert: The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew
The Shadow Hero is a graphic novel due later this year from the team of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew that reimagines the actual comic book hero The Green Turtle—one of the first...
Farel Dalrymple’s The Wrenchies is coming this fall
The beautiful, complex art of Farel Dalrymple has been missing from the shelves in a major way for a while. His Popgun War was exquisite, and his adaptation of Omega the Unknown with...
Editorial: Original Graphic Novels Are Good Business
by Gina Gagliano
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over the original graphic novel format recently – people have been talking about whether doing a preliminary serial or going straight to a graphic novel...
Andre the Giant has a graphic novel — and now a cover
Box Brown's Andre the Giant: Life and Legend GN bio promises to be a sympathetic look at one of the greatest sports entertainment personalities of all times, and the cover has just been released...
NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer
I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days on the site - and we start with a panel...
Gene Luen Yang is a National Book Award Finalist again for Boxers and Saints
It's a double dip for Gene Luen Yang today, as his two volume Boxers and Saints—an intertwined graphic novel telling the story of the China's Boxer Rebellion from the POVs of two different teenagers—has...
