test headingSome of you ask who is behind FIRST SECOND... If you've been wandering around this website, you've met me, and Simon Boughton and Lauren Wohl at the FAQ page... Let's continue then, and introduce some of the teammates... KAT KOPIT "Signals Office" Kat came onboard as an editorial assistant, and has become invaluable, as [...]
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE made it to YALSA's TOP TEN Best Books of the Year for Young Adults! American Born Chinese, Kampung Boy, and Deogratias all made the larger ALA list of Best Books.
Several mentions of ABC, winner of the Printz Award, in mainstream media: USA Today (print edition)—Life section; mention in larger piece on awards http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-01-22-childrens-books-awards_x.htm Seattle Post Intelligencer—mention in larger piece on awards http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/300670_kidbook23.html Washington Post—feature http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201463.html
test headingYay! That classy Jessa Crispin of BOOKLSUT, has our first Eddie Campbell mention for 2007: The book I'm most excited about in 2007 is Eddie Campbell's Black Diamond Detective Agency . As I have said a billion times before, Campbell's Fate of the Artist was one of my favorite books of last year. And [...]
This just in from the American Library Association Midwinter conference: AMERICAN BORN CHINESE IS THE FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL TO WIN THE PRINTZ AWARD. More about it all soon! Congratulations, Gene!
test headingCOMING THIS SPRING: one of the most beautiful graphic novels in existence. One of the most romantic. And one of the funniest. Did anyone notice that PW Comics Week in their end-of-the-year staff picks totally snubbed the French? No mention of Deogratias? No mention of Joann Sfar or Lewis Trondheim, even in the extensive [...]
test heading Lauren Wohl, who is one of First Second's publishers as well as the marketing goddess, just sent the following lovely Sardine moment: Sitting in the Orlando airport, waiting to meet a colleague, surrounded by families carrying oversized stuffed Plutos, sporting Mickey backpacks, and wearing Minnie tee-shirts... I have half an hour, a cup [...]
test headingCAMPBELL: There must have been a terrific demand for Kampung Boy over the years. I wonder if you can tell us how many copies of it have sold all together since it was first published in 1979? LAT: I can’t tell you off hand the total number....it had gone through the 11th reprint a [...]
test heading (An editorial cartoon from Lat, from the beginning of 2007 -- click to enlarge) CAMPBELL: A couple of the books I have here are collections of your newspaper cartoons. We would probably refer to them as ‘political cartoons’. I would imagine this is your ‘bread and butter’ work, but I’ve read that you [...]
test headingEddie Campbell interviews Mohammed Nor Khalid, aka LAT, author of KAMPUNG BOY, and the upcoming TOWN BOY. Lat is revered throughout Southeast Asia for his work of many years as the greatest cartoonist from Malaysia. First Second is honored to launch its author on author interviews with this gem in three parts -- special [...]
