FIRST SECOND aims for high quality, literate graphic novels for a wide age-range, from Middlegrade to Young Adult to Adult readers. Toward that end I am endeavoring to upgrade the editorial process and the art direction that go into making book-length comics. I have already begun to sign on talented storytellers, including prize-winning novelists and non-fiction writers, top playwrights and screenwriters. On the artistic side, I'm assembling an inspiring line-up of exceptional talents from all over the world.

In so many ways, the dream of FIRST SECOND is about building bridges.

Bridges between fields
For playwrights for instance, the appeal of a high caliber graphic novel lies in its ability to give intact and uncompromised form to their vision before submitting it to producers, committees or the hollywood mill. For novelists, poets and essayists, the graphic form offers a unique platform to reach a large audience all over the planet and to amplify their voice through a very new and exciting medium, in collaboration with some of the best artists working today.

Bridges between countries
FIRST SECOND's list is highly international, bringing together works from around the globe. It also provides a wonderful arena for the cross-pollination of talents from the Five Continents who can collaborate in almost limitless ways and touch readers across borders.

Bridges between genres
The list already includes Fiction of all kinds, as well as non-Fiction such as personal memoirs, biographies, history, comics journalism and visual essays. Another important aspect of the graphic novel is its ability to blur age categories and span a readership - to use Tintin's slogan - "From 7 to 77 years old."

Seeking the rarity
FIRST SECOND is committed to quality, aiming for the highest literary, artistic and production standards. The works of true authors and artists, as opposed to the old style of mass-produced disposable comics, these books are intended to be works of lasting value.