test heading Ugh, where can I even start with this book? Well, let me give you a quote from a recent Booklist review that pretty much sums it up: If David Lynch scripted Dick Tracy it might—might—be as great as this. Red Handed is ... it's a crime story about crime stories, and it's also [...]
test heading This book had a long, winding road to travel, but it's finally here! A "typical" (ha! as though there is such a thing as typical in this business) graphic novel starts life as a script, then it gets arted, then sent to the printer, and then, pretty soon, it's a book. Nothing Can [...]
test heading It's convention season! When you work at a graphic novel publisher, you attend a lot of conventions and a lot of small-press shows. And you start to notice patterns - you get a sense of what works and what doesn't work for the folks who have tables at a show like MoCCA or [...]
test heading This is a photograph of my computer monitor at work. On top of it is a rubber stamp that MK Reed gave me a few years ago. It reads, I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams That text document is my to do list. [...]
test headingToday's the publication date of Lucy Knisley's splendid graphic-memoir-by-way-of-cookery, Relish. If you live in Boston, New York City, the Hudson River Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, or Toronto, you should attend one of her events and get yourself a signed book! It was my great pleasure to edit Relish, and it's the peculiar lot [...]
Everyone at First Second is sending our very best wishes to Fantagraphics co-pubisher Kim Thompson, who is dealing with some really scary health stuff right now. Fantagraphics has been showing the world how it's done for over thirty years, and it's probably safe to say that First Second wouldn't exist without them. Kim Thompson is [...]
test headingMonday, March 4, 2013 Â 7:30am - Arrive at the Flatiron. No, I don't usually get into work at 7:30, but it's awesome to do it every week or two because it gives you chance to bang out a bunch of emails before people start replying to them and requiring you to write still [...]
test heading...And all you got is this lousy blog post. Hey guys! :01 Senior Editor Calista Brill here, with a report on my doings in New Delhi, India, where I went to run the First Second booth at the third annual Comic Con India. New Delhi is a big city, but it's a small world, [...]
Fourteen hours in a jet plane will get you a sore butt all the way from First Second in NYC to New Delhi, India, where the third annual Comic Con India is about to take place. Reader, I boarded that jet plane. Comic Con India has a bunch of terrific publishers at their show this [...]
test heading Edited 1/23/2013 There's been some discussion about this article, and it seems like it could use a little clarification and context. This post is specifically about the question of comics as a financially viable career, and how heavily to weight the opinion of publishers or other industry pros in your decision to pursue [...]
