Congratulations to First Second designer par excellence Colleen AF Venable and her partner in crime Stephanie Yue for their Eisner nomination for The Ferret's A Foot, the third book in the Guinea, PI series! We love these critters.

test headingFollowing Gina's excellent example, I thought it might be entertaining and instructive to document how this editor spends a typical day. (Hint: buried in paper.) What follows is a mostly honest account of Monday, April 2, 2012. * 8:00 - 8:10 - arrive at office. Heat up leftover oatmeal and write an email to [...]

It's a mixed bag, folks. On the one hand, the paper-cut incidence rate is WICKED high. And I just gave myself one with a MANILLA FOLDER. Ouch! On the other hand, this.   You saw it here first. It doesn't come out for months, but it's on my desk today. And that? Is worth a [...]

test headingDid you know that Faith Erin Hicks is awesome? Because she is. She's published books about zombies, aliens, and boarding school. She's serialized webcomics. She's even created a beautiful tribute to the Hunger Games book series, and other pieces about favorite books and movies. And her new book, Friends With Boys, is out right [...]

test headingThe Silence of Our Friends was a joy to edit. From early conversations with the two authors and the artist about the story structure and the nature of autobiography to the moment the printed book landed in my hot little hands, I've had nothing but joy in this project. And I could not be [...]

test headingWhen I was a wee thing (that is to say, in my mid-twenties), I read a graphic novel. It looked like this: Same Difference made a strong impression on me. It was a comic, yes, and boy howdy do I love a comic. But I'd never read one that seemed as though it had [...]

test headingDo a little jig, folks, because as of yesterday the world is just a little brighter. Edited by the redoutable Chris Duffy, with an introduction by the resplendent Leonard Marcus, and featuring fifty really remarkable cartoonists, this book gets my ready, resounding recommendation! It makes me laugh, it makes me think, and it makes [...]

test heading Do you remember the first album you bought with your own money? The first one you stayed up late listening to over and over again? Do you remember being a teenager, and feeling like your favorite song is the most important thing in the world? Like all of your feelings are swirling around [...]

test heading Richard Feynman, the subject of Jim and Leland's marvelous graphic novel biography, wrote a book called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. How's that for a title? Finding things out is undeniably pleasurable. Anyone who has ever stepped foot in a library or fallen down a wiki hole cannot deny it. Richard Feynman [...]