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 Happy Book Birthday to Tetris by Box Brown! Box does it again—an enthralling nonfiction work about another 1980s pop culture icon... TETRIS! This fascinating true story of how the game was developed in a Soviet government computer lab and how it took over the free world.
 Happy Book Birthday to a very special member of the First Second family: Demon Volume 1 by Jason Shiga. If you're a fan of Meanwhile, get ready for something totally different. Jason's four-volume epic is NOT for kids. SERIOUSLY. Demon is unlike anything First Second has published before. It follows Jimmy Yee, a man [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Andy Hirsch's Varmints! Clever, explosive, and deeply moving by turns, Varmints is a perfect middle-grade comedy. Hirsch brings an old-school Western style to bear on a story full of nuance, humor, and surprises. Make sure to pick up a copy today!
See us at NYCC!
test heading It’s Comic Con time in New York and we are so excited to share what First Second will be up to this year. We’ll be located in booth 2239, stop by and say hello! Wednesday, October 5 6:30 PM: French Embassy Exhibition Party at Cooper Union Thursday, October 6 11:30 AM - 12:00 [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Drew Weing's The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo! In the first volume of this new middle-grade series, Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Make sure to pick up a copy and join snarky blogger Charles and monster mediator Margo [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Ben Hatke’s best work yet—Mighty Jack, the first of two volumes in a modern-day graphic novel retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mighty Jack is a vivid, warm, and sensitive epic fairytale adventure. It's a story of how a few magical seeds push three kids to each be their own kind of [...]
Happy Book Birthday to the newest book from Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes' awesome Secret Coders series, Paths & Portals! The Secret Coders series really picks up steam in the second volume, Paths & Portals. We learn more about the secret history of Stately Academy. And Josh,who you might have written off as an annoying [...]
Collaboration is a vital part of the comics-making experience -- it's so often that comics are made by more than one person. And comics are never a solo endeavor! Between editing, design, production, and the whole publishing process, there are always other people behind the scenes in making the comics we read. We're celebrating collaboration [...]
test heading Congratulations to Andrew Arnold, the new Associate Art Director managing First Second graphic novel design. Â Andrew will now be responsible for art direction and design for graphic novel titles both at First Second and those graphic novels published by First Second's sister companies FSG BYR and Roaring Brook. Andrew started working at our [...]
We're delighted to be publishing the Last Man series, by Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, and Balak. These books are such fun magical adventures -- delightful, fun, and charming stories with dynamic, engaging artwork. There are five volumes so far, with a sixth coming this fall -- please do check these out!
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