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Celebrating Characters!
Characters -- an obviously essential part of any book! For many authors, a character is where the story thoughts -- creating a persona, an ideology, a background, an appearance for something kicks off where the adventure goes and how it unfolds. And characters really stay in your heart after a story is over! We're excited [...]
First Second Celebrates Ben Hatke!
It's our tenth anniversary this year, and we're excited to be celebrating one of our authors who's been with us for years -- the amazing Ben Hatke, author of the Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the Eisner-nominated Little Robot, and two picture books with comics elements -- Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a [...]
First Second at ALA 2016
test heading We're going to be at the ALA annual conference this week, exhibiting with our parent company, Macmillan Children's. Please come by the booth -- 2118 -- and say hi! What is :01 doing at the show? Here's our schedule! Saturday 9:30am -- Reading Readers with Graphic Novels at the Graphic novel Stage, with [...]
In Conversation with :01 Associate Editor Robyn Chapman
test heading We're delighted to talk with our new :01 Associate Editor about all things comics! What was the first comic you remember reading? Probably Calvin and Hobbes. It's certainly the first comic I remember loving. What about comics inspires you? It's a very personal form of visual storytelling. If you want to make a [...]
First Second Welcomes Editorial Assistant Kiara Valdez!
test heading First Second is delighted to welcome our new Editorial Assistant, Kiara Valdez! Kiara is a graduate of Williams College, and she's interned at Crown, Penguin Random House, and Kodansha. Kiara speaks Japanese, enjoys a broad range of comics and is already bringing her strengths to First Second. What was the first comic you [...]
First Second Celebrates Storytelling
First Second celebrates storytelling this May! The first part of making books is making sure that the stories are good! We try to get that part right 100% of the time here at First Second.
Happy Book Birthday to Something New!
Happy Book Birthday to Lucy Knisley and her amazing new graphic novel: Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride. Lucy Knisley makes the kind of comics that really do bring new readers to the medium -- comics that explore topics outside the purview of typical graphic novels. This one, the story of her wedding (and [...]
First Second Celebrates Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
We're delighted to be celebrating Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki this month! The authors of our amazing graphic novel This One Summer, Mariko and Jillian form an incredible team.
Something New(s)! A Q&A with Lucy Knisley and wedding-themed sweepstakes​
Lucy Knisley’s new graphic memoir, Something New, has many audiences. But being that it’s about weddings, we hoped that brides- (and grooms!)-to-be would fall for it. So we took it as a good sign when the awesome wedding website Borrowed & Blue reached out to us to ask if they could interview Lucy. Below is [...]
First Second Is International
Here at First Second, we're very proud to be an international publisher -- the publisher of many graphic novels in translation, from France to Korea. We truly believe that the world will be better when we understand other countries, other cultures, and other people better -- and what better way to do that than through [...]
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