Blog - First Second Books

Happy Book Birthday to Faith Erin Hicks' wonderful new graphic novel! When our author Faith Erin Hicks started reading comics, she found and loved Jeff Smith's Bone -- and then looked for other books that had the same kind of fantasy adventure she loved in the prose writing of Tamora Pierce and Lloyd Alexander.  We're [...]

Emmanuel Guibert was on our first-ever list, with his delightful kids graphic novels Sardine in Outer Space (co-created by Joann Sfar).  And we've published another nine of his graphic novels throughout the years -- ranging from Victorian magical adventure to war photojournalism.  Emmanuel is a wonderful person, a talented and sensitive author and illustrator, and [...]

Happy Book Birthday to our new series -- Science Comics! We're super-excited to be publishing these books that combine science and comics in a fun, engaging, interesting kind of way.  Yay this!  We love this amazing mix of two nerdy things that go excellently together -- just like peanut butter and chocolate. Our first two [...]

Happy Book Birthday to James Kochalka and The Glorkian Warrior and the Mustache of Destiny -- the final book in James Kochalka's fun-filled, zany, brightly colored graphic novel series. If you haven't been checking out these wild stories of our alien protagonist The Glorkian Warrior and his best friend the talking backpack, now's your chance!  [...]

Comics as a form are uniquely qualified to transfer knowledge with their combination of words and pictures.  This month, we're celebrating that!

We're publishing some books this fall!  It's going to be a great season. Here's what we've got in store. Tetris, by Box Brown The Rescue, by Balak, Michael Sanlaville, and Bastien Vives Science Comics: Volcanos, by Jon Chad Demon, by Jason Shiga Mighty Jack, by Ben Hatke The Creepy Casefiles of Margo Maloo, by Drew [...]

Happy Book Birthday to Tony Cliff and Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling! More frequently than I'd like, in publishing, we hear publishing professionals telling us, 'women can't be heroes in this historical book -- because women weren't heroes in history.'  This displays that these people have an inaccurate understanding of history -- but still, [...]

We're very pleased to celebrate Maris Wicks -- whose work you'll recognize from Primates, Human Body Theater, and the upcoming Coral Reefs -- during the month of March!

Today's the publication date for The Show, the latest volume in the Last Man series by Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, and Balak. If you haven't been following along at home, let me recap for you here: magical feudal world, fighting tournament mismatched partnership, victory, surprise dimension-hopping, getting into and out of trouble. And that's where [...]