Blog - First Second Books

Tony Cliff's graphic novel Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant is just marvelous, so we're thrilled to have the opportunity to present you with the second volume: Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling.  This book takes Delilah and Selim to England, where they must deal with spies, adventures, and worst of all . . . [...]

James Kochalka's wonderful, brightly-colored, silliness-positive Glorkian Warrior trilogy comes to an end this winter, with The Glorkian Warrior and the Mustache of Destiny.  It features . . . a mustache!  And also some children.  (And coffee.) I love how bright and fun the colors of this book are!  It just looks so inviting. We're publishing [...]

We're delighted to be publishing George O'Connor's latest Olympians graphic novel, Apollo!  This is the story of the god of music, prophecy, and more. Apollo is pictured on the cover here with the muses, obviously important to that whole music deity-ship. We're also publishing a hardcover edition of this graphic novel, as per usual!  It [...]

We're delighted to present our newest nonfiction graphic novel: Omaha Beach on D-Day, based on the classic photograph by Robert Capa, written by Jean-David Morvan and illustrated by Dominique Bertail. This graphic novel celebrates the famous photograph (pictured on the top half of the cover) taken by Robert Capa during the D-Day invasion.  Morvan and [...]

We're over the moon to be publishing Sara Varon's wonderful graphic novel Sweaterweather!  It's an adorable collection of short stories that are some of Sara's finest -- told in a three-color palette. We love this book! (Does this book look familiar to you?  The original edition of Sweaterweather was published by Alternative Comics over ten [...]

We're delighted that today is the day that Paul Pope, JT Petty, and David Rubin's new graphic novel The Fall of the House of West is available for your purchasing pleasure. It's so wonderful that the amount of girls who are also heroes in the comics universe has been growing and growing and growing, and [...]

We're so delighted to be publishing the action-packed, adventure-filled Last Man series.  And now we present the latest volume, which is out this week: The Chase! The magical tournament fighting never stops in these thrilling graphic novels!  This latest tells the story of Adrian and his mother, Marianne, as they venture outside of the Valley [...]

We're so excited to introduce a brand-new series by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes: Secret Coders! This series is super-cool because it combines the classic action-packed school story (think Harry Potter or Sideways Stories) with some information about how to do computer programming. Gene is a computer science teacher, and coding is one of [...]