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test heading Readers, you'll be unsurprised to learn that our plans for this week involve going to the ALA annual conference -- and that we're very excited about it. Being the publisher of the first ever graphic novel to win a Caldecott Honor makes this an automatically amazing conference for us this year, and we're [...]
(we're delighted to present this Q&A with Faith Erin Hicks in honor of this week's publication of a mass market edition of her first graphic novel with us, Brain Camp!) What's your protagonist's favorite flavor of ice cream and why? What's your own favorite flavor of ice cream? I'm going to say Lucas probably likes [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Dominique Roques and Alexis Dormal's delightful new picture book comic Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion! This lovely story tells of the adventures of Anna Banana and her pet stuffed animals, who endeavor to bake a cake. As you can see, there are exciting (and messy) times in store for them [...]
Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem, and Koren Shadmi's graphic novel Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv, comes out today! We're so pleased to be publishing this powerful nonfiction graphic novel that takes you through the events of a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv. The events of this story are [...]
New book! We just got advance copies of Maris Wick's wonderful upcoming nonfiction graphic novel Human Body Theater in the office! They look fantastic and amazing. Bright! Colorful! Stuffed full of science! Here is the cover. You guys! It's a theater! And all the body parts are the players. We did a hardcover and a [...]
New book new book! We're delighted to present the second volume of our Stratford Zoo series, wherein the animal inhabitants of the Stratford Zoo perform the works of Shakespeare for their compatriots! The first volume was Macbeth; this one is Romeo and Juliet -- a tragic love story for the ages! Aw, it's rooster-Romeo and [...]
We're delighted to present our latest book by Gene Luen Yang, with art by Mike Holmes: Secret Coders! This is the first of a new series that will teach kids about how computer programming works. How awesome is that? Pictures! We're doing a hardcover and a paperback version of this book -- here are the [...]
New book! We're delighted to have in the office the companion to Nursery Rhyme Comics and Fairy Tale Comics, our multi-author anthologies for kids edited by Chris Duffy! It's: Fable Comics! We love this anthology series! It's so great -- and a wonderful introduction to comics for a really young audience. Here's the cover -- [...]
We're delighted to be publishing Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado's Dragons Beware!, the companion to their debut graphic novel Giants Beware! These two adventures are super-awesome because they're full of great female protagonists who look and think differently from each other. (And there's also a boy who cookies, clearly an awesome thing.) Put those in [...]
New book new book! It's always a good day when we get new books in the office. And it's an especially good day when we get new volumes of the adorable Adventures in Cartooning books in! Here are some pictures of our upcoming picture book comic, Gryphons Aren't So Great! It's the companion to Sleepless [...]
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