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test heading First Second won't be exhibiting at TCAF this year, but we have some great authors who'll be there! I hope you can all check out them (and their fantastic graphic novels) at the show. Penelope Bagieu, Exquisite Corpse Box Brown, Andre the Giant Lucy Knisley, Relish Scott McCloud, The Sculptor George O'Connor, Olympians [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Penelope Bagieu's wonderful new graphic novel Exquisite Corpse! We're so excited to be publishing this delightful new book about a young woman named Zoe and the hilarious and wonderful Parisian literary scandal she ends up stumbling into. Penelope Bagieu's art is charming and accessible and adorable -- you won't be able [...]
We're delighted to have early copies of Ben Hatke's marvelous latest graphic novel, Little Robot, in the office! They look fantastic; this book is going to be so good, you guys. This book is the story of a small girl and a robot who become friends. There is also a cat (as pictured on this [...]
test heading This week is Children's Book Week -- the week where the publishing industry encourages you to think about how important books are for kids. (And then there are some events and other fun things happening, too!) The theme for this year's Children's Book Week is comics, which we are absolutely delighted about! In [...]
test heading (from this year's MoCCA Festival!) We're at the beginning of this year's indie/small press convention season, so: it is time for some convention-ing advice! It can be very difficult to go from 'aspiring young cartoonist' to 'person who is fully engaged in the industry who knows everyone and has lots of friends and [...]
test heading (here is an unrelated picture of some books) Everyone thinks they know best -- especially when it comes to their job, the thing that they do professionally, the job they have because (presumably) they do it better than anyone else. And in a lot of cases, people do have jobs because they can [...]
test heading (these are the illustrations in my copy of Mary Poppins -- they're by Mary Shepard!) Mary Poppins may be "practically perfect in every way," but she's a fictional character. And also magical. First Second is a pretty awesome publisher, but I have to admit: we are neither fictional or magical, which means that [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Last of the Sandwalkers!
Jay Hosler's Last of the Sandwalkers is awesome! This science fiction graphic novel is full of actual-factual real-life bugs that mostly behave the way that real-life bugs would (besides the talking and having scientific adventures) because the author of this delightful graphic novel, Jay Hosler, is a real-life biologist. So check out this graphic novel [...]
We're delighted to present the first of a number of Adventures in Cartooning picture book comics: Sleepless Knight, by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost. We started publishing the Adventures in Cartooning graphic novels back in 2009, with the eponymously-titled Adventures in Cartooning, a wonderful story of knights, dragons, and ice cream adventures. (It's [...]
test heading (pictured: our MoCCA Art Festival table last year) First Second will be exhibiting at this year's MoCCA Art Festival! You can find us at table 404. We'll be there with amazing authors Box Brown (Andre the Giant), Jillian Tamaki (This One Summer), and MoCCA Art Festival Guest of Honor Scott McCloud (The Sculptor)! [...]
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