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Today's Thanksgiving! It is time for the giving of thanks. Here at First Second, we're thankful for many awesome graphic novels -- and the wonderful authors and illustrators who write and draw them. We've had a really great year here at First Second, filled to the brim with fantastic books! And we're looking forward to [...]
test heading  We're so pleased to welcome our new designer, Danielle Ceccolini, to First Second! You will all get to know her better in the coming months and years, but here are a few questions to get you started! What book would you take with you to a desert island? Probably one of those [...]
Manuela Kruger
test heading From Calista Brill, Senior Editor: We got some sad news recently. We lost a member of the First Second family…someone who had a crucial role in bringing more than half our books to print. None of our authors or artists ever met her, and few of them even knew her name. I've worked [...]
test heading (The second printing of two of our Spring 2014 titles -- Andre the Giant and This One Summer. You can tell that they're second printings just from looking at the cover -- we didn't print the first printing with 'New York Times Bestseller' on it.) Figuring out when to reprint books is always [...]
test heading (from Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant -- meeting new people with tea is always the best option.) Congratulations! You're making a graphic novel for the very first time. That means you're a real author now, and you're allowed to put that on your taxes and tell your relatives you really are making [...]
(John Patrick Green is the author of our upcoming graphic novel Hippopotamister, which was just announced this week!) 1. What's your protagonist's favorite flavor of ice cream and why? What's your own favorite flavor of ice cream? Hippopotamister’s favorite flavor of ice cream is Green Tea Soufflé with Lemongrass. The lemongrass is because hippos only [...]
Self-Publishing
test heading A number of :01 authors have self-published their books, before or in addition to making graphic novels published by First Second. Here's what they have to say about these two publishing routes. My experience of self-publishing is limited to mini-comics. My very first comic was spat out of the art school photocopier, the [...]
Getting new books in the office is one of the best times of year! Today, we've received James Kochalka's new graphic novel, The Glorkian Warrior Eats Adventure Pie. We can't wait for this to be out! (And now: photos!) Here's the cover. And here are the two covers together. You can see the spot gloss [...]
test heading (some long books we have published) One of the things that we look for when we're considering acquiring a graphic novel or signing up a new illustrator to work with a writer on an already-acquired graphic novel is their previous work. Specifically: how long is it? Making a graphic novel is very different [...]
test heading This weekend, First Second will be exhibiting at Comic Arts Brooklyn at table U33! Here's our signing schedule. 12:30pm: Box Brown, Andre the Giant 2:00pm: Danica Novgorodoff, The Undertaking of Lily Chen 3:30pm: Jen Wang, In Real Life 5:00pm: George O'Connor, Olympians CAB's Sunday programming will also feature Jillian Tamaki, the co-author of [...]
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