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First Second Presents Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero – In E-Issue Form Starting Next Week!
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity . . . the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had [...]
New Book: This One Summer
New book new book! We just got in super-advance copies of Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's upcoming graphic novel This One Summer, and you guys, they look amazing. Pictures! Here is the cover. Look how it is being summer! If it wasn't freezing here in New York and we didn't have snow and ice everywhere, [...]
New Book: Sleep Tight, Anna Banana
We just got in copies of Sleep Tight, Anna Banana, by Dominque Roques and Alexis Dormal! This book is fun and charming and adorable -- I hope you guys all like it as much as we do. It'll be the first picture book title that we publish! Pictures! Here's the cover. We approve of jumping [...]
First Second Picture Books
test heading Since its inception, First Second has been defined by graphic novels spanning all age and genre categories, from pre-school nursery rhymes to adult non-fiction and everything in between. We live in an unprecedented creative explosion for the graphic novel medium, and season after season, First Second has grown into a home for the [...]
Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks Q&A
test heading We’re super-excited that Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Fangirl) is going to be doing two graphic novels for us! The first one will be illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks (Friends With Boys, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong). EW just announced this project this morning. Here they Q&A each other! Rainbow Rowell:  You’re such [...]
Some Pictures from ALA Midwinter
test heading We headed down to ALA Midwinter this weekend to spend some time at our booth with Macmillan Children's! And we were delighted this morning to find that Lucy Knisley's Relish: My Life in the Kitchen won an Alex Award -- the award given to the adult books of the year that also are [...]
What Does Our Parent Company Publish?
test heading First Second is an imprint of Macmillan. That's their logo at the top of this post. We don't talk about them a whole lot, because the day-to-day interesting bits about First Second (ie, publishing graphic novels) don't have a lot to do with what's going on corporately at Macmillan (ie, running a multi-national [...]
:01 at ALA Midwinter
ALA Midwinter starts today! First Second will be exhibiting with our parent company, Macmillan Children's, at booth 624/625. If you stop by, you'll be able to find samplers of our upcoming spring season, a display of our upcoming books, and full year catalogs (with covers!) which we just got in today and have yet to [...]
Publicity Embargoes
test heading (we purloined this image from Fanpop because it's excellent! It does, however, have nothing to do with book embargoes.) This is a post about publicity embargoes. It's not a post about book embargoes. We don't really do them, since they're extremely complicated and difficult to organize. A book embargo is when you forbid [...]
Misprints
test heading (The black streaks across the top of this back cover are an actual misprint! How did this happen to this volume of Kim Dong Hwa's The Color of Earth trilogy? We're not entirely sure. . . .) What's a misprint? A misprint is when we publish a book and something crazy happens to [...]
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