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New Book: Square Fish Edition of Anya’s Ghost
You may remember a book that we published back in 2011 that then went on to win an Eisner Award -- Vera Brosgol's excellent spooky supernatural YA story Anya's Ghost. This winter, our parent company's paperback imprint, Square Fish, will be putting out a new edition of it! But the first edition of Anya's Ghost [...]
New Book: The Return of Zita the Spacegirl
We're so excited about The Return of Zita the Spacegirl, the final volume in Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl trilogy! In the past two volumes, we've followed Zita from earth to the far corners of the galaxy, with adventures with robots and spaceships and aliens and friendship and power crystals! In this third book, we [...]
Aphrodite: A Tale of Two and a Half Covers
(from the drawing table of Olympians author George O'Connor) Before we begin, I hope you’ll all take a moment to recognize something of a milestone with me. With this month’s publication of Aphrodite: Goddess of Love, the sixth volume of Olympians (which is projected to be a twelve volume series), I’ve reached the halfway mark! [...]
Arise Aphrodite!
(this post comes from the desk of Neal Porter, the Editorial Director of Neal Porter Books, an imprint of First Second's parent company, Roaring Brook. First Second co-publishes George O'Connor's Olympians books with Roaring Brook, and Neal is the series' editor) The Olympians series began with a quip, when I remarked to George O’Connor that [...]
New Year, New Books
test heading (This is a calendar! Photo by Joe Miranda) It's 2014! We're so excited for this new year, you guys. You may remember how we already talked about our Winter and our Spring seasons of books -- we'll be having some book announcements for you you on the front of Fall in the next [...]
Happy Holidays-3!
test heading (The First Second offices in the snow.) (No, it really isn't. For one thing, our offices are in the middle of New York City. This photo is from Lansmuseet Gavleborg, which is in a different country.) Happy Holidays from First Second Books! We had a great year this year, working with new (and [...]
Some of Our Favorite Graphic Novels
for your holiday reading pleasure! From :01 Senior Editor Calista Brill (photo from Boing Boing -- thanks, guys!) "For comfort reading over the holidays I recommend Fantagraphics' Complete Carl Barks Library. It's hard to be a scrooge when you're curled up with Uncle Scrooge. Ouch! I used to have a subscription to Uncle Scrooge comics [...]
First Printing or First Edition?
test heading (I can't tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition -- from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusion about whether or not they're the same. They're [...]
Jane, the Fox, & Me
one of our exceedingly rare book recommendations When Jane, the Fox & Me, written by Fanny Britt and illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, showed up on the NY Times Best Illustrated list this year, we knew that we had to seek out a copy of this book that we'd been hearing so many good things about. [...]
New Book: Sailor Twain Paperback Edition
We just got advance copies of the new paperback edition of Mark Siegel's New York Times Best-Selling graphic novel Sailor Twain, which will be in stores in March. It looks super! Here are some pictures. This is the new, redesigned cover of the book -- you can see that the type is now all in [...]
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