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Comics Creators Getting Coffee with special guests Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter!
Comics Creators Getting Coffee is an Instagram Live series that brings you up close and personal with your favorite comics creators, brought to you by Comics Relief: A First Second Festival. Join DUNGEON CRITTERS creators Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter with :01 editor Kiara Valdez on Wednesday, September 30th at 12pm ET. [...]
Behind the Panels: Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan
Meet Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, creators of Welcome to the New World! What initially drew you to comics? Michael: I discovered the Tintin comics by Herge in our school library when I was in third grade. They really inspired me! I'd never seen long-form comics like that - the term graphic novel wasn't used [...]
Introducing Comics Creators Getting Coffee with special guest Kiku Hughes!
Introducing Comics Creators Getting Coffee, an Instagram Live series that brings you up close and personal with your favorite comics creators, brought to you by Comics Relief: A First Second Festival. Join DISPLACEMENT creator Kiku Hughes and :01 editor Calista Brill on the First Second Instagram on Thursday, August 20th at 12:00pm ET. [...]
Behind the Panels: Kiku Hughes
Meet Kiku Hughes, author of Displacement! Kiku Hughes is a cartoonist and illustrator based in the Seattle area. Her work has been featured in Beyond Anthology volumes 1 and 2, Short Box #6 and the Alloy Anthology. She creates stories about identity, queer romance and compassionate sci-fi. Displacement is her first graphic novel, and it is [...]
Behind the Panels: Animal Crackers
Meet Scott Sava, author of Animal Crackers! Can you tell us about the book to movie adaptation of Animal Crackers? What was it like seeing the film come to life with such incredible actors voicing your characters? It was amazing! Everything was a first for me. I flew to London to meet Ian McKellen, [...]
Behind the Panels: Sloane Leong
Meet Sloane Leong, author of A Map to the Sun! What initially drew you to comics? I came to comics late when I was about 13 but before that I had been writing and illustrating my own stories that were basically proto-comics starting back in the 3rd grade. Every week my teacher would give [...]
Behind the Panels: Dave Roman_2-2
Meet Dave Roman, editor of History Comics and Science Comics! What initially drew you to comics? I was always interested in anything remotely connected to cartoons...so any book that had a cartoon on the cover would immediately catch my eye. Like so many other kids, I found that the most wonderful thing about comics [...]
Graphic Novels for Parents and Kids to Read Together
test heading It’s no secret that curating an exciting and engaging reading list for kids is a crucial step to fostering their love of books in their preteen years and beyond. But while you’re adding kid-lit classics and school-mandated reading to their bookshelves and e-readers, make sure to include a few of the biggest and [...]
A #ComicsRelief Sweepstakes Extravaganza!
test heading Are you a total comics nerd? Join us for Comics Relief: June 2020 taking place on Saturday, June 6th from 12 - 4pm ET (9am - 1pm PT). This free virtual festival will cover some of First Second's most innovative comics, from Maker Comics to The Adventure Zone. Don't miss the chance to [...]
7 Graphic Novels to Take You Away
Looking for the perfect escape read? Social distancing is rough. But one thing that helps make our days go by just a little faster is some time spent with our favorite graphic novels that take us to new worlds and places we wish we could escape to and that distract us with some light-hearted fun. [...]
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