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A day in the life of :01 Senior Editor Calista Brill
test headingMonday, March 4, 2013 7:30am - Arrive at the Flatiron. No, I don't usually get into work at 7:30, but it's awesome to do it every week or two because it gives you chance to bang out a bunch of emails before people start replying to them and requiring you to write still [...]
New Book: Astronaut Academy, by Dave Roman
A few weeks ago, our designer did a post about the cover printing process for our upcoming graphic novel Astronaut Academy: Re-entry. It was awesome and personally filled us with glee, because not only did it mean our book was going to have a shiny cover, it meant that we were going to get it [...]
More Mike Cavallaro Magic
test headingIt's such a pleasure to work with someone as talented as Mike Cavallaro. Every stage of his process gives me its own distinct pleasure... Put together, the steps of page 47 from Curses! Foiled Again (written by Jane Yolen) is a feast for the eyes. First, Mike's rough thumbnails, where he works out his basic [...]
New Book: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
New book new book! We just got in copies of Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks' Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong. You may be following along with our online serial of this most excellent book (in which everything that could go wrong does, starting with chainsaws). It looks marvelous! Here are pictures. The title on [...]
What’s the last book that made you cry?
I read on the subway every day and keep track of the books…including which ones were able to make me cry in public like a big o’ baby. Here are the 48 that made strangers stare at me weird from 2008-2012. Graphic novels are marked in RED. Row 1: Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore A Game [...]
New Book: Templar
We're very excited to be publishing a Medieval adventure of love and loss and Knights Templar on the hunt for stolen/missing treasure: Templar, by Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puvilland. This book may seem familiar to you if you've been following along with First Second for a few years now. Our original intent was [...]
I WENT TO INDIA…
test heading...And all you got is this lousy blog post. Hey guys! :01 Senior Editor Calista Brill here, with a report on my doings in New Delhi, India, where I went to run the First Second booth at the third annual Comic Con India. New Delhi is a big city, but it's a small world, [...]
New Book: Genius, by Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen
We can't wait! We're going to be publishing Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen's graphic novel Genius this July. It's full of, well, geniuses, and also ethical struggle and a lot of really great art on top of that. We've just gotten in the final books. Here's the cover. And yes, that's Einstein in the [...]
Graphic Novels for the Lovelorn
(graphic novels you could be reading instead of engaging with all this hearts-flowers-Valentines treacle) Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi Skip the 'love in the ruins' idiom for 'killing people in the ruins,' perfectly emblematized in Battle Royale. There will be so, so many dead schoolchildren by the end of this series. [...]
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