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Enjoy Labor Day
It's Labor Day today, so we're not in the office but instead pre-celebrating the results of our past few seasons of labor (pictured above). Making books is a process that takes forever; as we write this, we not only have all the books from our upcoming fall season (that's what's pictured above) already in the [...]
Women in Comics (at First Second)
test heading (photo ganked from the National Media Museum) First Second employs a lot of women -- we're all girls in this office, barring Mark! And our parent company similarly -- eight employees, two guys. And their parent company too -- 135 employees, 28 guys. Here is a list of women who have worked on [...]
The Scholastic Book Fairs
test heading (the latest in our series of First Second-skewedly-explains-the-book-industry-to-comics posts) You may remember the Scholastic Book Fairs from your childhood -- I do. Once in the spring and once in the fall, our elementary school gym would take out the sports (yay!) and fill up with tables covered in books (double yay!). My parents [...]
A Quick Submissions Thank You
test heading (photo ganked from the Smithsonian Institution; Annie Jump Cannon doesn't actually work here -- we wish! But it would probably be a waste of her astronomy-related skills) Hey guys! In the past few months, since we've been talking more about our submissions process on our blog and on twitter, we've noticed that we've [...]
First Second: Winter 2013
We're gearing up to launch our Winter 13 season! It should be an exciting time -- it won't be broilingly hot (huzzah!) and we've got some great new graphic novels that we're publishing. Links below will have actual publication information (prices and publication dates and trim sizes, everyone's favorite) and also excerpts, so you should [...]
Getting a Job at First Second
test heading (photo ganked from the DC Public Library; Roosevelt's Secretary of War in no way works for First Second, even in his current zombie form) Here at the First Second home offices, we get a number of e-mails and letters from people who would like to get a job at First Second. Here is [...]
First Second: Adult Book Publisher
First Second publishers graphic novels for adults. (This is an old person -- the specific kind of person we publish many of our graphic novels for! Image ganked from the National Library of Wales.) Maybe you've heard of some of these graphic novels we've published for adults! Feynman -- a New York Times Best-Seller. Baby's [...]
Publishing vs. Kickstarter
test heading Taking on a different part of the internet's Kickstarter kerfuffle, we'll start with this. The end result of Kickstarter is that cool cartoonists whose work we personally admire (and possibly some other people too) are getting money to do projects that they really want to do. How neat is that? We approve of [...]
A Publicist’s Life
test heading (ganked from The New York Public Library) Dear [Major Media Outlet], Frustrated by several years of calling, e-mailing, mailing and carrier-pidgeon-ing copies of our current and upcoming books (accompanied by witty and insightful press releases) to you and never receiving coverage in your publication, much less a syllable of response from you, I [...]
Character Design, Part II
test heading From the desk of Zack Giallongo, the author of Broxo Last week, I presented my thoughts on how I draw Broxo, the wiry boy barbarian. This week is the yin to his yang, Zora. From the start, I didn't want Zora to be a shy princess or a weak damsel in distress. Zora [...]
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