Happy Book Birthday to Andy Hirsch's Varmints! Clever, explosive, and deeply moving by turns, Varmints is a perfect middle-grade comedy. Hirsch brings an old-school Western style to bear on a story full of nuance, humor, and surprises. Make sure to pick up a copy today!
Happy Book Birthday to Drew Weing's The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo! In the first volume of this new middle-grade series, Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Make sure to pick up a copy and join snarky blogger Charles and monster mediator Margo [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Ben Hatke’s best work yet—Mighty Jack, the first of two volumes in a modern-day graphic novel retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mighty Jack is a vivid, warm, and sensitive epic fairytale adventure. It's a story of how a few magical seeds push three kids to each be their own kind of [...]
Happy Book Birthday to the newest book from Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes' awesome Secret Coders series, Paths & Portals! The Secret Coders series really picks up steam in the second volume, Paths & Portals. We learn more about the secret history of Stately Academy. And Josh,who you might have written off as an annoying [...]
Collaboration is a vital part of the comics-making experience -- it's so often that comics are made by more than one person. And comics are never a solo endeavor! Between editing, design, production, and the whole publishing process, there are always other people behind the scenes in making the comics we read. We're celebrating collaboration [...]
We're delighted to be publishing the Last Man series, by Bastien Vives, Michael Sanlaville, and Balak. These books are such fun magical adventures -- delightful, fun, and charming stories with dynamic, engaging artwork. There are five volumes so far, with a sixth coming this fall -- please do check these out!
Characters -- an obviously essential part of any book! For many authors, a character is where the story thoughts -- creating a persona, an ideology, a background, an appearance for something kicks off where the adventure goes and how it unfolds. And characters really stay in your heart after a story is over! We're excited [...]
It's our tenth anniversary this year, and we're excited to be celebrating one of our authors who's been with us for years -- the amazing Ben Hatke, author of the Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the Eisner-nominated Little Robot, and two picture books with comics elements -- Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a [...]
Happy Book Birthday to Lucy Knisley and her amazing new graphic novel: Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride. Lucy Knisley makes the kind of comics that really do bring new readers to the medium -- comics that explore topics outside the purview of typical graphic novels. This one, the story of her wedding (and [...]
Lucy Knisley’s new graphic memoir, Something New, has many audiences. But being that it’s about weddings, we hoped that brides- (and grooms!)-to-be would fall for it. So we took it as a good sign when the awesome wedding website Borrowed & Blue reached out to us to ask if they could interview Lucy. Below is [...]
