test heading So! We decided to get into this 'social media' game and try out twitter. We knew that you couldn't possibly be being deluged with blog posts and e-mails from us enough, so clearly the thing to do was to find another way to communicate EVEN MORE with you people who read our books [...]
test heading I'm only halfway through the current episode of this podcast, but Jerzy Drozd calls Laika "one of the finest comics I've ever read." How could it get any better? But seriously: if you've been itching to hear/see either Nick Abadzis (author of Laika) or Jim Ottaviani (author of Feynman) be interviewed for an [...]
test headingFREE GIVEAWAY! We have FIVE PAIRS OF FREE INVITATIONS to the New York City private screening of GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE—Joann Sfar's first feature-length movie! WHEN: Wednesday, August 24th @ 7 PM WHERE: New Museum — 235 Bowery (between Stanton + Rivington), NYC This is a private, invitation-only event. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE FIRST FIVE [...]
test headingfrom last night's Nobel Lecture [photo ganked from cada7] "Thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires, and our disenchantment with reality when we return from the journey to a beautiful fantasy, civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their fables. We [...]
(from everyone's favorite Jen Vaughn)
Saturday was Read Comics in Public Day, created by the lovely and talented Brian Heater and Sarah Morean. In honor of this, picture!* We're cheating: this picture was not actually taken on Saturday. But I feel that of everything in our archive, it best captures the spirit of public reading.
test heading"In these pages, the author has endeavored to paint that species of noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children which is now almost extinct, wishing to preserve a sort of fabulous remembrance of days long past, when young people were like wild horses on the prairies; rather than like well-broken hacks on the road; and when, amid [...]
test heading I love the covers for this trilogy. Mark (our esteemed Editorial Director) designed them himself, pulling artwork from the interiors and having it colored. (My favorite part of that process was watching Mark get two different color samples, combine the two files, and somehow come up with something perfect that was halfway between [...]
test headingOn Foiled and Promotional Pieces When Mike sent me the above art for a Foiled promotional board game, "Candy Land, but evil," was the general office verdict. (Not that the art is all that dark -- it's just that the skulls with bat wings give it this indescribable aura of menace that Candy Land [...]
When she's not designing books for First Second, Colleen Venable's secret lives include being an author. This first in a delicious new series, HAMSTER and CHEESE introduces a new Private Eye to reckon with: a guinea pig named Sasspants and the case of the stolen sandwich.
