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New York Comic-Con Set-Up!

test heading We're all set up for this year's New York Comic-Con! Now you too can watch our booth transform from a disaster zone into a useful book-vending area. The first feature of all conventions in their preliminary stages: boxes.  Lots and lots of boxes. The second stage of conventions: books on tables! Lots and [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:45:27-04:00October 9th, 2013|Events, Uncategorized|Comments Off on New York Comic-Con Set-Up!

Happy book birthday, CHARACTERS IN ACTION!

test heading This book is super awesome, and here's why: Kids are storytellers. Storytelling is an inherent human trait, and like many other inherent human traits (singing, drawing, dancing) a lot of kids are scared off from it as they grow up. The ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING series is a fantastic antidote for this syndrome, letting [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:45:07-04:00October 8th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy book birthday, CHARACTERS IN ACTION!

How Do Books Get Translated?

test heading (photo by Britt-Marie Sohlstrom; probably this small child is translating a book right now as we watch him!) Sometimes our books get picked up by publishers around the world and published in other languages.  (You might've seen the French cover for Paul Pope's Battling Boy popping up recently.) How does that happen? You [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:47:48-04:00September 30th, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Happy book birthday, FAIRY TALE COMICS!!!!

test heading Once upon a time: seventeen cartoonists, an editor, another editor, an assistant editor, an editorial director, a designer, a marketing manager, a production editor, a managing editor, a publisher, several interns, all the employees of a printing house far, far away, an entire sales force, many booksellers, and the staff of a huge [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:52:51-04:00September 24th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Happy book birthday, FAIRY TALE COMICS!!!!

First Second at SPX 2013

test heading SPX SPX! SPX is one of our favorite festivals -- we're so glad it's on the East Coast so we can hike down every year from New York and see all the great cartoonists at the show! Who's going to be at SPX this year from First Second, you ask? Why, Gene Luen [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:53:32-04:00September 9th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on First Second at SPX 2013

IT’S DELILAH DIRK DAY!

YOU GUYS! YOU GUYS! I'm tossing away my ill-fitting mantle of Professional Editor Lady for a moment to let my inner fangirl come slithering out, and to say: YOU GUYS! YOU GUYS! IT'S DELILAH DIRK DAY! Yes, today is the publication day of my number one favorite fictional British-Greek adventure-lady with a flying boat and [...]

By |2013-08-27T14:35:05-04:00August 27th, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment

HAGGARD WEST: THE FINAL ISSUE on sale now!

test heading     Attention, citizens of the monster-ridden city-planet Arcopolis! The Death of Haggard West is the final installment in the legendary Invincible Haggard West comics series, the bestselling chronicle of the adventures of our beloved hero, Haggard West. In breathtaking color and frenetic action, this 32-page comic presents the final moments in the life of one of the greatest vigilante heroes Arcopolis has [...]

By |2024-03-21T05:59:03-04:00July 16th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on HAGGARD WEST: THE FINAL ISSUE on sale now!

Steven Seagle + Teddy Kristiansen = GENIUS

test heading   In a season of plenty, here's even more! Congratulations to Steven Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen—and their superb new work, releasing in time for San Diego Comic Con 2103: GENIUS. I remember being awe-struck by their early collaboration "It's a Bird..." with Vertigo some years ago. And the awe grows with their latest. Wait till [...]

By |2024-03-21T06:00:03-04:00July 11th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Steven Seagle + Teddy Kristiansen = GENIUS

TEMPLAR will take your breath away

It's out! It's gorgeous, it's thrilling, and it's  . . . hefty! In fact, it may be THE biggest full-color graphic novel yet published, clocking in at almost 500 pages. It's TEMPLAR. This stunner has the spirited swashbuckling flair of Alexander Dumas, a heist caper worthy of Ocean's Eleven, and the epic sweep and immersive historical [...]

By |2013-07-09T14:51:33-04:00July 9th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on TEMPLAR will take your breath away

RIP KIM THOMPSON

test heading Kim Thompson died on the morning of June 19th. With immense sadness, here's to salute an exceptional human being, and a man who, with Gary Groth and all of Fantagraphics has profoundly and irrevocably changed the landscape of comics in America. Before starting First Second, I was knocking on publishing doors with my [...]

By |2024-03-21T06:02:18-04:00June 20th, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment
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