There once was a robot and a dog They went together, like the gears of a cog. The dog went away He's gone to this day While the robot must continue the daily slog. This is one of my favorite books that we have published.  Ever. 

test headingHear ye! Here's the first chance to see the new documentary by Sam Ball, about the excellent and prolific and deliriously talented Joann Sfar! Check out this preview first:   Joann Sfar Draws From Memory, director Sam Ball’s documentary portrait of the French comics artist and filmmaker (Dungeon, The Rabbi’s Cat, Little Vampire) will receive its [...]

test heading (photo from the National Archive of Norway.  Thanks, Norway) As we pack up our office for our non-denominational-winter-holiday-break, I just wanted to take a minute to say happy holidays to all of you who are reading our blog.  2011 is First Second's fifth anniversary year, and we've had a lovely year, with four [...]

test headingMuch MUSH! news to report! Just out in stores is a new First Second gem from the pen of Glenn Eichler and the artistic wizardry of Joe Infurnari—MUSH! (Sled Dogs with Issues) looks and reads like no other comic you've ever seen. Or have you ever enjoyed a visit with a pack of sled [...]

test headingWhen I was a wee thing (that is to say, in my mid-twenties), I read a graphic novel. It looked like this: Same Difference made a strong impression on me. It was a comic, yes, and boy howdy do I love a comic. But I'd never read one that seemed as though it had [...]

test headingIt is the week of Thanksgiving, which means that there is a glut of things to be thankful for.  One of them is books!  Specifically graphic novels: the books of our industry.  Here are a few I have a particular reason to be thankful for. Here is the number one book I am thankful [...]

test heading We are very excited to be publishing an all-new edition of Derek Kirk Kim's classic graphic novel, Same Difference.  It's such a good book!  And it's really one of the graphic novels published in the early 2000s that showed the way for comics-format literary fiction.  Also we're excited because this edition has a [...]

test heading (photo ganked from here) Continuing on our theme of snacks that are made of chocolate, do you know what else is super?  Mice made out of chocolate!  And they are adorable too (see above).  Burdick's (which is fortunately down the street from us) is a chocolate shop that is also a cafe -- [...]

test heading (In which I talk about something that is neither a food nor an event.  Craziness!) (photo ganked from here; thanks, Library of Congress!) In a short sentence? Don't do it. When we exhibit at a convention, there will probably be two people at our booth at a time.  One of them will be [...]

test headingRickshaw Dumpling Bar is down the street from the Flatiron Building -- not the truck that is only there occasionally, but the actual physical location, which is there 100% of the time for us to eat dumplings at.  How could this get any better, you ask? Chocolate Soup Dumplings. So, soup dumplings are dumplings [...]