graphic novel Archives

Curveball by Pablo Cartaya & Miguel Díaz Rivas, an MG Baseball OGN
Curveball is Pablo Cartaya's graphic novel debut, drawn by Miguel Díaz Rivas, a middle-grade contemporary story that "stars 12-year-old Elena Rueda, whose whole identity is baseball—until she embarks on a summer without it Through a season without scoreboards, Elena finds not just herself but also a new sense of belonging in friendship and family—and learns what[...]
Paco And Tiny
Paco and Tiny, is a middle-grade graphic novel by comics creating team Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo, about Paco, a young Cuban immigrant who just moved to the big city, and his overly large dog, Tiny. Frontera's Julio Anta & Jacoby Salcedo's Paco & Tiny MG Graphic Novel Julio Anta is a Cuban and Colombian American author[...]
How To Heroine
Elizabeth Agyemang's How to Be a Heroine is a middle-grade graphic novel has been pitched as Jumanji with a Dungeons and Dragons twist And that seems to have been enough for Ruta Rimas at Razorbill to buy the world English rights How to Be a Heroine tells the story of how twelve-year-old Galexie "Lexie" and her friends have to[...]
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur Get A Wreck & Roll Graphic Novel For 2024
Stephanie Williams and Asia Simone are creating a new Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur original graphic novel, Wreck And Roll for 2024, which might be when the second season of the TV show hits It's a good guess, anyway Disney and Marvel like to keep things tight, even though this book is being published by[...]
Prince Of Persia's Jordan Mechner- Replay Memoir of an Uprooted Family
He also worked on a graphic novel adaptation of Prince of Persia graphic novel in 2008, and he followed that with his own original graphic novel Templar, nominated for an Eisner, and wrote the graphic novel Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm, to tie in with the release of the film And now he has[...]
Stick Together
Jayme Brodie has auctioned off her debut middle-grade graphic novel, Stick Together. "Twelve-year-old Izzy is excited to become fast friends with her new neighbor Brie and join her school's field hockey team But her burgeoning friendship with (and crush on) Amira threatens to come between them; can Izzy reconcile their differences, and her feelings for Amira,[...]
Liv Hamilton Puts Their Best Foot Forward After Working In A Comic Store
Best Foot Forward! is the debut YA graphic novel by Liv Hamilton "After simultaneously coming out and confessing her feelings to her childhood best friend, wallflower band geek Lacey Hanley is left picking up the pieces of a broken friendship just in time for the start of the new marching season." Olivia "Liv" Hamilton is a[...]
Kay Healy's Casey's Cases
Kay Healy's debut graphic novel series Casey's Cases, is about a 10-year-old aspiring detective named Casey and her investigations of the new girl at school, her crush's confiscated love note, the origins of a lost neighbourhood cat, and other mysteries in the life of an unintentionally hilarious fourth grader. The first two books in the series[...]
The Street King
Lucas Soto and Samuel Soto-Saines' The Street King, is their debut YA graphic novel about "17-year-old Manny Valdez—years after witnessing his father's death in an MMA match—as he grapples with grief and trauma while rising to stardom as an eSports star in a bid to secure enough prize money to save his uncle's arcade" and the[...]
Cramming
Cramming, a semi-autobiographical debut middle-grade graphic novel that has been auctioned by its creator Brigitta Blair, "about the pressures Ari Sharpe and her friends face in eighth grade, including scoliosis bracing, school, sports, gender exploration, and the gift of learning to be at peace in your body" and is pitched for readers of Swim Team and The[...]
Megan Wagner Lloyd & Erin Kubo Auction The Empty House Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd and Erin Kubo have auctioned off the rights to a new YA graphic novel, The Empty House, scheduled for then "When family circumstances force misfit Ada and her mother to relocate, Ada finds herself drawn to a deserted and decaying mansion and a decades-old murder—and becomes determined to discover the secrets hidden within[...]
Dream Warriors Jesse Byrd and Yonson Carbonell
Dream Warriors is a graphic novel series about magical beings who battle "nap to night" to keep sleeping people safe from bad dreams, from Jesse Byrd and Yonson Carbonell Bobbie Bensur at Paw Prints has bought world rights to the series beginning with Khi's New Beginning, in which the Bad Dreams have teamed up to conduct a[...]
Yehudi Mercado Creates Barkham Asylum MG Graphic Novel For DC Comics
Yehudi Mercado, who recently wrote and drew the well-received Shazam! Thundercrack DCEU graphic novel for DC Comics (and a less-than-well received Miles Morales comic for Marvel) is working on something new for next year from DC Comics, a middle-grade graphic novel about the pets of Gotham's Super-Villains, Barkham Asylum, to be published on the 6th[...]
A Bryan Talbot Trailer For Leonora Carrington Graphic Novel
Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington is published on the 25th of April in the USA and Canada and May in the UK by Self-Made Hero. Armed With Madness, New Graphic Novel by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot Armed With Madness, New Graphic Novel by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot [...]
Deeply Dave
Deeply Dave is the debut middle-grade graphic novel adapted from the animated webcomic Deeply Dave by Mike Grover and published by Grovertoons It tells the story of a deep sea diver Dave plunges into the abyss to save his astronaut mom from the monsters that lurk below, suchas the 'Big Doom' and, while searching the[...]
Black Widow Director Assistant Writes YA Graphic Novel School Spirits
Hope Larson is creating two new middle-grade graphic novels, the first of which is The Absolute Value of Verity, which follows the story of an overachieving eighth-grader whose life is turned upside-down by her struggles with dyscalculia Hope says "I was never what I'd describe as an overachiever in school, but I have had[...]
Kwame Alexander, Cassidy Dyce & Rashad Doucet's The Brainstormerz
The Brainstormerz is a a three-book middle-grade graphic novel series, by Kwame Alexander, Cassidy Dyce and Rashad Doucet about three friends who put their heads together to think creatively and solve tricky problems, often with hilarious results. Margaret Raymo at Little, Brown has acquired world rights to the series and the first book in the[...]
SubZero
"What would you sacrifice to save your family? How far would you go to protect your people? For Clove, the last princess of a near-extinct Dragon clan, the answer is the unthinkable: MARRY your greatest sworn enemy in an effort to bring peace to your land." Former accountant Junepurrr has now signed a three-book graphic novel[...]
 Unfins' Love Advice From The Great Duke Of Hell Gets Seven Book Deal
The webcomic Love Advice From The Great Duke Of Hell by Unfins and published by Webtoon is a "wildly funny YA graphic novel series about average everyday teenager Paul who summons a powerful demon from the deep recesses of Hell to help him snag the girl of his dreams" Unfins was selected for the Most Laughs[...]
Veronica Casson Auctions Her Webcomic, Grind Like a Girl, For Print
Veronica Casson, creator of the Ignatz-nominated webcomic Claviger has sold her first graphic novel Grind Like A Girl, as a print version of her webtoon, formerly published on Gumroad Set in New Jersey in 1993, this semi-autobiographical YA graphic novel follows Heather, a transgender high school senior navigating Catholic school, dreams of art school, family[...]
Quentin Tarantino: The Graphic Novel
Quentin By Tarantino is an original graphic novel by Améziane Amazing from Titan Comics coming out this October And, clue is in the title, it's about Quentin Tarantino But not by Quentin Tarantino. "The story transports readers into the crazy world of Quentin Tarantino – exploring the many twists and turns of his groundbreaking career to[...]
Cover image for GENDER QUEER HC (O/A) (MR)
His actions have led to numerous books and graphic novels being removed from school libraries, and that has included the Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe. DeSantis rejects that this is "book banning" and last week held a press conference in which he showed a video, including selected scenes from Gender Queer, saying "I just think[...]
 And Then Comes July by Sarah Jung
And Then Comes July is the debut graphic novel by Sarah Jung, a contemporary YA graphic novel that explores two sisters' relationships as they are escaping an unsafe home environment, and their respective immigrant identities. Sarah Jung Sells Her Debut Graphic Novel,  And Then Comes July Arthur A Levine at Levine Querido has bought And Then Comes[...]
Ngozi Ukazu To Tell Big Barda's Origin In New graphic Novel
Ngozi Ukazu tweeted out the news about new DC Comics graphic novel, Barda "I am beyond thrilled to announce my very first graphic novel with DC COMICS! Written AND illustrated by yours truly—Buckle up and get ready for BARDA Over the last two years I've become enamored with Jack Kirby's vision and genius[...]
Fantagraphics to Publish Daniel Clowes' Monica In October
Clowes calls upon a lifetime of observation and artistic inspiration to create his most complex and sophisticated graphic novel yet Rich visual detail, masterful graphic storytelling, and a novelist's attention to the vernacular rhythm of language and dialogue combine with a plot full of surprising twists to create a multilayered masterpiece of the form that[...]
Sofia Szamosi's New Graphic Novel, Bad Kid: My Life as a "Troubled Teen"
Sarah Alpert at Algonquin Young Readers has acquired North American rights to Bad Kid: My Life as a "Troubled Teen", and publication is planned for 2025. Sofia Szamosi's first YA graphic novel, Unretouchable was recently published by Lerner/Graphic Universe, about the lived experience of the use of image retouching software in the model photography industry[...]
Louisa Onomé & ONeillJones Auction Feminist Graphic Novel Revenge Arc
Louisa Onomé and ONeillJones have sold their feminist YA graphic novel for a six figure sum at auction Revenge Arc is the story of a group of teen girls at a kickboxing gym decide to get revenge on a boy who wronged them, until it turns out things are more complicated than throwing the first[...]
Theo Parish
Norwich-based British cartoonist Theo Parish has auctioned the North American rights to their graphic novel Homebody and a second untitled graphic novel to follow in 2025 won by Rose Pleuler at HarperAlley to be published in the winter of 2024 Book rights to both were already auctioned in the UK to senior commissioning editor Cate Augustin[...]
YouNeek Studios Creates Afrofuturist Superhero Crossover, The Oloris
And now they are publishing their first YouNiverse crossover with The Oloris: Heroes Will Unite, Volume 1. The continent of Africa becomes ground zero for a devastating extraterrestrial invasion from the Moon, forcing a group of heroes to band together in this new graphic novel from the massively talented team of Nigerian creators at YouNeek Studios[...]