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Camp Prodigy is a new Atheneum for Young Readers graphic novel by Caroline Palmer about two teenagers who meet and bond at a music summer camp and bond over their musical talent and gender identities After attending an incredible concert, Tate Seong is inspired to become a professional violist There's just one problem: they're the[...]

And has now sold the rights to his new graphic novel series, Dadbot to Piccadilly Press Ruth Bennett, editorial director, at Piccadilly Press, acquired world rights in a three-book deal from Jack Noel's agent Claire Wilson at RCW The first book in the deal, Dadbot, will be published in March 2025 Jack Noel calls it[...]

Founder member of the first rockstar-style comedy troupe, Mary Whitehouse Experience radio and TV shows, Newman & Baddiel, Fantasy Football League, co-writer/performer of Three Lions On A Shirt, and author of Jews Don't Count, Baddiel is now writing a graphic novel. Flying South, to be published by HarperCollins Children's Books is drawn by the graphic novel's[...]

In an exclusive report from Deadline Hollywood from earlier today, Fifth Season has acquired the rights to adapt writer John Wagner (Judge Dredd co-creator, A History of Violence) and illustrator Arthur Ranson's (Sapphire & Steel, Judge Anderson: Psi Division) graphic novel Button Man This isn't the first effort to adapt the work – with names[...]

Svetlana Chmakova is one of the most beloved creators in the world of middle-grade graphic novels due to her Berrybrook Middle School series, which includes Awkward, Brave, and Crush Prior to her rise in the middle-grade category, Svetlana Chmakova was known for her young adult graphic novel series Nightschool, a supernatural tale published by Yen Press over[...]

Because three years after that last post, and five years after it was first announced, Robbie Morrison and Charlie Adlard's graphic novel Heretic is being published by Image Comics in September/October this year, and spotted in the Image Comics July 2024 solicits and solicitations and listed on Amazon. HERETIC HC (MR) September 24, 2024 (W) Robbie Morrison[...]

Kim sends Fantastic Frog and The Amazing Tad Lad on a mission- Retrieve the Legendary Sawgrass Blade! They are going to need it if they want to defeat a mysterious, unknown swamp baddie terrorizing a nearby earthworm colony." Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad has now been picked up by Peter Phillips at Tundra[...]

Now he has a new graphic novel, Flesh And Blood, s folklore horror tale set in the Scottish Highlands, which has been seen at comic book conventions this year, but now coming to comic book stores worldwide in August, written by novelist and screenwriter Simon Lewis described as "Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber's Whiteout meets[...]

Rebis: Born and Reborn by Irene Marchesini and Carlotta Dicataldo, is a new YA graphic novel about a runaway child and an alleged witch whose lives are forever changed when they meet in a medieval forest. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ "Martino[...]

Amazon has a listing for a new original graphic novel, We Called Them Giants, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, the team behind Die,  to be published by Image Comics in hardcover for the 12th of November, 2024 Though what's the betting they'll have copies out for Thought Bubble the week before? "We Called Them Giants is[...]

London author-illustrator Chanté Timothy, artist on A Black Woman Did That and the Keisha Jones and Daddy Do My Hair series has a new new graphic novel series featuring a young Black scientist, called Supa Nova. Nosy Crow UK Fiction editorial director Zöe Griffiths bought the world rights to the first two books from Chanté Timothy's agent[...]

 The Squid Squad, is a new graphic novel series from author-illustrator and comedian Aoife Dooley Studying at the Dublin Institute of Technology, as well as graphic design in Colaiste Dhulaigh, Aoife Dooley specialises in observational comedy in Dublin, and as well as publishing books anf graphic novels like How To Be Massive, How To Deal[...]

Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time, is a full-colour graphic novel from author-illustrator Salomey Doku, and ahead of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, had been sold into six language editions to publisher Harper Fire Their commissioning editor, Megan Reid, acquired world rights in all languages for two books in an auction with two other[...]

When asked "this is happening right?", he replied "I wish." Well, wishes, it seems, can come true. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ And now Chris Mould's graphic novel version of H G Wells' The War of the Worlds, aimed at[...]

James Turner and Steve May are creating Poo Crew Adventures, a "fast-paced" new graphic novel series for readers aged 7-11 Journey to Poo-topia, the first book in the series, will be published on 1st August 2024 from book publisher Farshore's non-fiction imprint, Red Shed, with a "major" campaign including school, bookshop and festival tours Journey[...]

1" cover art courtesy of Yen Press The Three-Body Problem Graphic Novel Original Story by Cixin Liu Illustrated by XuDong Cai Adapted by Jim Cai, Twilight Lu, and Silver Amid China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, a covert military project establishes contact with Trisolaris, an alien planet on the brink of destruction This sets into motion the Trisolarans' long and menacing[...]

MrBallen, Ballen Studios and Ten Speed Graphic announced today the upcoming publication of the graphic novel MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious This is the first book by MrBallen and Ballen Studios, and it will contain graphic novel adaptations of the mysterious stories based on true events from their podcast and YouTube channel, as well[...]

The video game series has so many installments and spinoffs that they managed to spin off into manga, Pachinko game machines in Japan, English language novelisations, animated TV series, animated feature films, and  Western graphic novels Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness – The Beginning is the latest American graphic novel side story in the series featuring[...]

Working for the BBC for David Attenborough's Wild Isles series, her debut graphic novel Giant will be published in 2024 from Faber. Ray states "Giant is a silent graphic novel published by Faber and Faber, ​coming June 2024 The book is inspired by the journey my brother faced after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and how[...]

Announced at London Book Fair 2024, publishers Hamish Hamilton has signed a graphic novel project with bestselling nature writer Robert Macfarlane, actor-musician Johnny Flynn and movie director, photographer, comic book creator, graphic designer, and publisher Dave McKean to retell the Epic Of Gilgamesh to be published in the spring of 2027. Dave McKean, Robert MacFarlane & Johnny[...]

Because, more than seventy Black creators are working on a new 192-page graphic novel anthology, Epiphany Engine, to be published by Advent Comics, with characters granted from other publishers, creators and studios, led by Advent owner and EIC Tony Kittrell as well as editor and creator Joseph P Illidge, who will serve as executive story[...]

There was a panel on Friday at ECCC that was meant to be announcing a bunch of new graphic novels from Image Comics Could this have been one? Emma Rios' new graphic novel Anzuelo is 300 pages long, has been three years in the making and will be published by Image Comics in hardcover in[...]

One of the real breakouts of the DC Comics move into original YA graphic novels has been the Teen Titans line, set in its own continuity, by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo, elbowing their way onto a number of bestseller lists We have had, so far, Teen Titans: Beast Boy, Teen Titans: Raven, Teen Titans:[...]

Ren Strapp's debut graphic novel How Could You is coming from Oni Press on the 17th of December, recommended for fans of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me and Heartstopper. Falling in love? Scary Falling for your best friend? Terrifying Naming all the ways your heart hurts? Impossible College upperclassman Molly Song is set on[...]

Detective Baby is the name of two middle-grade graphic novels by The Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot and artist Amelia Allore pitched as The Baby-Sitters Club meets Boss Baby meets Ocean's Eleven "Jenny Newman is stuck babysitting Rosie Woodson, the worst baby in town who also has the most devious—and brilliant—detective mind since Sherlock Holmes." Meg Cabot has written over eighty books[...]

Whippoorwills by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise, the creators of the graphic novel Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms published by Oni/Lion Forge is a Southern Gothic YA graphic novel that follows three young trans women who must "band together to survive at a mysterious and magical all-girls boarding school". Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier and Val[...]

"For as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a film director…" Amazing Améziane, creator of the Quentin by Tarantino and Don Coppola graphic novels, comes the final instalment of his Cine Trilogy, translated into English and published by Titan Comics on the 15th of October, 2024, Martin Scorsese. In this first-person graphic[...]

Whatever After is Sarah Mlynowski's New York Times bestselling book series for young readers about what would happen if kids got to go into their favourite fairytales and change the endings because what kid hasn't thought about doing that? Once upon THIS time, Abby and her kid brother decide to go through the mirror in their[...]

Which is slightly ironic given her new comic book, a nonfiction graphic novel-style guide to using electronic devices and social media safely and responsibly And it's the third in a series of similarly themed comic books from Rachel Brian. Rachel Brian is a former researcher and educator, has a B.A in biology from Brown University, an[...]

Hamsters In My Head by Mela Rogers and Maddie Gallegos is a contemporary middle-grade graphic novel where Vivian, a girl with undiagnosed ADHD, runs for student council president against her nemesis and must try to wrangle the hamsters running wild in her brain to succeed.  They auctioned the world English rights, which have been won by Danny[...]