graphic novel Archives

Cassandra Calin is a cartoonist with 2.7 million followers on Instagram, 233,000 subscribers on Tapas, and her debut middle-grade graphic novel out next year, The New Girl. Cassandra Calin's Graphic Novel The New Girl, From Scholastic in 2024 "Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel[...]

Maya Henderson's debut middle-grade graphic novel, Brainbow, tells the story of a girl who senses colours, discovers she has synesthesia and must learn to embrace her identity while navigating difficult friendships and a competitive academic club.  Most Kids Have Five Senses.  Rosie Has Six ​Eleven year old Rosie has always been able to sense colors — and[...]

Gina Nguyen's middle-grade graphic novel debut, tentatively titled Dust, along with a second book, sees the 11-year-old Bao, grieving his father's death, finding a dust bunny behind his bed that doesn't just come to life but eats Bao's emotional messes for him Marisa DiNovis at Knopf has bought the world rights to Dust, and the[...]

Appavu's debut young adult horror graphic novel, The Ghost Key, in which a trans high school senior haunted by grief and prophetic dreams of death after the loss of their sister must fight the ghost of their guilt and come to terms with themself to prevent the imminent tragedy in their new recurring nightmare. Alexandra Aceves[...]

The Three Beasts, is a YA action-adventure graphic novel set in a fantastical Philippines-inspired land, by debut graphic novelist Gillian Pascasio "A sword-wielding trio of lesbian and trans friends risk facing a deadly hydra—and losing each other—to succeed their legendary dragon-tamer fathers… and decide what it means to uphold their Great Tamer fathers' legacies." #gallery-1 { margin:[...]

Serendipity is the debut middle-grade graphic novel by comic book creator and illustrator Gabbie Benda In the story, when a carnival machine gives an overconfident middle schooler an ominous fortune, she decides that bad luck is to blame for her problems rather than her own choices, and makes humorous attempts to reverse her luck. Gabbie Benda,[...]

Andy Hirsch's middle-grade graphic novel Ralph is about an anxious boy and a rambunctious dog who bond while facing obstacles on and off the agility course Robyn Chapman at First Second has acquired world rights to Ralph, and Jill Freshney at First Second will also edit Andy Hirsch posts, "That's right, it's a boy-and-dog sports[...]

One Mad Cat by Vicky Fang of Ava Lin, is a young graphic novel series about a mad cat and her not-so-mad friends who, along with young readers, use clues to solve simple mysteries. Sarah Ketchersid at Candlewick Press has bought world rights to One Mad Cat, and the first book will be published in the autumn of[...]

Titan Comics has announced a biographic novel of the life and work of movie director Francis Ford Coppola, Don Coppola by Amazing Améziane – creator of the upcoming Quentin Tarantino graphic biography, Quentin by Tarantino, comes volume 2 of his cine trilogy of graphic novels for the 11th of June 2024 The original French edition[...]

And it will see a graphic novel published by Z2 Comics, with contributions by rock stars Andy Biersack, Carla Harvey, Cristina Scabbia, and Burton C Bell, with comic book writers Charlie Benante, Andy Biersack, Ryan J Downey, Carla Harvey, and Alan Robert, and artists Steve Kurth, Alan Robert, and Marco Finnegan, with covers by Alan[...]

A female footballer, a murderous housewife, a Mongolian truck driver, a grieving bookseller, an unemployed cross-dresser, a transmasculine queer person working in a ramen shop and protestors from the Rhondda Valley are the main characters of seven graphic novels-in-progress shortlisted for the First Graphic Novel Award 2023 The seven shortlisted creators were revealed at the[...]

Michelle Jing Chan's debut graphic novel, Somewhere in the Gray, will follow a girl who is "dating the most popular girl at school, and what seems easy for her friends—being intimate in any way with their partners—doesn't feel quite right to her as she learns it's more than okay to live somewhere in the grey of[...]

I'm Going Through Something, the debut graphic novel by intersex activist Hans Lindahl and cartoonist Chan Chau The book follows a 16-year-old artist navigating an adolescence in which puberty never happens Lindahl received a grant from the Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity and a place in Narrative Initiative's inaugural Changemaker Authors Cohort. And now David Levithan at[...]

Some are raising money to create a project, and others are using it to create awareness and orders for a project already completed. And, with the right PR company behind them, they often his their goal in days, hours, or even minutes from launch. But that doesn't seem to be the case for Creature Features, a new[...]

The Paperfilms team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, alongside their award-winning Harley Quinn artist teammate Chad Hardin, have a new project as a team, The Hunters graphic novel, being Kickstartered right now Jimmy Palmiotti is one of the most successful and reliable creators publishing through Kickstarter, and his books fill many a discerning bookshelf[...]

As revealed this weekend at New York Comic Con, Oni Press announced Chef's Kiss Again, the sequel to the 2023 ALA Alex Award-winning original graphic novel by co-creators Jarrett Melendez and Danica Brine.   Teaming Melendez with incoming illustrator Irene Flores (R.L Stine's Just Beyond: Monstrosity, Heavy Vinyl), CHEF'S KISS AGAIN is scheduled for publication in 2025 and will pick up precisely[...]

Joe Illidge and Marcus Kwame Anderson are to adapt the late Ann Petry's Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad, as a graphic novel, to be published by Tara Weikum at Harper Alley, in the winter of 2026 Joe Illidge's agent Gordon Warnock at Fuse Literary; Marcus Kwame Anderson's agent Alex Glass at Glass[...]

Graphic novels are often included at the top of these lists and, purely by coincidence, they usually seem to involve LGBTQ and POC characters and creators. Banned Together: Authors and Allies on the Fight for Readers' Rights, is a new planned YA graphic anthology edited by Printz Honor author Ashley Hope Pérez and drawn by Debbie[...]

Alabaster, Osamu Tezuka's classic manga, is getting a reimagined and updated graphic novel from Noir Caesar Entertainment, the indie creative company that supports and nourishes art from marginalized communities across various media, in collaboration with Osamu Tezuka Productions They have launched a Kickstarter campaign for its publication Alabaster will be written by the award-winning Bitter[...]

When The Revolution Came To Town is a new graphic novel by Isra Moussaoui and Beth Bacon, and drawn by Noha Habaieb Which tells the story of an 11-year-old girl's experience of the first days of the Arab Spring, balancing the tumult of unrest on the streets, her family's desire to protect her from knowing[...]

Unreal, a debut YA graphic novel by Ellen Walker This memoir-inspired story follows Frances Ward in her adolescent years as she and her sister, Annabelle, use the power of their imaginations to help them navigate neurodivergence, social stigma, and coming of age. Ellen Walker is a UK-based illustrator, writer and PhD researcher Her artistic practice blends narrative,[...]

Won't Back Down is a graphic novel anthology in aid of Planned Parenthood, edited by Trina Robbins, and including a wide range of contributors, including Lee Marrs, Alison Sampson, Steve Leialoha, Ken Steacy, Barbara Randall Kesel, Yanick Paquette, Signe Wilkinson, Christopher Golden, Marguerite Sauvage, Gene Ha, Carrie Tupper, Todd Klein, Twyla Dawn Weixl, Sabrina Jones,[...]

President of the Anime Club by Stephanie Evangelista and Daigo Fukuda, partners and co-creators of the Webtoon Skate Fire 100 from 2019-2021, is their debut queer coming-of-age YA graphic novel about a girl in her first year of high school who finds friendship and camaraderie with other anime lovers as she navigates her feelings between two new[...]

And more often than not, the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press is the declared bullseye of many of them and has been used by politicians to both win local elections – and also to lose them But ahead of the next electoral cycle in American politics, it seems that the outrage[...]

many do not, and a place that allows you to browse through a hundred such graphic novels that won't make it onto any other bookshelves feels like an idea whose time has come Oh yes, and they have a store website now, and even a section just in English. where it is lovely to see[...]

Transgender men and non-binary people may bind their chests with contstrictive clothing to minimize gender dysphoria. Maia's next comic book to follow this is Saachi's Stories, a graphic novel for kids co-created with Lucky Srikumar, scheduled from Scholastic Graphix for the spring of 2025 And this "coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel follows aspiring author Saachi, who struggles[...]

Earth… Every Other Wednesday by Amy Brown and Kennedy Tarrell is an upcoming middle-grade graphic novel about a girl from Planet Meow who travels to Earth to spend time with her human family, only to find that she's actually staying for a Meowian day—which is equal to one year on Earth[...]

Refugee: The Graphic Novel by Alan Gratz and Syd Fini is a graphic novel adaptation of Gratz's prose novel Refugee which follows "three young people from different time periods, all seeking refuge—Josef, fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939; Isabel, escaping Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1994; and Mahmoud, leaving war-torn Syria in 2015—and how their stories unexpectedly intertwine." Alan Gratz[...]

How Do I Draw These Memories? is a graphic novel memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love From Jonell's devastatingly brilliant pen as a writer and an artist, it plumbs the depths of what family can be, and how joy and hope can be found in the most ordinary and extraordinary[...]

Through the Black Gate is the debut middle-grade graphic novel by Alfredo Cáceres, and the North American rights for the first two volumes have been bought for a six-figure sum by Julia McCarthy at Atheneum, against expected sales. Through the Black Gate is a graphic novel that's based on the city of Valdivia, Chile where Cáceres grew up[...]