Congratulations, Gene! You’ll be a fantastic Ambassador! (It’s the first time a graphic novelist has been selected, making this even bigger news.) Gene’s books include: The first graphic novel to be a National Book Award finalist: AMERICAN BORN CHINESE His second National Book Award finalist: BOXERS & SAINTS THE SHADOW HERO and GET WITH THE…
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NOCTURNE Tops International List!
NOCTURNE: The Walled City Trilogy, Book 2 by Anne Opotowsky & Angie Hoffmeister is number one on UK comics guru Paul Gravett’s list of the Top Ten International Graphic Novels of 2015 (non-UK/North American published originally in English or bilingual). Paul says: “From an American writer, German illustrator and Australian publisher, set in early 20th-century Hong Kong and…
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THE WALLED CITY Trilogy Sells in France
Urban China (and imprint of Dargaud) have acquired the French world rights to the first two books in exotic and surreal The Walled City Trilogy: The Walled City Book One: HIS DREAM OF THE SKYLAND by Anne Opotowsky and Aya Morton and The Walled City Book Two: Nocturne by Anne Opotowsky and Angie Hoffmeister
Three of Our Clients’ Titles Are on the Grovel Best of 2015 List!
LAST OF THE SANDWALKERS, THE SCULPTOR, and THE WALLED CITY TRILOGY Vol 2: NOCTURNE are all on the Grovel Best Graphic Novels of 2015 list! These three books would make great Christmas présents…(just sayin’)
Introducing Erica Esmoris!
We are pleased to announce that we now represent Erica Esmoris (born in A Coruña, Spain, 1977). Erica has worked in some of the most important TV and cinema studios in Spain, both as a scriptwriter and as part of the direction team. As a writer of children’s books, she has published The Girl with the Most Amazing Power…
A nice PW review for FROSTED COWBOY!
FROSTED COWBOY by Charlene Ross, coming from Velvet Morning Press in February 2016, just got a nice review in Publishers Weekly: “…a sweet, funny tale of a woman’s gradual self-discovery…Laney is an appealing protagonist whose desire to succeed amid L.A.’s rich and famous is hampered by her own insecurities and search for true love. Readers…
KAFKA by Mairowitz and Crumb in Spain
The comic biography, KAFKA, with text by David Zane Mairowitz and art by Robert Crumb, is now available in Spanish in a new format from Ediciones la Cúpula. )
THE BREAKING WHEEL Sold to Putnam
Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf reports: Stacey Barney at Putnam won at auction Natalie Anderson‘s debut YA novel, The Breaking Wheel. The novel follows a Congolese refugee, Tina, who is nursing visions of revenge after seeing her mother murdered. Anderson has worked for NGOs and the United Nations toward refugee relief in Africa. Publication is planned…
THE UNSINKABLE WALKER BEAN
The (Amazing and) Usinkable Walker Bean, Vol.1 is out at Sarbacane, in French! French readers, enjoy this, and the second volume is in progress, coming soon from Sarbacane.
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