Nidhi Chanani’s first graphic novel, PASHMINA, is coming out in October from First Second, and Publishers Weekly has just given it a starred review! Read the review here. Italian rights have already gone to Il Castoro.
Category: Comics and Graphic Novels
DEMON Gets an Eisner!
Congratulations to author Jason Shiga and to publisher First Second for DEMON, Volume 1, which has won an Eisner Award (the most prestigious from the American comics industry) in the category Best Graphic Album, Reprint! DEMON’s four volumes compose a high-energy thriller about a suicidal accountant who wants to die but can’t, and the unspeakable chaos and astronomical body count…
OUT IN THE OPEN (INTEMPERIE) Cover!
Here’s a sneak peek at the cover of the English-language version of INTEMPERIE, coming next year from SelfMadeHero! Don’t you love it?! We certainly do!
INTEMPERIE Coming in English!
World English-language rights to INTEMPERIE, the award-winning graphic novel adaptation by Javi Rey of Jesus Carrasco’s powerful Spanish bestseller, have just been acquired by SelfMadeHero! Javi Rey’s Out in the Open is a cinematic graphic novel about escaping abuse and finding humanity in a world torn apart by the violence of men. Publication of OUT IN…
Look what just came!
The French edition (with and without jacket) of INTEMPERIE! Published by Dupuis this month. And world English-language rights have just been acquired by SelfMadeHero for publication in 2018.
Javi Rey Gets Best New Author Award!
Congratulations to the very talented comic artist Javi Rey for his well-deserved “Best New Author” award at last weekend’s comics festival in Barcelona for his graphic novel adaptation for Planeta Comic of the novel INTEMPERIE by Jesus Carrasco.
SPINNING to Gallimard
French rights to Ignatz Award-winner Tillie Walden’s graphic novel, SPINNING (First Second, September 2017), about coming of age, coming out, and coming to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know have been snapped up by Gallimard!
REAL FRIENDS Gets a Star!
Publishers Weekly has given Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s forthcoming graphic novel, REAL FRIENDS (First Second), a starred review! (Read it here.) Italian rights have already gone to Il Castoro.
And Now for Something Completely Different…
Jason Shiga’s DEMON is also on the NPR Best Books of 2016 list! French rights to all four volumes have already been snapped up by Cambourakis!
Delilah Dirk in France, Italy…and on the big screen!
Very exciting times for Tony Cliff’s DELILAH DIRK series, whose first volume, DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT is making its debut in Italy published by ReNoir Comics. In France, Akileos have just released the French edition of the second volume, DELILAH DIRK AND THE KING’S SHILLING. Even more exciting is the news that Disney…
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 