The just-published Battling Boy by Paul Pope (First Second) is already #1 on the New York Times Paperback Graphic Novel Best-Seller List for October 27th! Check out the book trailer on BoingBoing [watch it]. Awards and Honors: A Fall 2013 Kids Indie Next List Title An Amazon.com Big Book of Fall 2013 [see the list]…
Category: Comics
BOXERS & SAINTS SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Peoples’ Literature after being named to the long-list a month ago. The winners will be announced on November 20th. Other finalists include Kathi Appelt’s The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Cynthia Kadohata’s The Thing About…
Our clients are on the ALA Best Graphic Novels of the year list!
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies), Faith Erin Hicks’ Friends with Boys (First Second) and The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos and Nate Powell (First Second) are all on the American Library Association’s YALSA top ten graphic novels list: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/ggnt/2013/topten.
BATTLING BOY by Paul Pope gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly !
BATTLING BOY Paul Pope. First Second The future of Arcopolis, a city under siege by daily monster attacks, is in jeopardy after its champion, Haggard West, falls in battle. Hope arrives in the form of Battling Boy, a pampered 13-year-old warrior god whose initiation into adulthood is to become Arcopolis’s new protector. Even with magical…
BOXERS AND SAINTS Video
Gene Yang talks with Publishers Weekly about his latest books, BOXERS and SAINTS, out this month from First Second Books: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/59000-video-gene-luen-yang-on-boxers-and-saints.html. “Gene Luen Yang, author of the acclaimed graphic novel AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (shortlisted for the American Book Award), returns with two books that work in tandem: BOXERS and SAINTS. “In BOXERS, Yang tells the…
A mouthwatering video from the author of RELISH!
Lucy Knisley, author of RELISH, produced a charming – and mouthwatering – video for the sales conference of her French Publisher, Editions Delcourt. Check it out here: http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/post/60177299862/to-celebrate-the-french-publication-of-relish-i
First Second News from San Diego Comicon 2013
Cecil Castellucci signing copies of ODD DUCK at the First Second Booth. (Photo credit Brigid Alverson, Publishers Weekly)
THE GENESIS BOOKSHELF
THE BOOK OF GENESIS ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT CRUMB is already available in 16 different languages (English, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish) and 22 different editions. Still to come: Arabic, Korean and Serbian.
CONGRATULATIONS!
At last week’s San Diego Comicon, ANNIE SULLIVAN AND THE TRIALS OF HELEN KELLER, by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies) won an Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work. It will be published in France by Editions Ça et Là, in collaboration with Editions Cambourakis, and in Spain by Editorial Sins Entido.
THIS WAS OUR PACT acquired by First Second
First Second will publish a full-color, extended version of Ryan Andrews’ on-line comic, THIS WAS OUR PACT, in autumn 2016! More news coming later this year.
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 