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First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
NEW BOOKS: SCIENCE COMICS! We’re delighted to share with you the books we just got in the office — copies of our all-new series Science Comics! The goal of this series is to create graphic novels about science that are fun and accessible while explaining about how cool parts of our world around us work. We can’t wait to:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life.PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through April THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped inBELLY BANDS
Sometimes books have belly bands! What’s a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley’s Relish — that strip around the bottom with the praise (in HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of:01 COLLECTION
First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors. NEW BOOKS: SCIENCE COMICS! We’re delighted to share with you the books we just got in the office — copies of our all-new series Science Comics! The goal of this series is to create graphic novels about science that are fun and accessible while explaining about how cool parts of our world around us work. We can’t wait to:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. BLOG | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Blog. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. NEWSLETTER | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Newsletter: Subscribe to a monthly e-blast that contains information on all of our publications, new project announcements, sneak peeks, and progress shots of upcoming books, creator interviews, updates on the conventions we attend, and original comic strips. CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. REPRINTING | FIRST SECOND BOOKS (The second printing of two of our Spring 2014 titles — Andre the Giant and This One Summer. You can tell that they’re second printings just from looking at the cover — we didn’t print the first printing with ‘New York Times Bestseller’ on it.) Figuring out when to reprint books is always a challengeBOOK SPINES
(not as good a post about book spines as our designer would do, but maybe she'll be encouraged to write a better one herself?) I saw the paperback cover for Howard's End is on the Landing this morning, and it's lovely! I thought for a moment that it actually was just aclose-up of a
PUBLISHING VS. KICKSTARTER Taking on a different part of the internet’s Kickstarter kerfuffle, we’ll start with this. The end result of Kickstarter is that cool cartoonists whose work we personally admire (and possibly some other people too) are getting money to do projects that they really want to HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of:01 COLLECTION
First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilTARGET AUDIENCES
(from the National Library of Ireland on The Commons. We recommend a similar treatment for your own target audience as this target is receiving; skill with a bow and arrow is actually sometime required of all our authors. We do not provide lessons.) What is a ‘target audience’? What that term refers to is to COMICS RELIEF FESTIVAL This virtual festival will give comics fans an in-depth look at the key moments in comic creation, and you'll hear from many beloved graphic novel creators.BELLY BANDS
Sometimes books have belly bands! What’s a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley’s Relish — that strip around the bottom with the praise (in THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of:01 COLLECTION
First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilTARGET AUDIENCES
(from the National Library of Ireland on The Commons. We recommend a similar treatment for your own target audience as this target is receiving; skill with a bow and arrow is actually sometime required of all our authors. We do not provide lessons.) What is a ‘target audience’? What that term refers to is to COMICS RELIEF FESTIVAL This virtual festival will give comics fans an in-depth look at the key moments in comic creation, and you'll hear from many beloved graphic novel creators.BELLY BANDS
Sometimes books have belly bands! What’s a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley’s Relish — that strip around the bottom with the praise (in THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. NEW BOOKS: SCIENCE COMICS! We’re delighted to share with you the books we just got in the office — copies of our all-new series Science Comics! The goal of this series is to create graphic novels about science that are fun and accessible while explaining about how cool parts of our world around us work. We can’t wait to COMICS RELIEF FESTIVAL This virtual festival will give comics fans an in-depth look at the key moments in comic creation, and you'll hear from many beloved graphic novel creators.BOOK SPINES
(not as good a post about book spines as our designer would do, but maybe she'll be encouraged to write a better one herself?) I saw the paperback cover for Howard's End is on the Landing this morning, and it's lovely! I thought for a moment that it actually was just aclose-up of a
ANNOUNCING OUR TAZ VIRTUAL FAN MEETUP! Join First Second for a TAZ virtual fan-meet up! You won’t want to miss The Adventure Zone graphic novel virtual fan meetup on Saturday, April 17th at 7pm EST. Come dressed in your best TAZ-inspired cosplay for a chance to be featured in a cosplay fashion show, submit a BEHIND THE PANELS: DAVE ROMAN Meet Dave Roman, creator of the Astronaut Academy series! What initially drew you to comics? The drawings, they drew me to comics! I was a drawer who filled his drawer . . . with drawings! As a kid, I’d copy the art from Garfield, The Far Side, and Groo the Wanderer, and those eventually morphed into my BEHIND THE PANELS: DAN & JASON Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends, but sometimes friends make mistakes. One day, when the gang goes to the beach, Barry and Pancakes lose Blue’s beloved beach ball. They come up with a plan to get it back, but things go way off course. Now, these pals will have to go inside a giant whale’s stomach, crash a pool party on an alien THE PREMISE VS. THE PLOT (The premise of Box Brown’s Andre the Giant, from the flap. Nonfiction is pretty easy to grok, premise-wise.) The premise and the plot of a book are two different things. The premise is the concept of the book. The plot, on the other hand, is what happens in the book —all the events that
ABOUT PUBLISHING INTERNSHIPS (ganked from the Smithsonian Institution) So, internships! It turns out that people want them, and then they e-mail us about their internship-related desires. I personally have nothing but good things to say about internships. Without the two amazing internships I had — one at Red Hen Press, the other with Dark Horse Comics — I HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages.PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilTARGET AUDIENCES
(from the National Library of Ireland on The Commons. We recommend a similar treatment for your own target audience as this target is receiving; skill with a bow and arrow is actually sometime required of all our authors. We do not provide lessons.) What is a ‘target audience’? What that term refers to is to THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages.PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilTARGET AUDIENCES
(from the National Library of Ireland on The Commons. We recommend a similar treatment for your own target audience as this target is receiving; skill with a bow and arrow is actually sometime required of all our authors. We do not provide lessons.) What is a ‘target audience’? What that term refers to is to THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors. NEWSLETTER | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Newsletter: Subscribe to a monthly e-blast that contains information on all of our publications, new project announcements, sneak peeks, and progress shots of upcoming books, creator interviews, updates on the conventions we attend, and original comic strips. BLOG | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Blog. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages.PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through April NEW BOOKS: SCIENCE COMICS! We’re delighted to share with you the books we just got in the office — copies of our all-new series Science Comics! The goal of this series is to create graphic novels about science that are fun and accessible while explaining about how cool parts of our world around us work. We can’t wait toBOOK SPINES
(not as good a post about book spines as our designer would do, but maybe she'll be encouraged to write a better one herself?) I saw the paperback cover for Howard's End is on the Landing this morning, and it's lovely! I thought for a moment that it actually was just aclose-up of a
ANNOUNCING OUR TAZ VIRTUAL FAN MEETUP! Join First Second for a TAZ virtual fan-meet up! You won’t want to miss The Adventure Zone graphic novel virtual fan meetup on Saturday, April 17th at 7pm EST. Come dressed in your best TAZ-inspired cosplay for a chance to be featured in a cosplay fashion show, submit a BEHIND THE PANELS: DAN & JASON Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends, but sometimes friends make mistakes. One day, when the gang goes to the beach, Barry and Pancakes lose Blue’s beloved beach ball. They come up with a plan to get it back, but things go way off course. Now, these pals will have to go inside a giant whale’s stomach, crash a pool party on an alien BEHIND THE PANELS: DAVE ROMAN Meet Dave Roman, creator of the Astronaut Academy series! What initially drew you to comics? The drawings, they drew me to comics! I was a drawer who filled his drawer . . . with drawings! As a kid, I’d copy the art from Garfield, The Far Side, and Groo the Wanderer, and those eventually morphed into my AN 'IMPRINT'? WHAT'S THAT? (tree ganked from The Field Museum Library) Sometimes when I tell people that First Second is an imprint of Macmillan USA, I get blank looks — and that's about the time that I remember that not everyone spends all of their time decoding publishing family trees (that's right! That tree at the top of the HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilBELLY BANDS
Sometimes books have belly bands! What’s a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley’s Relish — that strip around the bottom with the praise (in THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
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First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilBELLY BANDS
Sometimes books have belly bands! What’s a belly band? That is the (usually) paper band around the cover of a book that is not actually connected to the book. You can see below, in the photo of the adorable French edition of Lucy Knisley’s Relish — that strip around the bottom with the praise (in THE SUBMISSION PROCESS: WHAT TO SUBMIT One of the questions that we get pretty frequently is, ‘I want to submit a graphic novel to you. Um . . . how does that work?’ This is a very sensible question, as everyone knows that some publishers require all submissions to be conveyed camel-back across the Great American Desert and presented wrapped in NEWSLETTER | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Newsletter: Subscribe to a monthly e-blast that contains information on all of our publications, new project announcements, sneak peeks, and progress shots of upcoming books, creator interviews, updates on the conventions we attend, and original comic strips. BLOG | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Blog. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. NEW BOOKS: SCIENCE COMICS! We’re delighted to share with you the books we just got in the office — copies of our all-new series Science Comics! The goal of this series is to create graphic novels about science that are fun and accessible while explaining about how cool parts of our world around us work. We can’t wait toPUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilBOOK SPINES
(not as good a post about book spines as our designer would do, but maybe she'll be encouraged to write a better one herself?) I saw the paperback cover for Howard's End is on the Landing this morning, and it's lovely! I thought for a moment that it actually was just aclose-up of a
COMICS RELIEF FESTIVAL This virtual festival will give comics fans an in-depth look at the key moments in comic creation, and you'll hear from many beloved graphic novel creators. ANNOUNCING OUR TAZ VIRTUAL FAN MEETUP! Join First Second for a TAZ virtual fan-meet up! You won’t want to miss The Adventure Zone graphic novel virtual fan meetup on Saturday, April 17th at 7pm EST. Come dressed in your best TAZ-inspired cosplay for a chance to be featured in a cosplay fashion show, submit a BEHIND THE PANELS: DAN & JASON Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends, but sometimes friends make mistakes. One day, when the gang goes to the beach, Barry and Pancakes lose Blue’s beloved beach ball. They come up with a plan to get it back, but things go way off course. Now, these pals will have to go inside a giant whale’s stomach, crash a pool party on an alien BEHIND THE PANELS: DAVE ROMAN Meet Dave Roman, creator of the Astronaut Academy series! What initially drew you to comics? The drawings, they drew me to comics! I was a drawer who filled his drawer . . . with drawings! As a kid, I’d copy the art from Garfield, The Far Side, and Groo the Wanderer, and those eventually morphed into my AN 'IMPRINT'? WHAT'S THAT? (tree ganked from The Field Museum Library) Sometimes when I tell people that First Second is an imprint of Macmillan USA, I get blank looks — and that's about the time that I remember that not everyone spends all of their time decoding publishing family trees (that's right! That tree at the top of the HOME | FIRST SECOND BOOKSABOUT01 COLLECTION01 CREATORSRESOURCESBLOGNEWSLETTER First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books are sold. Led by Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editorial Director Calista Brill, each of our graphic novels is the work of an army of:01 COLLECTION
First Second Collection. Explore our current projects that are just hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check back soon for updates! ABOUT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS About First Second Books: First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages. Our graphic novels are available online, in libraries, in comic book shops, and wherever books aresold.
RESOURCES | FIRST SECOND BOOKS First Second Resources for booksellers, teachers, & librarians. Additionally, we've included a list of our latest awards & honors.:01 CREATORS
First Second Creators: The creators on our list are at the heart of First Second. Learn more about some of the amazing authors and illustrators that bring our graphic novels to life. FIRST PRINTING OR FIRST EDITION? (I can’t tell whether these people are reading a first printing or a first edition — from the State Library of Victoria.) We frequently get e-mails from people asking about first printings and first editions of books, and sometimes there seems to be some confusionabout whether or
CONTACT | FIRST SECOND BOOKS Contact First Second Books. First Second Books is a graphic novel publisher located in New York City. We publish graphic novels in every genre and for readers of all ages.PUBLISHING SEASONS
Photo from Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane (whatever that is). I would like this winter here now please. We publish books in seasons. There are three of them, and though they do bear some resemblance to the seasons of nature, it is not really an exact thing. Winter: January through AprilBELLY BANDS
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My brother-in-comics @johngreenart has a new book series and the first volume is on the shelves now. It’s action-packed and full of gags a plenty. #kidlit #bookstagram #graphicnovels #graphicnovelseries #investigators #firstsecondbooks #comicsforkids My brother-in-comics @johngreenart has a new book series and the first volume is on the shelves now. It’s action-packed and full of gags a plenty. #kidlit #bookstagram #graphicnovels #graphicnovelseries #investigators #firstsecondbooks #comicsforkids61
"Sports isnt just about sports; sports is really about courage. You have to step out, whether it's on the court or in your life." @geneluenyang tells the epic story of one high school basketball team's road to glory in #DragonHoops, out 3/17! "Sports isnt just about sports; sports is really about courage. You have to step out, whether it's on the court or in your life." @geneluenyang tells the epic story of one high school basketball team's road to glory in #DragonHoops, out 3/17!23
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• • 📚 Sur la route de West de @tilliewalden publié aux éditions @gallimardbd • • 4e livre pour Tillie Walden qui cette fois nous entraine dans un road movie aux accents oniriques et fantastiques où rêve et réalité ont tendance à se confondre... Militante LGBT, l'autrice de "Spinning" n’hésite pas (et à raison) à évoquer aussi bien les coming out douloureux que les violences sexuelles intra familiales, des sujets tabous au sein d’une société américaine encore largement puritaine. • • Et si c'est la première fois que vous découvrez cette autrice, foncez lire ses autes romans graphiques, notamment "Dans un rayon de soleil" toujours chez @gallimardbd ! • • J’ai aussi rendu un petit hommage à la disparition d’Hubert, scénariste chez @glenatbd @dupuis_bd @dargaud ou encore @delcourt_soleil_bd • • • Retrouve-moi deux fois par mois dans La Matinale de @lesnews24 ! • • #bebook #surlaroutedewest #tilliewalden #gallimard #gallimardbd #lgbt #texas #roadmovie #ontheroad #firstsecondbooks #bandedessinee #instabook #bookstagram #graphicnovel #bd2020 #livrestagram #livre #lecture #bookaddict #bdaddict #instabd #bdstagram #chronique #review #belgianblogger #youonlyreadonce • • 📚 Sur la route de West de @tilliewalden publié aux éditions @gallimardbd • • 4e livre pour Tillie Walden qui cette fois nous entraine dans un road movie aux accents oniriques et fantastiques où rêve et réalité ont tendance à se confondre... Militante LGBT, l'autrice de "Spinning" n’hésite pas (et à raison) à évoquer aussi bien les coming out douloureux que les violences sexuelles intra familiales, des sujets tabous au sein d’une société américaine encore largement puritaine. • • Et si c'est la première fois que vous découvrez cette autrice, foncez lire ses autes romans graphiques, notamment "Dans un rayon de soleil" toujours chez @gallimardbd ! • • J’ai aussi rendu un petit hommage à la disparition d’Hubert, scénariste chez @glenatbd @dupuis_bd @dargaud ou encore @delcourt_soleil_bd • • • Retrouve-moi deux fois par mois dans La Matinale de @lesnews24 ! • • #bebook #surlaroutedewest #tilliewalden #gallimard #gallimardbd #lgbt #texas #roadmovie #ontheroad #firstsecondbooks #bandedessinee #instabook #bookstagram #graphicnovel #bd2020 #livrestagram #livre #lecture #bookaddict #bdaddict #instabd #bdstagram #chronique #review #belgianblogger #youonlyreadonce35
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