Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity By Dave Roman First Second Hakata Soy’s past life as the leader of a futuristic super team won¹t stay in the past! The former space hero is doing his best to keep his head down at Astronaut Academy. Things aren¹t going so great, though. The most popular girl in school has [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Mush! Sled Dogs With Issues Glenn Eichler & Joe Infurnari First Second “Venus wants Buddy to quit asking her to “make puppies.” Buddy wants Winston’s help wooing Venus. Winston wants Guy’s respect. Guy wants Dolly’s job. Dolly wants to know the meaning of it all. Nobody knows what Fiddler really wants, not even Fiddler. But [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 2, 2012
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Bake Sale By Sara Varon First Second Cupcake’s life is pretty good. He’s got his bakery, and his band, and his best friend, Eggplant. His days are full of cooking, socializing, and playing music. But lately, Cupcake has been struggling in the kitchen. He’s sure the solution to all his problems is out there somewhere. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 25, 2011
Nursery Rhyme Comics – 50 Timeless Rhymes From 50 Celebrated Cartoonists Edited by Chris Duffy Artists (deep breath): Nick Abadzis; Andrew Arnold; Kate Beaton; Vera Brosgol; Nick Bruel; Scott Campbell; Lilli Carre; Roz Chast; JP Coovert; Jordan Crane; Rebecca Dart; Eleanor Davis; Vanessa Davis; Theo Ellsworth; Matt Forsythe; Jules Feiffer; Bob Flynn; Alexis Frederick-Frost; Ben [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 10, 2011
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Feynman By Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick First Second I love it. But I knew I would. I have Feynman’s books on my shelf, Feynman biographys alongside those. All a Feynman graphic novel biography had to do to make it great in my eyes was to simple tell Feynman’s story, capturing all the genius, the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 21, 2011
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Saw this story at Robot 6. Well, actually I saw the cover in my news feed and it did the trick. Because that cover just looks great. Faith Erin Hicks has a new book coming out from First Second in February 2012, but she’s going to be putting the whole 211 page graphic novel online. Five updates a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 20, 2011
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Some new Paul Pope Battling Boy art … from First Second’s blog – Paul Pope b&w: Then, as pointed out by Heidi (thanks Heidi), some coloured pages from Hilary Sycamore: Which means that maybe, just maybe, say it quietly…. Battling Boy may just be released soon? This year? (probably not) 2012? (Maybe). I suppose there’s [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 19, 2011
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I’ve talked about my excitement for the Feynman graphic novel coming out from First Second in August before, but there’s a new trailer up on You Tube for the book, and it’s just great….. Feynman and comics…. perfect for the science fans out there….. or anyone interested in a fascinating character:
Continue reading...Saturday, March 5, 2011
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Colleen AF Veneble, the designer on First Second’s forthcoming Feynman Graphic Novel, gives a great interview at That Cover Girl blog detailing some of the decisions involved in her work, that includes that cover above: The cover for FEYNMAN by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick came to me as a simple line art sketch of Richard [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 4, 2011
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Over on the First Second blog Nick Bertozzi talks us through how he approached creating some of his Lewis and Clark book, from scripting (yes, it is very hard, he confirms!) to roughs, to pencils and design layout to the finished pages, along with some good advice for other artists gleaned from experience, go and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 22, 2011
Not just random numbers. 2011 is the year First Second turns 5 years old. And their upcoming slate of 2011 releases looks rather nice. I know Kenny’s looking forward to Lewis & Clark and I’ve already written of my anticipation of the Feynman graphic novel. But here’s the complete list of what’s to come. Tiny [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Over on the First Second blog they’ve been releasing “B.B.Leaks”, two so far (here and here), which are previews of Paul Pope’s much anticipated series Battling Boy. Battling Boy is due from First Second sometime in 2011. Maybe. But since I first mentioned the damn thing back in late 2008, I’m not going to be [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
The good folks at First Second are bringing us some online comics goodness starting today with Zahra’s Paradise, a comic exploring events in Iran, starting with the still disputed recent elections and the protests and subsequent crackdown by the old guard. The revolution may not be televised, as the old song goes, but it was [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Photographer Original photographs by Didier Lefevre. Artwork and story by Emmanuel Guibert. Colours and design by Frederic Lemercier. First Second Books. Just the very scale of The Photographer is impressive. And I don’t just mean the oversized, very thick, incredibly well designed physical nature of the book. Just a cursory glance at that stunning [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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