First Second Books

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First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels that are innovative, daring, and entertaining. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second bridges ages, genres, and countries, bringing graphic novel readers high quality fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism by both well-known and brand new creators from countries across the globe who have backgrounds in drama, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and prose. Through this diversity of approach, First Second aims to expose a wider audience to the graphic novel.

First Second launched in U.S. stores and online in May 2006. It is distributed by Macmillan in the rest of the English-speaking world.

It is headed by editorial director Mark Siegel.

[edit] First Second Publications

Graphic Novels:

Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
  • The Black Diamond Detective Agency, by Eddie Campbell
  • Garage Band, by Gipi
  • The Lost Colony v. 2: The Red Menace, by Grady Klein
  • The Professor's Daughter, by Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar
  • Sardine in Outer Space 3, by Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar
  • Tiny Tyrant, by Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme
Fall 2007
Additional forthcoming books include:
  • Battling Boy by Paul Pope
  • Foiled by Jane Yolen and artist TBA
  • Gus by Christophe Blain
  • Kaput & Zosky by Lewis Trondheim
  • Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece
  • The Secret War by Carla Jablonski and Leland Purvis
  • The Third Horseman by J.T. Petty
  • Three Angels by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham

Other creators mentioned on First Second's website (but without any details) include Catherine Clinton, Greg Cook, Will Davis, Matt Madden, Adam Rapp, Richard Sala, and Tanitoc. (Healing Hands by Derek Kirk Kim was announced by both First Second and Kim as an upcoming graphic novel, but it has been changed to an untitled project).

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