First Second

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, a stylish romp by Tony Cliff was just released this week. The graphic novel, published by First Second, follows Delilah Dirk a 19th century swordmaster with a larcenous streak on her delicious adventures—it was first a webcomic then a printed book. A little Flashman, a little Adele Blanc Sec, a little Indiana Jones.

Battling Boy is one of the year's major releases, a long brewing hero's journey accompanied by some of the most spectacular work of Paul...

Here's a list of the creators and artists signing at individual booths -- we'll update it as we go so please send us updates.

I love this little feature that Shelf Awareness do, asking artists about what they're currently reading and the books that have had an impact...

Publishers First Second currently have a fun and creative pre-order campaign for the print release of Faith Erin Hicks and Prudence Shen's Nothing Can Possibly...

We'd like to remind you that a number of fantastic cartoonists are on tour either at the moment or upcoming soon this Spring. We've...

Over at his blog, Sonny Liew's been posting some lettered pages from his as yet untitled upcoming book with Gene Luen Yang for First...

Paul Pope's long long delayed magnum opus is finally coming out this fall. EW has the cover and the scoop: First: The book. Battling Boy...

Dave Roman's Astronaut Academy is coming back in a second graphic novel this year, called Astronaut Academy, and First Second is running it as a webcomic prior to the book release. A fast paced manga-inspired comedy about the adventures and romances at a school for young space-farers, ASTRONAUT ACAEDMY stars a student named Hakata Soy. The story line involves some sinister romance:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Is no place safe from comics? Authors David Baldacci (Absolute Power) and Gillian...

We nearly forgot to mention the newsiest item from First Second publisher Mark Siegel's diary: Becky Cloonan is working on a book for First...

First Second editorial director and cartoonist Mark Siegal, will be on tour for SAILOR TWAIN, this fall. Dates are above and in the link. If you haven't seen SAILOR TWAIN, the rich story of a 1887 Hudson River barge captain who finds a mermaid, and what unfolds from that, you are missing an imaginative comics yarn that joins other comics about waterbourne voyages, like Far Ardden and Set to Sail. Heck it's a whole new comics genre.