INTERVIEW, Pt. 2: Calista Brill on Her Fondest Memories and First Second’s Future!
Calista Brill discusses her cosplay experience and reveals the people she'd like to work with most!
INTERVIEW, Pt. 1: The Secret Origin of First Second’s Executive Editor, Calista Brill!
First Second's Executive Editor discusses what led her into comics and gives tips to aspiring comics editors!
First Second reveals 14 covers for their Fall ’17 line
We're all just wrapping our head around getting through Christmas, but ever efficient and forward looking First Second has just announced its full Fall 2017 slate, with full cover reveals. Tillie Walden, Gene Yang,...
EXCLUSIVE: Brian McDonald and Toby Cypress Give Voice to the Afterlife in LAND OF...
The human fascination with death is as old as mankind itself. From the Egyptians to the Greeks and from ancient myth to American Gothic stories, death has provided us with many lenses for examining...
NYCC ’16: First Second to release THE HUNTING ACCIDENT by Carlson and Blair
Carlson and Blair's Kickstarted graphic novel is headed for wider publication next year
:01 Collecting Cucumber Quest Webcomic for Print
Earlier today, we mentioned that :01 (First Second Books) started serializing the Spillzone graphic novel as a webcomic. :01 likes to do that as a form of marketing, because webcomics sell as print collection....
:01 is Serializing Spillzone Online
:01 (First Second, if you prefer letters to numbers) likes to serialize their graphic novels online before the print edition is available and their latest serialization is now on line at http://www.thespillzone.com/.
This YA science fiction adventure...
Tonight to do: First Second’s 10th anniversary party at Mama Says Comics Rock
We mentioned yesterday that the Brooklyn Book Festival is raging throughout the boroughs this week with a ton of Bookend Events, but the MUST DO is tonight: a party to celebrate 10 years os...
Exclusive: Abadzis and Dye Reveal ‘Pigs Might Fly’ from First Second
Lily is a young girl who dreams of helping her father, Professor Hercules Fatchops, in his quest to build a flying machine. But they'll have to speed up their efforts – and throw a...
#SDCC ’16 First Second’s Gene Luen Yang: The National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
By: Nicholas Eskey
As one of the most influential graphic novel publishers in the United States, First Second is proud to celebrate 2016 as their their 10-year anniversary. Known for publishing noteworthy stories that also...
Jason Shiga on Mysteries, Angoulême, and Demon
Halfway into a pleasant Oakland morning I met up up with Jason Shiga in his family home. At a nearby cafe, we talked about his recently completed comic Demon, his approaching yearlong residency in Angoulême,...
#SDCC ’16 Special Guest Ben Hatke Talks About His Work, His Eisner Nomination, and...
By: Nicholas Eskey
During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, writer and artist Ben Hatke is spending time with publisher First Second to help commemorate their 20th anniversary.
Fortunately for me, I got a chance to sit...
