First Second launches E-Newsletter to beam joy directly to your inbox
Recently, Battling Boy and The Sculptor publisher First Second announced the launch of a new e-newsletter. The publication will feature a variety of comics recommendations, a list...
Gene Yang and the March Trilogy team are voted the 2016 Comics Industry People...
For the sixth year in a row, The Beat is proud to present the Comics Industry Person of the Year, as chosen by voters in our annual creator survey: Gene Luen Yang. The the Team of the year: Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.
EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Andrewson Reimagines a Classic Holiday Story in New Graphic Novel THE NUTCRACKER...
Illustrator and cartoonist Natalie Andrewson has produced work for major publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Polygon, and Medium. Now, Andrewson is set to publish a...
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...
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...
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...
: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...
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...
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...
