With New York Comic Con just one week away, multiple publishers are teasing their programming lineup including First Second and Fierce Reads, who will be at Booth #3335 all weekend. First Second is nominated for five Harvey Awards and will be presenting multiple panels during NYCC, in addition to hosting multiple beloved creators.
Two-time Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks will be in attendance to promote her first solo romance graphic novel, Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy, which hit shelves October 3. Alongside Hicks, First Second and Fierce Reads are also spotlighting American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang; Nightmare-Verse author and one of The Root‘s Most Influential African-Americans of 2020, L.L. McKinney; BookTok sensation Tricia Levenseller; and award-winning cartoonist Sarah Winifred Searle, promoting her forthcoming Regency-era romance book Ruined.
Additionally, the following authors are attending, signing, and speaking on programs at NYCC:
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John Patrick Green, bestselling creator of the InvestiGators series
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Zoraida Córdova, the acclaimed author of more than two dozen novels, including Mermaids Never Drown
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Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost, two of the award-winning cartoonist behind Adventures in Cartooning
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Lyndall Clipstone, a former youth librarian and bestselling author of the World at the Lake’s Edge duology
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Adam Rex, bestselling and award-winning author of more than forty books, including A Little Like Waking
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The McElroys, the innovative and hilarious creators of The Adventure Zone, with illustrator Carey Pietsch on behalf of the newest addition to the series, The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Game
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Meriam Metoui, debut author of A Guide to the Dark
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Rochelle Hassan, debut author of The Buried and the Bound
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Shannon C. Rogers, debut author of I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom
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Victoria Ying, creator of Hungry Ghost
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Sarah Meyer, creator of Monstrous
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Joe Flood, creator of multiple Science Comics including Birds of Prey
Stay tuned for more coverage of NYCC 2023.
