test heading We'll be at ALA Las Vegas this week, exhibiting with our parent company MacKids at booth #522! MacKids will have a great selection of our upcoming fall books for you to get an advanced look at. Gene Luen Yang will be doing a signing of advance copies of his graphic novel with Sonny [...]
test heading The American Library Association and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announced last week that this year's Banned Books Week is going to spotlight comics and graphic novels. Here are three reasons why we're even more excited about Banned Books Week than usual this year. Comics and graphic novels have some specific [...]
First Second at MECAF! This weekend, we'll be exhibiting at the Maine Comics Art Festival in Portland, Oregon. We'll have with us wonderful :01 author Ben Hatke, with his just-published book The Return of Zita the Spacegirl. Ben will be revealing 'The Three Secrets of Comics' to all comers on a program in the MECAF [...]
test heading (Children's Book Week; it turns out that it's this week) It's Children's Book Week this week! And that's great because books for kids are wonderful. We love having a whole week to celebrate them in! Here are five easy ways you can join in the celebration: Read a children's book this week! Many [...]
test heading This weekend, you'll be able to find First Second at the Toronto Comics Art Festival. We're exhibiting at table #151! We're super-excited to be exhibiting again at TCAF for the first time since . . . I think it was 2008, when it was still back in the college. You'll be able to [...]
test heading We went to the LA Times Book Festival last weekend, which was the first time that we'd ever been to their festival. As it's the biggest literary festival in the US, we felt that some exploration was called for. And also, they kindly nominated our author Gene Luen Yang for the LA Times [...]
test heading This weekend! If you're in LA, why not stop by the LA Times Festival of Books? :01 authors Gene Luen Yang (Boxers & Saints) and Jen Wang (In Real Life) and Cecil Castellucci (Odd Duck) will be there. Where will you be able to find them? Friday: LA Times Book Awards 7:30pm USC [...]
test heading We went to MoCCA this weekend, where we had a lovely time. We conversed with a large number of accomplished cartoonists and estimable publishers and dedicated readers, saw a lot of great comics, and generally had a splendid time. Charlie Brown hung over our heads! Here are some pictures of our show. We [...]
test heading MoCCA 2014! It is this weekend! We will be exhibiting, at table A27! We'll have copies of our just-published winter books -- James Kochalka's The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza, Danica Novgorodoff's The Undertaking of Lily Chen, and Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust. Here's the :01 schedule of signings and panels. [...]
test heading We headed down to ALA Midwinter this weekend to spend some time at our booth with Macmillan Children's! And we were delighted this morning to find that Lucy Knisley's Relish: My Life in the Kitchen won an Alex Award -- the award given to the adult books of the year that also are [...]
