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(this photo is from somewhere. on the internet.) What follows is a short post in praise of Bergen Street Comics.  At this point, it is difficult to count the number of people who have come to me to say, 'There's this new comics store in Brooklyn and I went in and they were awesome!' At Read the Rest…

First Second is sponsoring the following programs at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. THURSDAY 3:30 – 4:30 True Stories – Chester Brown (Paying For It), Tom Devlin (Art Director of D&Q), Peter Kuper (Stop Forgetting to Remember), Leland Myrick (Feynman), and Thomas LeBien (Publisher of Hill & Wang’s Novel Graphics line) discuss the ins and Read the Rest…

Interested in authors?  Some of First Second’s best will be at this year’s SDCC. Leland Myrick: Myrick’s first graphic novel, Missouri Boy, was a Booklist Best of the Year.  Also a contributor to the Flight anthology series, he follows this up with a new graphic nonfiction work, a biography of Richard Feynman.  Feynman will be Read the Rest…

First Second graphic novels are up for FOUR Eisner Award this year. The Unsinkable Walker Bean, by Aaron Renier – an ABA Independent Bookstore Bestseller!  “Everything you want from a rip-roaring adventure: Exciting, deep, funny, and scary, with tremendous villains and valor galore.” — Booklist Prime Baby, by Gene Luen Yang “Delightful.” – BoingBoing Zahra’s Read the Rest…

It's NYRSF's first comics event ever, and thererfore it can't help but be awesome, right?  Details here.

One of our favorite webcomics is Sailor Twain, and we therefore feel very lucky to be its eventual publisher. If you've been following along for this saga of mermaids the the Hudson River and steamboats and occasional letter-writing, now you have a chance to meet the author (the esteemed Mark Siegel) in person whilst on Read the Rest…

(now with legos, ice cream, and also comics) (image ganked from here) The New York Public Library is celebrating its centennial this year; congratulations to them!  Actually, to be more specific, they're celebrating this weekend.  And there are comics involved!  (And also much other cool stuff.)  Go check out their schedule. 

If you're going to be in Maine this weekend, don't miss MECAF, the Maine Comics Art Festival.  Also: isn't Zack Giallongo's poster art lovely?  Watch this space; about this time next year we'll be starting to run previews of Zack's first book, forthcoming from First Second!

I so liked what The Hieroglyphic Streets did for Koko Be Good that I'm going to attempt to do the same thing for Astronaut Academy here, except with a less verbose review at the beginning because I want to save things to talk about for this book when it comes out (in just a month!).  Read the Rest…