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So, you're going to the San Diego Comic-Con, and you're thinking to yourself, 'however shall I put myself in a position to encounter the people at First Second Books?'  Here is a quick and easy guide.  Technique 1: Come to our booth!  We can pretty much guarantee that whenever the floor is open, there will Read the Rest…

If you happen to be attending this year's Book Expo America (at the Javits Center in New York City) and are hoping to stumble upon a First Second author, here's a handy guide to aid you in your quest!Friday, May 29th: :01 Editorial Director Mark Siegel will be participating in the YA Buzz Panel, talking Read the Rest…

Can there ever be enough news round-up posts on The Photographer?  To our delight, the answer (as yet) seems to be no: more people are talking about this book every day.  "This isn't just a great photography book, it's a great novel, a great comic, a great memoir, and a great history text." — boingboing Read the Rest…

VII Photo Agency is an international photographic cooperative, named the third most important entity in photography in 2005.  For the past few weeks, their New York gallery has been hosting the photographs of The Photographer photographer Didier Lefevre.  Last night, there was a panel at the gallery with MSF USA Director Sophie Delaunay, :01 Editorial Read the Rest…

Nickelodeon Magazine is totally awesome!  For one thing, their latest comics issue just featured a comic by Adventures in Cartooning creators James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost.  For another thing, every time their magazine comes out, it features great cartoonists like Karl Kerschl, Richard Thompson, Michael Kupperman, Paul Hornschemeier, Sara Varon, Tom Gauld, Aaron Read the Rest…

Scott McCloud  joins  First Second Here's the full press release: Download MCCLOUD release.icon 

… But short of that, I'm following Bart Beaty on the Comics Reporter, with his moment by moment recounting… … which started out with the 25 things he plans to do while in Angoulême—item number 3: 3. Attend a lecture. American cons have panels, Angouleme has "meetings." This year's schedule is one of the richest Read the Rest…

Derek Kirk Kim posts about this on his blog, beginning thus:  "This past Monday, on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, I discovered that the casting of the four leading characters for the upcoming live-action movie, "The Last Airbender" (based on the TV show, “Avatar: The Last Airbender”) had Read the Rest…