(photo from the National Archive of Norway. Thanks, Norway) As we pack up our office for our non-denominational-winter-holiday-break, I just wanted to take a minute to say happy holidays to all of you who are reading our blog. 2011 is First Second's fifth anniversary year, and we've had a lovely year, with four New York Read the Rest…
Much MUSH! news to report! Just out in stores is a new First Second gem from the pen of Glenn Eichler and the artistic wizardry of Joe Infurnari—MUSH! (Sled Dogs with Issues) looks and reads like no other comic you've ever seen. Or have you ever enjoyed a visit with a pack of sled dogs Read the Rest…
When I was a wee thing (that is to say, in my mid-twenties), I read a graphic novel. It looked like this: Same Difference made a strong impression on me. It was a comic, yes, and boy howdy do I love a comic. But I'd never read one that seemed as though it had been Read the Rest…
It is the week of Thanksgiving, which means that there is a glut of things to be thankful for. One of them is books! Specifically graphic novels: the books of our industry. Here are a few I have a particular reason to be thankful for. Here is the number one book I am thankful for: Read the Rest…
We are very excited to be publishing an all-new edition of Derek Kirk Kim's classic graphic novel, Same Difference. It's such a good book! And it's really one of the graphic novels published in the early 2000s that showed the way for comics-format literary fiction. Also we're excited because this edition has a really cool Read the Rest…
(photo ganked from here) Continuing on our theme of snacks that are made of chocolate, do you know what else is super? Mice made out of chocolate! And they are adorable too (see above). Burdick's (which is fortunately down the street from us) is a chocolate shop that is also a cafe — they do Read the Rest…
(In which I talk about something that is neither a food nor an event. Craziness!) (photo ganked from here; thanks, Library of Congress!) In a short sentence? Don't do it. When we exhibit at a convention, there will probably be two people at our booth at a time. One of them will be making change; Read the Rest…
Rickshaw Dumpling Bar is down the street from the Flatiron Building — not the truck that is only there occasionally, but the actual physical location, which is there 100% of the time for us to eat dumplings at. How could this get any better, you ask? Chocolate Soup Dumplings. So, soup dumplings are dumplings with Read the Rest…
The creators of Americus have been kind (and madly creative) enough to put together a guide to the fantastical world that appears in their tome: The Lorian Gendarme Guidebook for Adventuring Standards. Now you, too can fathom the inner workings of the world of Apathea!
Do a little jig, folks, because as of yesterday the world is just a little brighter. Edited by the redoutable Chris Duffy, with an introduction by the resplendent Leonard Marcus, and featuring fifty really remarkable cartoonists, this book gets my ready, resounding recommendation! It makes me laugh, it makes me think, and it makes me Read the Rest…
