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“My Sister The Werebeast” is a new middle school graphic novel by cartoonist Alina Tysoe, to whom she has just sold the worldwide rights.
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- The worldwide rights to Alina Tysoe’s new graphic novel “My Sister The Werebeast” have been sold to Mark Siegel of First Second.
- The story is about two sisters who take care of their younger sister Peanut in a magical city while she develops strange abilities.
- Alina Tysoe is known for her popular webcomic “What’s Up, Beanie?” and other published works such as “Emi Isn’t Scared of Monsters.”
- First Second Books, led by Mark Siegel and Calista Brill, plans to publish My Sister The Werebeast in 2025.
My sister, the animal is a new graphic novel for middle school by the cartoonist Alina Tysoe about two sisters who recently moved to a new, magical town and have to take care of their little sister Peanut when she starts to show strange abilities.
Alina Tysoe is an illustrator, 2D animator and author of What’s up, Beanie?a webcomic read by 1.5 million people every week on WebToon. Comics with a strong referencea collection based on her webcomic, the picture book Emi is not afraid of monstersand the book series with graphic chapters The great PuptectiveThe next book of it, Purranormal activity will be released in February 2025.
Mark Siegel First Second has acquired the worldwide rights to My sister, the animal by Alina Tysoe’s agent, Maile Beal, at Arc Literary Management. Publication is scheduled for 2025. First Second Books is a well-known and groundbreaking American graphic novel publisher based in New York City and an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, distributed by Macmillan, with Editorial & Creative Director Mark Siegel and Editor-in-Chief Calista Brill.
The proliferation of children’s graphic novels is driving all kinds of publishers to enter the comics medium. At the moment, it seems like an inexhaustible market that is being tapped into and will produce loyal comic readers for decades to come. It is not for nothing that children’s graphic novels are referred to in bookstores as the newsstand of the 21st century.
The proliferation of children’s graphic novels is driving all kinds of publishers to enter the comics medium. At the moment, it seems like an inexhaustible market that is being tapped into and will produce loyal comic readers for decades to come. It is not for nothing that children’s graphic novels are referred to in bookstores as the newsstand of the 21st century.
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