Tyler Whitesides & Rebecca Syracuse’s Food Fighters at Andrews McMeel

Food Fighters, a middle-grade graphic novel collection by Tyler Whitesides and Rebecca Syracuse has been purchased by Erinn Pascal at Andrews McMeel with the primary e-book within the collection, Food for Thought, to be printed within the spring of 2025.

Food for Thought follows a boy who discovers an surprising skill to regulate meals together with his thoughts, main him to a secret society of crime-fighting foodies who come underneath menace by a rogue agent recognized solely because the Big Cheese.

Rebecca Syracuse is an illustrator and kids’s e-book designer based mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She obtained a BFA in illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She tweeted “Are you hungry for more EPIC food-centric adventures? The secret’s out — I’m illustrating a graphic novel!!!”

Tyler Whitesides. who lives in Northern Utah together with his two sons, is the creator of the Janitors collection. His agent Ammi-Joan Paquette at Erin Murphy Literary Agency, and Rebecca Syracuse’s agent Natascha Morris at the Tobias Literary Agency represented the pair within the two-book deal.

Andrews McMeel Publishing, previously Andrews, McMeel and Parker and Andrews and McMeel, publishes books, calendars, and associated toys and is part of Andrews McMeel Universal, and is the final writer of books of comedian strips produced by Andrews McMeel Syndication together with The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes and FoxTrot in addition to collections for some comedian strips printed by different syndicates.

The Tobias Literary Agency makes a speciality of all Intellectual Property issues within the publishing business, from the seed of an thought to the day a e-book hits the cabinets and past. A full-service literary company headquartered in New York City with satellite tv for pc workplaces in Boston, Nashville, and Fort Worth, The Tobias Literary Agency represents established and debut authors.