Abrams Fanfare, New Children’s Graphic Novel Imprint, Adds Larry Hama

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Abrams Fanfare is the identify of a brand new kids’s graphic novel imprint from e-book writer Abrams, launching this autumn.

Abrams Fanfare is the identify of a brand new kids’s graphic novel imprint from e-book writer Abrams, launching this autumn. It can be launched by Senior VP and writer Andrew Smith and affiliate writer Maggie Lehrman. Children’s graphic novels beforehand printed by Abrams, together with El Deafo by Cece Bell and Nathan Hale‘s Hazardous Tales, will change into a part of it, however not Amulet’s illustrated chapter books, reminiscent of Jeff Kinney‘s Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Tom Angleberger‘s Origami Yoda. Abrams Fanfare will launch with two new titles and three new volumes in persevering with sequence:

August:

• Black Lives: Great Minds of Science, the primary quantity of a sequence of graphic biographies by author Tonya Bolden and artist David Wilkerson 
• Adventuregame Comics: Samurai vs. Ninja, the third quantity in Jason Shiga‘s choose-your-path middle-grade graphic novel sequence

September:

• The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien written and illustrated by John Hendrix, the story of the friendship between the 2 well-known authors and the way it affected their writing

November

• A Mighty Marvel Team-Up Box Set, bundling three early middle-grade Spider-Man titles by Mike Maihack: Spider-Man: Animals Assemble!, Spider-Man: Quantum Quest!, and Spider-Man: Cosmic Chaos!

January

• Astrid & Stella: Comet Together!, the fourth quantity within the early middle-grade sequence by sisters Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle, founders of the Hello!Lucky design studio

This can be adopted by,

• a YA thriller by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux
• a graphic novel adaptation of Tamora Pierce‘s YA fantasy sequence Song of the Lioness
• a middle-grade sequence by Larry Hama
• a brand new early-reader graphic novel by Tom Angleberger.

Which may nicely give Larry Hama the largest hit of his very lengthy profession.  Fanfare will even accomplice with Marvel Comics, Paramount Consumer Products, and Mattel for extra titles.

Andrew Smith instructed Publisher’s Weekly. “We’ll be introducing another Marvel hero into the mighty Marvel Team-Up series next year.We’ll also be continuing to build upon our strong partnership with Marvel in some new categories and with some popular and bestselling creators over the next few years…. Abrams has been publishing graphic novels for over 15 years as part of the Amulet imprint, which is our home for fiction and nonfiction early chapter books, middle grade, and YA. Abrams Fanfare will now be our dedicated home and imprint for comics for kids and teens, so all of the graphic novels that had been part of Amulet backlist—and we have close to 200 titles on our graphic novel backlist—will be moving to Fanfare and forming the foundation for the new imprint. We’re thrilled to have the launch of a new series on the debut list with Black Lives. It’s really terrific to have a new middle-grade nonfiction launch on the debut list, since it’s a category I feel we’re known for at Abrams.”

Abrams, previously Harry N. Abrams, Inc, is an American writer of artwork and illustrated books, kids’s books, and stationery. The enterprise is a subsidiary of the French writer La Martinière Groupe. Run by President and CEO Michael Jacobs, Abrams publishes and distributes roughly 250 titles yearly and has greater than 3,000 titles in print. Abrams additionally distributes publications for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Vendome Press (in North America), Booth Clibborn Editions, SelfMadeHero, MoMA Children’s Books, and 5 Continents. Founded by Harry N. Abrams in 1949, Abrams was the primary firm within the United States to specialize within the creation and distribution of artwork books. Times Mirror acquired the corporate in 1966 and Harry Abrams retired in 1977. For a few years, the corporate was below the route of Paul Gottlieb (writer) till January 2001, eighteen months earlier than his dying. Abrams was acquired by La Martinière Groupe in 1997.

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