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The Happy Shop from self-published graphic novelist and webcomics creator Brittany Long Olsen has been picked up by Shawna Gore whereas she was nonetheless at Lion Forge/Oni Press and has now been handed to Grace Scheipeter to edit. The Happy Shop is a middle-grade graphic novel that “follows 11-year-old Darcy in a new town, who wanders into a strange shop and breaks an expensive jar that she can’t pay for. She makes a deal to help clean the place to pay off her debt, and learns this is no ordinary shop: the shopkeepers collect and re-sell very specific happy feelings in the jars—a skill they teach Darcy”.
Brittany Long Olsen is a cartoonist who revealed the continued webcomic Are You My Mother? about “searching for the feminine divine and finding goddess imagery all over the world” on Patreon in addition to graphic novels. Magic in the Valley: The Story of Moira Green, Witch, DENDO: One Year and One Half in Tokyo and extra.
The Happy Shop shall be revealed by Oni Press in the spring of 2024. Brittany Long Olsen’s agent Christa Heschke at McIntosh & Otis bought world rights to Oni Press.
Oni Press/Lion Forge has been hitting the headlines so much not too long ago, with former homeowners James Lucas Jones and Charlie Chu pushed out by mother or father firm Polarity, others departing voluntarily, and their newly reprinted Gender Queer: A Memoir graphic novel touchdown them, and its author/artist Maia Kobabe, with dismissed obscenity legal lawsuits in the state of Virginia. in addition to Oni Press getting allegations of non-payment to comedian e book creators. Bleeding Cool checked out different latest work strikes, and issues of overwork, main to notable gaps lacking from the writer’s schedule. But now they’ve a brand new writer and president in Hunter Gorinson, let’s examine what goes down.
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