Fantagraphics Buys Rights To Santiago Cohen's Secrets Of A Lost Diary

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Secrets of a Lost Diary is a YA graphic novel by Mexican-American artist Santiago Cohen, popping out frm Fantagraphics Unbound. .

Secrets of a Lost Diary, a YA graphic novel by Mexican-American artist Santiago Cohen, is a narrative of two diaries that touches on the affect of dementia in a household, historic trauma and the Holocaust, LGBTQIA+ in two generations, and immigration.

Gary Groth at Fantagraphics Underground Press has acquired Secrets of a Lost Diary and publication is scheduled for September 2024. Santiago Cohen’s agent Anna Olswanger at Olswanger Literary did the deal for world English rights.

Santiago Cohen, celebrating his seventieth birthday subsequent 12 months, is a cartoonist, animator, illustrator, and effective artist based mostly in New Jersey. He studied Communications Design at Metropolitan University in Mexico with a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute.

In 2016, Cohen drew the Latino graphic novel Angelitos written by Ilan Stavans, animated episodes of Troubles the Cat for The Cartoon Network and Children’s Television Network advert illustrated youngsters’s books for a wide-ranging of publishing firms. He additionally designed the unique Comedy Central emblem. His graphic novel The Fifth Name acquired a grant from Peter Laird‘s Xeric Foundation and in 2014, he completed his Exvida Project, product of 1150 oil work telling his life in an ex-voto type. He designed the unique Comedy Central emblem and has been the creative director of the Day of the Dead Parade for the Jersey City since 2014.

Fantagraphics was based in 1976 by Gary Groth and Michael Catron in Maryland, taking up adzine The Nostalgia Journal, and renaming it The Comics Journal. Kim Thompson joined the corporate in 1977, utilizing his inheritance to maintain the corporate afloat and have become a co-owner. After shifting location quite a few occasions, it has stayed in Seattle since 1989. Beginning in 1979, Fantagraphics started publishing comics, greatest identified for comcis together with Love and Rockets, Acme Novelty Library, Eightball, and Hate.

Fantagraphics states that “Fantagraphics Underground is our small-run imprint for a rarefied readership. FU means uncensored expression, author ownership, and work that can only be published outside the mainstream. This is a return to our roots—publishing books that are innovative, quirky, idiosyncratic, oddball, experimental, or downright crazy.”

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