Top Shelf Productions, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, has been a leading force in the expansion of the graphic novel market since it was founded by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock in 1997.
Kate Beaton’s widely acclaimed debut graphic memoir Ducks: Two years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) has won PW’s 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll by a significant margin, receiving nine votes from PW’s panel of 16 critics.
In her debut graphic novel Shubleik Lubeik (Arabic for “your wish is my command”), Deena Mohamed dazzles, spinning an irresistible fantasy tale set in Cairo, Egypt where wishes are all-to-real. An eight-page excerpt.
Publisher Doug Seibold’s personal and professional goals haven’t changed since he incorporated his company in Illinois in the fall of 2002: he Seibold wants to publish books that he is passionate about and that fill a niche, and he wants to make the industry more inclusive.
Authors rally with HarperCollins union workers outside the company s headquarters as nearly 80% of literary agents respond to a poll in support of the ongoing strike.