www.firstsecondbooks.com SPRING ‘07 Elinor Hills curls up with a good book. “I like it that they live on a spaceship,” she says. Israel played drums in a klezmer Senami was born in Benin, half a continent band in New York City in the 40s Elyn collects Meso-American and South away from the Rwandan setting of Deogratias. and 50s, making Joann Sfar’s American art and artifacts. She’s pictured She has now emigrated to the United States. Klezmer the perfect book for him. here reading about Native American life in Journey Into Mohawk Country. Chris is a school librarian. She told us: “I think Kampung Boy is the book that more than any other really made me understand what a graphic novel is; how intertwined, how connected text and illustrations are. I constantly found myself going back and forth – always noticing something new.” “I started reading comic books when they cost twelve cents and collected them well into First Second author and high school teacher Gene adulthood. I like that I can now read them Yang uses graphic novels in his classes. “Graphic at my desk and people think I’m working.” novels engage students,” says Gene. “They’re a great - Brian Heller, Holtzbrinck Publishers way to teach 21st-century communication skills.” Darth Vader, caught doing some serious reading. Erin, who’s reading Vampire Loves, works at a nonprofit Ty’s favorite line in the rollicking pirate involved in children’s literacy. adventure Sardine in Outer Space was, “She’s a little galactic booger!”– the evil Doc Krok’s response to Sardine’s existence. Photos by: Kevin Church, Jack Demuth, Lisa Gagliano, Santiago Mostyn, Matthew Sandager, Mark Siegel, Lee Wade, Gene Yang WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE? That little girl with the sweet smile? That group of high school kids? The woman on the subway? Darth Vader? They are First Second readers. contents And they’re as diverse as our books. And that’s exactly our plan. With Spring of 2007, the explosion of styles, themes and genres continues, for every age and every kind of reader. Return to the Lost Colony as the shocking and delicious series further unfolds; dip into the exquisitely romantic The Professor’s Daughter, which will take your breath away with Guibert’s virtuoso watercolor. Let Eddie Campbell take you on a wild ride in the old West in The Black Diamond Detective Agency; or tune in to Gipi’s Garage Band for gritty adolescent mishaps. Since we plan to raise the next generation of demanding graphic novel readers, every season also has offerings for the younger set. This time, Sardine continues to roam the galaxy while Trondheim’s outrageous Tiny Tyrant rules his kingdom like a spoiled brat (which he is). 02-05 ...............SARDINE IN OUTER SPACE, VOL. 3 Here are different worlds, different by E. Guibert & J. Sfar sensibilities, akin only because they bear the stamp of great storytelling and 06-09 ....................GARAGE BAND artistry. And the First Second adventure is by Gipi still only just beginning. 10-13 ......................TINY TYRANT Mark Siegel by L. Trondheim New York City, Spring 2007 & F. Parme 14-17 ....THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER by E. Guibert & J. Sfar 18-21.............The LOST COLONY 2 by Grady Klein 22-25.............THE BLACK DIAMOND DETECTIVE AGENCY by Eddie Campbell 26-27...........The :01 Collection First Second 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 www.firstsecondbooks.com title SARDINE IN pages 112 pages ISBN 13:978-1-59643-128-7 OUTER SPACE vol. 3 color Full Color 10: 1-59643-128-8 author J. SFAR & E. GUIBERT pub month April price US $12.95 / CAN $15.95 format Deluxe Trade Pbk 6x81/2 The youngest and spunkiest girl in outer space is back and ready to play! Supermuscleman and Doc Krok are at it again, and it’s not just the galaxy they’re out to run—it’s Sardine and Little Louie, too! Get ready for the ultimate match-up as wits battle brawn in the best bout of this series. Yes, that’s right—it’s the Space Boxing Championship! The fearless cousins must go head to head with Supermuscleman, Chief Executive Dictator of the Universe, shrunken to enter the kids’ matches, but just as muscley. And that’s just the first of the ten stories contained in this book. In a starred review of the first Sardine volume, Kirkus Reviews proclaimed, “With nonstop action [and] humor geared to multiple levels of cultural awareness . readers will find that, as Supermuscleman sneers shortly before gorily blasting his own foot, ‘Resistance is futile.’” JOANN SFAR & , EMMANUEL GUIBERT Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar are two of the Sardine in Outer series,. As most ridiculously talented comics authors to come from France. Prolific, inventive, and versatileThe Professor’s Daughter beyond common sense, the two shared a Paris Vampire Loves studio from 1995 to 1999, and stories grew The Rabbi’s Cat YOUNG there like ragweed. Taking turns series, writing and nowscripts and and drawing pictures, Joann and Emmanuel , an extraordinary READERS have collaborated on a number of prize-winning (7 and up) graphic Blacknovels, Olives such as . Working solo, Sfar is the author of the the Little Vampire Alan’s War Space popular as well as the bestselling © JOANN SFAR, 2002 for Guibert, his many works for readers young and oldbiography includeAmerican of his WWIIlate friendveteran. Alan Cope, an :03 v SARDINE IN OUTER SPACE vol. 3 | by J. SFAR & E. GUIBERT Discover more pages from SARDINE at www.firstsecondbooks.com :04 :05 title GARAGE BAND pages 128 pages ISBN 10: 1-59643-206-3 author GIPI color Full Color 13: 978-1-59643-206-2 pub month April price US $16.95 / CAN $21.00 format Deluxe Trade Pbk 6x81/2 Four boys. Four lives. One band. “Alex’s bedroom window looks out over the chemical factory yard. His father was a manager at the factory for years. After he disappeared, they discovered that he’d been embezzling money from the company’s accounts using a tax trick. Nobody’s seen him since. The songs that Alex writes are often about that.” Four boys with turbulent home lives find refuge in the music they play together and in their friendship. When their only amp blows a fuse and the deadline to make their demo tape is pressing, they decide to steal in order to replace it. Events rapidly spiral out of control: will this be the end of everything the band’s worked for? Gipi’s gritty, elegant pencil-and-watercolor artwork makes Garage Band a book of astounding GIPI beauty. The rough and compelling artistry of , and proves time this young adult graphic novel binds the work together, capturing the essence of La Repubblica being a teenager. (upcoming Italian comics creator Gipi has emerged as a world- class artist and writer. He teaches in fine arts academies, directs short films, illustrates for the earned him an Eisner Award popular newspaper and again that he is a virtuoso of theNotes graphic for novel. a War Story His work is exhibited in museums and has won him countless honors.The Innocents He has received major awards at the Lucca and Naples comics festivals, and in 2006 Teens nomination. His from First Second) won the 2005 Goscinny Prize . for Best Script and was proclaimed Best Book at Angoulême the following year. This extraordinary voice now rings out with five graphic songs in © GIPI, 2007 Garage Band :07 GARAGE BAND | by GIPI Discover more pages from GARAGE BAND at www.firstsecondbooks.com :08 :09 title TINY TYRANT pages 128 pages ISBN 13:978-1-59643-094-5 author L. TRONDHEIM & color Full Color 10: 1-59643-094-X F. PARME pub month May price US $12.95 / CAN $15.95 format Deluxe Trade Pbk 6x81/2 Welcome to Portocristo: its clear skies, sandy beaches, bustling streets—and its spoiled rotten six-year-old king The little despot is grouchy, whiny, and demanding—everything you’d hate to find in a boy on a throne. But here in Portocristo, anything he says goes, no matter how bizarre or harebrained. Prepare for zaniness as young King Ethelbert transports himself back in time to meet a dinosaur, swaps his country’s kids for Ethelbert robots, tests his bodyguard’s mettle by putting a price on his own head, and shrinks the world down to his size. Trondheim’s wacky, inventive writing, coupled with Fabrice Parme’s artwork, evoke the classic, madcap styles of Mr. Magoo and the Pink Panther and make each of these twelve stories as memorable as an accidental jaunt through the Cretaceous period. LEWIS TRONDHEIM & FABRICE PARME Never where you next expect him, Lewis Trondheim has earned international acclaim as one of the most versatile and prolific graphic authors alive. In 2006 the Angoulême , the first extraterrestrial comic ever books, International Comics Festival awarded him the prestigious Grand Prize. He has illustrated and/ Venezia or written more than a hundred titles, including YOUNG A.L.I.E.E.E.N. published on earth. He lives with his wife and READERS two children in the South of France. (8 and up) Fabrice Parme first worked in television © FABRICE PARME, 2003 animationin magazinesandillustrating then thebeganthroughout twoTrondheim’s thedreamedpublishing Tiny France. Tyrant up his a waschild artWhile born. king, and :11 TINY TYRANT | by L. TRONDHEIM & F. PARME Discover more pages from TINY TYRANT at www.firstsecondbooks.com :12 :13 title THE PROFESSOR’S pages 80 pages ISBN 13:978-1-59643-130-0 DAUGHTER color Full Color 10: 1-59643-130-X author E.