With the support of the publisher,  Shelf Awareness celebrates 23rd St.'s first year—and its exciting plans for the future.
Mark Siegel, Founder of First Second and 23rd St. Books, tells the striking story of 23rd St.:
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| Mark Siegel |
When we launched First Second I didn't quite know we were standing at the edge of a comics renaissance. The landscape has transformed beyond anything I could have dreamed. Graphic novels have become a fixture in bookstores, libraries, and classrooms; entire generations have grown up with comics as a native language. The medium itself has stretched to deliver stories never before told in comics form.
First Second became a home for creators making their most ambitious work, and watching that community flourish has been the great privilege of my career.
We've published for readers of all ages from the beginning: kids in elementary school libraries, teens finding themselves in our YA titles, adults returning again and again for work that only comics can deliver. But as our catalog grew I started to feel there was a missed opportunity: adult graphic novels...
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Transgender Day of Remembrance takes place every year on November 20, and this year our senior editor reflects on the growing number of authors blazing narrative trails before and after the publication of Nevada, a 2013 novel by Imogen Binnie. It follows a listless indie bookseller on a great American road-trip and has been called "ground zero for modern trans literature," but there is so much more to the story....
British-Ukrainian author Marina Lewycka, who "often drew on her Ukrainian heritage and her family's experiences as refugees," died November 13 at age 79, the