Valiant High by Daniel Kibblesmith & Derek Charm
(Valiant Entertainment)
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Before They Were Legends, They Were Students
In the tradition of Archie and DC Super Hero Girls, the Valiant Universe's most formiddable heroes attend a super-powered preparatory academy — Valiant High — where Aric “X-O Manowar” Dacia is a record-setting running back, Colin “Ninjak” King is a debonair foreign exchange student, and Coach
Bloodshot is way, way too into dodgeball. Now, Amanda “Livewire” McKee and her best friend, Faith “Zephyr” Herbert, are taking it all in for the first time at the one high school where power trumps popularity!
Rising star and series writer Daniel Kibblesmith discusses the inspiration behind Valiant's first all ages graphic novel.
The American Booksellers Association has invited booksellers to submit title nominations for the Indie Next Holidy Gift Guide flyer,
featuring top adult and children’s gift books of 2018. Nominations are being taken for the following categories: Photography/art books, Cookbooks, Visual travel books, Novelty books, Stocking stuffers, Other gift books
DBD presents the top 25 best-selling graphic from our publishers based on sales data gathered from our retailer network and retail partners. In July, Saga Volume 8 from Image Comics was the best-selling book. For last month's top 25, click
here.
During ALA Annual 2018 held in New Orleans from June 21-26, the American Library Association announced their first new Round Table in five years with the Graphic Novel Round Table.READ INTERVIEW
Image excerpt from Sheet by Brenna Thummler (Lion Forge)
Graphic Novel Reviews for Booksellers
A monthly graphic novel review series by bookseller Bianca Walters (The Book Table). This month, Bianca reviews Wilfrid Lupano and Gregory Panaccione's A Sea of Love (Lion Forge), Brenna Thummler's Sheets (Lion Forge), and Daniel Kibblesmith and
Derek Charm' Valiant High (Valiant), providing reviews, sell-through suggestions, and best target audiences for each title. READ MORE
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves.
Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what shapes our identity-Is it the capability of our minds or the physicality of our bodies? Is a newer, better version of yourself still you?
