A rave review for Blancaflor in The New York Times! 😄 Pub date is today.

​Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers:
A Folktale From Latin America

by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez
with an introduction by F. Isabel Campoy​

Also available in Spanish as
Blancaflor, la heroína con poderes secretos:
​cuentos de Latinoamérica

Raised by a mean ogre of a father who eats his opponents for dinner, Blancaflor is often told not to show off her own considerable powers for fear of scaring off suitors. When a prince falls from the sky and wakes up in her lap, she is spellbound. She moves heaven and earth to help the endearing, yet not so clever, young man, all while trying not to let him know.

With their trademark magnificent brio, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez update a classic Latin American tale extolling the strength and resourcefulness of women.

​NADJA SPIEGELMAN is the Eisner Award-nominated author of the Zig and Wikki series of science comics for young children and the editor-in-chief of Astra, an upcoming international literary magazine. Her memoir, I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This, was published by Riverhead. A contributing editor at The Paris Review, she was co-editor of the 2016–2017 project Resist!, a magazine of women’s political comics and graphics.

SERGIO GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ, a professor of comics in Angoulême, France, and at the University of Granada, Spain, is one of Europe’s most celebrated experimental cartoonists. His work has been published in over forty-five books and translated into nine languages. He lives in Granada with his wife and collaborator, Lola Moral, who colored the art for this book.

Center Stage Under the Trees

Sunday October 2, 2021, at 11am, Nadja Spiegelman on a panel about Adventure!

A son in search of his missing father and powerful magician. A bloodthirsty pirate accidentally set loose in today’s world. A powerful damsel to the rescue of a prince who falls from the sky. Come hear New York Times bestselling author David Levithan (The Mysterious Disappearance of Aiden S.) in conversation with Theo Gangi (Kingston and Magician’s Lost and Found), Victor Piñeiro (Time Villains) and Eisner Award-nominated author Nadja Spiegelman (Blancaflor: The Hero with Secret Powers) about the journeys their characters face as each one embarks on a daring and thrilling adventure.