Celebrating 10 years!

The Spring 2018 season marks a big milestone: we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary and have a lot to be proud of! Thanks to the embrace of enlightened librarians, teachers, reviewers, and parents, children’s comics are thriving even when much of publishing is in the doldrums. In ten years, we’ve printed over 1.3 million of our fifty or so books. They’re in tens of thousands of libraries with the TOON Comics Curriculum now used in more than 1,200 schools.

​It’s hard to believe that just a decade ago, the vision to publish high-quality, early-reader hardcover comics was rejected by every major publisher—but, in the end, founder and Editorial Director Françoise Mouly couldn’t be happier to have launched on her own. Thanks to a minuscule but dedicated staff, Marketing Director Kimberly Guise, and Deputy Iru Ba, TOON has preserved quality and handmade care in every one of the four or five titles by top-notch contributors published each year. We have exciting events planned at ALA midwinter and if you’re traveling to Denver we hope you’ll come see us.

A fresh take on timeless tales! How would a kitchen maid fare against a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman marries a mouse? And what can a young man learn from a thousand leaf cutter ants? Famed Love and Rockets creator Jaime Hernandez asks these questions and more as he transforms beloved myths into bold, stunning, and utterly contemporary comics. Guided by the classic works of F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada, Hernandez’s first book for young readers brings the sights and stories of Latin America to a new generation of graphic novel fans around the world.

What’s the scoop behind all the mucus? Did you know snails build roads like engineers and go undercover in camouflage like spies? Did you know they can be smaller than a seed or bigger than a grown-up’s hand? Kevin McCloskey mixes snail science, art, and hilarity for the newest book in his Giggle and Learn series, praised by The New York Times as “a winning combination of facts and gross-out fun.”