This weekend two of American explorers Martin and Osa Johnson’s movies will be shown at the famed Centre Pompidou in France. GDC is working with the Johnson Safari Museum and museum board member, comics writer, and editor Roy Thomas, to manage the graphic novel adaptation rights for Osa Johnson’s bestselling autobiography, I Married Adventure. The Johnsons’ […]
GDC is proud to offer publishing rights to three non-fiction graphic novels on US History by acclaimed author Wayne Vansant. The graphic novels are The War In Korea, an extensive history of the American involvement in the war on the Korean Peninsula from 1950-1953, Blockade, the Civil War history of the Union Navy’s war against […]
First published in comic book format in the mid-90s by the Heritage Collection and carried in United States National Parks stores, these true-to-history comics tell the stories of six of the most significant battles of the Civil War: Gettysburg, Shenandoah, Antietam, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s march from Atlanta to the sea. Written and illustrated by […]
Available Rights: Print – worldwide Digital – worldwide 97 pages Color Recommended for readers 12 to adult The War In Korea: 1950 – 1953 is one of graphic novel author Wayne Vansant’s best works. Out of print for years, this visually detailed and exhaustively researched graphic history of the Korean War has been highly praised for […]
Available Rights: Print – worldwide Digital – worldwide 97 pages Color Recommended for readers 12 to adult Wayne Vansant has authored more than a dozen graphic novels on military history, including fiction and non-fiction. Of any topic, Vansant has covered the Civil War more than any. The War Between the States plays a role in […]
In the United States, February is Black History Month. To mark the occasion Library Pass, the K-12 school library ebook service from Comics Plus has released their curated Black History, Black Voices list of graphic novels and comics. In a post on their website, Library Pass describes the list as “spotlighting key figures and moments in […]
Battron creator Wayne Vansant was interviewed in November by the Triangle Association of Freelancers of North Carolina. Just recently the Association interviewed famed military fiction writer David Morrel (First Blood), and the TAF continued the theme by interviewing Vansant, one of the most prominent graphic novelists covering military fiction and non-fiction. According to their […]
Available Rights: Print – foreign Digital – worldwide Recommended for ages 12 to adult 144 pages Color Horror, Humor, and the First Detective Story! Fifteen stories and poems by the creator of the modern mystery genre: • “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” illustrated by Reno Maniquis • “The Facts in the Case of M. […]
Available Rights: Print – foreign Digital – worldwide 144 pages Color Recommended for readers 12 to adult African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America’s earliest black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are Two Americans by Florence Lewis Bentley, The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chesnutt, Becky by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six […]
Available Rights: Print – foreign Digital – worldwide suggested for readers 12 to adult 144 pages Color Thrills & Chills for All-Hallows’ Eve! Classics presents five scary tales for the holiday, and in a first for Graphic Classics, a comics adaptation of one of the earliest horror films, the great German Expressionist silent film, “The Cabinet […]