Grand Design Communications is working with DTV, the agents for publisher Klett Kinderbuch to represent domestic rights for Anke Kuhl’s award winning graphic novel Manno! My Childhood As It Really Really Was. The title, Manno! roughly translates as “C’mon!”, and tells a series of hilarious yet touching vignettes the author’s childhood growing up in the 1970s in a […]
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 […]
Grand Design Communications packages the French-language BoosterMag for French publisher Panini SA, and the third issue has just been released in France and other Francophone countries around the world. All of the original content is created by GDC and available for repackaging for English language and other markets. Interested publishers are invited to use our contact page. The […]
Wayne Vansant’s epic graphic novel Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War was awarded the Silver Medal on September 19, 2020 The Military Writers Society of America (MWSA). The award was announced at MWSA’s General Membership Conference, via live Zoom/Facebook broadcast. Wayne Vansant is one of the foremost graphic novelists on topics of military history. Starting on […]
In September, Panini France will release three magazines packaged by GDC’s Magazine Packaging Services. GDC continues to work on two of the world’s most famous licensed properties, contributing translation, localization, and new puzzles, games, and other supplemental material to Panini’s Galaxie Star Wars #2 and Univers Pokemon #2. BoosterMag, GDC’s newest 100% packaged magazine covering all the worlds of […]
World Book has posted a celebration of Hans Christian Andersen on their website and with it a fantastic CGI animated trailer for World Book’s new Young HC Andersen graphic novel series, licensed by GDC. From worldbook.com: Once upon a time in the Danish town of Odense, there lived a fairy tale writer named Hans Christian […]
Out this month from Panini France are three more magazines packaged by Grand Design Communications, Dimension Pokemon #2, Les Aventures de Spider-Man #2, and BoosterMag #2. GDC provided translation, localization, and creation of some new material for the P0kemon and Spider-Man titles. BoosterMag, 100% created by GDC, is a bi-monthly magazine covering a wide range of popular media and “geek culture”, with […]
French gaming Youtuber KHIVARS has posted a review of the brand new BoosterMag #1. Although publisher Panini France has put out previous magazines called BoosterMag, this all-new magazine features original content packaged by Grand Design Communications talented magazine production team.
Google Books (books.google.com) provides short previews in the form of excerpts for millions of books, including those of military history and conflict graphic novelist Wayne Vansant. Here we present embedded preview pages for six of Vansant’s non-fiction graphic novels: Grant Vs Lee, 2013 The Red Baron, 2014 Bombing Nazi Germany, 2013 The Graphic History of […]
Dead Reckoning, the new graphic novel imprint of the Naval Institute Press, has published Wayne Vansant’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel All Quiet On The Western Front. Authorized by the Remarque Estate and New York University Press, Vansant’s adaptation has been earning praise from critics leading up to its release. Dead Reckoning’s website describes […]