MWSA Dispatches, the website of the Military Writers Society of America, has published a highly positive review of Wayne Vansant’s Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War by reviewer Rob Ballister. Ballister praises Vansant’s historical epic, writing: This book is a wonderful introduction to graphic novels if you are not familiar with the genre. Well-researched, the […]
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World Book to publish Young H.C. Andersen graphic novel series in English
World Book, one of the world’s leading educational and reference publishers, will publish English-language editions of Thierry Capazonne’s YOUNG H.C. ANDERSEN graphic novel series in 2020. Cappazonne was represented by Grand Design Communications in the licensing deal. In addition to translating the oringal graphic novel pages, each volume includes dozens of pages of educational background […]
KATUSHA complete edition coming May 2019 from Dead Reckoning
In May 2019 Dead Reckoning, the graphic novel imprint of the Naval Institute Press, will publish the complete edition of Wayne Vansant’s epic of the Eastern Front, KATUSHA – GIRL SOLDIER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR. KATUSHA BOOK ONE: EDGE OF DARKNESS and KATUSHA BOOK TWO: THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH were originally published in […]
IDW to reprint Roy Thomas and Mike Mignola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The comics adaptation created by Roy Thomas and Mike Mignola and based on the Francis Ford Coppola film returns to print after a decades-long absence. Thomas is set to write the graphic novel adaptation of I Married Adventure, the best-selling memoir of explorer Osa Johnson. Grand Design is representing rights for I Married Adventure in association with […]
SPENCER & LOCKE Optioned By Prime Universe Films
Hitman Producer to Develop Film Based on The Hit Action Lab Comic Series We are pleased to announce SPENCER & LOCKE, Action Lab Entertainment’s critically acclaimed new crime series from writer David Pepose and artist Jorge Santiago, Jr., has been optioned for film by Hitman film producer Adrian Askarieh and his company Prime Universe Films. You can learn more about this […]
Brigands sequel RUIN OF THIEVES coming later this year
RUIN OF THIEVES: A BRIGANDS STORY BRIGANDS VOLUME 1 in stores now RUIN OF THIEVES sequel coming later this year Action Lab: Danger Zone is excited to announce that the follow-up to BRIGANDSVOLUME ONE is coming out later this year, RUIN OF THIEVES: A BRIGANDSSTORY. BRIGANDS VOLUME 1 Writer(s): Ram V Artist Name(s): Nick Barber, […]
Action Lab announces new series for Q2 2017
Grand Design Communications proudly represents international rights for all of Action Lab Entertainment and Action Lab Danger Zone comics and graphic novels. If the first three months were any indication, 2017 looks to be a breakthrough year for Action Lab Entertainment. Fresh on the the heels of their largest release ever with DollFace #1, Action Lab […]
Newsarama calls SPENCER & LOCKE ‘Calvin & Hobbes Meets Sin City’
Grand Design is agent for foreign rights for all Action Lab Entertainment titles. Zach Smith at Newarama has a great piece on Action Lab’s hit anthropomorphic detective series SPENCER & LOCKE: What if one of the most beloved characters in children’s comic grew up…and became a cop? This Wednesday, readers will find out in Spencer […]
The Circle #1 Sells Out At Diamond!
Following up the sell out of Tomboy #1, Damon Clark and Alyzia Zherno’s The Circle#1 sells out completely at Diamond Comic Distributors. The occult horror thriller has clearly struck a nerve with fans. The Circle revolves around a boy named Christian, a recent transplant to the sleepy coastal town of Shell Bay. What begins as […]
Action Lab Announces New Series for 2017
For the past five years, Action Lab Entertainment has been at the forefront of innovative, boundary pushing genre comics, and in 2017 they are positioning themselves as the destination for creator-owned series for pros and fans alike. Grand Design Communications represents international rights for all of Action Lab Entertainment and Action Lab Danger Zone comics and […]